As we continue on with SL, we will continue staying on the same curriculum as last year. Our Math will be Math U See (MUS), Teaching Textbooks (TT), and Life of Fred (LOF). Language Arts: First Language Arts (FLL), Writing With Ease (WWE), All About Spelling (AAS)---more on that later--- I better get to entering our weeks work
We went to the Indiana State Fair this week and had Giz and Grandpy (mil/fil) visit for 2 1/2 days, so we didn't get a lot done...but we had fun and ate really well!
Read Aloud:
We finished our Lamplighter book: "Narrow Escape" by Christoph Von Schmid---so good!
Dd finished "The Year of the Rat" by Grace Lin. Grace Lin also wrote "The Year of the Dog" that Sonlight had recommended as a 'summer reader' and Dd liked it so much she picked the next book as her prize for finishing the summer reading program at our library (each kid got to pick one new book to take home with them!) Dd really does read and read and there is no way to post all the books she reads and many are graphics or Marvel Adventures- Spiderman-Geronimo Stilton- Thor-Star Wars-and only take her an hour to read, so I don't keep track of that kind of thing.
The Year of the Rat by Grace Lin
in progress: "Anne of Green Gables" adapted by Margaret Dekeyser. Dd has heard the whole unadapted version with me on audio at least once or twice; but this is her first time reading it alone.
Anne of Green Gables by Margaret Dekeyser, L. M. Montgomery and Jerry Dillingham
Story of the World 3--we finally finished, which is good b/c we are due to start Story of the World Volume 4 with Core E!! We read Chapters 36-41 this week!
The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 3: Early Modern Times by Susan Wise Bauer
Math:
MUS Beta Test Booklet page 13 & 14
MUS Delta : 22 A,B,C,D,E
LOF: Edgewood: Chapter 11 & 12 (and she snuck ahead and read some of 'Farming')
Grammar:
AAS 3: Step 21
FLL: Lesson 82 and 83
Sewing with Giz:
Dd made 2 baby blankets with ribbon trim for JC's new baby and for my BM's baby. Giz brought up her sewing machine, so the going was very easy. They had a good time sewing together.
BrainPop & BrainPop, Jr. as always--and we love it!
Science SL - week 26 page 136 and Week 27 page 137. We are attacking science with a toothpick, but it is progress!!
NEW books we've started:
William WIlberforce, Sounding For the the Trumpet, Moccasin Trail, Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems, American Tall Tales, (Dd was *suppose* to start By the Great Horn Spoon, but she has already finished it.). Dd is also on week 2 of listening to "Wee Sing America" a cd that has all these great patriotic "American" songs, speeches, etc. and Dd is just crazy for this disc. She has listened to it over and over and over.....ad nauseuam.
Bible:
Starting Strong--aloud.
Matthew-aloud
Luke-Dd reads
Dd has been cooking--especially her incredible grilled cheese sandwiches, and she made a wicked lemon zinger tea that was so good. She took a ton of photo's at the State Fair, and really loves photography. She has been "training" Sophie our dog....that dog deserves a medal for how great she is with putting up with all her lessons. It has been another really good week for Larkin doing her chores without any fuss. She even did a few that I didn't ask her---gasp! It was her idea to clean the handrailings on the staircases; which I had thought to put on her chore list; but hadn't done yet! and she did it!! She had a harder week this week with doing her lessons. She did her math and grammar with Dh at the kitchen table on Monday night b/c she was a stinker with me during our lessons.
Here is a sampling of Dd's face painting masterpieces---she did so many that we didn't photograph. You wouldn't believe how many she did, to me, to Dh to her legs, her arms, her face---oh boy!
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