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Dec. 6, 2007

Weeks in review 11/5-11/25/07 (Week 25ish)

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Weeks in review Nov 5-Nov 25

These weeks we did very slowly due to the Thanksgiving holiday and traveling out of town.  The first week, Nov 5-11, we worked through half of our assignments for week 25 of our SL program, and then for the weekend, we went to visit family.  Daddy flew out to visit his brother for the weekend, and the kids and I went to visit my parents.  We had a good time visiting!!  FQ also celebrated his 2nd birthday during this time!  Yay!!!

The next week, Nov 12-19, we just finished up our reading assignments for our Core but did a full week’s worth of language arts and math.  The week of Thanksgiving, we did no Core assignments but did a week’s worth of language and math.  This log will just review what we did over all 3 weeks in general.

For our Bible study, we continued reading from the book of Judges.  We read Judges 4-7: 8.  This was very interesting stuff about the Israelites and their continued struggle with following God.  These particular passages were about Barak, Deborah and the beginning of Gideon's story.   From our American Indian Prayer Guide, we read about the Cherokee tribe.  We were very saddened to read about how they had signed a peace treaty with the US Government, only to have their villages raided and massacred at the hands of the US Army.  No formal apology or reparations were offered.  How sad it is that our government can at times be so cruel and unfair. 

We read chapter 3 from American Adventures, which was about the Louisiana Territory, and the wilderness that expanded past the original thirteen colonies.  We also read from our Landmark text about the same topic and about Thomas Jefferson, who was president during this time.

From our Iroquois book, we read about what kind of work the Iroquois people did, what games they played, including their wintertime games. 

We read poetry by Rudyard Kipling from our Classical Poetry book.  We read “A Smuggler’s Song” and “The Deep Sea Cables”.  The “Smuggler’s Song” was an interesting poem, as it was about a father who was running a smuggling operation in his home and was trying to keep his children out of it.  The “Deep Sea Cables” was a bit more challenging for us to understand, but we were able to appreciate Kipling’s description of the deep sea. 

From our Living World Encyclopedia, we read about the forest floor, the Northern evergreen forests, and Australia’s hot, dry forests.  We were very motivated to travel to Australia after reading about this!!!  From our Usborne Science Activities volume 3, we read about the sun and shadows.  We read about why our shadows change shape and direction during the day, and we did an experiment that simulated the earth’s rotation around the sun, to show how the shadows change. 

I am happy to report that we read from The Story of the Orchestra this week.  We read pages 50-51, about the woodwind instruments.  We will read about them in more detail next week.  We also studied at our Come Look at Me:  Enjoying Art with Children book this week!!  We read pages 22-23,  and read about the artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau and his painting, The Nut Gatherers.  We really enjoyed this painting and found numerous realistic details even though we read that the artist was criticized in his day for making his subjects unrealistic. 

K. began her Delta workbook for math.  She began to learn to divide.  This will be the focus of the first several weeks of this program.  She is doing very well—she learned division by 1 and 10.  She has learned that it is the opposite of multiplication and has learned the different symbols for division. 

She is still working on vocabulary words from Wordly Wise B and is on list 6.  She did lists 119-128 from Sequential Spelling Book 2.  She worked through weeks 16-18 during these 3 weeks from her language arts program.  She read from the book of Job as well during this time.  She continued reading Om-Kas-Toe from chapters 3-8.  She and Daddy finished Carry On, Mr. Bowditch for her read aloud.

Since we were not doing any more Core assignments, K. read a few books on her own—she read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, which she really enjoyed, Rabbit Hill, which she said was “okay”, two books from the Orphan Train Children series, which made her cry, and Lizard Music, which she found delightful.  I am thrilled that she loves to read so much!!!

A., finished lessons 22 and 23 from her Beta workbook.  She is still working on multiple digit subtraction.  She needs a little more practice but overall she really understands the concepts. 

From her Modern Curriculum Press Phonics workbook, she did pages 144-159.  She is really flying through this.  She also did lists 119-128 from Sequential Spelling Book 1.  She did her dictations and assignment sheets from her language arts program.  She continued doing handwriting from Printing Power.  She finished reading Tippy Lemmy, and began A Question of Yams.  She read the entire book over the 3 week period.  She also began Third Grade Detectives Case #4, The Case of the Cobweb Confession.  She really enjoys the Third Grade Detectives series.  On her own time, she also read Surprise Island, the second book from the Boxcar Children series.  For our read aloud, we read chapters 3-8 from Om-Kas-Toe. 

L. is doing fantatstic!!!  She began doing Math U See, just like her sisters!!  We began Primer during this time!  We had already done lessons 1-8, so we began with lesson 9.  L. understood the concept of place value and is doing beautifully on lesson 9. 

She also did weeks 4 and 5 from SL’s LA 1 program.  We are not doing any of the assignment sheets, but focusing only on the reading, phonics, and spelling.  She is doing very well in all of this.  Her reading is becoming very fluent.  She also caught up on her workbook pages for Explode the Code book 1.  The problem is keeping her to just 2 pages per day.  She really loves this workbook series!!

For our read alouds, we read from our 101 Bible Stories book and answered the questions.  We also read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Freight Train, Boy, Dog, Frog, and Guess How Much I love You from our 20th Century Treasury.  We read This Little Piggy, The Three Little Pigs from Treasury of Children’s Literature.  We read “I’m Glad You’re My Grandma” from our Happy Days Treasury, and “Ma Pig’s New Car” from Richard Scarry’s Favorite Storybook.  We also read Down, Down the Mountain from the Five in a Row program. 

We really had a great last 3 weeks, even though we were very tired from the holidays and traveling!!

Love and peace!
A.H. 
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