Matters of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of True Happiness
Oct. 13, 2007 - Our Week: October 8, 2007 - October 12, 2007
Here are the highlights of our school week.
Monday
Me
Scripture Study: I read Genesis 7-10.
All
History: I read Chapter 2 from Story of the World Volume 1 about the ancient Egyptians. Dodger completed a narration page. We've studied various things about Egypt in the past year. The girls really enjoy it.
Other: Maybe this falls under Science. The girls watched an episode of How It's Made. They learned about mustard, bolts, toilet paper, and violins. They colored narration pages about what they learned. Song drew about the mustard, which is mostly blobs of yellow color.  They especially liked seeing how violins are made.
Literature (Recreational): We read some more from The Hobbit.
Dodger (7)
Memory Work: Dodger can recite the First Article of Faith from memory.
Life Skills: Dodger wanted to learn how to do laundry so I had her bring her clothes to the laundry room and showed her how to add the detergent and turn on the machine. Later she moved the clean, wet clothes to the dryer. When they were dry I showed her how to fold the clothes and instructed her to put them away. The novelty was lost by that point and she wanted me to do it instead, but I convinced her that this was a useful skill. 
Song (5)
Language Arts (Reading): Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Song requests working out of this book from time to time. We did lesson 20 and about half of 21 before she lost interest. Her letter recognition is coming along and she can sound out words in very simple, phonetically controlled readers.
Tuesday
All
Literature (History): We read more from the library book, It's Disgusting and We Ate It.
Science: We went to our local homeschool group. We received a biology lesson on plant cells, photosynthesis, and why trees lose their leaves in the autumn. Before coming to the group each family collected autumn leaves to use for our craft. The kids painted the leaves and then used them as stamps, leaving prints of the fall leaves all over their papers.
Wednesday
All
Literature (History): We read a two library books.
- One Small Blue Bead (recommended in the SOTW Activity Guide). This was the story of an ancient human boy who wondered if there were other tribes of humans in the world.
- The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen I'll admit that I teared up when I read this heartbreaking tale. Disney did quite a number on this story--there are only a few similarities between the Mickeyed-up movie and the original version.
Literature (Recreational): We read some more from The Hobbit.
Thursday
All
Literature (History): We finished It's Disgusting and We Ate It. We made the recipe for Banana Chocolate Honey Ice Cream. It was yummy.
Other: I baby-sat my four nieces and nephews who were off from school. Dodger went to play at a friend's house in the afternoon.
Dodger (7)
Language Arts (Reading): Dodger read most of lesson 8 from I Can Read It, Book 1.
Friday
All
Literature (Recreational): We read some more from The Hobbit.
Dodger (7)
Language Arts (Reading): Dodger finished I Can Read It, Book 1.
Language Arts (Spelling): Dodger worked on the spelling list I gave her a couple of weeks ago. She did the word search I'd created and some copy work. She felt ready so she sat for a spelling test. I said a word and she wrote it on her paper. She spelled all 10 words correctly but reversed several letters so she got an 18/20. She's insisting that I assign her point values for various assignments that she completes and she wants a report card at the end of the year. I guess public school customs are so prevalent in our culture that they're impossible to avoid.
Language Arts (Handwriting): Dodger spent the afternoon filling up a notebook with letters, numbers, words, and sentences while listening to a book on CD.
Math: Dodger worked more on adding doubles plus one (MathUSee Alpha 14C). She got 10/12 problems correct. The equation 8+9 = ? appeared twice and both times she put the answer (incorrectly) as 19. When I asked her later she knew the answer was 17 so I think she was maybe just working too quickly.
Song (5)
Language Arts (Reading): Song worked on Explode the Code B p. 68-75. She's almost done with the workbook.
Language Arts (Handwriting): Handwriting without Tears, Letters and Numbers for Me p. 14-18 (Capitals L, U, V, W, X, and Y). Song works very carefully.
Math: MathUSee Primer 11E, got all 6 problems correct.
Literature (Recreational): I read the second Tiara Club book to her. I read The Cat in the Hat to Song and Sparkle (3).
Literature (History): We read a library book together, How to Be an Egyptian Princess. We read "Clothes for the Job" and "The Working Day". Song is obsessed with all things princess and I knew she would enjoy this book. She liked the illustrations of the clothes and make-up.
About Me
I've made a little more progress on my goal to read through the Bible cover-to-cover. I've also been reading The Well-Educated Mind (see my review) in preparation for launching my scholar phase (see my review on A Thomas Jefferson Education).
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