Monday
This is the only day that I forsee school happening without too much struggle. I tried to make the best of it. Also only 2 people were sick at this point.
Morning Time
Prayer, doxology, national anthem
Bible reading - Mark 1:29-31. We read about Jesus going to Simon's house and healing his mother in law.
Christian Biography - 9yo read about Jan Hus. 7yo read about Selina, Countess of Huntington.
Memory work - We added Ezra to our OT books, 'forgive us our tresspasses' to The Lord's Prayer, Quebec to our list of Canadian provinces, and recited the months of the year to review.
History - We read the second half of our SOTW 2 Chapter - dealing with illuminated manuscripts. We talked about vellum, and added the date 597 AD to our history wall - when Augustine arrived in England. We looked at a picture in one of our secondary history books about scriptoriums in medieval monasteries.
After our first batch of blue dyed wool did not work out well, we started a second batch today using blueberries instead of cabbage leaves. We let it sit overnight.
Individual Studies
9yo
30 minutes silent reading
30 minutes piano practice
R&S English 2 - Lesson 8: Making Sentences
Saxon 5/4 Math - Lesson 13: Number Lines
Astronomy - We watched an episode of the BBC Earth series The Planets. This one was about the outer 'frozen giant' planets - Uranus and Neptune - with a mention of Pluto as well.
7yo
30 minutes silent reading
30 minutes piano practice
R&S Math 2 - Lesson 8 (finishing it up), Lesson 9 (starting it)
5yo
R&S Math 1 - Lessons 13, 14, 15, 16, and I had to eventually take the book away from her when she started lesson 17.
Tuesday
By Tuesday I was down with the gross fall cold that had made its unpleasant way through both younger children already. Morning time did not happen. Neither did art. You know what happened? Breakfast. That's what happened.
Swimming Lessons - only for the 9yo and 5yo, the 7yo was too sick to get in the pool.
Piano at the Conservatory - for the 9yo, who did very very well on the testing and is going to spend the next week practicing octaves with the left hand.
Wednesday
By Wednesday the 9yo had joined the plague patrol making 4 out of the 5 of us in various stages of incapacitation. Also we had company arriving. We spent a lot of time huddled on various horizontal surfaces. Except for the fact that I'm pretty sure I didn't have a temperature, I would have said it felt like the flu.
The 7yo and 5yo started doing math on their own today and I eventually stopped them. When my eyes can focus I'll see how bad the mess is in the workbooks.
We also welcomed a guest today for the Women's Day Away retreat that I run on Saturday.
Thursday
On Thursday the husband succumbed to the awful illness. The first words he croaked to me in the morning were "it was too good to last". I had to go to the city to get the rest of the stuff for the Women's Retreat on Saturday, so I left him with the kids. He took them to the library and the 7yo and 5yo each did some math on their own.
Friday
Friday I attempted to rouse myself to some effort through the fog of sickness. The 9yo and 7yo each read for 30 minutes, and the 9yo did a math lesson and an English lesson. The 5yo did a phonics lesson. Then we all collapsed.
Saturday
Today was the annual women's retreat, that I run. I spent the day doing that. I have no idea if the children did any school but I'm going to assume they did not.
We're all still very sick but David will preach today, we'll say goodbye to our guest who came for the retreat, and then we'll go back to bed.
5yo
R&S Math 1 - Lessons 13, 14, 15, 16, and I had to eventually take the book away from her when she started lesson 17.
Tuesday
By Tuesday I was down with the gross fall cold that had made its unpleasant way through both younger children already. Morning time did not happen. Neither did art. You know what happened? Breakfast. That's what happened.
Swimming Lessons - only for the 9yo and 5yo, the 7yo was too sick to get in the pool.
Piano at the Conservatory - for the 9yo, who did very very well on the testing and is going to spend the next week practicing octaves with the left hand.
Wednesday
By Wednesday the 9yo had joined the plague patrol making 4 out of the 5 of us in various stages of incapacitation. Also we had company arriving. We spent a lot of time huddled on various horizontal surfaces. Except for the fact that I'm pretty sure I didn't have a temperature, I would have said it felt like the flu.
The 7yo and 5yo started doing math on their own today and I eventually stopped them. When my eyes can focus I'll see how bad the mess is in the workbooks.
We also welcomed a guest today for the Women's Day Away retreat that I run on Saturday.
Thursday
On Thursday the husband succumbed to the awful illness. The first words he croaked to me in the morning were "it was too good to last". I had to go to the city to get the rest of the stuff for the Women's Retreat on Saturday, so I left him with the kids. He took them to the library and the 7yo and 5yo each did some math on their own.
Friday
Friday I attempted to rouse myself to some effort through the fog of sickness. The 9yo and 7yo each read for 30 minutes, and the 9yo did a math lesson and an English lesson. The 5yo did a phonics lesson. Then we all collapsed.
Saturday
Today was the annual women's retreat, that I run. I spent the day doing that. I have no idea if the children did any school but I'm going to assume they did not.
We're all still very sick but David will preach today, we'll say goodbye to our guest who came for the retreat, and then we'll go back to bed.
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