Weekly Review - Fifth Week

Here is the report from our 5th week of lessons. Again a four day week. They had a fall break on Friday since their teacher was on vacation. :-)

All the kids:

• Practiced our NEW hymn (The Old Rugged Cross) and NEW praise chorus (Great and Mighty is He)
  
• Family prayer each day
• Read and discussed Acts 19:20-20:2 and 2 Corinthians 1-6
  
• Listened to a couple chapters from our read-aloud: Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze by Elizabeth Enright (will finish NEXT week)
  
• Read one letter from Mom and wrote one letter back (in Communication Journals)
• Worked for 30 minutes or so each on Creativity Express art history software
• Worked for 15-30 minutes each on Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
• Played Rummy Roots
• Did silent reading for 30 minutes (or more) 4 days
• Wrote a letter to a friend or family member
• Went to monthly art class (3 hours) (NOT SUZY)
  

David - 13yo/8th grade:

• Did Math-U-See Pre-Algebra - Lesson 26 - 4 pages
  
• 2 pages on prepositions in Easy Grammar Plus
  
• 4 days spelling study (Spelling Power Level F)
• IEW SWI-B lessons Week 6 - Watched DVD lesson and did Assignment 1
• Read the History of US Volume 1 (Hakim) chapters 16-22 and discussed
  
• Refereed 1 U8 soccer game
  
• Read Cameron Townsend Chapters 18-20 (finished book!)
• Wrote character sketch of Cameron Townsend
  
• Apologia Physical Science - finished Module 1 and took the test
  

Emily - 11yo/6th grade:

• Worked on multiplication facts with flashcards - knows almost all of them now.
• Started Lesson 21 in Math-U-See Gamma - did 4 pages
  
• 2 pages on prepositions in Easy Grammar Plus
• 4 days spelling study (Spelling Power Level F)
• IEW SWI-B lessons Week 6 - Watched DVD lesson and did Assignment 1
  
• Finished Sarah, Plain and Tall and did the questions and vocab for each chapter.
  
• Watched video of Sarah, Plain and Tall
  
• Apologia Zoology 1 - learned about instinct, extinction, camouflage and
  
• Did a Nature Scavenger Hunt

James 8yo/3rd/4th grade:

• Math-U-See Gamma - 3 pages in Lesson 6 and the Lesson 6 test
  
• Finished the book on volcanoes and looked up videos of volcanoes (and tornadoes) on youtube
• Started a book on Bears
  
• Wrote in literature journal - two sentences about each day's reading.
• Explode the Code 5 - 2 pages each day
• Penmanship - Cursive C and D
  
• Went to soccer practice and played one soccer game
• Apologia Zoology 1 - learned about instinct, extinction, camouflage and
  
• Did a Nature Scavenger Hunt
  
• Helped Suzy learn her sight words
  

Suzy - 6yo/1st grade:

• Math-U-See Alpha - 4 pages in Lesson 7
  
• Alphabet Island - 4 phonics lessons on short vowel words (Finished the workbook!)
  
• Practice learning sight words by playing Climb the Mountain with James and by playing the Sight Words with Samson online game
  
• Explode the Code Book 2 - 2 pages each day (consonant blends)
• Played one soccer game
  
• Apologia Zoology 1 - learned about instinct, extinction, camouflage and
  
• Did a Nature Scavenger Hunt
  
• Read 3 Bob Books
• 2 pages of penmanship
• 4 pages of her "ABC Journal"

IF MY KIDS WRITE YOU A LETTER, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WRITE BACK!
There is nothing more discouraging than writing letter after letter and not getting ANY responses!