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Jul. 13, 2009

Weeks 34-36

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Well it looks like I will probably never get around to writing an excerpt about each individual week so I will just combine the last 3 weeks of our homeschooling year into one year.

Yes, we finished Core 4!!!  The last 3 weeks were really fantastic.  I know I say that every week, so you can take that with a grain of salt, but we covered so many profound topics and had some really great discussions!

We covered Chicano rights and Cesar Chavez, Native American rights, more Black rights, and women's rights.  We discussed the Vietnam War, and in particular our family's perspective of it, since I was born in Saigon and left in April of 1975.  I think when the children are older, I can see if my parents will talk to them about it.  They never would talk to me much about it, but maybe now that so much time has elapsed, the memories won't be as painful.  We can at least try.

We have really loved Core 4.  This Core truly had no duds, IMO.  Not that there were many duds in previous cores, but there was always a book or two that I could have done without.  Not Core 4.  We really enjoyed every book, the readers and the read alouds, and we can't wait to see what Core 5 will unveil for us!!

The language arts program was great as usual, and MUS continues to work well for us. 

L. finished up her Core PK 4/5 stuff and is reading so well I don't know what to do with her.  She just turned 6 but has finished the Regular readers for LA 2.  I think I will have her wait until she does LA 2 Intermediate since I want her to do the grammar that goes with that program.  So we'll see!!

Okay, I think this is it for this blog piece.  I have lots more stuff to blog about but I am glad I at least got this done. 
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