Weekly Update

We did fairly well keeping on track this week so I am pleased with the progress we made this week.

History: We read some books about the Greek Olympics, the Minotaur and the Trojan horse. We were going to start reading The Story of the Greeks but didn't get to it so we'll start it next week. I imagine that it will take us a few weeks to get through since it is quite a lengthy book.
English: Ellie is almost done with her chapter on pronouns. She'll be taking a test over it next week. Kara got through several lessons in FLL--she has the definitions of a common and proper noun down. She also memorized another poem. She also did several lessons in OPGTR. We usually do 3-4 lessons a day in that book.
Latin: Ellie did lesson 15 in LC1 this week. She'll do a review of lessons 11-15 next week. Then we'll take a week off.
Science: We read more on our chapter on Mars. They narrated what we read.
Math: This has been a continual struggle for Ellie. She hates math and takes forever to get it done. She got all of her lessons done but not in the time frame we had been working on. She has been using a timer so that she can work towards getting that done in a shorter time. Next week we'll implement some other changes as I'd really like her to have a better attitude about it and get it done in 30-45 minutes. Kara did several lessons and she'll be finishing up Math 1 next week.
Handwriting/Editing/Spelling: Kara did 2 spelling lessons this week and several pages in her handwriting book. Ellie started on a spelling lesson but I haven't tested over it and she still needs a little more review so we'll finish it next week. Ellie did 4 pages in her editing book.
Reading: Ellie is currently reading The Wizard of Oz and she actually likes it!!
Bible: We are still reading through the Psalms and Proverbs (there were some days we didn't do from last month). Ellie did 4 lessons in her Genesis study.
Art/Music: We listened to Mozart's Requiem during breakfast and the girls colored their own Van Gogh pictures. Today we need to go over a hymn and do picture study.