Only a Boy

Saturday, March 7, 2009 - Weeks 27 and 28

Posted in Week in Review

I was very ill last week so our schooling was cut short.  I guess I could look at it as Cameron learned how to take care of someone that was sick AND he practiced his "keep myself busy so Mama can rest" skills. 

Bible:

  • Elisha and the Shunnamite woman
  • Elisha raises the Shunnamite's dead son
  • Naaman is healed
  • Greedy servant lies and gets leprosy
  • Floating Ax head
  • Servant sees a fiery army
  • Shunnamite woman
  • Joash makes Temple repairs
  • Hezekiah cleanses the Temple

Memory:

  • Psalm 23:5b ...thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
  • Psalm 23:6a Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: ...

Phonics/Reading:  Still Cameron's least favorite subject by far.  I keep trying to change things up.  It seems when I change things, he does better for a little bit and then slips back into his "It's too hard and I'll NEVER get this" attitude.  I pray this will not be a struggle through all of his schooling. 

Math:

  • Place values up to the millions.  Hard concept the first day that we introduced thousands, ten thousands and hundred thousands.  The second day it clicked with no problems.
  • Measuring using inches and centimeters.  One of his favorite things to do.
  • Continued doing addition, subtraction and multiplication drills.  He is improving greatly!

Literature:

History:

  • Joan of Arc 
  • An Island Story
    • ch 52 - The Story of How Prince Hall was Sent to Prison
    • ch 53 - Henry V of Monmouth - The Battle of Agincourt
  • Child's History of the World - ch 61 Off with the Old, On With the New

Nature:

  • Pagoo
    • ch 9 - In, Out, Up with Traveling Towers.  Traveling Towers is swallowed whole by a fish and then spit out.  Then it is picked up by a gull and dropped.  TT escapes and Pagoo decides it wasn't worth it and decides to leave
    • ch 10 - Houses are Scarce in Tide-Pool Town. Pagoo meets more creatures as he searches for an empty shell. 
    • ch 11  - A Concrete Tile Can Crawl Both Ways.  Pagoo finds a home of his own in the shell of a tube snail.  The problem: there is another hermit on the other end. 

Poetry: Christian Rossetti

Copywork:

  • Memory verses
  • Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty! / Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee; / Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty! / God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!  (Holy, Holy, Holy ~ Heber)
  • Holy, Holy, Holy.  All the saints adore Thee! / Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea, (Holy, Holy, Holy ~ Heber)
  • Free living? Huh! It cost too much misery in the end.  From now on he would find his own food.  Pagoo stamped a foot.  Old Instinct didn't laugh. (Pagoo ~ Holling)
  • And what book do you suppose it was that he printed?  Why, the book that people thought to be the most important book in the world--the Bible. (Child's History of the World ~ Hillyer)
  • Pagoo did a very rash thing.  He hopped right out of his brand-new shell and fairly pranced around in victory.  Immediately he knew he shouldn't have done it.  (Pagoo ~ Holling)

Spelling:

  •  nice, sky, fine, dry, old, know, road, cold, does, wait, neat, read
  • cook, cave, kiss, lock, clean, grow, hold, own, coat, wait, road

Artist: Van Gogh's The Chair and the Pipe

Hymn: "Holy, Holy, Holy" by Reginald Heber and John B. Dykes

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