These are a smattering of the notebook pages the kids have created this month.   Not perfect, but perfectly delightful to me. 

So one of my favorite lessons grew out of our recent thrift store find of Classic Poems to Read Aloud.  We memorized All Things Bright and Beautiful last week.  It was actually memorized in a matter of hours once I bought packs of gum as a reward.  I am nothing if not pragmatic, y'all.  So after that I had pulled out Hillaire Belloc's Mathilda for a hilarious contrast.  They thought it was a little gross and creepy so we discussed satire, parody, and cautionary tales.  They recorded the definitions and we found the rest of his tales here. Each picked out one to record in their notebooks. They still they are gross and creepy and I am still amused. 

Some math pages:

We print out the free puzzles of the week for each grade level from Critical Thinking Press.  I truly believe that never before has critical thinking been more………critical.  These puzzles sometimes hurt my brain but they get everyone talking and working together, especially this week when they DID NOT INCLUDE A SOLUTION. Don't worry.  I'm not bitter or anything.  We are just still hashing this one out.  Go ahead.  Download.  Then tell us who you think stole the headphones 'k? 

And some random real life practice finding nouns in a magazine article.  It is often easy to figure out a pattern in a language exercise book.  Then they are at a loss when faced with actual text someplace else.  This practice got us discussing abstract nouns since the mid elementary student who underlined in blue found most of the concrete things quickly, but missed the abstract – which is totally age appropriate per the whole Trivium age group delineations.  This was a quick game and isn't perfectly checked either btw.  There are more anchor charts and grammar pages to help springboard discussion over on my pinterest board here. 

This next page just makes me laugh.  Every time.  (yes, I know it is misspelled)

Your life lesson of the day is right there.  That "slightly downhill' part?   It's a concept to live by if ever there was one hahaha!  Working hard on that over here.  Just gonna leave that there and wrap up now lol.