We took a "field trip" this week to a local mountain. I had an aunt and two uncles in town, so I visited with them at my parents' house one day. We all went to this mountain to walk the trails that go around a lake. It was very nice! The kids had a blast. Tornado Boy led the way, pointing out which direction we should go, and warning people of danger (we'd had a lot of rain the day before, so some of the trails were still under water, and the lake was a bit flooded).
Tornado Boy
Math: We did the review section of chapter 3, the cumulative review, and the chapter test. During the cumulative review, it had some things like finding the number of hours between 9am and 1pm. He put 4. The next one was finding the hours between 6am and 8pm. He couldn't quite remember how to do this one, so I asked him how he did the previous one. He said "The 1 is like a 13, so I added 9 + __ = 13!" Ok... We've never talked about military time before, but that's a great way to do it! So I said "Well, if 1 is 13, what is 8?", and he said "20!" and quickly did the rest of the problems. That's not how MM taught them, but oh well. A little birdie has told me that his weird math thinking is just like my older sister, and he really is the male version of her in many ways. :)
We did the first section of chapter 4 - adding with whole tens as one of the numbers, and also rounding.
Reading: Still plugging away at Trumpet of the Swan. I had him tell his Daddy some about what he was reading tonight. He definitely comprehends it!
Grammar: We finished FLL1! Now we'll do FLL2 starting Monday, and I'll plan on taking it regular pace.
Writing: I've decided to speed up WWE for just a short time, so we'll be ready to start the next book in August for the next school year. No real pressing reason to do that. I just like order, and I don't think it will be a problem. So for the next 6 weeks, we'll do 2 days in 1 day, then after that we'll go regular pace. We did weeks 13 and 14 this week, and he did very well. Actually, I figured out that he needed to be raised up a bit so he wouldn't be so far below the table. THAT has helped his writing stamina immensely! He didn't complain at all about doubling up the days, even the day that he had to do copywork and then narration with copywork.
Handwriting: We went over his letters for his copywork in WWE. He's getting better at deciding why a letter is good or not good, and that is carrying over to writing them a bit neater. I was pleased with his handwriting this week.
Spelling: We took the week off from this.
Read-Aloud: I wasn't able to read Misty of Chincoteague this week. I have had a cold and lost my voice. I'm finally getting it back enough to read out loud a little bit!
Bible: I didn't have him working in his workbook this week, but I think he did some lessons anyway... He may have done 2 weeks' worth. I need to check. I have no clue what he learned about if he did them. :P
In our morning readings, we annointed David as the next king, David became a harpest for King Saul, David killed Goliath, and David and Jonathan became friends. Also, Saul is now jealous of David since the women were singing that Saul had killed thousands and David had killed tens of thousands. Saul tried to kill David with a spear twice while David played harp for him.
History: This was our first week of SOTW+AG instead of using Biblioplan (see last week's history discussion). It went sooooo well! I made schedule sheets for the next 10 chapters, and I also made narration pages for those chapters, complete with pictures! They look great! I put the map instructions on the schedule sheet. Tornado Boy was able to look at the instruction sheet and see exactly what he needed to do, and he was able to do some of it independently. I put the Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History (UILE) in the schedule - something we only did the first couple weeks of Biblioplan. Previously, I had read it out loud, and his eyes had glazed over. This time, I said "You can read it yourself." So he took the book and read the two pages, looked at the pictures, studied it all, then proceeded to read through a few more pages! He actually LIKES the book when he's reading it himself! Go figure! So UILE is back in the schedule, giving us some extra information. :) I had put some books on hold from the library, but only one came in. We're still waiting for the other one. Next week should be better, since I put books on hold for the next couple weeks at the same time as this week's books (which was late for this week). For all 10 chapters I set up, I found which books my library has, so I can put them on hold easily.
Our topic this week was the Phoenicians. They started out in northern Canaan, but gradually added cities around the Mediterranean, as they were good sea traders. They didn't have appropriate land for growing a lot of food, but they did have cedar trees that made nice furniture, and they also had some type of snail like thing to make purple dye out of. We narrated both sections of the chapter - something we haven't gotten in in a long time. We also made Phoenician bread today! It was good. :) Tornado Boy did the map work independently, which he also liked. Oh, and I gave him a coloring page of the Phoenician ship... He doesn't like to color, but he did get excited and ask to draw on the back. He drew another Phoenician ship and a Persian ship. Both had flags, stairs, and people. The Phoenician ship was sinking the Persian ship, and the Persian flag fell on someone and killed him. Boys are fun. :P
Science: We didn't do any science this week. I didn't plan BFSU like I'd wanted to. Oops. In my defense, I've been sick!
Art: Nothing, unless you count the drawing of the ships. :)
The Brute
We didn't do anything with The Brute this week. He asked. I said no. I was trying to take it easy, since this WAS our break!
Sounds like a great break! LOL!
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