Saturday, 07 November 2009
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Another week in! I've been trying to fiddle with my schedule (we don't really have a daily schedule--we don't do spelling from 8 to 9 or anything, instead we have a rhythm that works better for us) to make sure that my "priority" subjects--Latin, math, spelling, and writing--get done.
Still, I had some failures. I'll get into that below.
(I'll put Alex and London's together and then add Holden's below)
Reading:
London eventually refused to finish the book on Isaac Newton that I'd assigned her. For a kid who loves to read to say that must mean something, right? Instead she told me all about Newton so we'll just return it to the library. Friday we started reading Dickens' Oliver Twist aloud on my Kindle. The language is a bit difficult for her but she's really excited to be able to touch the Kindle so it evens out. Alex and I are halfway through The Door in the Wall.
Writing:
Ah, Classical Writing. Alex did a great job with "The Princess and the Pea". Because we got behind he needs to edit his rough draft (I printed it out for easier editing) and write the final draft, but he worked hard. We just ran short on time.
London did well on her summary but we got stuck on grammar. This was completely my fault--I obviously need to look ahead on the grammar portion since I couldn't remember what IV and TV stood for. We still have a couple of things to do to finish up but this was our best week so far for CW.
Spelling:
We actually got around to SWR this week. They are really loving the part when we analyze the spelling.
Latin:
We did Latin EVERY day this week! Go me. We finished the introduction to Lively Latin and then did lesson 1.1 and exercises 1.1-1.3 (I think--it's somewhat confusing to me).
Grammar:
London did lessons 33-37 and Alex did lessons 39-43 (we did grammar every day!)
Math:
We need to catch up on MEP this weekend. London did it once and also worked on Life of Fred. Alex did math twice. This is unacceptable.
Science:
Big fat nothing. I'm committed to working on this over the weekend.
History:
London finished the age of Enlightenment and moved on to the Industrial Revolution. Alex read a book about the bubonic plague. I keep meaning to run into the library and get the History Channel program on the plague but they are doing major renovations on the library and parking is a nightmare.
Extras like art and music? Don't ask. Russian? Nada.
As for Holden:
History:
We read "Alexander and Bucephalus" and "Diogenes" from Fifty Famous Stories Retold.
Spelling:
We did really well with spelling this week! He had a quiz, we worked on A-2 words, and wrote the words on index cards. Then we put the cards into sentences.
Natural History/Science:
We read "Moses the Kitten" from James Herriot's Treasury for Children. He loves cats so he enjoyed this story. We still need to read a chapter in the Burgess Bird Book. I did find this bird-call machine that we have and put new batteries in it so that we can try to identify bird calls. Also my uncle gave London a bunch of greeting cards and some of them have beautiful photographs of birds on them so I snagged those for Natural History.
Phonics:
We did an OPG lesson on Monday and the rest of the week read Bob books. He's at the point in OPG where he's doing consonant blends and the reading is ramped up, which is frustrating him. I've decided to take a break on OPG for a week or so and instead focus on fluency.
Math:
We did lessons 34-36 in Rightstart math.
Poetry:
We read four poems from A Child's Garden of Verses.
Literature:
We're about halfway through Little House in the Big Woods. We also read Aesop's "The Wolf and the Grapes" and "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse".
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