WEEKLY REVIEW

BOTH GIRLS

Bible: Revelation

Memory passage: Romans 8:28-39

Composer: Vivaldi - Listened to cd and/or works online daily and read about him

Artist: John Constable - Looked at works online daily and read about him

Country: Netherlands - Looked at web sites and books

Elements of Periodic Table: Oxygen, Sulphur, Selenium, Tellurium

Daily poetry reading

American History: Eisenhower biography

Renaissance and Reformation: Columbus and Sons by Genevieve Foster; I Discover Columbus by Robert Lawson

Extra Reading: These Happy Golden Years

BIG GIRL

Math: LBC- 2 Lessons

Grammar: Our Mother Tongue- 4 Lessons

Spelling: Homemade review of problem words

Literature: Herman Melville - Billy Budd

Systematic Theology: The Incommunicable Attributes of God

Independent Reading: By Grace Alone; Bible; The Black Arrow by R.L. Stevenson

BJU World History: Chapter 6: The Byzantine and Islamic Empires

Computer Skills: Worked on building her website

Writing: She is working on a couple stories

LITTLE GIRL

Math: Teaching Textbooks Pre-algebra - 4 lessons

CLE Language Arts: 4 lessons

CLE Reading: 2 lessons

Spelling: List using SWR words

Dictation: From Spelling Wisdom

Map workbook

Science: Reading Geology Book by Morris and Nature Friend Magazine

Independent Reading: Misty's Twilight, Book of Marvels, Bible

Big Girl did not like Billy Budd at all. She doesn't like Melville any more than she does Hemingway. :-) Maybe even less.

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WEEKLY REVIEW

BOTH GIRLS

Bible: Revelation

Memory passage: Romans 12: 1,2

Composer: Vivaldi - Listened to cd and/or works online daily and read about him

Artist: Friedrich - Looked at works online daily and read about him

Country: Netherlands - Looked at web sites and books

Elements of Periodic Table: Oxygen

Daily poetry reading

American History: Corrie ten Boom book; Snow Treasure

Renaissance and Reformation: Columbus and Sons by Genevieve Foster; I Discover Columbus by Robert Lawson

Extra Reading: These Happy Golden Years

BIG GIRL

Math: LBC- 2 Lessons

Grammar: Our Mother Tongue- 4 Lessons: Clauses and sentence structure

Spelling: Homemade review of problem words

Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables; The Birthmark

Systematic Theology: The Existence and Knowability of God

Independent Reading: By Grace Alone; Bible; The Black Arrow by R.L. Stevenson

BJU World History: Chapter 5: The Roman Empire

Computer Skills: Worked on building her website

Writing: She is working on a couple stories

LITTLE GIRL

Math: Teaching Textbooks Pre-algebra - 4 lessons

CLE Language Arts: 4 lessons : Plurals, possessives, contractions

CLE Reading: 2 lessons

Spelling: List using SWR words

Dictation: From Spelling Wisdom

Map workbook

Science: Reading Geology Book by Morris and Nature Friend Magazine

Independent Reading: Walt Disney biography, Misty's Twilight, Book of Marvels, Vos Bible Story Book

Another good week. Big Girl discovered she doesn't like Hawthorne. I don't either, for that matter. He is just entirely too wordy, with very little action.

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WEEKLY REVIEW

BOTH GIRLS

Bible: Revelation

Memory passage: Romans 12: 1,2

Composer: Corelli - Listened to cd and/or works online daily and read about him

Artist: Friedrich - Looked at works online daily and read about him

Country: Netherlands - Looked at web sites and books

Elements of Periodic Table: Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony, Bismuth

Daily poetry reading

American History: Corrie ten Boom book; Snow Treasure

Renaissance and Reformation: Ferdinand and Isabella and the Inquisition

Extra Reading: These Happy Golden Years

BIG GIRL

Math: LBC- 2 Lessons

Grammar: Our Mother Tongue- 4 Lessons: Direct and indirect objects; Predicate nominatives and adjectives

Spelling: Homemade review of problem words

Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables

Systematic Theology: The Sufficiency of Scripture

Independent Reading: By Grace Alone; Bible; The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

BJU World History: Chapter 4: The Roman Republic

Computer Skills: Worked on building her website

Writing: She is working on a couple stories

LITTLE GIRL

Math: Teaching Textbooks Pre-algebra - 4 lessons; Multiplication copy work

CLE Language Arts: 4 lessons : Prepositional phrases, commas

CLE Reading: 2 lessons

Spelling: List using SWR words

Dictation: From Spelling Wisdom

Map workbook

Science: Reading Geology Book by Morris and Nature Friend Magazine

Independent Reading: Walt Disney biography, Misty's Twilight, Book of Marvels, Vos Bible Story Book

Another full week. Little Girl seems to have forgotten her cursive, so we are going to work on that again. I will just make out worksheets for her. I added multiplication copy work this week, so she can get those facts down thoroughly before she moves into the harder stuff in pre-algebra. She knows a lot more of them than I thought, just by using the charts I made for her.

Big Girl is really slogging through The House of the Seven Gables. I am letting her listen to the audio book. Hawthorne wrote during the Romantic period, which means he used an awful lot of words to say a very little thing. :-)

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WEEKLY REVIEW

BOTH GIRLS

Bible: Revelation

Memory passage: Romans 12: 1,2

Composer: Corelli - Listened to cd and/or works online daily and read about him

Artist: Friedrich - Looked at works online daily and read about him

Country: France- Looked at web sites

Elements of Periodic Table: Germanium, Tin, Lead, Nitrogen

Daily poetry reading

Deadliest Monster

American History: Corrie ten Boom book; Snow Treasure; Movies: I Am David, Miracle at Midnight

Renaissance and Reformation: Gutenberg and the printing press; War of the Roses

Extra Reading: These Happy Golden Years

BIG GIRL

Math: LBC- 2 Lessons

Grammar: Our Mother Tongue- 4 Lessons: Different kinds of phrases and clauses

Spelling: Homemade review of problem words

Literature: Henry David Thoreau - Excerpt from Walden

Systematic Theology: The Necessity of Scripture

Independent Reading: By Grace Alone; Bible

BJU World History: Chapter 3: The Greek Civilization

Computer Skills: Worked on building her website

LITTLE GIRL

Math: Teaching Textbooks Pre-algebra - 4 lessons

CLE Language Arts: 4 lessons : Outlining

CLE Reading: 2 lessons

Spelling: List using SWR words

Dictation: From Spelling Wisdom

Map workbook

Science: Reading Geology Book by Morris and Nature Friend Magazine

Independent Reading: Walt Disney biography, Misty's Twilight, Book of Marvels, Vos Bible Story Book

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CHANGES

I am making a couple changes for Little Girl this week. We have been using the spelling words in CLE Language Arts, but I am finding they are just too random, and many of them, because it is a Mennonite curriculum, are simply words that we don't use. I am going to start using the list from the Wise Guide we already have. I will give her a pretest each week until she misses ten or so words, then use those for her weekly spelling.

I am also going to incorporate dictation back in, using Spelling Wisdom, which we already have.

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