We schooled Monday, took Tuesday off with Dad and then went back at it from Wednesday to Saturday.
Spelling:
SWR. List K7
Worked on Homonyms and alphabetized the words.
Latin:
Lively Latin: Lesson 7.2 to Exercise 7.5. We skipped the Poem "Horatius at the Bridge." I'm beginning to get very frustrated with this program. We copied out all the declensions on one piece of paper in order to work with them better.
History:
SoTW2, ch. 27. War of the Roses, Narrations, mapwork, timeline and chapter test.
Writing Program:
Aesop: Retold, rewrote and produced final Drafts of the Top and Ball. Both compositions here. I told them they could illustrate their stories when they were done and this is what they did.
Older:
Younger:
Odd. They did their drawing independently of one another. I don't know why both of them did storyboards!Science:
Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day. Insects.
Metamorphoses diagram. The kids read a bunch of books on Ants, Bees, and watched a DVD on bees.
Read the second half of chapter 10 on defenses and filled out a little review worksheet I made up.
Dictation: 1x.
Recitation:
Poem, The Splendor Falls, 2x.
Bible: (oops)
Geography: Apple Press, Canada Map Book 1, pp. 3-5
Math:
Older: SM 3B, Review A&B, WB 17-22, Practice 4A & 4B, drill: 2x,3x,4x,5x.
Younger: SM 2B, Practice 3A, WB 30-34.
Grammar:
Older: R&S4,7-11
Younger: FLL, 164 to 167
Art:
Lesson plan #15 from this site. This week, we compared and contrasted two different paintings of marriages: Arnolfini Marriage by Van Eyck and The Marriage of the Virgin. We looked at the Arnolfini Marriage in detail (from The Story of Painting by Sister Wendy Beckett, pp. 104-105) and then wrote a list comparing the two paintings. We put small printouts of the paintings on our timeline. For their art project, I used the idea of using a mirror from here and this is what they did:
The Older:
The Younger:
Reading: (6 days/week)
Older: (1 hour/day): 1h and 45 minutes behind.
Younger: (1/2 hour/day): caught up.
Other:
Older: Book Summary of Twenty-One Balloons by W. P. du Bois.
A HUGE success this week: I went to the library and got a ton of books on insects. The kids, the boy in particular, loved reading them. He kept saying, "The male? Right after they, um, mate? He dies." Poor kid.
And now, to prepare next week!
4 comments:
Sounds like a great week. Males do seem to have a tough time in the insect world.
I have a question about your math. For the week, your older did SM 3B, Review A&B, WB 17-22, Practice 4A & 4B, drill: 2x,3x,4x,5x. What does the review A&B and the Practice A&B mean?
Thanks
Wow. We are on the EXACT same lesson in Lively Latin. I just bought a Spark Chart (SparksChart?) for Latin so that we can see all of the information at a glance. Also, I'm having V, instead of recite the vocabulary as it is, decline each noun.
Rose--brilliant!
Karen--SM is Singapore Math. 3B is the "level." Each level has a Home Instructor's guide, a textbook and a workbook.
The Reviews are in the textbooks. The Practices and Excercises are in the Workbooks. Hth.
And a couple books on insects save you HUGE efforts when you get to sex ed, as it'll be YEARS before the boy thinks of girls as anything but dangerous.
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