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Nov. 17, 2007

Week in review, Oct 29-Nov 4, week 24

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Time is just flying by!  We’re already done with week 24.  Only 12 more to go and we’ll be done with this Core. 

For Bible study this week, we started the book of Judges.  This is one of my favorite books of the Bible so I was very excited to read this with the girls.  We read chapters 1 through 3 and read about how the Israelites kept sinning in the eyes of the Lord and how God had to appoint judges to rule over them.  We read about Deborah in particular.  We discussed how it is that God’s people, including us, keep sinning, even when we know and understand God’s love for us.  We read about the Blackfeet tribe this week in our American Indian Prayer Guide.

For history, we continued reading about Eli Whitney, in The Story of Eli Whitney.  Poor Eli still can’t get a break.  He is trying hard to get his assembly line muskets made and trying to get the courts to honor the patent of his cotton gin.  He is not making any money from his great inventions!  Very sad.  Also he can’t have any sort of family life.  We finished the book this week and were relieved to see that finally his patent was honored, though late, and he finally delivered the muskets to the US government, again, late.  He did finally manage to make a profit and get married and have children.  We enjoyed this book.

For our readings about the Iroquois, we read about their medicinal practices, how they were able to tell time, and the type of education and teachers their children had.  It is very interesting how many similarities we have found with the different tribes.

For poetry, we read some fun poems by Banjo Patterson.  We were already familiar with “Waltzing Matilda” and so we had fun singing it together.  We also read “Mulga Bill’s Bicycle” and K. said that the moral of this tale is not to be too proud or boastful. 

For science, we continued reading from Living World Encyclopedia.  We read about rain in the desert, and about flowers and insect life.  We then discussed temperate forests, and read about the different types of trees that grow there.  We also read about the seasons and their effect on the deciduous trees there.  We then read specifically about deciduous forests and the animals and plants that live there.  Finally, we read about the canopies in these forests and the animals that live there.  At the end of the week, we read about temperature and how thermometers work.  Our reading about thermometers comes from Usborne Science Activities, volume 3. 

K. finished up her Gamma workbook last week!!!  She spent this week reviewing some facts and just doing review worksheets.  She also was able to teach the last lesson of Gamma to me successfully (miles and tons) so she passes! 

She continued to review vocabulary words in Wordly Wise B.  She finished up Lesson 5 this week.  She also continued with Sequential Spelling book 2, completing word lists 115-118. 

She read from Ester for her Bible readings this week, the whole story.  For her reader, she finished up The Cabin Faced West.  We discussed several things, including attitudes.  The main character of this book, Ann, moved West with her family after the Revolutionary War.  She was sad about the move and continued to live in the past, mourning over the fact that she can’t play with her cousin and best friend, Margaret, and also mourning over the fact that she can’t attend school anymore.  She is so wrapped up in her “losses” that she can’t see the blessings around her, including a potential friend in the neighbor boy, Andy.  Since we’re reading about Eli Whitney and Nat Bowditch as well, we were able to compare Eli and Nat’s attitudes when things didn’t go their way to Ann’s attitude.  Eli and Nat were people who looked forward and found the good in their situation and sought to rectify any potential problems.  Ann, at least initially, tended to just look back and because of that, she was unable to really move forward.  K. also began reading Om-Kas-Toe, a story about a Blackfeet boy and his family. 

For her creative writing, she did a character sketch on Master Christopher, from The Skippack School, a book we had read much earlier in the year.

Daddy read aloud Carry On, Mr. Bowditch with K.  They are both enjoying the book immensely. 

A also had a great week.  She successfully taught me lesson 21 from her Beta math workbook and moved on to lesson 22. 

She pressed on with Modern Curriculum Phonics, completing pages 139-143.  She is re-doing the Printing Power workbook for her handwriting.  She also continued with Sequential Spelling book 1, completing word lists 116-118.  She did her dictations and assignment sheets.  For her creative writing, she imagined herself living somewhere different and wrote a few sentences about how life would be different.

She finished reading Cora Frear and began reading Tippy Lemmey.  She enjoyed Cora Frear and is enjoying Tippy Lemmey so far.  For her read aloud, we finished up The Cabin Faced West and began Om-Kas-Toe. 

L. is doing fabulously with her hsling.  She spelled all her spelling words from last week without any mistakes.  She also is working through her Handwriting Without Tears book, named Letters and Numbers for Me.  She also learned her new spelling words for this week. 

She is doing lesson 3 from the I Can Read It! Series.  She is doing Book 1, and read all the readings for lesson 3, and all the lesson 3 words in the I Can Read It! Word List book.  She continued doing the math workbook pages from her Math workbook.

We finally received our Explode the Code workbooks in the mail this week and L. plowed through them.  She did 4-5 pages per day and is already up to page 20 or so by the end of the week.  She is getting caught up quickly!

I had decided to skip the grammar parts of SL’s LA 1 program for her at this time.  I did this same thing with both K. and A.  Later on, when they finished the reading/spelling program for LA 1 (which takes a year), then we went back and did the grammar portion of LA 1 while reading the Core 2 Regular Readers.  This would take about half a year.  Then we would proceed to SL’s LA 2-Intermediate Readers program, doing it as instructed.  I am expecting to do this as well for L.  She is on that path. 

For her readings this week, we read from 101 Bible Stories, p. 26-33.  We also read Make Way for Ducklings, and from our Eloise Wilken Stories book, we read “Guess Who?”, “Baby Listens”, and “Baby Dear”.  We read the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff from The Children’s Treasury of Literature, and from our Happy Days Treasury, we read "The Little Lost Sheep".  We also read Owl Moon and The Story of Ferdinand.  L. enjoyed all of her readings, though she still has some trouble with this Bible storybook.

All in all, a good week!
A.H.
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