Friday was our last day of school before our two-week winter break. I’m still trying to work out the best schedule for us, and I think we’ve taken breaks too frequently this year. We’ll have fewer of them when we start back up in January, but I’m still liking the idea of having two weeks off around Christmas. (We’ll see if I’m still thinking that come January.)

Most of our week was dedicated to wrapping things up. Poppy did the review-level tests for the first unit of Rosetta Stone Spanish, we finished reading “Betsy-Tacy and Tib,” and she read the last 40 pages of her December BookIt challenge. Her final total was 217 pages, and that doesn’t even count the books she was reading on her own in her room on Friday! (I’m pretty proud of her sudden interest in solo reading.) She also did a lot of playing at Dreambox Learning this week. I signed up for their two-week free trial, and she loved it. So now I guess we’re going to have to discuss ponying up the money for a subscription!

We did what may well be our last “Five in a Row” book this week. It was “Warm As Wool,” about a pioneer family in Ohio. We talked about covered wagons, and we recreated the story with Lincoln Logs and cotton-ball sheep. Poppy and I have really enjoyed the “FIAR” curriculum, and I’ll be using it again with Pete when he’s old enough. I’m thinking about getting “Before Five in a Row” to use with him next year.