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Ebenezer
Jan. 12, 2007
What we did this week
Borrowing from Jessica, and for my own benefit someday, I'll recount what we did in school this week:
DD4:
* Finished through Lesson 44 of Saxon Math 1 (worked M-Th)
* Finished through Lesson 143 of Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading (worked M-Th)
* Attended preschool three mornings
* Read Chocolate Fever and Ramona the Brave on her own (which seems redundant with OPG, but that's explained in earlier posts)
* Started art project of a space landscape, tying in with preschool discussion of space/rockets and also with Discovering Great Artists / Thomas Gainsborough project DS was doing.
* Ballet class
DS8
* Daily piano practice and a lesson, about halfway done with Music Tree 2A. Also the activity book
(triads, transposing)
* Reading for school: George Washington, Our First Leader
* Read himself: The Westing Game, Five Boys in a Cave, Redwall (for the umpteenth time, but this time he has his own copy he got for 49 cents at the thrift store); other shorter books I can't keep track of but have selected myself from the library
* Had read to him: Toliver's Secret, Freddy the Detective (has anyone read this Freddy the Pig series? My husband loved these growing up but I'd never heard of it until now. They've got a fantastic lexicon.)
* Boys' club at church: Made a leather Jacob's-ladder wallet, played dodgeball
* Math: Singapore 4B, Multiplying decimals; also Challenging Word Problems re: perimeter and area
* History: Sonlight 3 Week 20 -- a little disjointed, but mostly about the Articles of Confederation and the push for a federal government and a constitution. DS either answered worksheets or wrote paragraphs in summary.
* Calculadders Book 3: stuck on the first one for a while now (supposed to finish 80 random multiplication facts through x12 in 4 minutes. I'm bumping up the time by 15 sec. next week)
* Science: Week 30 of Noeo Chemistry 1
* Classics for Kids radio show and questions (online)
* Rod and Staff 3, Lessons 75 and reviews, unit test
* Memorization: Continue with Sonlight's schedule for Bible, reviewing old verses, also memorizing square roots to help with area/perimeter questions, also Latin prayers, reviewing books of Bible, states/capitals, etc. using our fantastic memory box mentioned in previous posts
* Bible: Continuing with family reading plan
* Spelling: Spelling Power through level D31
* Latin: Prima Latina finished Lesson 12 (about one lesson per week)
* Typing: one 15-minute session with Typing Instructor, currently learning q, w, o, p
* Art (which we rarely fit in, but I'm working on it): Gainsborough project (landscape with watercolor; people to be drawn separately and inserted into landscape)
* Penmanship: Cursive Success (HWT blue book), lowercase w
* For the record: We'll start swimming lessons again next month
* Writing: I've decided to roll this into history for now -- we hit a bit of a wall with CW Aesop
It seems like a lot when I type it out, but the comparison bug always makes me feel as if we're not doing enough or, on the flip side, doing too much too superficially.
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Jan. 16, 2007 - You're working that boy to death!!!
Off to tackle history...
Jessica