Friday, September 26, 2008

Weekly Review - Fourth Week

This was our fourth week of lessons. (I missed doing the weekly review last 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 12-16
  • Attended the Renaissance Festival (last Friday! had to sneak that in!)
  • Listened to several 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)
  • Mystery of History 2 - read about Pentecost and Saul/Paul, also added timeline figures and completed map work regarding Paul's missionary journeys
  • Worked for 30 minutes or so on Creativity Express art history software
  • Worked for 15-30 minutes 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 co-op on Friday and took 5 classes (including PE or something active)
David - 13yo/8th grade:
  • Did Math-U-See Pre-Algebra 25E, 25F, Test 25, Honors Page 25
  • 2 pages on prepositions in Easy Grammar Plus
  • 3 days spelling study (Spelling Power Level F)
  • IEW SWI-B lessons Week 5 - Assignments 2-3
  • Read the History of US Volume 1 (Hakim) chapters 11-15 and discussed with Mom
  • Helped coach soccer and refereed two U8 soccer games
  • Read Cameron Townsend Chapters 11-17
  • Read Why Pray, Days 7-9
  • Apologia Physical Science pages 1-10 and did experiments 1.2 and 1.3 (I don't know what this was about! He did it independently. I should investigate, but I am happy he did it without my help.)
Emily - 11yo/6th grade:
  • Worked on multiplication facts with flashcards - knows almost all of them now.
  • Did 4 pages of math facts written out
  • 2 pages on prepositions in Easy Grammar Plus
  • 3 days spelling study
  • IEW SWI-B lessons Week 5 - Assignments 2-3
  • Lost her reading book Sarah, Plain and Tall, and therefore could not do any of her assignments. She will double up next week, if we find it. Otherwise, we will go on to her next book until SP&T is located.
  • Apologia Zoology 1 - pages 1-12 on flight, drag, lift. Did experiment to understand air pressure
James 8yo/3rd/4th grade:
  • Math-U-See Gamma - 4 pages
  • Read a book on Aladdin and Ali Baba and started a book on volcanoes
  • Wrote in literature journal - two sentences about each day's reading.
  • Explode the Code 5 - 2 pages each day
  • Penmanship - Cursive A and cursive B
  • Went to soccer practice twice and played one soccer game
  • Apologia Zoology 1 - pages 1-12 on flight, drag, lift. Did experiment to understand air pressure
  • Helped Suzy learn her sight words
Suzy - 6yo/1st grade:
  • Math-U-See Alpha - 4 pages
  • Alphabet Island - 4 phonics lessons on short vowel words
  • Practice learning sight words by playing Climb the Mountain with James
  • Explode the Code Book 2 - 2 pages each day (consonant blends)
  • Played two soccer games
  • Apologia Zoology 1 - pages 1-12 on flight, drag, lift. Did experiment to understand air pressure
  • Read 3 Bob Books
Wow, that looks like a lot when you write it all out like that! lol

Doing Science and History both in one day is too much on top of our other work. So I will either alternate days or weeks. Will think on this more.

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