Sharing Some of Our School Day

Ilkla Moor Baht 'At, a Yorkshire folk-song. It took us a couple times listening to it to 'get' what they were saying. We especially like that version because it's fun. Here's another version, little less eccentric *wink*. Oh and here's one that Lee especially likes: Star of the County Down

Round Table lasted about an hour this morning. Here is how it went, but not necessarily in this order:

• We read more from the Declaration of Independence (the grievances of the king against the colonies). We talked about some of those grievances and how they relate to today, with the government shutdown. Also talked a little about what we think might happen with the bullying going on from Washington, D. C. Yes, I said bullying.
• We also looked at a list of all the Presidents and are in the process of memorizing all of them (we got the first five this morning). They both were given the task of finding a 'personal' piece to memorize. Lee wants to do the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence; Fox is looking at The Gettysburg Address.
• Habits: the day before we seem to have forgotten to pay attention to them; works in progress. 
• I asked if there was anything they wanted to share- drawings, poetry, etc. They said no. Someday they will -I hope. Lee did her narration on her Bible reading.
• Hymns: "Since Jesus Came Into My Heart", "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder", "When We All Get to Heaven"
• Prayer

Otherwise the day has been fairly smooth. I got up around the same time as the kids; an hour late for me. They got their breakfast and their Bibles. Fox did his written narration for the day on his Bible reading. Then we did Round Table. 

After RT was right into school. It was almost exactly 9:00 am; that's when school is supposed to start! Lee's worked on math, Latin (First Year Latin), current events/Weekly Barden, health (THM), Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, and artist study (Degas), which she chose to do a written narration. Fox did math, biography (Galileo's Daughter) and narrated, current events/Weekly Barden, nature study (Rural Hours), German (Babbel app *affiliate link, but it's free), artist study (Degas), recited his verses, and he read James 1:5-8 for our Bible study that we'll do in a little bit. Together we went over chapter four of Exploring the World of Chemistry (and were so extremely excited when oxygen was discovered!). 

All together we still have to do ASL and James "commentary"/study. Lee still has geography (Eothen), government ("The Law"), verses, economics (Economics 101) and literature (Les Miserables) to finish. 

A little later, after school is all done and maybe after they've had their screen time, we have to do some work in the backyard. We are pulling up the garden and pretty much filling it in and smoothing the ground for grass to take it back. The garden was a failure this year.