I do love seeing what others are knitting and can always use some reading suggestions! Leave a comment so I can see what you're up to. And go over to Ginny's to see what others are up to.
On the needles :: Well, Mr. Wiedz's sweater is still on the needles after a brief time off the needles. After reading Ginny's yarn along from last week where she mentioned that shortly after the picture of her beautiful lace panel sweater was taken she undid it all to work it on different needles. That got me thinking. Mr. Wiedz's sweater was not completely correct. The pattern was written to be worked flat but since I don't like working flat I did it in the round. And there were mistakes. First just one or two but then there were more. And I started wondering about splitting for the collar and doing the sleeves, with the pattern written flat I wasn't sure how I was going to fudge along at those points. With all of these issues mounting, I had taken to just not working on it. But after reading Ginny's tear out story I decided to bite the bullet. I'm so glad I did. It is going so much better! The pattern is working so nicely. It is easier to keep track of where I'm at. It's going faster. It is still not likely to be finished for fishing season but progress!
On the nightstand :: Even with that whole stack of books I've not really hit a huge reading vibe. I've started both Giants of the Earth
and Howard's End
. I think I'll settle on Howard's End first, taking it camping this weekend so I'm bound to get some reading in, right?
was on the new shelf and since our 
covers her this year I thought it would be fun mama-education. 
is our read-aloud these first couple weeks of school. We are finishing up the 
we didn't get to last year before we start the 
. 
is what I just finished. It was good. Really good. Short read, easy to read a letter or two or really get lost and read many letters.
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- This is the first year we've done logic and I read some reviews before trying out BTS. We'll see how it goes.
- We used Horizons last year and though I didn't LOVE how many problems they had in the workbooks I felt the kids really got the concepts.
and 
- new to us this year, #1 should find an article to read to complement our group study, write a more detailed report and outline each week.
- finishing from last year...I'm not sure if she'll need to continue with a spelling curriculum after she finished level D.
- After I read 
with 
- we're doing this as a group with another family. The plan is to take two weeks for each chapter and alternate meeting at each other's houses to do experiments and notebooking and discussing what we learned for each chapter.
- we switched to LNST last year after giving another program a try. We liked it and though I wonder if it wasn't too easy last year, I'm sticking with it and giving it another try. I purposly started with level 1 to help her gain confidence.
- Mr. Wiedz wanted to see Spanish started in school and of course the best reviews are for Rosetta Stone.
- we used 
last year and enjoyed the history, the activities and pretty much everything about it. Can't wait to get started this year. We'll also use the 
this year.
- again, we used HWT last year and I liked the program. #2 will also have 2 pen pals, my friend's (and pen pal of over 20 years) son who is also homeschooled and about the same age, and his grandmother who recently moved to Arizona.
and 
- we started level 2 last year so we'll finish it up first then move on to level 3.
- his first year having independent Latin study (we do 
as a group in our morning meeting).
, 
, 
and 
(although that last one I thought was a tad more child friendly, I thought I saw one somewhere that was more on kid level...gotta keep looking).
during our study of Japan, etc.).
and 
