French, week 1 (29 Sept.-3 Oct.)

(Sorry about all the edits on this post.  I had to re-work my vocabulary list so it only included things that were fairly stationary and that weren't too small and wouldn't walk away or be tucked away in the fridge or pantry!)

This week, review greetings.

Introduce the following vocabulary, while teaching grammatical gender:

la chaise
la table
la télévision
la porte
la pendule
la fenêtre

le livre
le tiroir
le bain
le lit
le mur
le panier

Have kids write the words on index cards and post them appropriately around the house. Introduce a few adjectives next week, along with the third person singular and plural, est and sont.

Science: Rebekah, week 1 (Sept. 29-Oct. 3)

Read each day from I'm Just Here for the Food, by Alton Brown. His information about how food works is fascinating.

Math, week 1 (29 Sept-3 Oct): Rebekah

Monday: 9E, 10C, 11 DVD & A

Tuesday: 9F, 10D, 11B

Wednesday: 9 test, 10E, 11C

Thursday: 10F, 11D, 12 DVD & A

Friday: 10 test, 11E, 12B

Math, week 1 (29 Sept-3 Oct): Judith

Monday: 9 DVD & A

Tuesday: 9B

Wednesday: 9C, 10 DVD & A

Thursday: 9D, 10 B

Friday: 9E, 10C, 11 DVD & A

Math, week 1 (29 Sept-3 Oct): Nathan

Monday: 4 test, 5F, 6C, 7B

Tuesday: 5 test, 6D, 7C, 8 DVD & A

Wednesday: 6E, 7D, 8B, 9 DVD & A

Thursday: 6F, 7E, 8C, 9B

Friday: 6 test, 7F, 8D, 9C

Eliza, week 1 (29 Sept.-3 Oct.)

Monday
phonics: 108B: 'Serving in the Shadow of Death'-109B: kn, gn, wr
math: 2B
copywork: 'The Lamb', by William Blake, first stanza

Tuesday
phonics: lessons 110: kn, gn, wr-111: silent gh, silent b following m (lamb), silent t following s (whistle)
math: 2C
copywork: 'The Lamb', by William Blake, second stanza

Wednesday
phonics: lessons 112: more silent consonant practice-113: alphabetical order
math: 2D
copywork: 'The Lamb', by William Blake, first stanza

Thursday
phonics: lessons 114: more silent consonants-115: even more silent consonants
math: 2E
copywork: 'The Lamb', by William Blake, second stanza

Friday
phonics: read Bright Night; lesson 116: comprehension
math: 2F
copywork: 'The Lamb', by William Blake, the whole thing!

Math, week 1 (29 Sept-3 Oct): Joel

Monday: 13F, 14D, 15B

Tuesday: 13 test, 14E, 15C

Wednesday: 14F, 15D, 16 DVD & A

Thursday: 14 test, 15E, 16B

Friday: 15F, 16C, 17 DVD & A

English, Joel: week 1 (Sept. 29-Oct. 3)

Monday
grammar: MT 1: sec. 14
spelling: level B, lesson 1, day 1: copy and answer questions
reading: three fairy tales; read one to Melody and Eliza

Tuesday
grammar: MT 1: sec. 15
spelling: day 2: copy and answer questions
reading: three fairy tales; read one to Melody and Eliza

Wednesday
grammar: MT 1: sec. 16
spelling: day 3: copy and answer questions
reading: three fairy tales; read one to Melody and Eliza

Thursday
grammar: MT 1: sec. 17
spelling: day 4: copy and answer questions
reading: three fairy tales; read one to Melody and Eliza

Friday
grammar: MT 1: sec. 18
spelling: dictation
reading: three fairy tales; read one to Melody and Eliza

Gileskirk, week 1 (29 Sept-3 Oct.)

Monday
Gileskirk: Opportunity #4; listen to lecture 11: 'French Revolution'; read Pride & Prejudice
Am. Gov't: lesson 20

Tuesday
Gileskirk: Opportunity #5; prepare for lecture 12: read Empire: pp. 93-110; read Pride & Prejudice
Am. Gov't: unit 5 intro, lesson 21

Wednesday
Gileskirk: prepare for lecture 12; Opportunity #6; read Pride & Prejudice
Am. Gov't: lesson 22

Thursday
Gileskirk: listen to lecture 12: 'Conspiracy and Terror'; read Pride & Prejudice
Am. Gov't: lesson 23

Friday
Gileskirk: prepare for lecture 13: read Empire: pp. 110-136; read Pride & Prejudice
Am. Gov't: lesson 24

History, Middles: Week 1 (29 Sept.-3 Oct.)

Research: 19th C. missions and missionaries: William Carey and India; Hudson Taylor and China, Japan, and the Opium Wars; missionary biographies; David Livingstone and Africa

Label your map of India with the items on your list.
Write Answers to Accountability and Thinking Questions.

History Topics, Littles

Week 1: classical music: Hillyer, ch. 79; listen to Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, etc. Spread music throughout the two six-week sessions; 19th Century painters - spread throughout the next two six-week sessions; Charles Dickens

Week 2: Queen Victoria; Napoleon III and King Louis Phillipe

Week 3: Unification of Italy; Unification of Germany

Week 4: Second Great Awakening;

Week 5:

Week 6:

Math, week 1 (29 Sept-3 Oct): Melody

Monday: 23 test, 24 DVD and A

Tuesday: 24B

Wednesday: 24C, 25 DVD & A

Thursday: 24D, 25B

Friday: 24E, 25D

English, week 1 (Sept. 29-Oct. 3): Melody

Monday
spelling: Level A, lesson 1, Day 1: copy the excerpt and answer question for that day
grammar: MT 1: sec. 16
reading: read Ginger Pye for 1 hour; one fairy tale read by Joel

Tuesday
spelling: Level A, lesson 1, Day 2: copy the excerpt and answer question for that day
grammar: MT 1: sec. 17
reading: read Ginger Pye for 1 hour; one fairy tale read by Joel

Wednesday
spelling: Level A, lesson 1, Day 3: copy the excerpt and answer question for that day
grammar: MT 1: sec. 18
reading: read Ginger Pye for 1 hour; one fairy tale read by Joel

Thursday
spelling: Level A, lesson 1, Day 4: copy the excerpt and answer question for that day
grammar: MT 1: sec. 19
reading: read Ginger Pye for 1 hour; one fairy tale read by Joel

Friday
spelling: Level A, lesson 1, Day 5: Dictation: copy the excerpt and answer question for that day
grammar: MT 1: sec. 20
reading: read Ginger Pye for 1 hour; one fairy tale read by Joel

Science: Joel, week 1 (Sept. 29-Oct. 3)

Monday: read pp. 8-9: 'The home laboratory'; go shopping

Tuesday: read pp. 10-11: 'Observing the weather'

Wednesday: read pp. 14-15: 'Learning basic principles'

Thursday: read pp. 16-17: 'The earth in space'

Friday: complete activities from pp. 16-17

Weekly Report: Joel (9/27/08)

Math: all done

English: all done!

His team won their first flag football game this morning.  He's quite pleased!  Pictures coming soon!

Benjamin, Math: Week 1, 9/29-10/3

Monday: 12F, 13C, 14 DVD & A

Tuesday: 12 test; 13D, 14B

Wednesday: 13E, 14C, 15 DVD & A

Thursday: 13F, 14D, 15B

Friday: 13 test, 14E, 15C

Weekly Report: Benjamin (9/27/08)

Math: all done!  97% average on 2 tests!  Well done, Benjamin!

English: finished Mother Tongue; excellent job!

Science: read 1 hour each day

History: researched, but didn't write paper about Latin American Independence

Latin: keeping up and doing great!

Weekly Report: Judith (9/27/08)

Math: finished lesson 8 - got 100% on lesson quiz; had trouble with lesson 9

English: finished composition; finished reading Silas Marner

Latin: ch. 1 quiz: score coming soon; class on Monday; finished through Wednesday's work; more to do to prepare for next week's class

History: finished Gov't; nothing else completed; much to do to catch up

Science: misunderstood that Sabbath week doesn't apply to biology; will catch up.

Weekly Report: Nathan (9/27/08)

Math: all math but Friday's; 100% on all three tests

English: little bit of composition; researched Wordsworth, read his poems; didn't complete accountability questions

History: read Armstrong, ch. 5-6 - must read through ch. 9; Gov't: finished lessons 15-16 - must finish lesson 19; listened to lecture 10, prepped for lecture 11; contributed much during co-op discussion; completed no Gk Opportunities

Latin: kept up until Wednesday's class; has much work to do to prepare for next week's class

Biology: completed no tests or quizzes; completed Monday's and Tuesday's reading assignments; has much to do today to catch up

Weekly Report: Eliza, Melody, Rebekah (9/27/08)

Since this was our Sabbath Week and these three kidlets had gotten everything done, they had to do nothing this week but play and relax.  

The two little ones pulled out the dress-up box and had a blast!  They were also read some Grimms' Fairy Tales and a few chapters of Northanger Abbey.  

Rebekah rested and read.  She started on thyroid medication this week and her energy levels are slowly rising, but it will take a bit of time.

Annual Reading List, 2008/2009: Judith

Fiction and Literature:
Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (read aloud by Mama)
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (August)
Silas Marner, by George Eliot (24 September)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis (read aloud to Eliza)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling


History:
More than Dates and Dead People, by Stephen Mansfield
Empire, Niall Ferguson

Biology, week 1 (Sept. 29-Oct. 3)

Mon: Quiz 7; read through labs 6 & 7 to prepare for tomorrow.

Tues: labs w/Mrs. Lambros: labs 6 & 7, covering chapters 4-5

Wed: read pp. 116-120

Thurs: read pp. 121-124

Fri: read pp. 125-129

Science: Littles, week 1 (Sept. 29-Oct. 3)

Tues: Ch. 3, Great Bird-winged Butterfly, a.k.a. swallow-tailed butterfly

Leaf Butterfly

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Thurs: Ch. 4, Butterfly with a Grievance & Other Butterflies

Helioconia Butterfly

Week 1: English, Rebekah, 9/29/08

practice finding verbs and, especially, verb phrases this week.

Monday
grammar: go over pg. 22, and 26-26 in MT2; extra exercise for Monday
spelling: Level C, lesson 1, Day 1

Tuesday
grammar: verb/verb phrase exercise
spelling: Level C, lesson 1, Day 2

Wednesday
grammar: verb/verb phrase exercise
spelling: Level C, lesson 1, Day 3

Thursday
grammar: verb/verb phrase exercise
spelling: Level C, lesson 1, Day 4

Friday
grammar: write 8 sentences, mark the verbs and verb phrases
spelling: Level C, lesson 1, Day 5: Dictation

English, week 1 (Sept. 29-Oct. 3)

Mon:
composition: 2.2 Asyndeton, pp. 12-14; ex. 2.2.1, 2.2.2
grammar: read ch. 5: Complete & Simple Subject & Predicate
spelling: Level C, lesson 1, Day 1

Tues:
composition: 2.3 Polysyndeton, pp. 14-15; ex. 2.3.1, 2.3.2
grammar: ch. 5, ex. I
spelling: Level C, lesson 1, Day 2

Wed:
composition: 2.4 Expletive, pp. 15-18; ex. 2.4.1, 2.4.2
grammar: ch. 5, ex. II
spelling: Level C, lesson 1, Day 3

Thurs:
composition: Style Check 2
grammar: ch. 6: The Copula 'Is'
spelling: Level C, lesson 1, Day 4

Fri:
composition: Ch. 2 Review questions, pg. 19
grammar: ch. 6, ex. I
spelling: Level C, lesson 1, Day 5: Dictation

Reading List Overview

I just finished setting up reading list posts for each student. The plan is to add to the posts throughout the school year as the kids read. I'll continue to change the dates of the posts as I add to them.

The older kids (or the 'biggles' as Drew now calls them - get it? 'littles', 'middles', and 'biggles'? and if I type it fast enough, it often, appropriately, comes out 'giggles'!) may write book reviews as they have time. If they do, we'll post them here.

SDG!

Annual Reading List, 2008/2009: Rebekah

Literature:
Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (read aloud by Mama)
The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy (finished in August)
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson (finished in September)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis (September)
Prince Caspian, by C.S. Lewis (September)
Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis (September)
The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis (September)
The Horse and His Boy, by C.S. Lewis (September)
The Magician's Nephew, by C.S. Lewis (September)
The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis (September)

History:
Corrie ten Boom, by Sam Wellman (September)
Brother Andrew, by Alan Millwright (September)
Eric Liddell, by Ellen Caughey (September)
David Livingstone, by Sam Wellman (September)
Watchman Nee, by Bob Laurent (September)
Amy Carmichael, by Sam Wellman (September)
Abraham Lincoln's World, by Genevieve Foster (August
Heritage Studies 5, by Eileen M. Berry and Dawn L. Watkins (September)

Science:
I'm Just Here for the Food, by Alton Brown

Miscellaneous:
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy, edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson (late August)

Annual Reading List, 2008/2009: Melody

Literature:
Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (read by Mama)
Ginger Pye, by Eleanor Estes
Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
Ramona Quimby, by Beverly Cleary
Socks, by Beverly Cleary
Fairy Tales, by the Brothers Grimm (read by Joel)

History:
A Child's History of the World, by V.M. Hillyer (read by Mama)

Science:
Jack's Insects, by Edmund Selous (read by Mama)

Literature: Biggles

{edit} This list covers the whole year, not just the next six weeks!

In addition to our Gileskirk discussion titles:

Silas Marner, by George Eliot
Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Book of the Dun Cow, by Walter Wangerin
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexandre Solzhenitzen

I'm adding:
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (finished in August)
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
The Complete Father Brown Mysteries, by G.K. Chesterton
The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan

I'm pre-reading the following to evaluate their appropriateness:
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, translated and abridged by Walter Starkie (as recommended in Honey for a Woman's Heart)
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackery
Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy

Any other suggestions?

Literature: Middles

{edit} This covers ideas for the whole year, not just the next six weeks!

The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Pilgrim's Inn, by Elizabeth Goudge
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madelaine L'Engle
The Good Master and The Singing Tree, by Kate Seredy
Good-bye, Mr. Chips, by James Hilton
How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn
An Episode of the Sparrow, by Rumer Godden
The Book of Three, by Alexander Lloyd

Additional ideas, not in any particular order:
Many Moons, by James Thurber
Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell
Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank Gilbraith and Ernestine Carey
A Means of Grace, by Edith Pargeter
"A Modest Proposal" and Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana
Mama's Bank Account, by Kathryn Forbes

Literature: Littles

Eliza:

Island Boy, by Barbara Cooney

Babar and His Children, by Jean de Brunhoff

Mr. Popper's Penguins, by Richard Atwater
The Complete Tales, by Beatrix Potter

Melody:

James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl

Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Konigsburg

The Saturdays, by Elizabeth Enright

Favorite Animal Stories, by Thornton Burgess

More ideas for the future, in no particular order:

Yellow and Pink, by William Steig

The Little House books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pène du Bois

Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden

Miss Pickerell books, by Ellen MacGregor

The Complete Peterkin Papers, by Lucretia P. Hale

Roller Skates, by Ruth Sawyer

Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink

What Katy Did, by Susan Coolidge

Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling

Heidi, by Joanna Spyri

Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame

Joel, Catch-up 22-26 September

Monday
Math: 13C, 14 DVD & A
English: MT, sec. 9; read Grimms' Fairy Tales #19-21; read one aloud to Eliza & Melody

Tuesday
Math: 13D, 14B
English: MT, sec. 10; read Grimms' Fairy Tales #22-24; read one aloud to Eliza & Melody

Wednesday
Math: 13E, 14C, 15 DVD & A
English: MT, sec. 11; read Grimms' Fairy Tales #25-27; read one aloud to Eliza & Melody

Thursday
English: MT, sec. 12; read Grimms' Fairy Tales #28-30; read one aloud to Eliza & Melody

Friday
English: MT, sec. 13; read Grimms' Fairy Tales #31-33; read one aloud to Eliza & Melody

Judith: Catch-up, 22-26 September

Monday
Math: 8E, 9 DVD & A
English: Harris, pp. 12-14, ex. 2.2.1, 2.2.2; Silas Marner plot and character notes; Wordsworth, background research
History: Amer. Gov't: lesson 15; prepare for lecture 10

Tuesday
Math: 8F, 9B

English: Silas Marner plot and character notes; Wordsworth poem & accountability questions
History: Amer. Gov't: unit 4 intro, lesson 16

Wednesday
Math: 8 test, 9C

English: Silas Marner plot and character notes; Wordsworth poem & accountability questions
History: Amer. Gov't: lesson 17; listen to lecture 10

Thursday
English: Silas Marner plot and character notes; Wordsworth poem & accountability questions
History: Amer. Gov't: lesson 18

Friday
History: Amer. Gov't: lesson 19; co-op

Benjamin, Catch-up: 22-26 September

Monday
Math: 10E, 11C, 12 DVD & A
English: MT, read pp. 24-25
History: research Latin American Independence; Simon Bolivar and others associated
Science: read for 1 hour

Tuesday
Math: 10F, 11D, 12B
English: MT, pp. 25-26, ex. I
History: continue
Science: read for 1 hour

Wednesday
Math: 10 test, 11E, 12C
English: MT, pp. 26-27, ex. II (do it sensibly!)
History: continue
Science: read for 1 hour

Thursday
Math: 11F, 12D, 13 DVD & A
English: MT, read pp. 27-28, ex. I
History: continue
Science: read for 1 hour

Friday
Math: 11 test, 12E, 13B
English: MT, pp. 28-29, ex. II
History:map work, accountability questions, 3 paragraphs about the topic due today
Science: read for 1 hour

Nathan: Catch-up work 22-26 Sept.

Monday
Math: 2F, 3E, 4B, 5 DVD & A
English: Harris, pp. 8-10: ex. 1.3.1, 1.3.2; Style Check 1: Rhythm; Review Questions; Romantic Poet: Wordsworth - background
History: Armstrong, ch. 5; Amer. Gov't: lesson 15; take notes on SM

Tuesday
Math: 2 test, 3F, 4C, 5B
English: Harris: read pp. 11-12; ex. 2.1.1; Wordsworth: read and finish accountability questions
History: Armstrong, ch. 6; Amer. Gov't: unit 4 intro, lesson 16; prepare for lecture 10

Wednesday
Math: 3 test, 4D, 5C, 6 DVD & A
English: Harris: read pp. 12-14; ex. 2.2.1, 2.2.2
History: Armstrong, ch. 7; Amer. Gov't: lesson 17; lecture 10
Latin: class

Thursday
Math: 4E, 5D, 6B, 7 DVD & A
English: Harris: read pp. 14-15; ex. 2.3.1, 2.3.2; Wordsworth: read and accountability questions
History: Armstrong, ch. 8; Amer. Gov't: lesson 18; prepare for lecture 11

Friday
Math: 4F, 5E, 6C, 7B
English: Wordsworth: read and accountability questions
History: Armstrong, ch. 9; Amer. Gov't: lesson 19; prepare for lecture 11; co-op

Blue Morpho Butterflies

Sabbath Week To Do List

• Make sure MT 1 & 2 are ready for the next six weeks (I'm converting a couple of one-hundred-year-old grammar textbooks to workbook format, and printing them as I go. Some of the kidlings need three-ring binders).
• Plan out 30 day's worth of MT 2 assignments. (MT1 is divided by sections, each one day's work. MT2 is divided by chapters and not quite so easy to just 'do the next thing'.)
• Plan history topics for littles and middles.
• Plan, print, and collate extras for history for all levels: resource sheets, timeline sheets, worksheets, discussion questions, maps, etc.
• Find pictures to go along with the next 12 10 5 chapters of Jack's Insects
• Plan middles', littles',  and olders' literature and order books.
• Plan daily biology assignments to correspond with the lab schedule.
• Make sure GK syllabus is ready for the next 7 weeks (I'm taking George's pdf syllabus and converting it to a Pages document, using a loose outline format instead of his charts and quintuple spacing everything to leave room for notes).
• copy spelling lessons
• Listen to GK lectures and take notes! - One down!
• Pull all the GK information into an easier-to-skim format, to correlate quizzes, reading assignments and lectures.
• Plan our morning time.
• Make copywork sheets for Melody, Joel, and Elizabeth, pulling from Project Gutenberg, MT1, and morning time poetry and running the text through Educational Fontware.
• Pull excerpts from Project Gutenberg for Rebekah's verb phrase practice for week 1.
• Set up books read post for each student

Weekly Report: Eliza, 9/20/08

Math: there's no keeping this girl down! She was getting to the end of her very tattered Math-U-See Alpha book, so I had her start the Beta level. I figure the review at the beginning will be easy for her and will cover anything she missed at the end of Alpha. Well, along with her assignments in Beta, she is insisting on completing her Alpha book. She just can't seem to leave it unfinished. Not sure if this will end up being a virtue or a vice, but time will tell.

Phonics: she did quite a few lessons and read a reader with Jared. She also reads the word problems in her math book with just a little help from me and she's been reading her flower girl gift from Anna, Mouse Soup.

History: Eliza is part of our history and science read alouds. Instead of repeating what I wrote for Melody, look down a few entries to find it.

Weekly Report: Joel, 9/20/08

Math: Monday's work done, a test that was assigned on Tuesday; that's it.

English: nothing done

Science & History: I didn't have anything scheduled for Joel in science or history this week, but he sat in and listened when I read to the girls.

After the wedding, by the time I sat down to work on lesson plans, I had no brain left. We'll pick these up again after our Sabbath week, along with French.
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Well, we seem to have another boy in trouble. He'll be working this week to catch up and will lose privileges until he is caught up.

I'll post the specific assignments my recalcitrant boys need to complete before they get their privileges back.

Weekly Report: Nathan, 9/20/08

Math: Monday's work completed; nothing else

English: no composition assignments done; he did read Silas Marner.

Latin: partially completed

History: no American Government (he was supposed to catch up from the week before when he got nothing done); no Study is Hard Work, which was also catch up from weeks before; he did listen to Lectures 8: 'Nationalism' and 9: 'Industrial Revolution, pt. 1' and read the textbook assignment for Lecture 10: 'Industrial Revolution, pt. 2'. He also participated well during our co-op discussion yesterday.

Science: stayed caught up in the reading until Friday. However, he didn't complete any of the tests or quizzes listed.

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Nathan will have a full load this week and won't be able to take any advantage of our Sabbath week. If he'd kept up, he'd only have to work on his outside courses. Since he didn't…. I think we're looking at loss of privileges here, too.

Even with this dismal week, on the whole, Nathan has improved greatly from last year. I think this year might be full of two steps forward, one step backward. I'm praying for patience!

Weekly Report: Benjamin, 9/20/08

Math: one test completed.

English: nothing

History: nothing

Latin: completed all assignments.

Science: nothing
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Well, Benjamin is in some hot water right now. I think his father will have something to say about this. He was tired from last weekend's craziness, but I don't think that excuse covers this complete lack of effort.

He'll be working to catch up next week while his younger siblings and I rest and play, as he had his Sabbath week early this time around. I think he'll be losing some privileges this week, too.

Weekly Report: Judith, 9/20/08

Math: completed all but Friday's assignments; she'll work on them today.

English: completed three of four composition assignments. She'll finish that last one this week if she doesn't do it today.

Read no more of Silas Marner, so obviously took no more notes about characters and plot. We finish discussing SM next Friday at Gileskirk and then move onto Pride & Prejudice, one of my favorites.

Science: finished her independent work. I still need to administer a quiz and a test. I'd like to do that today, too, so she doesn't get too far behind and have to rush through to keep up with Mary's lab schedule.

History: listened to lecture 8: Nationalism, and lecture 9: Industrial Revolution, pt. 1. Also did the reading for each lecture and participated well in our discussion on Friday at co-op.

Latin: looking pretty good here. She has one quiz to finish and submit, which she's working on now. I'm thrilled that she's enjoying Dave's class. I wasn't sure if she'd be able to tackle Latin after the disaster that her last online Latin class turned into, but Dave is a great teacher. He takes a literature approach instead of a grammar approach. His students read Latin from day one and Lingua Latina is much more interesting than Wheelock.
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All in all, Judith had a good week. I'm pleased at the effort she's been putting into her school work this year.

Since next week is a Sabbath week here, Judith will work only on her outside classes: Latin, biology, and history.

Weekly Report: Melody, 9/20/08

Math: all done, with the exception of the quiz for lesson 22, because she can't find her test booklet. We'll continue looking this week.

English: read Ginger Pye for one hour each day; finished most of her Mother Tongue 1 assignments - she's working on the last one now. She didn't understand the directions and didn't ask. Oh, well!

History: I read to her and Eliza from Hillyer's A Child's History of the World about Napoleon and the Latin American revolutions for history; no maps this week - I wasn't up to finding them and printing them out.

Science: I read to her and Eliza the first two chapters of Jack's Insects: one an introductory chapter, in which our heroes, Jack and his sister Maggie, find themselves in Jack's new book about insects. The other about the Blue Morpho Butterfly. I found pictures of the butterfly online which I'll show the girls this week. I hope to find these kinds of pictures ahead of time and that's part of what I'll work on this week.

Weekly Report: Rebekah, 9/20/08

Math: all checked off

English: had to re-do a couple of grammar assignments from last week. The first, about pronouns, is greatly improved. Partly, she didn't understand the directions.

The second, however, still seems to be stumping her. She's not understanding verbs and verb phrases. After our Sabbath Week, I'll go over this assignment with her and then I'll give her more practice in this before we move on. I'll pull in some text from Project Gutenberg and have her split each sentence between the complete subject and complete predicate (practice and preparation for diagramming) and then underline the verb or verb-phrases in the sentences.

Her assignments from later in the week show a beginning understanding, but verb phrases still elude her.

History: she read a bit about the Congress of Vienna, but that's about it.
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She's been pretty tired lately. We have an appointment next week with her naturopath to discuss the results of her lab work and to see about getting her on some supplements to help her energy levels. We'll start her science reading (kitchen science) and I hope to get back to our informal French lessons after our Sabbath Week.

Biology, 9/22-26

Mon: Quiz 3; read pp. 68-left of 75

Tues: Test 1; read pp. 75-85

Wed: Quiz 4; read pp. 86-top of 96

Thurs: Quiz 5; read pp. 96-left of 104

Fri: Test 2; read pp. 104-113

History Topics, Middles

Just brainstorming right now - I'll fill in with specific assignments later.

Week 1: 19th C. missions and missionaries: William Carey and India; Hudson Taylor and China, Japan, and the Opium Wars; missionary biographies; David Livingstone and Africa

Week 2: European Society, 1815-1830; Australia

Week 3: Revolutions of 1848, Marx and Communism

Week 4: Crimean War; Unification of Italy

Week 5: Unification of Germany; Prussian Wars

Week 6: Victorian Britain & the British Empire

Introduction

I've been trying to figure out how to be more organized in my schooling.  I'm looking at a teacher planbook software for Mac, but we don't have the cash to plunk down on it right now.  A friend blogs about her school plans, so I thought I'd give it a try for six weeks and see how it goes.  If it doesn't, then I'll take another look at the software.

We started our school year at the beginning of August.  The plan is to work for six weeks and then take a Sabbath week's rest.  We're finishing up week no. six, so I'll spend some of next week planning for the next session, and baking, sewing, playing, and cleaning with the kids.

I'll post my plans here.  I don't expect to have any regular readers, so much will be written to myself.  If I do end up with regular readers, please feel free to ask about anything that's confusing.

SDG!