Dopp Family Homeschool

It has been a terrific week!  We finished out the third semester of our Commonwealth on Friday.  Eli and Ivy finished up with their Love Language class and their "Great Brain" units!  What wonderful classes.  Now I've got to go dig through their folders so I can find out what each of their own love language :). Emmitt, Erik and I finished out our art class and science class.  This week we reviewed thunder and lightning.  The teacher read a cute book called Thunder Cake and then she brought Thunder cake to class for us to eat :).  It was also my 40th birthday on Friday (wow... I cannot believe I'm 4-0!!!)!!! We came home from class and I vegged out in my room and napped with the baby while the kids played and made me a birthday cake with Dirk's help!  Later, Dirk and I went out on a date while our good friend watched ALL of our kids (including Zeke...woot woot)! Math - Eli and Ivy both did their math work for this week.  Not much to repo...

Math - This week ELI did math everyday.  He's working on division and multiplication and just getting those more solid.  He's good at math and doesn't require a lot of my help, but does it every morning as a part of his morning routine. He's on Lesson 20 of his math book which has 36 lessons total so he's pretty on target to finish by the end of the year.  IVY is on Lesson 10 of her math book which also has 36 lessons.  She won't be done by the end of the year, but that's okay.  She's making good progress on her larger addition problems and is picking up the concepts.  I'm really hoping to involve more logic games for math and logic.  We all seem to struggle at those LOL!  EMMITT is still mastering 1-10. Language Arts - ELI is on Lesson 4 of his new book.  He's doing great with it.  IVY continued her reading lessons, did her handwriting and her readings.  EMMITT did his lessons with his buddy Bronson and practiced writing more wor...

Math - Eli worked on his math every day this week.  He's become more independent with his math and gets it done first thing in the morning as part of his morning routine.  He also worked on his division flashcards with me.  He does really good with his math.  Ivy worked on her math pages this week.  She's working on adding multiple digit numbers like 45+13=.  It's pretty easy for her.  She still writes her 6's and 5's backwards a lot, but I'm sure that'll come with time.  Emmitt worked on his numbers 1-10... he's getting better at writing them.  We all played UNO a few times. Language Arts - Eli had it pretty easy with Language Arts this week since we're waiting for his new curriculum to arrive.  He did his handwriting every day.  It's been interesting because he usually writes with his left hand, but decided this week he wants to write with his right hand.  He has mixed dominance, which means he doesn't actually have a dom...