Saturday, March 7, 2009 - Weeks 27 and 28
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:
- Pilgrim's Progress - Hill Lucre & Demas
- Robin Hood
- The Shooting-Match at Nottingham (Cameron's narration)
- Will Stutely Rescued by His Good Companions (Cameron's narration)
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

