Bible:

• Firery serpents attack the camp
• Balaam's donkey saves his life.  Balaam blesses Israel.
• Moses dies

Memory:

• II Timothy 2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
• Added Obidiah, Jonah and Micah to our Old Testament book list.  We are almost to the end!

Phonics: We finished our second Christian Liberty reader, Pals and Pets.  He is so excited to be able to finish a book.  He has now finished three books and started on his forth.  We are also working on constant blends.

Math:

• Carrying in adding
• Introduced and practiced borrowing in subtraction.
• Learned about the cent sign and dollar sign and how to write cents using both.
• Worked on making $1.00 with different coins
• 1/2, 1/3, 1/4
• Temperatures in both Fahrenheit and Celsius

Literature:

• Wind in the Willows - chapter 3 "The Wild Wood" Mole gets it into his head to visit Badger.  But, as he has never been in the wild woods himself, gets lost and very scared and Rat has to come and rescue him.  They are caught in a snowstorm and end up staying with Badger anyway.
• Pilgrim's Progress - "Battle with Apollyon"  GREAT narration from Cameron.  On his own he made the connection that Apollyon was just like Satan.  Apollyon was bringing up all of Christian old faults and tries to get him to return to his old place.
• Lamb's Shakespeare - "All's Well that Ends Well"  Cameron actually followed the story fairly well.  He was more interested in Helena making the King well than the whole relationship. 

History Lit:

• An Island Story - chapter 36 "John Lackland - The Story of the Great Charter" We learned of all the evil things that King John did.  But, he is also known for signing the Magna Charta.
• The Little Duke - first half of chapter 8.  This is the first chapter that I have really wanted to keep going.  Richard and his vassal guardian are escaping from the King of France.  They made it outside the castle and that is where we stopped.  (Mama might have to read ahead because she can't wait. LOL)

Church History:

• Trial and Triumph - chapter 11 "Alfred the Great Christian King" We found it interesting that Alfred used the 10 Commandments, parts of the law from the Old Testament, and parts of the New Testament to write his laws.  Cameron liked the part where he fought with the Vikings.

Nature Lit:

• Burgess Animal Book - chapter 28 was about the coyote and timber wolf; chapter 29 was about the bob cat and lynx; chapter 30 was about the panther, jaguar, ocelot and eyra.

Poetry by Eugene Field:

• The Duel
• Good Children Street
• The Bottle Tree
• Lady Button Eyes
• The Ride to Bumpville

Copy Work:

• Memory Verse
• O Rock divine, O Refuge dear, / A shelter in the time of storm; / Be though our helper ever near, / A shelter in a time of storm. (A shelter in Time of Storm by Charlesworth and Sankey)
• With whoops and back slaps the order passed from man to man, "Tomorrow, we march on the invaders." (Trial and Triumph)
• Old Man Coyote believes absolutely in safety first, a very wise rule for everybody.  Because of this he is very hard to trap (Burgess Animal Book)
• All this is true, and much more which thou hast left out; but the Prince whom I serve and honor is merciful, and ready to forgive. (Pilgrim's Progress)

Spanish:  A very busy week in Spanish we learned many new words: to go, to come, I am going, he/she is going, they are going, we are going, to write, to buy, buying, to climb, climbing, to read, to eat, to listen to, listening to, to run, to travel, traveling, to play, to sit, to do, to fix, to sit, by, it, ladder, music, full/satisfied, tired, sick, newspaper

Map Work: Philippines, Mongolia, Spain, Belize, Scotland, England

Artist and Composer:

• "The Wanderer Above the Mists" by Friedrich.  I really like this print.  It has an almost lonely feeling.
• "Hungarian Rhapsodies" (we did number 2) by Liszt.  What a FUN piece!!

Nature Study:  This term we are studying trees.  This week we went over all the different parts of trees.  We used some printouts from Enchanted Learning.  We will be studying different trees this term.  We've already done some great study of leaves.  Cameron on his own figured out what one of the trees at the library was.  He took a leaf, found it in an identification book and now points out that it is a sweet gum tree, every time we pass it.  He is already pretty good at identifying oaks and maples too.

Handicraft:  Cameron has been doing some soap carving.  He hasn't made anything in particular as of yet but he has REALLY enjoyed just carving the pieces to death.  I figured that it was helping him to develop a feel for the knife and worked on different strokes.  He sits there and carves while he listens to some of the readings.

He also revived a pocket knife from one of the boys at church and it is his new best friend.  He is in LOVE with his pocket knife.  It has pliers, bottle opener, two screw drivers