This week, we continued our Gospel study for Bible. Heading toward the end soon. We also finished up with Benjamin Britten, and will be starting a new composer next week. For poetry, I did find another poet to study - Mary Botham Howitt. We are memorizing her famous poem, The Spider and the Fly. Our new artist is Grant Wood, known for his famous painting, American Gothic. We are enjoying his folksy paintings much more than the last artist's abstract stuff. We just do not care for abstract.
For world history, we continued If All the Swords in England. We were reading Little Britches for U.S. history, but I got really tired of it, even though the girls really liked it. Big Girl is going to finish it on her own, and if Little Girl wants to read it some day, she can. It was ok, just too long and detailed to suit me, especially for reading out loud. Also, I just want to move on. So this coming week, we are going to move on to the Statue of Liberty. I think we all got enough of the Paul Bunyan book, so we just watched a disney video about him on YouTube.
We really enjoyed The Search for Delicious, and finished it up this week. Big Girl and I also really liked Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, and finished it up this week as well. For literature, we are going to read a Charles Spurgeon biography next.
Big Girl did her usual subjects, finishing up her 3rd book in the Key to Algebra series. Her writing lessons this week focused on concrete and descriptive nouns.
Little Girl did her usual lessons as well. We did a few writing lessons in R&S, as planned, but I found out they are just not what she needs, and ordered her a paragraph writing workbook. We will start that as soon as it comes. She started reading Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit this week, and she is really liking it and reading much more per day than I assigned.
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