We jumped right back into the swing of things.  The week off was great.

Bible:

• Joshua is the new leader of Israel
• Rahab protects the spies and they promise to protect her
• Israel crosses the Jordan river and builds a memorial
• Battle of Jericho
• The deception of the Gibeonites

We are catching up in our Bible study to where Cameron is in FBI (Faith Bible Investigators) AKA Junior Church.  I'll be reading along and he will exclaim, "Hey I remember that one from FBI!"

Memory:

• Ephesians 6:7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: (What a great and timely verse for the two of us.  It is always a great reminder that the Lord is the reason we do this or that and that fact can help us through the times that we get frustrated with others or just plain don't feel like doing it.)
• Added Nahum and Habbakuk to our OT list
• Began working on a poem out of his A Beka reader.  Its about a tree and that went very well with our nature study this term.  Right now I have him read it every day to get familiar with it, later I will have him start to remember it without looking.

Phonics/Reading:  I am so thankful that a friend passed on her A Beka readers.  They go very well with our Handbook to Reading from A Beka.  He is starting to actually get smoother and slightly faster.  I know that sometimes I think he should be going faster and catching on quicker but it is definitely coming.  He is also starting to read on his own: cartoons, books we own, signs on the road, etc.

Math:

• Continued with borrowing in subtraction and worked on borrowing not only from the 10's place but also the 100's. 
• Adding money with decimal points. 
• Money word problems
• Time

Spelling: I decided that we should add spelling.  I believe that the Charlotte Mason method doesn't have spelling but I just felt that it was something that our family needed.  I'm still going to be fine tuning my method but as it stands right now, I have a list of 360 words for second graders (10 words for each week of school)  We started at the beginning and I asked him to spell the words on the list.  When we got to ten words that he missed I stopped and those were his words for the week.  Right now, I don't think that I will have him do spelling tests on a paper.  He can write them up on our dry erase board which is great fun for him.  He only missed two words on his "test."  I think I will just add those to next week's list until he has mastered those words.

• send, bell, well, fell, went, miss, win, jug
• missed words: spell, help

Literature:

• Wind in the Willow - chapter 4 "Mr Badger" After finding Mr Badger's door in the snow storm, Rat and Mole take refuge in his home.
• Pilgrim's Progress - "Evil Report, Valley of Shadow of Death" Christian goes through the Valley of the Shadow of Death.  It isn't a pretty place.  But he hears someone ahead of him praying and is encouraged.

History Lit:

• The Little Duke -   second half of chapter 8.  Osmund and Richard escape from the clutches of the French and make it safely to Normandy
• An Island Story - chapter 37 Henry II of Winchester - The Story of Hubert de Burgh. He takes sanctuary in a church only to be dragged out by the army.  When it was found out that they broke the rules of sanctuary he was sent back to the church.  Then the laid seige on him until he came out by himself

Poetry by Eugene Field

• Shuffle Shoon and Amber Locks
• The Shut Eye Train
• Little Oh-Dear
• The Fly Away Horse
• Fiddle-Dee-Dee

Copywork:

• Memory verse
• Silent night, holy night, / All is calm, all is bright / Round yon virgin mother and child. / Holy infant so tender and mild, / Sleep in heavenly peace, / Sleep in heavenly peace. (Silent Night! Holy Night! (Moir and Gruber)
• Sometimes he had half a thought to go back; then again he thought he might be half-way through the valley.  He remembered also, how he had already vanquished many a danger; and that the danger of going back might be more than for to go forward.  So he resolved to go on; ... (Pilgrim's Progress.  A two-day copywork)
• When any one was hunted by his enemies, if he ran into a church, reached the alter steps and laid hold upon the cross, no one dared hurt him.  This was called "taking sanctuary." (An Island Story)

Cameron has picked something up doing copywork.  He has started hyphenating, on his own!  I was quite surprised to see "again", "into" and "alter" hyphenated all correctly.  It was not this way in what he was copying but he has seen it a few times and he told me that I explained it to him once.  I don't remember this conversation but I'm glad he did.

Spanish: We went over a LOT of new words: living room, bathroom, bedroom, closet, kitchen, dining room, basement, garage, stairs hallway, rug, wall, mirror, dresser, outside, inside, kitchen sink, tiolet, shower, television, radio, computer, bookshelf, washing machines, dryer, dishes silverwear, by (next to) some, clothes, bathroom sink, studying

Mapwork: Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Ghana, Mongolia, Philippines, India, England, France

Hymn and Folk

• Silent Night! by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber
• Deck the Halls (He was already going around singing this one and signging it incorrectly so I thought we should learn it)

Nature Study:  We continue to learn about trees this term.  We read what Handbook of Nature had to say about trees in general.  We were both interested in roots and when we went for our nature walk this week we were look specifically for roots.  We found one GREAT specimen that showed us a lot of roots and what roots do.  I plan on making it into another blog entry.  And the best part, Cameron found it, was extremely excited about his find and was the first thing he told his Dad when they spoke on the phone.