Yesterday I wrote 1,908 words on my NaNoWriMo project. I’m not sure I have the brain power to stick to both of these initiatives. Anyway, here’s a very brief summary of our homeschool week:

Math

I seem to have misplaced Poppy’s Teaching Textbooks discs, so she hasn’t been doing that for a few weeks now. The kids are both still enjoying their McRuffy curriculums, though, so there’s still math happening around here.

Reading

We finally finished “Anne of Green Gables” this week. Poppy’s final assessment: “It didn’t care for it at first because it was kind of boring, but then I liked it.” I’ll agree with that, and I’ll even admit that the tears flowed freely in one particular chapter near the end. You “Anne” fans know what I’m talking about, I’m sure.

So after one million weeks of “Anne,” it was finally time to pick a new read-aloud. Poppy has been adamant that she didn’t want to read the “Harry Potter” books, on the grounds that they would be “too scary.” Pete wanted to read hear it, though, so I picked up “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” to read to him and “A Wrinkle in Time” to read to both of them. Poppy ended up listening to “Harry Potter” with us anyway, though, and by bedtime last night we’d read six chapters.

I am almost out of words already. Uh-oh.

We went to our homeschool co-op’s Halloween party, and it was chaotic.

Poppy’s handwriting is improving very nicely.

I have not done a great job keeping art projects in our plans.

I need a bigger bowl of words.