WEEKLY REVIEW 5/31 - 6/4

We took last month off to do spring cleaning, and because we had out of town company. Back into our routine this week.

I dropped Little Girl's CLE reading. I was going to go ahead and finish it, but I realized it was just a waste of time. We did not even like the stories in the 5th level book. Too much of their religion thrown in to suit us. And the workbooks had tons of it as well. Just not what we want. Instead, she will just read good books, and perhaps some other literature books we have here by BJU or Abeka.

We tried doing our fine arts and geography differently this week, but none of us liked it much, so we are going to go back to the way we were doing it. We had been doing a bit of each daily. This week, we tried doing only one thing for longer each day. I think we like the little bite-size chunks much better. Just like our books we read. We all like to have several going at once, and read a bit of each per day, rather than read a lot of one each day until it is finished. Attention problems, maybe. :-)

BOTH GIRLS

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

Artist: Eduard Manet - Read about him and looked at works online

Country: Switzerland - Looked at web sites and books

Elements of Periodic Table: Neptunium, Plutonium, Americium, Curium

Renaissance and Reformation: Charles V; Suleiman and the Ottoman Empire; Mayans; Aztecs; Incas; Cortes; Magellan

American History: First Americans; Leif Eriksson-Leif the Lucky; Viking books; Robinson Crusoe

BIG GIRL

Grammar: Painless Grammar

Spelling: Homemade review of problem words

Literature: John Steinbeck - Flight

Systematic Theology: Angels

Independent Reading: Bible; The King James Only Controversy by James White

Spielvogel’s Human Odyssey: Ch. 5 - The Greeks

Writing: She is working on a couple stories

Economics: Whatever Happened to Justice - Maybury

LITTLE GIRL

Math: Key to Fractions

CLE Language Arts: 4 lessons

Vocabulary Vine: geo

Spelling: List using SWR words

Dictation: From Spelling Wisdom

Map workbook

History: Mystery of History - 4 lessons

Science: Reading Weather Book by Michael Oard and Nature Friend Magazine

Independent Reading: San Domingo by Marguerite Henry, Second Book of Marvels, Bible, Life in Bible Times

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