Saturday, January 17, 2009 - Week 21
We are combining some things over the next few weeks as well as getting some things done on Saturdays to get us back on track where I want us to be. So this is really week 20 and 21, sort of.
Bible:
- The Philistines caput re the Ark and then return
- Saul is anointed as first King of Israel
- Saul and his son Jonathon
- Saul is disobedient and his kingly line is rejected
- David is anointed King
- David and Goliath
- David and Jonathon have a special bond
Memory:
- Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
- Reviewed all the books of the Bible
Phonics/Reading: Some days seem good and others seem are the exact opposite of good. I am planning on stopping where we are very soon and maybe going back to do a review of some type. I have also added him reading some simple books to maybe build his confidence and fluency. This week he read:
- Hop on Pop by Dr. Suess
- I Can Read with My Eyes Shut by Dr. Suess
- Go, Dog, Go by P.D. Eastman
- Inside, Outside, Upside Down by Stan and Jan Berenstien
Math:
- multiples of 3
- money: This is his favorite kind of math. He loves to separate each coin and count them.
- Believe it or not but he OFFERED to keep score for a game of Scrabble I was playing this past Sunday. He did a great job and the fact that he offered to do it blew me away. Real life math skills, right?
Literature:
- Pilgrim's Progress
- Talkative, Christian and Faithful
- Faithful and Talkative
- Evangelist Reunion
History Lit:
- Little Duke - chapter 11a. Carloman continues to become more and more ill but finds great solace in his lessons with Father Lucas
- Our Island Story
- chapter 42 - Edward I - The Hammer of the Scots
- chapter 43 - The Story of King Robert the Bruce and the Bohun
- chapter 44 - Edward II. - The Story of the Battle of Bannockburn (Cameron's Narration)
Geography Lit:
- Seabird
- chapter 2 - The Vision in the Snow. We meet Ezra, a young man on a whaling ship. He is sent to the crow's nest during a snowstorm and the gull helps him realize they are about to run into an iceberg. We looked up several web sites about icebergs.
- chapter 3 - Smart Traders. Ezra trades a jigging pump-drill, which we were both very interested in, for the ivory tusks of walrus.
Nature Lit:
- Pagoo - chapter 1 Pagoo Might be a Hermit Crab. Pagoo has just hatched and is very tiny. He is the size of a dot made by a pencil. We learned of other animals and plants that make up plankton. We checked out a few things under Cameron's new microscope. This helped a little on size comparison.
Poetry by Eugene Price
- Fairy and Child
- Child and Mother
- Ganderfeather's Gift
Free Reads: We are finally finished with The Five Little Pepper's and How They Grew. It wasn't my favorite, but it wasn't horrible. I really didn't care for the way the spoke. It was hard to get into its rhythm. We just began Five Children and It. It sounds very promising and might be one that I don't want to put down myself.
Copywork:
- Memory Verse
- What can wash away my sins? / What can make me whole again? / For my pardon this I see/ For my cleansing, this my plea. / Nothing but the blood of Jesus. (Nothing But the Blood of Jesus ~ Lowery)
- Waves churned all food into bits so small that the water itself became a sort of soup. Pagoo could lie in soup and eat it too, so he was happy. (Pagoo ~ Holling)
- Ezra knew that his 'Seabird' was niether a ghost nor bad omen. Yet this one, by flying off so oddly, had called his attention to the floating island of ice. (Seabird ~ Holling)
Artist: Friedrich's Moon Rising Over Sea I actually had Cameron look at this one all by himself while I was preparing a meal in the other room. He would then come and tell me what he could about the picture. It helped that I had not seen it because I asked him questions about it. I'm hoping this will help him "narrate" the picture back to me.
Composer: Liszt's Piano Sonata in B min. We haven't had one song yet that I couldn't find on YouTube.
