Coram Deo

This was a short week because of our field trip and some other factors, so we only did three days of actual school  But it is easy to make up.  I had already been planning on a short week due to our field trip to Phipp's Conservatory.

Bible:

• Job fears God
• Job's first test, he loses his possessions and his children
• Job's second test, looses his health and wife tempts him
• Job's friends

Memory:

• Psalm 95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
• added Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon to OT list

Phonics/Reading:  We have almost finished with the short vowels.  Next week we will catch up in the "Fun with Pets" book to where the long vowels are introduced. 

Math: We focused on adding and subtracting this week.  We also did mirror images of problems.  Ex:  7+8+15, 8+7=15, 15-7=8, 15-7=8

Literature:

• Understood Betsy ch 7  "Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination"  Betsy was very upset that she didn't do very well when the superintendent came to school.  But Cousin Ann shows her that it is no big deal and that she will do better next time.  It was not the end of the world.  Also, another little girl come to live with them at the farm and it brings out Betsy's braver side.
• Pilgrim's Progress "House of the Interpreter, Picture on the Wall, Parlor of Dust"  Christian has made it to the wicket gate and is now on the inside.  Cameron had a very good narration on this, especially the "Room of Dust"  The dust represents sin.  Someone came in with a broom (the law) and tried to clean it up but all it did was make Christian realize how dirty and dusty the room was and almost chocked him.  Then a servant came in with water (the Gospel) and washed the dust away.

History Lit:

• The Little Duke ch 4a in which a young vassal comes to live with the Duke and provides a playmate.  Richard has to learn how to play fairly and not use his being Duke to make unfair advantages. 

Geography Lit:

• Tree in the Trail ch 13 "Post Office Tree"  The hollow in the tree becomes a post office.  Jed and Buck become wagon masters leading groups west each year and look forward to the stop at their tree.  ch 14 "Cottonwoods Don't Live Forever"  Each year Jed and Buck notice more and more dead branches in the special tree.

Nature Lit:

• Burgess Book of Animals ch 15 about the deer mouse and field mouse and ch 16 about the banded and brown lemming and the jumping mouse. 

Poetry of Walter de la Mare:

• The Song of Shadow
• The Song of the Mad Prince
• The Song of Finis

Additional reading:

• We started Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.  So far, I do not like this book.  We are forging ahead with it.  I have had to change it as I read it.  I can't read all those missing letter words.  It was making it too choppy while I was trying to figure out how to read their conversations.  It is a little better since I started reading it proper. I will give it a few more chapters and see what Cameron things.  We may have to save it for later.

Copy work:

• Memory Verse
• Hallelujah! what a Savior! Hallelujah! what a Friend! Saving, helping, keeping, loving, He is with me to the end. (Our Great Savior)
• Buck was forever finding the tree worse off than the year before.  He would count dead branches.  Each season there were more. (Tree in the Trail)

Spanish: Worked more with our professions: student, police officer, bus driver, doctor, nurse, mechanic, chef, secretary, manger and teacher

Artist/Composer:

• Viewed a portion of "Birth of Venus" by Botticelli.  He is getting better at picture studies.  We could not see "Venus" in our picture.  We could see a part of her hair and a little of what she was standing in.  He noticed the hair and the shell.  Very observant.
• Church cantata by Bach. 

Hymn/Folk:

• Our hymn for this month is "Our Great Savoir" by J. Wilbur Chapman and Rowland W. Prichard
• Our folk song choice, "The Star-Spangled Banner", is not a folk song but I did want him to learn it because it is our national anthem.  We had such a great talk as we worked through the song.  I think I learned some things as I was explaining to him some of the words and how they came to be. 

Nature Study: Phipp's Conservatory