Oct. 9, 2008 - My Weekly Report
My Fifth Grader:
Math:
Singapore Math 5A: He learned how to add and subtract more fractions.
Reading: History: Story of the World Vol. 1 chapters 12 & 13
Science: Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5 chapter 2.
Plutarch: He is reading Solon.
Shakespeare: He finished reading Taming of the Shrew.
Writing:
Writing Tales 2- Lesson 5 This week, he learned about pronouns.
Growing with Grammar 5. He is working on chapter 2. He is working on capitalization.
Latin:
Latina Christiana II lesson 3- A,B, C The grammar lesson was on the accusative case ending in masculine and neuter form. Still it is about the direct object lesson.
Logic:
Building Thinking Skills level 2 and Mindbenders B1. He did word webs in Building Thinking Skill which was challenging for him. In Mindbenders, he does one problem. It is not difficult, but he is on problem 4.
My Third Grader:
Math:
Singapore Math 2A: He is learning measuring weighing.
Reading: Story of the World Vol. 1 Chapter 8-Shamsi-Adab and Gilgamesh
Science: Lyrical Science- I am reading to my son about the nervous system
Writing:
Writing Tales 1: He is learning about capitalization and the four rules of capitalization.
Grammar: I am reading to him the book called Grammar-Land by Nesbitt. He learned about Mr. Pronoun and how he helps out Mr. Noun in taking his place.
Latin:
Prima Latina: He learned about invisible verbs
Logic:
Building Thinking Skills level 1: He learned about opposite words and similar words.
Mindbenders A1
Every Thursday, it is our music day. My children are in choir, violin, piano lessons.
We did our new month's hymn: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring and the poem is The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. We are still studying Boticelli for art, however, we are studying Primavera instead of Fortitude this month.
My older son had a FIRST Lego League meeting on Fridays. My younger son is my soccer child. Monday is recreational soccer practice. Tuesday is travel soccer practice. Friday is travel practice. I think that I covered the week.
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Oct. 6, 2008 - My Weekend Report
My older son had the elections for his FIRST Lego League team on Friday. My son was elected to be the Lead Researcher. There has been a debate about what weather problem to deal with. One child states that due to global warming the song birds are not eating up the gypsy moths in our area. We have a gypsy moth problem. My son found information that flooding is the number one weather hazard in New Jersey. However, we found it last week. The one mother is very strong on the idea of gypsy moths. I feel it is not weather related. She will not let up about this topic, but the children will decide and my son will decide on the issue.
My younger son had a tough time on his recreation soccer on Saturday because the team they played was unbeatable. Get this one, they have three children on travelling soccer. We only had two. However, we lost 1-0. It was not a terrible lost because other teams have lost 7-0 against this team. We held them off from scoring other goals.
My computer crashed so I have been without a computer all week.
My younger son's travelling game, they won 4-0. It was nice. My son's travel record now is two wins, two loses, and one tie. We hope that they can win the next game.
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Oct. 1, 2008 - My Weekly Report
We had an interesting week.
My Fifth Grader:
Math:
Singapore Math 5A: He did reviews all this week.
Reading: History: Story of the World Vol. 1 chapters 10 & 11
Science: Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5 chapter 1. As I wrote last week, the Lyrical Science program was a bomb. My son kept complaining that they did not have all the words printed out in textbook. Once he did the workbook, he could not fill in the blanks to the whole song because he was not certain what it went where. We had to look at the answers and listen to the CD in order to understand what the words were. So, we went to the Chritian Liberty Nature Reader. He will use that as his science. His nature study is the research he will do through the FIRST Lego League team.
He reads two days Plutarch and then two days Shakespeare.
Writing:
Writing Tales 2- Lesson 4 This week was working on rough draft. The grammar lesson was nouns.
Grammar:
Growing with Grammar 5. He is working on chapter 2. He is learning about nouns this month.
Latin: Latina Christiana II lesson 2- Exercises A, B, Derivatives. The grammar lesson was on direct object.
Logic: Building Thinking Skills level 2 and Mindbenders B1
My 3rd Grader:
Math:
Singapore Math 2A: He is learning about measuring and weighing this week.
Reading:
History: Story of the World
Science: I am reading the Lyrical Life Science book to him. He is repeating the terminology. So, I am taking the Charlotte Mason approach and doing a tell back.
Grammar: I started reading a story called, Grammar-Land to him. We read the first chapter together. We learned about the king of Grammar-Land is a man named Judge Grammar. He is the judge and king of Grammar-Land. There is a problem among his noblemen who he call the parts of speech. We learned about the richest nobleman Mr. Noun. My son is enjoying this story. He keeps asking me all week to read it to him.
Latin:
Prima Latina: He learned about invisible verbs.
Logic:
Building Thinking Skills and Mindbenders A1
Writing:
Writing Tales 1: My son learned about types of sentences. He also read the Aesop fable of the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. He had such a great time doing his rewrite that I am submitting it on the blog for your enjoyment.
The Bull and the
One time a Bull was going to see his cousin the
Then, they ate cake and salsa. Then, they heard a loud noise. “What is that?” asked the
The cousin ran as fast as he could. “Better water and Doritos in peace then cake and salsa in fear.”
The End
Thank you for letting me share.
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Sep. 30, 2008 - I saw Fireproof
What a beautiful movie! I am tellng everyone that they need to see this movie. I feel that as Christians we need to support this movie. No matter what. This movie brings the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ in a very moving and yet non-threatening sort of way. It is beautifully done.
I tell you that I felt the pain of the wife as I watched this movie. I laughed. I cried. What a powerful story. People who are married. People who are considering marriage. People who are in a troubled marriage. Everyone should see Fireproof.
May the Lord bless all who see it.
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Sep. 30, 2008 - My Weekend
My weekend went a little rough. I missed my son's Saturday game to take my mother to the eye doctor. That was a blow up. My son's team won, but I lost with my mother. It is long story. So, I won't bore you with the details.
Then, Sunday's game came. It started off very strong. The team scored a goal in the first half of the game. They did a great job at holding them back. Then, we had an upset. The other team came back and made two more goals. We were down 2-1. Then my son makes this amazing pass. He went down the side. He went through a bunch of guys. The last box right before a goal, a boy fell on him. My son still had the ball and he kicks it to the middle and another boy from our team put it in. So, the other child got the glory. We tied up 2-2. Then at the last minute, one child was all alone with the goalie and popped it in. So, we lost 3-2, but what an amazing game.
One last thing, Morristown parents are not nice. At the end of the game, we asked the other parents if we could make a tunnel altogether, you know to show team spirit. They wouldn't do it. This town is the first town to do that. So, thumbs down for Morristown, NJ.
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