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Jan. 19, 2009

Week 18, Jan 11-16, 2009

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We had an extremely busy but fun week.  First off, Daddy had a birthday, so we got a chance to thank God once again for His goodness and His provision.  Daddy and I celebrated by going to see Jesus Christ Superstar, which was touring in our city.  It was a fun evening! 

We continued with readings from 1 Samuel this past week.  We read about Saul's continued pursuit of David, and how David spared Saul's life not once but twice.  We marveled at the hate and jealousy in Saul's heart that would make him continue to try to kill David, even after David had shown him such mercy.  The girls are memorizing John 15 and covered verses 3 and 4 this past week.

We read about poor Peter's failings in our Starting Strong Bible study.  We read Luke 22:  31-34 about Peter's confident statement that he would go with Christ to the death and contrasted that with Peter's actions in the next verses, 39-62.  We discussed the things that may make us "deny" Christ, even though we say in our minds that we will always follow Him.  A. commented that Peter had no idea what the future would hold for him when he said that he would follow Christ no matter what.  K. said that it was fear and panic that caused Peter to falter.  We all felt bad for Peter but were encouraged that Peter's story was far from over.

In history, we read about the various "champions" of the people.  We read about the Populist party, William Jennings Bryan, and Teddy Roosevelt.  We covered what a trust was, and how companies were buying out their competition so that they could have a sort of "tyranny" over the common person.  Our readings were from Landmark entirely this week.

We continued in our botany unit this week in science.  We read about some plants' defensive mechanisms, including some "tricks" that plants use to trap their predators.  We also read about some symbiotic relationships with insects and some parasitic relationships.  We finished with learning about how plants can live in "communities" for protection.

We were supposed to start our TOPS project about corn and beans but we decided to put this off until spring.  We were disappointed that our radishes didn't do as well as we had hoped and decided that it would be best to start trying to grow our corn and beans in the spring or summer.  We would also have more time then to devote to them.

We began Little Britches for K's read aloud.  Honestly, while this is a good book, we are not too impressed with Ralph's mother.  Just an opinion.  LOL  K. finished George Washington Carver for her reader while I read it to A. for her read aloud.  We are really so impressed with GWC.  In fact, we discussed how the GWC museum that we went to did not do him justice.  There were no exhibits highlight all that this brilliant man had done for the world!  I am really considering writing to them imploring them to really expand their museum.  We went through that museum and left without an idea of how great he really was.  A. finished Little House on Rocky Ridge and began Socks. 

Both of the older girls are doing really well in math.  K. should be done with Delta soon and A. is more than half way through Gamma.

L. had her usual great week.  She is still doing SL's PreK 4/5 program and is on week 18 too.  She's reading so well, about 2nd grade level or higher.  Her math is also impressive and she's doing a great job teaching the material back to me. 

The only thing we did not get to this week was art, so we want to really make an effort to do that this week.

Happy MLK day!

A.H.
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