Bible: Genesis 43-45. We used the Illustrated Children's Bible again. We have read/heard the story of Joseph so many times we've just about got it memorized :)
Animal Heroes: Slum Kitty. Chapter 4. Kitty has become full grown and knows her way around. She witnesses a fight between Black Tom and Orange Billy. Black Tom runs away, scratched and bleeding. Orange Billy discovers Slum Kitty and they become 'friends'. I laughed at that description!
PL: Julius Caesar: half way down on page 288-first paragraph on page 290. More on his conquest of Gaul (the Helvetians). He makes the Helvetians rebuild their destroyed towns so that they do not fall to the Germans. Ds pointed out that the Germans are always on the 'bad' side! The German king Ariovistus incorrectly assumes that the Romans will not fight against them when they should be on the defensive. The Romans decimate the Germans and leave bodies and discarded weapons for 4o miles. Lovely...
FF: Latin: Woohoo! First lesson. We worked on pronunciation (pages 6 & 7) and did workbook pages 6-8. We didn't use the DVD or CD this time but most likely will next time. They each have a composition notebook for Latin that they are to write what they feel they need to write down in order to better understand and learn Latin. Some things I will expect them to write down. All went fine until ds for some reason decided that he no longer wished to do Latin (read: he didn't want to do the worksheet). Finally we got the 24 questions done and I called it good :)
Fox: LA LIFEPAC: Unit 9 Test. 100% Yippie! Now we will either skip 'language arts' and only focus on reading OR we will do a few writing exercises. He has been working his report on LEGOs that is due Friday, the 30th.
LoF: 2 chapters.
CBOM: Chapter XI: The Rain God's City: Yucatan peninsula, city of Chechen Itza. Mayans were more civilized (?) than even the Aztecs were from the last chapter. Both groups however participated in human sacrifice. In Chechen Itza they sacrificed 14-year-old maiden to the 'god' that lived in one of the pools of water near their civilization when the crops would fail or the rain would not come.
Daily News: New York Times, Washington Times, Torrington Telegram
Copywork: Virtue by George Herbert
Music: Guitar: 1/2 of first lesson from Legacy Learning Systems. He did so well!! His hands just seem to know what to do.
*I did a lesson as well with his guitar program and ~ouch~ my fingers hurt so bad! They look like they are burnt at the tips. I tried too hard I think...but I will be back for more! It was so neat!*
Lee: LA: Finished refining her report on Cat Shows.
FWM: Chapter 9 Hardness. Talking about unbending truth is like the 'grit and glue' of bones. Compared to body of Christ needs to be constant with its truth and -hardness- of laws.
MC: Finished up on Cardinal Virtues. Very interesting way of presenting these concepts. Dd didn't want to do her school today (she has things she wants to get done and was worried that school would prevent her from doing them) but she was glad we did at least this subject. She really enjoys this book.
TBV: pages 78-83. Written narration.
Daily News: New York Times, Washington Times, Torrington Telegram (thankfully we do not live in New York; a man was shot and no one stopped to help him- all caught on video!)
Copywork: My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
great job! you are so good at posting these ;)
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I'm trying to think positive but can't help to think it will not last... At least I can look back and say "yes, we did do school, here's the proof!" :)
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