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Apr. 21, 2009

Week 27, March 30-April 4, 2009

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We continued reading through Ecclesiastes this week.  The girls seem to understand well what it means to "chase the wind" and when things are "meaningless, meaningless!".  LOL

We started up with Starting Strong again.  Our first lesson was about valuing God's opinion of us over others' opinions of us.  We studied 1 Sam 16: 1-13, the story of how God chose David to be the next king.  David was an unlikely choice, since he was the youngest of Jesse's sons, but we learned that what God values (our hearts) isn't necessarily what people value. 

We continued studying about WWII in our book, The World Wars.  We covered quite a bit this week, going from the Battle of Britain, and the German invasion of Eastern Europe, through the war in N. Africa and Hitler's betrayal and invasion of the Soviet Union, to Pearl Harbor and the war in the Pacific and the involvement of the US. 

We were very impressed with the Russian people.  We read about their resistance to Germany, even when they were attacked unawares, and their grit and spiritual strength during the Siege of Leningrad.  Up until now, we haven't read much about Russia and of course, growing up as I did in the public school system in the 1970's and 1980's, we weren't taught much about Russia at all.  I was near tears during some of our readings this week.

For K's reader and A's read aloud, we began a very pleasant book called In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson.  What fun!  We have enjoyed this book so far with its mix of humorous and poignant stories.  K could not help herself and read the whole book the first day.  I also realized that A. had no idea how to play baseball or any rules of the game.  I had to take the time out to explain that to her.  It made me think--I had not thought much of "teaching" my kids Physical Education because they are in dance, gym, yoga, tennis, etc. and are physically very active.  But I remembered that PE in schools also taught kids how to play many different games, games that are important to our culture like baseball, football, soccer and basketball.  So I'm considering doing something about that..but not sure what.

Anyway, for K's read aloud, we read The Winged Watchman which has good adventure and spirit so far.  A. is reading A Llama in the Family and enjoying it.  She is narrating it to me since we don't have the comprehension questions for it.  It was added to the curriculum after we bought the instructor's guide and I'm too cheap to buy the new IG.  LOL

They are also moving along fine in math.  A. does need more practice problems than what MUS gives us.  MUS does offer a package for "extra practice sheets" so I believe next year when we order her next level, we will get these.  I am no good at making up math problems and I frequently find the free online worksheets to be lacking. 

For science, we continued reading from The Usborne Science Encyclopedia.  We read about friction, gravity, moving in a straight line, and appropriately enough, moving in curves, or bending.

L. continues to do very well with her stuff.  She is so far ahead in reading that I don't really know what to do.  She has cruised through SL's 2nd grade "regular" readers, which are, actually, pretty easy for her to read.  I believe she actually reads at 3rd grade level, and she has great spelling skills and can probably spell at first grade level, if not 2nd grade.  However, she has not had any grammar (she's only 5!) so next year we will do the grammar pages from SL's LA 1.  However, I am stumped as what to offer her for reading.  I considered doing Core K using the 4 day program, and letting her read the books left over for her readers.  We'll see.  At any rate....she's just a gem to teach.

FQ is really enjoying all of his preschool readers.  He will start SL's Core PK 3/4 next year and I believe he will do fine.  He is getting his letters and numbers down.  He is also just a cute kid. 

Oh, I almost forgot--our poetry readings were by J. Kennedy--"One Winter Night in August" and Mary Ann Hoberman--"The Folk who live in Backward town".  A. has developed a real love for poetry.  She makes sure we read all of our poetry readings for the week.

That concludes week 27!!  We are nearing the end...

A.H.
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