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Oct. 31, 2007

Week in review, 10/22-29/07, week 23

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Oct 30, 2007

Week in review 10/22-29 (week 23)

We are nearing the finish line for this Core!  I think we can all agree that this has been a very enjoyable core.  I have been very impressed at how well A. has done with it.  It was listed for ages 8-11 and some of the books have mature topics, but she seems to be absorbing a lot of it. 

Anyway, we continued with our study of Paul’s missionary journey.  He has arrived in Rome as he has appealed to Caesar.  He speaks to several more people about his innocence.  He has had to tell this same story so many times!  We read about the shipwreck as well, and how the whole ship survived it.  Our readings this week came from Acts 26 to the end of Acts.  We read about the Sioux tribe from our prayer guide.

We continued reading about Eli Whitney in The Story of Eli Whitney.  Poor Eli has had to face many obstacles in his life!  He really is so wonderfully bright though.  We continued to learn about the Iroquois.  We read about what shoes they used in the winter, how they wore their hair, and how they were punished, both children and adults. 

For our poetry selections this week, we read one poem from Robert Louis Stevenson, called, “Where Go the Boats”.  Our second selection was by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, called “Solitude”, which we thought was sad but true. 

For science, continued reading about grassland life.  We read about animals that burrowed for shelter, such as prairie dogs, maras, and black-bellied hamsters.  We about how many grassland animals lived in groups and we read about insect colonies.  We had nice memories about the ant colony we once had.  We then began a study of the desert.  We learned about desert temperatures, water in the desert, and how plants and animals cope with the dryness.  These readings were from Living World Encyclopedia. 

We learned also about wind and moving air.  We discussed how air rises when it is heated.  We discussed air pressure, and how when warm air rises, cold air rushes in from where the air pressure is higher.  We also read about tornadoes.  We used Usborne’s Science Activities vol 3. 

We did much better this week with fine arts!   We finally got around to our art book, called Come Look With Me:  Enjoying Art With Children.  We read about Gare Saint-Lazare, by Edouard Manet.  We love the format of this book—it asks questions about the paintings, which makes you really look at the paintings and then there is a short article about the painter and the painting. 

We also finally got to watch 2 DVDs from the Signing Time series.  The girls watch this for their ASL instruction. 

K. learned about tons and miles this week.  This is the last week of Gamma!

She finished up reviewing the vocabulary words from Wordly Wise B.  She did her dictation as usual, and finished up her research paper.   She also plowed on with Sequential Spelling book 2.

She read selections from 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah this week.  She also started The Cabin Faced West for her reader.  She also enjoyed reading Carry On, Mr. Bowditch with her daddy this week. 

A., reviewed telling time this week, by doing exercises for telling the minutes on a clock.  This is purely review for her, and she also spent a few days doing multiple digit addition.

She continues onward with her Modern Curriculum Press workbook, plus Sequential Spelling book 1 and handwriting with Printing Power.   Her handwriting is getting better but only if she really puts in the time and effort.  She completed her creative writing project this week.  She began reading Cora Frear for her reader, and we read The Cabin Faced West for her read aloud. 

This is the second week that L. has joined us!  She did week 2 of SL’s LA 1 Advanced program.  She learned all her spelling words and spelled them correctly, plus she did her handwriting from Letters and Numbers for Me.  She reviewed her numbers plus did a few workbook pages from Developing the Early Learner.  She read the word list for Lesson 2 in her I can read It! Word lists book, plus four of the five readings from the I Can Read It! book 1.  For her read alouds, we continued to read stories from 101 Favorite Bible Stories,  and we also read the following books:  Head to Toe, Make Way for Ducklings, Katy and the Big Snow, and Busy Timmy.  From the Treasury of Children’s Literature, we read “The Little Match Girl”, and from A Family Treasury of Little Golden Books, we read “Seven Little Postmen”.  We also read “My Sister is Special” from the Happy Days Treasury.  We also read a few other books that I can’t remember now.  LOL  L. seems to be enjoying school!

God bless,
A.H.
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