Weekly Review - Second Week

All the kids:

• Practiced our hymn (The Solid Rock) and praise chorus (Mighty is Our God)
• Family prayer each day
• Read and discussed 1 Corinthians 1-6
• Re-read the first few pages of Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends by the Mallys
  
• Attended the first session of homeschool co-op
  
• Listened to several chapters from our read-aloud: Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze by Elizabeth Enright
• Completed Module 1 in the Creativity Express software (art history & appreciation)
• Completed 1 session of typing instruction (using Mavis Beacon Teaching Typing software)
• Read one letter from Mom and wrote one letter back (in Communication Journals)
  

David - 13yo/8th grade:

• Did Math-U-See Pre-Algebra - 3 pages in lesson 24 and Test 24
  
• 4 pages on prepositions in Easy Grammar Plus and played Preposition Bingo
  
• Did silent reading for 30 minutes (or more) 4 days.
• 2 spelling placement tests and 2 days spelling study
• Reviewed IEW SWI-B lessons for Weeks 1-4 on DVD
• Read the History of US Volume 1 (Hakim) - chapters 1-8 - and discussed with Mom
  
• Helped coach soccer and refereed one U8 soccer game
  
• Read Cameron Townsend Chapters 4-8
  

Emily - 11yo/6th grade:

• Worked on multiplication facts
• 4 pages on prepositions in Easy Grammar Plus and played Preposition Bingo
• 2 spelling placement tests and 2 days spelling study
• Reviewed IEW SWI-B lessons for Weeks 1-4 on DVD
  
• Read some of Sarah, Plain and Tall & did comprehension questions and vocabulary for Chapter 2
  
• Silent reading - 30 minutes (or more) 4 days
• Did 2 pages of penmanship - cursive review
  

James 8yo/3rd/4th grade:

• Math-U-See Gamma - Test 4 and 3 pages in Lesson 5
  
• Finished Monster Bugs and started reading Terror on the Amazon: Quest for El Dorado
  
• Wrote in literature journal - one sentence about each day's reading.
• Silent reading - 15 minutes (or more) each day.
• Explode the Code 5 - 2 pages each day
• Read and Think Skill Sheets 3 (A Beka) - 1 lesson
• Penmanship - cursive introduction - 4 pages
  
• Went to soccer practice twice and played one soccer game
  

Suzy - 6yo/1st grade:

• Math-U-See Alpha - 4 pages
  
• Alphabet Island - 4 phonics lessons on short vowel words
• Practice learning sight words
  
• Explode the Code Book 2 - 2 pages each day (consonant blends)
• Silent reading - 15 minutes each day
• Wrote in literature journal - one sentence about each day's reading.
• 4 pages in her ABC Journal
  
• Went to soccer practice once

I had assigned the 3 older kids to begin English From the Roots Up this week, but I decided to wait another week or two to start it. We haven't started our Science or History yet either. One of them will start this week and one the next.

I think I'm going to have David take 2 years to do Sonlight 100. It's far more work than we are used to doing - so much READING. But I don't want to give any of it short shrift, so I think we'll just take our time doing it instead.