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Feb. 2, 2009

Week 20, Jan 26-30, 2009

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Great week as usual.  We began 2 Samuel this week and read about David's reaction to Saul's death and then the subsequent fighting of the different army factions--the army loyal to Saul versus the army loyal to David.  I'm very impressed by David's devotion to Saul as a king!  I know if my king were trying to kill me and doing so relentlessly, I would not be so gracious!!!

We continued reading about WWI in more detail this week.  The thing that stands out the most was the description of the trenches and how gross they were.  Those poor soldiers had to keep all their dead in them, and so the dead would begin to rot and large rats would start eating them.  Plus all the lice and mud and....well just plain yuckiness.  It made us very appreciative of all that these soldiers went through.  We are having to really keep tabs on who is on whose side and what exactly happened in this war! 

We finished up both The Wright Brothers and Little Britches this week.  Both great books. The audiobook really saved my life!  It was nice for K to hear it read to her with the dramatic voices.  We now have bought an MP3 player speaker for our car so now we can both hear the story on audiobook.  I did nearly cry at the end of Little Britches.  K also said that the book was so sad.  She enjoyed it.

A. finished up B is for Betsy this week and began Emily's Runaway Imagination.  She is enjoying it.  She liked the Betsy book as well. 

We realized that we had read the wrong assignments last week for Science so we decided to read both last week's correct assignments and this week's.  We began with learning about the different parts of a plant cell, and then we covered photosynthesis briefly.  We read this from Biology Level I.  Then we went back to our Mysteries and Marvels book and read about parasitic plants and plant reproduction. 

We had a busy Friday so we could not get to our art projects.  I always get sad when we can't do that.  Next week!

God bless!
A.H.
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