Hello, Friends!
Monday was Dh and my 13th years of marriage anniversary, so our lessons were off for the day. We had Dh home on Friday and Monday; so he had a 4 day weekend. We still did our lessons on Friday while he did some of his things.
We are reading The Landmark History of the American People, The Story of the USA-Book 2 for our history this week. We had already read and finished If You Were There...Constitution. We are really enjoying our Read Aloud: Toliver's Secret-(finished now). I thought it was going to be about a boy; when it is really about a 10 year old girl who learns how to become brave. This is especially great b/c my dd really has not mastered 'brave' quite yet! This is a great story for her to have read to her.
Dd finished reading these books:
for fun:
for our lessons added in:
A Head Full of Notions (Creative Minds Biography) by Andy Russell Bowen and Lisa Harvey
which was a Winter Promise/American story add-in. She is onto reading:
When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots by Lynne Cheney and Peter Fiore
We've already read our assigned readers (The Cabin Faced West and George Washington: Our Leader so we added in:
Dd current "Reader":
The funny thing with her reading A Pioneer Sampler is that I was showing her some options on what she can read next as her 'reader' and she said she had hidden a book in her reading nook and wanted to know if she could read this book. I thought it was going to be a Narnia or Star Wars or the like type of book; but she pulled out A Pioneer Sampler!! This is a book I thought would be too much for her and that I would read to her. She said she had been reading it on her own and how much she is really liking it and started telling me all about it!
We are doing good in all our areas; nothing major has changed from last week-just moving further along in our Science, Math, LA, Poetry, Sing the Word: Great in Counsel and Mighty in Deed, etc. etc.
I ordered another Artistic Pursuits book:
Artistic Pursuits K-3 Book Three (Artistic Pursuits: K-3 Book Three, Impressionism to the Modern Period) by Brenda Ellis
which focuses on modern painting and sculpture. And I ordered the gouache and supplies that goes with this book. I am so excited to start diving into this; as is Dd. But, I want to read the book first before we get started. We had already started the next book, that is suppose to come after finishing this book; but we can just put it aside until after this book. My dear friend had given me the future book and it looked so good I went ahead and backed up a step so we wouldn't miss anything. I am really liking how simply they teach art to children in a step-by-step process.
We are also 'harvesting' some of our garden this week. We have brought in turnip greens, potatoes, onions, and lots of ripe tomatoes!
We had our co-op classes on Thursday which were fun. We went to Krannert Park afterwards to enjoy our picnic lunches with fellow hs'ers. Then we finished up by going to the library.
Dd has started a new "Playaway" (audio book):
and since we finished the audio: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief we have ILL (inter-library loaned) the sequel:
**don't tell Dd; but I've read ahead and am on book 3!
This week we are reading:
Toliver's Secret
A Child's Introduction to Poetry: William Blake
FLL-Lesson 11 - plus review of poems and terms from Book 1 & 2
WWE-Week 6
Skip Counting Songs by MUS--7 family
Bible-Acts
Discover's Bible-2 Samuel
Science-Week 8 (partial)
Indian Prayer Guide
Life of Fred-Chapter 1 (new)
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