Weekly Review - Week 15

This was a hard week to get back into lessons! I gave the children their assignments for the entire month again. David really likes that but it's harder for the other kids, so I will probably do it for him like that in January, but not them.

Bible

• We read Acts 26-28, continuing with our study of Paul.
  
• We sang our December hymn - O Come All Ye Faithful (7 verses!).
• We had Family Prayer several days.
  

Math

• David began the Algebra I book, completing Lesson 1 and doing the Honors lesson and doing the first assignment in Lesson 2.
  
• Emily worked on Lesson 25 (multiple digit multiplication with regrouping) in Gamma. This is HARD for her.
  
• James finished Lesson 12 in Gamma (Multiply by 3, 3' = 1 yard, 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoon).
  
• Suzy finished Lesson 13 in Alpha (Shapes: Rectangles, Squares; Skip Counting by 5) and took the test.
• Suzy and James did online math drills.
  

Language Arts - Literature and Reading

• David started a new literature book - Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski. He read Chapters 1-3 and answered comprehension questions.
• Emily resumed her reading of Anne of Green Gables, reading Chapters 19-23 and answering comprehension questions.
  
• James read pp1-27 in Reptiles Do the Strangest Things and wrote each day in his literature journal.
• Suzy read 3 Bob Books from the second set and wrote in her literature journal.
  
• We started reading James Herriot's Animal Stories as our read-aloud.
• Everyone did some silent reading throughout the week.
  

Language Arts - Writing

• No writing happened this week!
  

Language Arts - Other

• James did 6 pages in Explode the Code 6.
• Suzy did 2 pages in Explode the Code 2.
• Suzy worked online with Sight Words with Samson.
  

Science

• No Science this week.
  

History

• David read Chapters 37-42 in History of Us: Book 3 (by Joy Hakim), finishing the book.
  
• David is also learning the Preamble to the Constitution (which means the others are hearing it).
  
• Emily and James worked on our timeline and did some mapwork.
• I read aloud about the Mayan civilization and the students worked with the Mayan alphabet a little.
  

Other activities

• James and David had Chess Club on Tuesday.
• The girls and I went to a Christmas Tea Tuesday night. Emily hosted a table, so she had invitations and decorations to arrange. We also had one of her friends overnight and here for lessons Wed morning due to weather.
  
• Pioneer Club on Wednesday night for James and Suzy. David runs the computers there.
• Thursday was COOKIE DAY. We made a lot of Christmas cookies.
• Friday was our homeschool group's Christmas party, including an hour of swimming. So lots of socialization.
  
• David and Emily spent the night with friends and James had two friends here Friday night.
  
• Saturday we decorated our house for Christmas - finally!