January 16-20

Week 3 of Term 2

All:

• Recitation: Ten Commandments in Verse
• Devotional: God's Story and Me
• Bible:
  • Genesis 1:1-31
  • Genesis 2:1-10; 15-25
  • Genesis 3:1-24
• Picture Study: Vermeer's "Woman in Blue Reading a Letter"
• Plutarch: Poplicola, Lesson 3

Dd10:

• QuarterMile Math
• started Singapore Math 3A
• started back up with Math-U-See Beta
• Reason for Handwriting Level D
• Explode the Code Book 6
• copywork from the Bible
• Read from:
  • The Bible (NKJV)
  • Egermeier's Bible Story Book: Cripple at the Pool of Bethesda, several sections on Esther
  • Poetry of Emily Dickinson
  • George Washington's World: from "England vs. Spain in the New World" through "The King of France and His Subjects"
  • Trial and Triumph: ch. 31
  • It Couldn't Just Happen: ch. 4
  • This Country of Ours: ch. 41
  • Physics Lab in the Home: pages 24-25
  • Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution: ch. 2
  • Kidnapped: chapters 1-2
  • Kon Tiki: pages 11-17
• Listened to Mom read from:
  • Age of Fable: ch. 2
• For free reading, chose:
  • Childhood of Famous Americans: Susan B. Anthony

Dd8:

• QuarterMile Math
• Singapore Math 1A
• started back up with Math-U-See Alpha
• HWT Printing Power
• Explode the Code Book 3
• Read to Mom from:
  • The Young Reader's Bible
  • The 18 Penny Goose
• Listened to Mom read from:
  • Poetry of Eugene Field
  • An Island Story: chapters 34-35
  • Burgess Animal Book: chapters 1-2

Dd5:

• finished Get Ready for the Code Book A
• started back up in HWT Preschool workbook
• did some lessons in Reading Reflex
• started doing some lessons in Reading Made Easy
• Chose the following for Mom to read aloud:
  • Cross a Bridge by Ryan Ann Hunter
  • When the Rooster Crowed by Patricia Lillie
  • Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni

I'm not sure what I'm going to do for dd5's reading lessons.  She was doing fine with Reading Reflex, but I felt like I wanted to go back to Reading Made Easy.  I just love it so much!  She likes them both.  RME is more warm and cuddly, though.  When I started her on RME this week, we dropped the RR lessons.  I am not trying to do them both.  I'm just switching back and forth until I find the right fit for her.  I really, really prefer RME.  The only thing I don't like about it is that there is still more phonics to teach after they've completed it.  It only gets them up to about 2nd grade reading level.  Well, we'll keep playing it by ear till I figure out the best approach for dd5.

About the math for the two older dd's: we are using both MUS and Singapore.  I like them both.  MUS is great in all areas, except that I think it is a tad bit weak in the "problem-solving/word problems" area.  That's where the Singapore comes in.  Singapore is VERY strong in this area.  I don't know how long I will keep using both programs.  MUS is actually supposed to be our main program and the Singapore is supplementary.  I'm trying to be very selective about what pages I have the dd's do in Singapore, choosing only those pages/problems that I think they can benefit from so as to eliminate any busy work.  So far this system is working out fine.  Dd10 is regaining her enthusiasm for math!  Yay!  And dd8....well, she never lost her enthusiasm.  In fact, I had completely stopped doing formal math lessons with her for a time and she missed the lessons so much that I've allowed her to start back up.  She really loves the MUS.  I don't think I will have her do much with the Singapore after she finishes the current book she is in.  MUS is enough for her.  Dd10 needed both because she needs to exercise her "thinking skills" more and Singapore forces her to do that.

Some things we didn't get to this week that I had wanted to do:

• Hymn: "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing"
• Composer: Henry Purcell; I still don't have a CD of his to listen to.
• Folksongs:  I still don't have the Homestead Pickers' CD and I didn't get around to listening to any folksongs online.
• Shakespeare: Merchant in Venice
• Nature Study:  I had thought we would spend this term on Rocks and Minerals, but we didn't do anything other than the spontaneous studies that come up with the wildlife in our area.
• Handicrafts:  I want to work on simple sewing, but we haven't gotten to it...yet.
• SpongeBob Typing:  The dd's have lost the CD so we haven't been able to have daily typing practice for about a week-and-a-half!
• Writing/English with dd10:  I have it on her schedule that she is to do something written each day (besides handwriting).  This can be an entry in her Book of Centuries, a written narration, a dictation lesson, or a Rod & Staff English assignment.  The only written work she did this week (besides handwriting) was two days of copywork from the Bible.

Ok, I think that's it.  :-)  I'm closing up my homeschool binder now and putting it on the bookshelf for the weekend.  We are having a Movie Night tonight, with popcorn, brownies, chocolate chip cookies, chips & dip, etc.  I just hope that dh gets to stay home and enjoy it all with us.  He is "on call" this week.  :-S

Have a great weekend, y'all!

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