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Amazed!!!
Feb. 16, 2009
Week 22, Feb 9-13, 2009
We were able to get everything done this week even though we pretty much lost a day due to A.'s orthopedics appointment. We managed that by doing all of our readings for Wednesday (her appt. day) on Tuesday. Daddy was home so that helped us get a lot done!! Yay for Daddy, our secret weapon.
So this week we covered 2 Samuel 8 through 10. We read about David's many victories and his kindness toward Mephibosheth, one of Saul's sons. SL had assigned 2 Sam 11 for part of the week, which I decided to skip. I couldn't find a suitable version of the Bible that handled the Bathsheba story without too much detail, so I figured we could skip it until it comes up again in a Core!!!
In history, we continued reading about WWI in The World Wars. As the war is coming to an end, we are reading about some very sad and tragic things. So many very young soldiers losing their lives, the Battle of the Somme, and the Russian revolution. We also read about the effects of the war to the soldiers emotionally, how some of them never really recover from "shell shock". The US has finally joined in on the war, and it looks like Germany is finally getting exhausted.
We finished up All of a Kind Family, which K read as a reader and I read to A. as a read aloud. It was a very cute and enjoyable book, and we enjoyed the details of Jewish customs and holidays. We continued with Cheaper By the Dozen for K's read aloud, and A. continued reading Emily's Runaway Imagination. Daddy is reading Cheaper to K when he can and reading on his own on days when he can't read to her. You can hear both him and K. laughing out loud. It's great to read and laugh!!!
We read about protists this week for science. We are still reading from Biology Level I.
The girls are still continuing onwards with their math. K. started Epsilon last week and started using the fraction overlays this week. A. had some trouble with math this week, not so much with this week's material, but old material, so we will have a review week next week.
L. keeps plugging away, reading everything in sight and doing great with her core. She is also a math champ! She tried out for the pre-team in gymnastics a few weeks ago and made the team, so she has a new gymnastics day and time!! She is also continuing with dance and piano.
We read Triolet Against Sisters by Phyllis McGinley and The Sloth by Theodore Roethke. We were pretty impressed that the sloth poem gave us such a strong impression of how slow a sloth was.
That's it for this week. We accidentally read next week's science readings a while back when I read the wrong schedule  , but that means that we get a week off of science!!!
God bless,
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