Saturday, February 21, 2009 - Week 26
Bible:
- Elijah hears God in the Still Small Voice
- God choses Elisah to suceed Elijah
- Elijah taken to Heaven in a whirlwind
- Elisha crosses the river Jordan and begins his ministry
- Elisha helps a widow: The oil that keeps on giving
Memory:
- Psalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the prsence of mine enemies; ...
Phonics/Reading
- We are still taking a break from our forward motion. We are still working through our review. I've also started asking him to pick a book, either from his current library books or from his own personal stash. There are a lot of new words and many rules we haven't learned but hopefully he is enjoying it because he has chosen the book.
Math:
- Fractions
- 3 digit subtraction with borrowing. He almost has this skill under his belt
Literature:
- Pilgrim's Progress
- Robin Hood - Robin and the Tinker. (Cameron's narration)
History:
- Children's History of the World - ch 60 "Thelon Gest Wart Hate Verwas" Hundred Years' War, Edward III and the battle of Crecy (which we read about in Island Story and Cameron noticed), and Joan of Arc
- Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley - we read the introduction which discussed the 100 Year's War and introduced us to a young Joan. I like how our readings are overlapping other readings
Nature:
- Pagoo (Pagoo is a library book so I am putting Seabird, which we own, on hold and reading more Pagoo)
- ch 7 - Room and Board, Travel Included - Pagoo finds an empty button barnacle. It isn't a perfect fit but it makes him feel much more protected. But there was a twist to his new home, it is the "penthouse apartment" on another hermit crabs shell.
- ch 8 - Around Snail Cousins' Rock - "Traveling Towers" as Pagoo's "aprtment building" is called stops on a leaf of kelp, ver near to some more interesting creatures: limpets, abalones, nudibranch, sea hare and snails. (Did you know snails have teeth on their tongues?) Traveling Towers are swallowed whole in the last sentence!
Poetry by Christina Rosetti
Copywork:
- Memory Verse
- For Jesus shed His precious blood, / Rich blessing to bestow; / Plunge now into the crimson flood, / That washes white as snow. (Only Trust Him ~ Stockton)
- Yes, Pagoo had been lucky in choosing his first home -- a snug penthouse apartment with free sea-food dinners included! (Pagoo ~ Holling)
- But Joan seemed to have brought the French good luck to have put new life inot their armies...after more than a hundred years of fighting, at last they drove the English out of the country. (Child's History of the World ~ Hillyer)
- The war was very reall to Joan, as it was to everyone in Domremy, and they all knew who the enemy was. (Joan of Arc ~ Stanley)
Spelling:
- cute, mule, fire, day, play, wait, does, been, said, neat, read, seen
Artist:
- Stary Night by van Gogh
