This is our first weekly report in awhile because for the past two months the kids have been doing much of their work independently. I got very busy with my job, but also needed to take some time away from our more teacher-intensive work to rest, reevaluate and recharge. Happily, the kids did really well during this time, though they missed the hands-on activities and read-alouds. Now, we're back to "school as usual," or at least, doing as much as is possible during this oh-so-busy time of year. 

Religion
  • We continued reading daily from Saints for Young Readers, Vol. 2.
  • This week, we resumed memory work from the St. Joseph's Baltimore Catechism and are still on the first part of Lesson 2.
  • The kids are also now taking religious education classes at the parish school twice a week in preparation for the sacraments of First Reconciliation (Confession) and First Eucharist (Communion).
History



Language Arts
  • This week we set aside our Seton readers and workbooks to try something different. M began reading I, Coriander and J began reading Brendon Chase; they will be doing a report upon completion of the books. M also began reading Little Women.
  • For vocabulary, the kids completed one lesson per day (M-Th) from Vocabulary 5 for Young Catholics.
  • In Voyages in English, the kids started a unit on adjectives and completed one lesson per day.
  • Daily copywork from the Bible and George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation, part of the Time Travelers: Colonial Life unit.
  • For composition, we studied sentence writing (primarily, ways of making sentences interesting) and the kids completed several exercises from Alhambra Denning's Methods and Material for Composition.  I also had them record examples of interesting sentences that they encountered in their reading and we discussed these.
Science
We began a study of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). The kids read one chapter per day from Along Came Galileo. I had planned to include a few experiments from Galileo for Kids, but we ran out of time. Hopefully we'll get to those this weekend.

Math
One lesson per day from their Singapore books.


Unfortunately, we didn't quite get to everything I had planned this week, but it was still an incredibly full and *busy* week!

4 Comments:

  1. Bright Sky Mom said...
    Great stuff you've been doing! I like the idea of having the kinds record examples of interesting sentences. Written in Bone sounds intriguing! We enjoyed Eating the Plates.
    Lee
    Karen said...
    A sacrament year! How exciting!

    Thanks for the Jamestown links. I've marked some for when we get to American history in two years LOL
    Faith said...
    Wow, you are such a treasure trove of resources. I love it!

    Thanks for all your great links!
    Regena said...
    I love your blog! You are studying many of the same things we're doing this year. I had not seen the Written in Bone book before; I'll have to look for it, thanks!

    Regena

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