Nov. 10, 2008:
It was a busy day, with full lessons, and a wonderful day, indeed!
Kiddo got herself started on copywork then math, while I did some other things.
Grammar, & Geography (TOG 3 State card deck) followed.
After that, she selected a new piece to memorize for the holiday season. At first it was a toss-up between two other poems until she saw "A Visit from St. Nick" and she knew right away she wanted to do that one. Okay by me! I think it's just a cultural standard, right?! LOL
Next came spelling,
 (Kiddo "sitting" at DH's desk, using the backside of the pages in her
spelling composition notebook! LOL Hey we can't let perfectly empty pages go to waste!
Yes, those are two laptops on DH's desk. Center is his newer one
which does NOT have Office 2007 installed on it yet and to the
left is the older one with Office 2005, which he has to use for now.
He does his email, websurfing, and college courses at this desk. )
 (gratuitous close-up shot)
then science (we're doing Sonlight 5 science)
 (Excuse the poor lighting. Us on the office floor with me reading the
science selection aloud. Notice the two art pieces overhead on
the wall in back. Those are two my son did in 9th grade.)
 (The beginning of the 24 hour "cell membrane" experiment.)
 (Writing up about the experiment. using a FREE page from NotebookingPages.com !)
We moved on to "artist study" at this time and watched a handful of video snippets on John James Audubon from various sources (YouTube and United Streaming both come to mind.) We're still working on our hands-on art lessons and will eventually be creating our own Audubon-esque pieces, but that is still a ways off. However, once we finish viewing the remaining video snippets, we'll move on from our formal study of Audubon.
We enjoyed returning back to M.E.P. math, as a mathematics enrichment. We'd taken a long break from it but I'd gotten it into my head last week, printed up pages, made her workbook, and off we go again! This is a great FREE resource including an email list for homeschoolers using MEP!
Finally, our formal lessons came to an end with our reading from the current God's World News. Today kiddo read about the Supreme Court and I followed with short articles about three separate cases that are being presented to the Supreme Court this session, no matter how "crazy" we think they are. DD and I had a nice conversation about these cases, their morality, and personal common sense. Oh, and let me not forget the knock-knock jokes she also read to me (also from GWN) which were, as usual, dull as the door which is knocked upon. LOL
Dinner around the table (the same table at which kiddo was documenting her experiment) she explained to Daddy about her experiment and how/why the results should be what they are (we'll know for sure tomorrow!) And, because she's such a great kid .... she also shared the knock-knock jokes with him, too! LOL
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