check in ASII 9/28/07

[My3Sons]

How was everyone's week? We had a good, but busy one. Still, we were able to get everything accomplished which is something that I really appreciate about WP. We finished up our study on the Civil War. I am still going to read more about it for my own personal study, but my boys are ready to start out West

[alisarussell]

Things are going well here. We've finished up the Battle of Gettysburg and are in the latter part of the Civil War. Just started reading On the Banks of Plum Creek this week. The boys liked it, but were also sorry to be done with The Great Turkey Walk. I think that will rank among the all-time favorites when all is said and done. We also made flags and drew pictures of Pickett's Charge.

[Karenp]

We also started out West this week. Dd is really enjoying the pioneers. I didn't read the Little House book scheduled because she read it herself, so I read "Caddie Woodlawn" instead.

Even though we've finished up with the Civil War, we still plan on doing a few Civil War field trips.

This has been a smooth, uneventful week--finished up by the last swim of the season on Friday! Now I'm ready for FALL!

[Amy Po]

Here's the converation yesterday ds, "Well I'm glad we're on the last book for the day, but I'm really sad it's the last day of The Great Turkey Walk." We so enjoyed that book. I'm going to pick up Plum Creek on Cd from the library today--I so like letting someone else do some of the reading! We watched a video on Harriet Tubman this week too. 2 more weeks of the Civil War!

[LissaSue2]

We also started out West this week. Dd is really enjoying the pioneers. I didn't read the Little House book scheduled because she read it herself, so I read "Caddie Woodlawn" instead.

Even though we've finished up with the Civil War, we still plan on doing a few Civil War field trips.

This has been a smooth, uneventful week--finished up by the last swim of the season on Friday! Now I'm ready for FALL!

It sounds like we are on the same page as you. We are beginning Week 7. We also just started reading Caddie Woodlawn. So far my son really enjoys it. Before that we read Across Five Aprils and Behind Rebel Lines Both great books about the Civil War. We borrowed the "Little House" book from the library on CD and son listened to that in his free time...usually at bedtime. I think I will do that with the other "Little House" books listed in the Middlers Pack as well. I love "Little House" but there are so many other wonderful books to read for history.

We are still waiting for "The West" by Ken Burns from Netflix. We never made it through the Civil War one, but I am going to give this one a try. I'm thinking I will assign it as his history for a day each week and see if it is better received. With the other we would try and watch it in the evenings as a family. This was the LAST thing he wanted to do during his free time and would therefore complain. Perhaps smaller chunks during school will be more acceptable. We'll see.

I am finding that my son does not want to do many of the WP activities. He seems to find most of them "boring and a waste of time." His words. We'll see how he likes the gold panning this next week.

[Karenp]

With the other we would try and watch it in the evenings as a family. This was the LAST thing he wanted to do during his free time and would therefore complain. Perhaps smaller chunks during school will be more acceptable. We'll see.

I am finding that my son does not want to do many of the WP activities. He seems to find most of them "boring and a waste of time." His words. We'll see how he likes the gold panning this next week.

The video hasn't work so well for dd either. The "Civil War" actually put her to sleep when we tried watching it at night. I'm not too hopeful on the West myself. I think we'll just keep reading and skip the videos for now.

My older sons were exactly the same way when it came to projects. I mistakely tried Konos for awhile. Though I still think it's a pretty cool program, it did not work for them!

[LININJAPAN]

We had a great week as usual thanks to WP. The only thing I haven't been doing is the timelines. We're on week 6, so I'm hoping we can still catch up and do it. Any advice on getting it done?