What We’ve Accomplished Today…09/13/10

It was a whirlwind day. I'm feeling slightly better but now am having troubles falling asleep. Good time to update on what we did today.

Both:

Bible: Exodus 14 and 15 (ahem one of them is falling behind ...again)

Verses: L: Matthew 7:1, 2; F: 1 Peter 3:15, 16

Foreign Language: Latin Lesson VI worksheet sections IV-VI

Reading: L: Prince Caspian; F: Abraham Lincoln's World (maybe did Age of Fable as well) -I was a bit out of it at this time.

Spelling dictation: both had reviewed words from their previous weeks readings and took dictation of words today (spelling test) :) Only one misspelled word :)

Math: Lee: BA HC Lesson 41 (didn't enjoy it too much but she did it alright); Fox: 2nd try on Final Bridge for D&P, didn't pass- reviewed the problems he is having trouble with and will take try number 3 tomorrow.

History/Geography: Lee: World Studies pages 95-96, Section Review #1-5 and vocabulary words; Fox: This Country of Ours, the second half of "Pierce: The Story of Bleeding Kansas"- somehow I ended up narrating again...with the help of both of them!; he also did Complete Book of Marvels chapter 27, Mount Athos (no females allowed!). Here is a link about Mount Athos if you'd care to learn a bit more :) it's a Wiki link...

Lee:
Health: Fearfully & Wonderfully Made chapter 15, second half

Econ/Gov: Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Chapter 8; she made a graph depicting information about money supply, Consumer Price Index, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average to show any relationships....she fussed and was adamant that she could not but in the end (after reading the material) she made a very nice bar graph that included everything. And she was able to explain it as well... I knew she could do it ;)

Japanese: Reviewed Introduction and Romanization from Kanji and Kana again. She has a quiz coming this week over the 'reviewed' material.

Fox:

Historical Biography: Of Courage Undaunted. He read 5 pages and was supposed to narrate. He did not narrate but marked that he did his reading so I will have him narrate tomorrow....I was probably still a zombie on the couch at this time.

Military History: Boys' Book of Sea Fights. Read and did written narration...I think. This goes along with the previous one...I'm not a bad mom/teacher- I've been sick! :) I'll double check it tomorrow.

As mentioned in my post earlier today, we also registered for Co-op Classes this morning. I am so glad it is only one day a week! This evening we had the first Hunter Safety Class that runs this entire week and the morning on Saturday. Was informative so far but sure makes for a long day. We will add in the required readings for the Hunter Safety Class during our school day during this week. It is about 3 chapters a day of reading...fortunately they are short chapters :) Also there is a scavenger hunt that we can do but it is optional and I just don't know if we will get to it. Looks fun though.

I am really hoping the Co-op will be a good experience. Lee doesn't necessarily miss school but she misses people and the interaction and she is downright teary-eyed about not having an actual ceremony for graduation! (which is at least 4 years away!) Fox just wants to go to school so that he can hang out with his friends. Perhaps this will help fill that little bit for them. Not only that, it allows them to learn new things they might not otherwise learn :) The ladies that I met while there seemed nice and it seems well organized. I am looking forward to it but it will mean an entire day away from home (8am-3:30 or 4pm) on Mondays.

Alright then, I am off to bed. Actually, I think I will make some tea to soothe my scratchy throat and then head to bed...