Weekly Report for October 1-5, 2012

We had a reasonable week of school.  Not terrible, but not great either.  Some family issues took some extra time out of our school days.  I think it’s under control now.  Lord willing.  Anyway, we still did 4 days of school and got a reasonable amount done.

Phonics:

R-girl: worked on contractions and words ending with -y, -ey, and -ie this week.  She’s doing great! Less than 30 lessons to go!

Assigned Reading:

M-girl: only read one chapter of On the Banks of Plum Creek.  She is so dawdly and easily distracted. This will totally be a focus through the end of this year and starting in January.

N-boy: read several chapters of Farmer Boy. 

R-girl: is reading Cricket in Times Square.  She says she doesn’t like it, but I think that’s a learned behavior from her brother (who totally liked it, but argues about every assigned book [frown])

Math:

M-girl: is trudging through subtraction and measurement.

N-boy: did some basic multiplication this week.  Fun!

R-girl: was working on spatial skills.  Rocked the house.

Logic:

M-girl: did quite a lot of logic pages this week. She likes these and doesn’t balk at them.

N-boy: also did a lot of these.  Quick and fun.

R-girl:I started her on the CTA book and she’s doing well with it so far. 

Grammar:

M-girl: had a lot of review this week on predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives.  We talked about types of sentences, too. 

N-boy: is in the final review lessons of FLL2.  I love it.  So thorough.

R-girl: is working on Action Verbs.  That’s fun. She likes acting them out, which is funny.

Writing:

M-girl: I’m considering skipping some chapters in WWE2.  She has no trouble here in Week 10.  I should go through the book, I’d love to start WWE3 with her in January.

N-boy: Is doing very well with WWE1.  I can see real improvement this year.

Spelling:

M-girl: didn’t have any review words this week.  She’s powering through Level E with few problems.

N-boy: had two review words this week, which after reviewing were easy.  He has one new word as of yesterday.

Latin:

M-girl: back on Tuesday!

N-boy: back on Tuesday!

Penmanship:

M-girl: worked on D and O.

N-boy: finished Y and Z, will work on what’s next …

R-girl: is working on b.  Those are hard.

History: we’re back to Europe! We listened about Clovis, Clothilda, Charles Martel, and Charlemagne read by Jim Weiss in the car.  The kids told Daddy all about it. 

Science: we read about Meteoroids and then dropped salt, a marble, and a golf ball into a pan of flour to see what effect they would have on the ground.  That was fun 🙂  We also read a little about constellations like Ursa Major, Ursa minor and Cassiopeia.  We learned about asterisms like the Big Dipper.  I’m enjoying Signs & Seasons.

Geography:  We read about the inside of the earth and what scientists think is there.  We pulled out the playdough and made our own earths with layers.  I have some pictures around here somewhere … 

Fine Arts: playdough and lots of drawing … We did have piano lessons and choir.

Read Alouds: we didn’t really read any between soccer and being out of groceries and colds and … we didn’t read a single evening.

Bible: we worked on verse 2 of For All the Saints.  We added verse 5 of Phil 2. Continued working on catechism questions.