Our first term is finished.  It is so hard to believe that we already have 12 weeks under our belt and are 1/3 of the way finished with second grade.

Bible:

• The 10 commandments
• The golden calf
• Moses talks with God
• Building of the Tabernacle

Memory:

• Matthew 4:10 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
• Added Daniel and Hosea to our OT list

Phonics: We have worked through all the long vowels.  I think that we will go back and do another review, refresher.  The long vowels were a little harder on us.  He seems to let himself get frustrated easily.  I think that we will work on reading actual stories from the book instead of just words.  He does a little better with sentences than just groups of words.

Math:

• Number-fact families
• Adding 3 single digit numbers.  Also looked for combinations of 10)
• Adding double digit numbers, no carrying
• Subtracting double digit numbers
• Adding triple digit numbers, no carrying

Literature:

• Understood Betsy - ch 11 "Understood Aunt Frances" in which Betsy gets a letter from Aunt Frances saying that she is coming to get her.  Everyone at the farm is very sad.  But the end is very satisfactory to everyone.  We are now finished with this book.  We both enjoyed this book very much even though it was about a little girl.
• Pilgrim's Progress - "Timorous and Mistrust" Timorous means timid.  Two men, Timorous and Mistrust, heard that there were lions blocking the path and are running away.  "Porter and Discretion" Christian comes upon the lions that are guarding a door to a beautiful palace and is thinking of turning back like Timorous and Mistrust, but the Porter of the door tells Christian something that he can't see; the lions are chained.  They are there for testing of faith.  Even though Christian is still fearful, he carefully advances to the door.

History Lit:

• Little Duke - ch 6 The little Duke is taken by the King of France to the King's place were he meets the queen and their two boys.  It seems the little Dukes pride may very well get him into trouble.
• An Island Story - ch 32 "Henry Plantagenet - The Story of the Conquest of Ireland"
• Child's History of the World - ch 53 "A Great Adventure" We learned about the pilgrimages taken in the 10th and 11th centuries called Crusades. 

Geography Lit:

• Tree in the Trail - ch 21, 22, and 23.  (We are "upping" our reading because it is a library book and it has reached its renew limit.)  Chapter 21 "Return to the Hill" the yoke returns to its hill after wintering in Independence.  Chapter 22 "How the Wheels Rolled Westward" the wagons decide to note take the desert short-cut but to head to Bent's Fort.  Did you know that oxen only sweat on their muzzles?  I do now.  Chapter 23 "At Bent's Fort" Bent knew that Jed, and the yoke, were on their way and spread the word.  Many Indians came to see the "traveling piece of their old Medicine-Tree."

Nature Lit:

• Burgess Animal Book - ch 22, 23 and 24  In chapter 22 we read about the common skunk, hog-nosed skunk, and the little spotted skunk.  (They are carnivores which means stinky, LOL) Chapter 23 was about the badger and wolverine.  And in chapter 24 we read about the weasel.  There are many different weasels and close relatives of weasels: ermine, New York weasel, long-tailed weasel, short-tailed weasel, least weasel and black-footed ferret.

Copywork:

• Memory verse
• Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land, / A weary land, a weary land, / Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land, / A shelter in the time of storm. ~ A Shelter in the Time of Storm by Charlesworth and Sankey
• Now about the midway to the top of the hill was a pleasant Arbor, made by the Lord of the hill for the refreshment of weary travelers. ~ Pilgrim's Progress
• There they stood, face to face, looking at each other with honest and very happy eyes. ~ Understood Betsy by Fisher
• "My scouts have told me all about the yoke.  And I've invited a hundred braves to see that traveling piece of their old Medicine-Tree." ~ Tree in the Trail by Holling

Spanish:  This week, we are reviewing all of our previous lessons.  We are going back and re-doing the lessons that we missed a question.  I did all of the speaking exercises while I was at my mothers this week (we don't have a microphone in our computer) and though I thought I wasn't doing too bad, the natives think otherwise. LOL

Map work: Something new that I'm adding.  Before, we had been hit or miss locating the places that we were reading about on our big world wall map.  But no longer.  We will be looking up every time there is a country mentioned or a region and even when cities are mentioned.

• Togo, Africa (missionary)
• Alberta, Canada (missionary)
• Philippines, Asia (missionary)
• Mexico, NA (missionary)
• England: London and Canter berry
• Spain, England, France and Germany and their distance from Jerusalem (the Crusades)
• Sante Fe Trail in Kansas and Colorado

Artist/Composer:

• We viewed Calumny of Apelles by Botticelli
• We listened to Art of Fugue by Bach

Hymn/Folk:

• We began work on our new songs.  Our hymn is "A Shelter in the Time of Storm" by Vernon J. Charlesworth, music and adapted by Ira D. Sankey
• Our folk song is "De Camptown Races"

Nature Study:  We were house sitting for my Uncle, who happens to live on a few acres of land and was perfect for letting Cameron loose and telling him to find what he could.  He found quite a few interesting leaves and a bunch of different pinecones.  We may study those more in depth next week.