Treetops Learning Academy Comes to Life

As of January 16th, the Treetops Free Learning Academy is officially recognized by NC DNPE as a home school. Hooray, hooray! I'm a bit peeved on the name. For the last couple of years my heart was set on the "Duct Tape Rocket Academy". The kid had a few ideas of his own, including "Liberty Science School" and "Booger Academy for Pirates". Treetops seemed like a reasonable middle ground.

Besides, the name came to me as I was relaxing in the hammock. Meaning, of course, it ought to be a good idea. 

Now, being an official school, albeit a school of one, means we must perform some academic work every day for at least as many days as kids in regular schools. Fine. We've been doing that for years already. But now I have to keep better record of all that we do. So, in addition to a Way Official Sounding School Name, I now have a Way Official School Schedule which I started last Fall. 

I'm not gonna post our old schedules though 'cause it'd be very boring. In fact, I didn't even need those records. Not until Monkey turned 7 anyway. But now that he's 7 years old (7 years and 3 days, to be exact), I do need them. So I keep them. Ok, I'm rambling... But here's what's going on at our Academy this week:

Week of	English Reading	Math
February 10-14, 2014
Monday	Let's Read - Lesson 50 pg 140 Explode the Code 2	Funny mental math Kangaroo 2012
Tuesday	Let's Read - Lesson 50 pg 141 Explode the Code 2	Yatzee Kangaroo 2012 Flow app, Bloxorz app
Wednesday	Let's Read - Lesson 51 Explode the Code 2	IQ Fit Kangaroo 2012 Living Math book - The Mystery of the Sunken Treasure
Thursday	Let's Read - Lesson 52 Explode the Code 2	Connect 4 KenKen app Living Math - The Mystery of the Sunken Treasure Kangaroo 2012
Friday	Let's Read - Lesson 53 Explode the Code 2	Yatzee Kangaroo 2012 KenKen

At least that's the plan. In addition to this, we have PE in the form of weekly yoga classes. Also, this week Monkey was going to start fencing. But we've been hit with an Epic Snowstorm and it looks like fencing is cancelled this week. We'll just have to fill our req'd PE hours with lots and lots of sledding.

Other things that got cancelled because of the Epic Snowstorm are the Math Circle and the Young Engineers Club. More on those - later.