WEEKLY REVIEW

We continued looking at paintings by Edward Lear this week, and will start a new artist next week.  We will continue with him for poetry though, because there are many more poems we'd like to read, even though the girls already have The Owl and the Pussycat memorized.  Our current composer is Benjamin Britten, famous for Peter and the Wolf and The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.  

We finished up the "introductory" chapters 1-3 in our BJU Geography this week, so we will be moving on to the actual countries.  We will read the pertinent section in BJU, then stop and do a study of that particular country, with books we own, library books, websites, and videos, if we can find any.  We have a spot on our bulletin board for it, too, where we put the name, flag, map, and some pictures of things the particular country is known for.  Our first country will be England.

Little girl did 4 lessons in her CLE Language Arts (all but the spelling and handwriting parts), and we did the CLE Reading orally.  I think we will finish it up orally.  There are some good things in there I'd like to expose her to.  But I am sure we will not continue with a reading program.  Of course, knowing me, I know better than to say "never."  She also did her MUS, spelling, typing, and independent reading.  She is currently only reading the Vos Story Bible, Abeka 5th grade science book, a COFA book (not sure which one), and Collodi's Pinocchio, which she will finish up next week.  

Big girl is working through her Apologia Biology, 16 days per module.  This was her first week doing it that way.  The way I scheduled it out, she has reading to do 3 days, then looking at the extra book links on Friday.  She did about two pages per day of EG Plus, and is still working through Key To Algebra and Jensen's Vocabulary.  We are still working through Critical Thinking together.  I like the topics covered, but we don't always feel the need to do all the exercises once she has the idea.  She started her first book for our literature this week - Tuck Everlasting.  We read from a guide online about the author and the introduction to the novel, and then both she and I are reading it at the same time and taking notes.  Then, on Monday, we will have a discussion and read the pertinent notes from the Glencoe guide online.  I thought it was best to start with an easy, but really good, book.

We finished up our reading about Castles this week, and will be starting on the first Crusades next week.  This will be something that is hard to find accurate information on, I am afraid.  But we will see.

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