This weekend I got a lot of cleaning done (never enough, though) and J finally got back with her dance team. They rehearsed Saturday for Sunday's street fair performances. She was thrilled to see her friends again. She brought her wallet which had about $14 and did really well selecting what to buy. She even bought things for her brother and still has most of the money left. W found other 4 y/os to play with. They played ball, shared bags of chips, and had burping contests. There were pony rides and 4 big inflatable jumpy/slidy/bouncy/climby things for the kids to do. K hung out with the 12-year-old team all day. It was funny seeing these 7 gorgeous girls (6 dressed alike) walking around with a few preteen boys following them like puppies. Thankfully they are all responsible and mature and handled them well. It really was cute, though. The owner told me she has big plans for J this year. She is very excited to get J doing a solo. I can't wait either.

I'm kinda bummed over the fact that we can't do much with our homeschool group due to W having afternoon Pre-K. They have so many wonderful activities planned for the fall. We'll try our best to make it to some things and if it's something really great, W will just miss school that day.

J wants to learn to sew so she found a book in the library called "Sewing with Felt". B is home today for a doc appt, so I'm sending him to Michael's afterward to pick up sewing supplies. I'm going to let J have the supplies and the book, and see what happens. I won't interfere unless she asks. I made a summary of last week's learning and I think it's better to keep a weekly log rather than a daily one from now on. I can just take the info from the blog. Here is the breakdown:

9/12/05 to 9/18/05

CIRCUITS: electron flow, closed/open circuits, positive/negative poles, and how it all has to do with the electricity in the walls (she ripped open musical greeting card to study speaker/battery circuit inside)

LANGUAGE ARTS: antonyms, synonyms, matching word meanings, fill-in-the-blank (comprehension), (4th grade Test-Prep workbook) and analogies (4th grade up to 11th grade, workbook and websites), answered questions on TurboTwist.

MATH: percents, decimals, fractions (funbrain website, 5th grade), Supermarket math: budgeting, finding bargains, division, fractions, rounding, precents, adding decimals, weight, and unit pricing, Oak Meadow sample pages (out of curiosity), Sorting: mail, clothes, recyclables, and photos, calculator skills

GEOGRAPHY: finding US states on a map (online game), 2-letter abbreviation for each state (workbook)

HANDWRITING: various cursive letters and sentences (workbook)

READING: comprehension questions (test-prep workbook), The Hobyahs (folktale), The 3 Princes (folktale), and Anne of Green Gables (read-aloud together)

HISTORY: answered questions on TurboTwist

Other things J did this week were: learning to play new songs on the piano, singing the entire score to Broadway shows (every day, sigh, lol), cooking, skating and pogo-stick, pet care, updating her blog and creating a new website, arts and crafts, creating Neopets, playing Neopets games to win points in order to "buy" things. "Annie" video party, and dancing with her team in a street fair.

Isn't unschooling great?