Bible:  We did not have Bible this week.  We did some review but not much.

Memory:

• Psalm 100:2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.  He actually already knows this verse.  He memorized the entire Psalm 100 last year and we have reviewed it frequently.
• We added Joel and Amos to our OT list

Phonics/Reading:  Friday last week I was ready to go back to the beginning and review because it was such a BAD day for reading.  He seemed to be confused by everything.  It was very frustrating as I thought we were making great progress.  I had every intention of reviewing after we finished one more page of long vowels.  BUT Monday, and the rest of this week, was a complete 180 from last week.  I jokingly asked him on Monday if he was feeling alright because he was suddenly reading phenomenally.  His reply, "Well, I did have Smarties (candy) today."  Me thinks that I need to buy stock in Smarties if that is truly the case. LOL

This week he finished his very first book, Fun With Pets, which is an A Beka reader.  He was so excited to get to the end of 100+ page book.  I have some other readers that we used briefly last year.  We are breezing through the first one and it is really building his confidence.

Math:

• Subtracting three digit numbers
• Introduced carrying in addition
• Added groups of number, one on the next
• Reviewed coins and their amounts
• Counted coins
• Matched coin groups that were the same amount
• Made correct change for "purchasing" items

Literature:

• The Wind in the Willows - chapter 1.  We began our new Lit book.  So far, Cameron seems to be enjoying it.  He chooses it to be read first if given choice.  In chapter 1 we meet Mole and Rat as they boat down the river.  There was a good lesson about jealousy (coveting), pride and what sin can do to us.  Mole wanted to row the boat and got jealous.  He ended up in the water, soaking and near drowning.
• Pilgrim's Progress - "Piety, Prudence, Charity"  These three women converse with Christian and ask for his testimony

History Lit:

• Children's History of the World - chapter 54 "Tick-Tack-Toe; Three Kings in a Row." We read of three kings that set out on a Crusade.  One died while on the trip, the second gave up and went home, the third was Richard the Lion Hearted.  We focused on Richard and also read about other crusades.
• An Island Story - chapter 33 "The Story of Richard Coeur de Lion "  We found it interesting that we were reading about Richard in both this book and in CHOW.

Geography Lit: Tree in the Trail

• 24 "The Hill That was Called a Mouse"  It took 40 yoke of oxen to get one wagon up the side of the mountain.  Added to this was the many twists and turns.
• 25 "Yoke Comes to Sante Fe"  The yoke leads the way into the last stop of the wagon train, Sante Fe.
• 26 "The Heart of the West"  There is a much that goes on in Sante Fe when the train arrives.  The biggest thing was a huge party.
• 27 "End of the Trail" Jed, the maker of the yoke, settles down in Sante Fe.  Years later, his friend and companion of many years, Buck, brings a Kansas Indian to see the Yoke.  Many-Eagles is the descendant of the first Kansas Indian boy that saved the little sapling from the Buffalo.  He also had a picture history of the tree.

We really enjoyed this book.  It was always a highlight of the week.

Nature Lit:

• Burgess Animal Book - chapter 25 about the mink and otter.  26 about the pine marten and fisher marten.

Poetry by Eugene Field:

• The Rockaby Lady From Husabye Street
• Garden and Cradle
• The Night Wind
• The Dinky Bird
• Little Blue Pigeon

Copywork:

• Memory Verse
• The Lord's our Rock, in Him we hide, / A shelter in the time of storm, / Secure whatever ill betide, / A shelter in the time of storm. ("A Shelter in the Time of Storm" by Charlesworth and Sankey)
• Starbright and Bugle stepped proudly, leading the caravan.  And the yoke's bells jingled merrily to the open plaza, at the very center of town. (Tree in the Trail by Holling)  
• The mole was quiet for a minute or two.  But he began to be jealous of Rat and his pride began to whisper that he could do it every bit as well.  He jumped up and seized the sculls so suddenly, that the Rat fell backwards... (The Wind in the Willows by Grahame)

Spanish: We learned about hair and "have"  hair, bald, beard, moustache, short, long, straight, curly, brown/brunette, blond, gray, red head, has, to have, who

Artist/Composer:

• "The Cross in the Mountains" by Caspar David Friedrich.  I already like Friedrich better than Botticelli. 
• "Piano Concerto " by Franz Liszt

Hymn/Folk:

• We began looking at "A Shelter in the Time of Storm" by Vernon J. Charlesworth and music and adapted by Ira D. Sankey
• Cameron is really enjoying this month's selection of "Camp town Races"  by Stephen Foster (doo-dah, doo-dah)