Thursday, October 29, 2009

UPDATE


Well, we have only done one full week of school since the last post. Birthdays and doctor appointments.

We have continued to read through the New Testament in basically chronological order. We will be starting Philemon next. Also, I have decided that I will start requiring the girls to read out loud from the Bible each day, and to explain what they have read. We will start in Psalms, doing one at a time, or part of one for the longer ones. It will be good for their speaking ability, as well as their thinking skills in figuring out how to explain the meaning.

We finished up Jekyl and Hyde, and have started a Frankenstein adaptation. Then we will read The Deadliest Monster, for worldview.

We read a book on George Washington Carver, and are currently reading about Helen Keller.

For math, Big Girl is continuing in her LBC book, and Little Girl has been working on her multiplication tables and a couple long division problems each day that we had school. We will do a new lesson next week. She doesn't have much left in her MUS book, then we will do LOF fractions.

Little Girl is still working through her CLE Language Arts, and is in the 9th book. Big Girl has resorted to only reading through her writing book, as she just wasn't really getting anything out of the writing assignments. Next week, I am going to start having her just write something each day, and we will go over it. Big Girl is working through her spelling words a bit at a time. We tested through the SWR book and wrote down all the words she missed in a notebook. We will work on those words a few at a time, using Spelling City online, as well as analyzing the words.

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Saturday, October 3, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


I am getting lazy about updating this.
Last week, we read from Ephesians for Bible.
We have been reading poems by Edgar Guest, though we are not memorizing any of his.
We started reading about Sweden this week for our country study/geography.
For our artist, we have started on Da Vinci.
We are still reading about Marco Polo, and the girls read books on Booker T. Washington. We also are reading Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, as well as a story book on economics called The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible.

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