This week in world history, we started studying about castles. We are reading one fact book and one fiction book, Castle Diary. I also have a couple other books with lots of pictures for the girls to look at.
In U.S. history, we started reading Little Britches, and are reading the chapters in our spine for this time period. We also started a big anthology full of Paul Bunyan tales and poems. We are still reading On the Banks of Plum Creek, and we also are reading a biography of Robert Frost that I didn't realize we had when we were studying him.
I am going to start having Big Girl do her vocabulary in one week per lesson, instead of two like we have been doing. Also, we are cutting back the pages she will do in Easy Grammar so that we can add some writing and literature study. I ordered Wordsmith for her. She likes the looks of it, and so do I. Also, we are going to start doing a literature study of one good book at a time, reading it slowly and taking notes and using any guide I can find online for additional discussion. She and I will read the same chapters, take notes, and then discuss. For her Apologia Biology, I am going to start planning out 4 weeks (16 days) per module. There is no rush to get through it, as there are only 16 modules, and this will allow time to look up things on the internet and anything else we might like to add. She also commented that science was much easier to digest in small chunks than in big ones.
I have figured out that the CLE reading that Little Girl is doing is just not for us. It is pretty much just busy work, which we don't need. I am going to keep doing the lessons, but orally. At least until I get tired of it. I may end up just letting her read the stories. There are better things to spend our time on.
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