Weekly Update

I didn't post an update last week (just got too busy) so this will be for the last 2 weeks. I suppose that is a good thing since this week was a bad week for getting anything done. The week before was a great week--we got everything accomplished that we wanted to. We even did science twice and history twice. This week we ran our once-a-month errands on Monday, I recovered from working a night shift on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I spent most of my time dealing with a very testing-the-limits almost-3-year-old. Friday Emily graciously took the kids for awhile and I primed the laundry room and went out for lunch with Dan.

History: We finished reading about the Parthenon and read a chapter about Alexander the Great.

Science: We finished our chapter on space rocks and started learning about Jupiter. They learned that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a giant storm that is twice the size of the earth and has been raging for over 300 years. Coincidentally, last Saturday's episode of Beakman's World was about Jupiter.

Math: Ellie is almost done with Saxon 54. She did several lessons and a test. The last lesson was about the distributive property and she is having a little trouble understanding it. So we took a little break from Saxon on Thursday and she did 3 lessons in a Singapore workbook I have at home. Kara did several lessons last week and 4 lessons this week. Her math is still mostly review since we are at the beginning of a new book.

Handwriting: Kara's handwriting continues to look great since I have been checking her work everyday. She has asked me to put an A+ on her paper if it looks good. I continually have to remind Ellie to write in cursive and she prefers to print.

Latin: For the last 2 weeks Ellie has been working on Latin review. There are some worksheets on Memoria Press' website for the Latin program she has been using, so she has been doing 1-2 worksheets a day. I found that she really didn't understand when to use which case endings and these worksheets have a lot of translation on them, so it is really solidifying her understanding of Latin (mine too!).

English: I didn't get any English done with Ellie or Kara this week but they both got a fair amount done last week.

Spelling: Kara did 2 lessons this week and 2 lessons last week.

Art/Music: Last week we reviewed our hymns learned so far and did several lessons in our art book How Great Thou Art.

Reading: Ellie is working on Around the World in 80 Days. Last week we read Understood Betsy out loud. Kara doesn't have any assigned reading books--she just reads books from the library or ones we have around the house.