Weekly Report Week 4: 1/31/2011-2/4/2011

We got in a couple of days of lessons this week on Monday and Tuesday.  Called a snow day on Wednesday-Friday.  Kinda wish I hadn’t, but there it is.  I didn’t have a chance to run the errands for Friday’s project day, was glad to have Wednesday off with friends who had no power at home, and Thursdays are generally off.  Started Circle Time late on Monday and Tuesday, so didn’t do full Circle Time either day.

Memory Work:

Bible:We continued working on God’s creation of man in his image.

Catechism/Creed:We began working on the Nicene Creed.  We actually worked on this some last year, but decided to focus on the Apostle’s Creed, this year we’re focusing on the Nicene.  Hoping to avoid confusion.

Hymn:We began the second verse of Amazing Grace.

Poetry: Everyone started new poems this week, hooray!

Counting: We didn’t do this week.

Other Memory Work:  We didn’t do this week.

Phonics:

N-boy: He did a couple of lessons and has been reading up a storm in our new reading area.

R-girl: She’s still practicing the -an and -at words, has to remember to look at all the letters.

Assigned Reading:

M-girl: Read about ‘Going to Town’ in Little House in the Big Woods.

N-boy: Finished The Adventures of Frog and Toad

Math:

M-girl: She’s powering through her 9s. 

N-boy: He’s working through 4s and is rocking the logic problems.

R-girl: She enjoyed the Pooh Bear game for Lesson 5.

Logic:

M-girl: did two pages this week.

N-boy: answered a couple of questions and clearly understands the solutions.

Grammar:

M-girl: is working on memorizing The Goops and is reviewing proper and common nouns.

N-boy: did the first picture narration.  I go back and forth on whether I want the newer version for the new pictures.

Writing:

M-girl: copywork and a nice narration from Rumpelstiltskin. 

Spelling:

M-girl:  We finally established list 14 as the beginning of her Spelling.

Latin:

M-girl: She worked through Lesson 2.  She really seems to enjoy it.

Penmanship:

M-girl: She worked on “o”

N-boy:  He’s working on “5”

History:

We read the chapter about hieroglyphics, cuneiform, and papyrus.  Need clay.  We listened to the chapter about Mummies in the car yesterday. 

Spanish: Not started yet.

Science:

We worked on catching up on our narrations for Plants and read the next section.  Last Saturday we did the carnation experiment and have enjoyed looking at it all week.  We need to finish the experiment page.

Art:

None this week.

Read Alouds:

Celebrate with us! We finally finished The Burgess Bird Book! [sigh] We also finished The Mouse and the Motorcycle (fun) and The Jungle Book.

Bible:

We studied about The Fall this week.