WEEKLY SUMMARY #1

Here is my first attempt at a week in review.   I'll try listing things by subjects and see how they look.

BIBLE

We started the CLP Studying God's Word for the Gospels this week.  I read the lesson and the Bible text to the girls while they eat their breakfast, then we discuss it.  I don't really use the questions in the book, but the lesson overviews and information is really good.

HYMN

We sang O Come O Come Emanuel this week.  Very pretty song.

ART

Our current artist is Frederic Remington.  He painted mostly western scenes, and also did some sculptures in bronze.

COMPOSER

We are listening to Sergei Rachmanonoff.  I don't really care for him much, but the girls like him.

POET

We are reading poems by Emily Dickinson, and the girls are memorizing her poem, Because I Could Not Stop for Death.

GEOGRAPHY

Our first country is Australia.  We printed out a map and Big Girl colored a flag for our bulletin board.  We read about it in the world atlas, A Trip Around the World, Children Just Like Me, and are still reading the Landmark book, The Story of Australia.

HISTORY

We are currently reading about the vikings in our TQ Middle Ages.  We finished Beorn the Proud and a See Through  History book of the vikings this week.

For American history, we have been reading about Laura Ingalls Wilder.  We finished a biography of her this week and will start on the Little House series next week.

READ ALOUD

We are currently reading Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott.

INDEPENDENT READING

Big Girl is reading Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss.   Little Girl is reading the Burgess Flower Book, a COFA book, a Wishbone book, and she just finished a Boxcar Children book.  She also reads her Vos Story Bible every day.

MATH

Big Girl is working on her LOF algebra, and Little Girl is finishing up her MUS Gamma in the next few weeks.

ENGLISH

Both girls are working with verbs in their respective English books.  Big Girl did her daily writing and Jensen's Vocabulary.  Little Girl worked on a list and dictation sentences from Spelling Plus, but we are changing that this coming week.

SPANISH

We are steadily working through Spanish for Children.  Big Girl is also using Visual Link Spanish on the computer, and Little Girl is using a kid's Spanish computer game.

I got out some of my old journals and read some to them this week, and they both decided they would like to keep their own journals.  So I gave them some cloth-covered books I had here to use. :-)

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