Friday, October 10, 2008

Weekly Review - Sixth Week

Here is the report from our 6th week of lessons.

All the kids
:
  • Practiced our hymn (The Old Rugged Cross) and praise chorus (Great and Mighty is He)
  • Family prayer several days
  • Read and discussed 2 Corinthians 7-9
  • Read a few pages aloud from Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends
  • Finished our read-aloud: Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze by Elizabeth Enright (will finish NEXT week)
  • Started our new read-aloud: The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
  • 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) 3 or 4 days
  • Wrote a letter to a friend or family member (I think they did this)
  • Went to homeschool co-op on Friday
David - 13yo/8th grade:
  • Did Math-U-See Pre-Algebra - Lesson 26 - 2 pages, Test 26 and Honors Lesson 26
  • 2 pages on prepositions in Easy Grammar Plus
  • 2 days spelling study (Spelling Power Level F)
  • IEW SWI-B lessons Week 6 - Assignments 2 & 3
  • Read the History of US Volume 1 (Hakim) chapters 23-33 and discussed (or wrote answers)
  • Helped coach Suzy's team and refereed 1 U8 soccer game and 1 U10 soccer game
  • Read Stink Alley (by Jamie Gilson) chapters 5-12; answered oral and written questions
  • Apologia Physical Science - read pages 27-43 and did 2 experiments
Emily - 11yo/6th grade:
  • Worked on multiplication facts with flashcards - knows almost all of them now.
  • Lesson 21 in Math-U-See Gamma - did 2 pages and test 21.
  • Started Lesson 22 in Gamma, did 22A
  • 2 pages on prepositions in Easy Grammar Plus
  • 2 days spelling study (Spelling Power Level F)
  • IEW SWI-B lessons Week 6 - Assignments 2 & 3
  • Started reading Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - Chapters 1-4 and questions
  • Mystery of History 2 - lessons on Nero, Christian martyrs, and Josephus. Added them to timeline.
James 8yo/3rd/4th grade:
  • Math-U-See Gamma - Lesson 7 DVD and pages 7A, 7B, 7C, 7D
  • Finished the book on Bears
  • Started the book Gold Fever
  • Wrote in literature journal - two sentences about each day's reading.
  • Explode the Code 5 - 2 pages each day
  • Penmanship - Cursive E and F
  • Went to 2 soccer practices and played one soccer game
  • Mystery of History 2 - lessons on Nero, Christian martyrs, and Josephus. Added them to timeline.
Suzy - 6yo/1st grade:
  • Math-U-See Alpha - 4 pages in Lesson 7
  • Practice learning sight words by playing the Sight Words with Samson online game
  • Explode the Code Book 2 - 2 pages each day (consonant blends)
  • Went to one soccer practice and played one soccer game
  • Read 2 Bob Books
  • 2 pages of penmanship
  • 4 pages of her "ABC Journal"
  • Mystery of History 2 - lessons on Nero, Christian martyrs, and Josephus. Added them to timeline.

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