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Jan. 26, 2009
Week 19, Jan 19-23, 2009
Week 19 went well as usual. In our Bible studies, we finished up 1 Samuel, reading about David's exile in Philistine territory, the attack on his adopted town when he and his army left to offer their services to the Philistines, his counter-attack, and finally Saul's not-so-glorious death.
We continued studying Peter in Starting Strong. We read about Christ reinstating Peter, and what that meant. We discussed how different Peter was now, than he was not too long ago when he confidently said he would never fail Christ, and his failures. Peter gives us great hope! We discussed what it took to get back on your feet after a failure and continue forward.
We have been reading about some of the events that lead up to WWI. We have not started studying WWI in any detail. It seems that our readings this week just tied up some loose ends and touched on some of the events that were happening in Europe. We began The World Wars this week, which we expect would cover WWI in detail.
K. began reading The Wright Brothers for her reader, and I am reading it to A for her read aloud. We are simply amazed at these brothers' ingenuity and their fresh approach at everything! This has been a very good book. We continued reading aloud to K. Little Britches. I ended up "cheating" this week and buying the audio book. This is the first time we have ever used an audiobook but it won't be the last! This has made my life so much easier! It took away the stress of having to read it, and yet, we can still enjoy it together if we listen together. But on busy days, K can just listen to it on my Ipod! It has truly been a spectacular find.
We read several poems this week from the Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems. Our selections were Something Told the Wild Geese by Rachel Field, Books Fall Open by David McCord, and Adventures of Isabel and The Panther, both by Ogden Nash. The girls enjoyed the Ogden Nash poems the best, as did I.
We studied protists this week in science. We read about the Euglena, paramecium, and amoeba. We realized that we read the wrong readings for this week, but oh well. We enjoyed them anyway.
Next week should be promising!
God bless,
A.H. |
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