Week 13

Who starts back to school on December 28th, barely 3 days past Christmas?!  Homeschoolers who take a lot of breaks, do!  Of course, my poor boys don't know that all of their friends are still out of school for the winter break.  To be fair, we began reading some really neat books this week, the 2nd term of our year, and we couldn't wait to get started.

I am pleased that we are mostly on track with everything...although if we skip a day at all, I am determined that we make it up the following day, because I want to have a definite end date for this year, and I want it to be before July!  (Note*  We did deviate already....Daddy had a surprise day off on Friday, so we moved all of our Friday work to Saturday, when Dad was on call.  New Year's Day, on a Saturday, my kids were doing schoolwork....some might call that child abuse, haha!)

Week 13 work!

Literature

• New Book, read aloud by Mommy-Wind in the Willows- a copy that was Aunt Amy's when she was a girl, nicely illustrated!
• New Poetry book! Favorite Poems of Childhood, 2 read-The Land of Nod and The Cat of Cats.
• Otto of the Silver Hand, read aloud by Truman, and narrated by Mommy!  Truman is able to critique my narration, and he digs it.  Come to find out, narrating is harder than you might think...especially when Mom is thinking of all the work to be done rather than listening to the story.
• Farmer Boy, Truman reads to himself.

Spelling

• Lessons 47, 48, and 49.  Given by mommy on the elliptical, to Truman laying in a patch of sun.

Math

• Lessons 42, 43, and 44.  I cannot believe we are not further in this....
• Sum Dog-many games on subtraction facts on this free, fun website. 
• Truman has learned to play Dominion, a  rather complex card game that uses his math skills.  He held his own playing with three adult men, so I think he is doing fine even if we are not further in our curriculum.

Geography

• A Childs' Geography of the World, VM Hillyer.  We made a geography notebook, and defined one term in it, drew a globe, identified hemispheres.

History

• For the next week or so, we are reading a chapter a day out of An Island Story, they have all been about King Alfred and his adventures, we read 18, 19, and 20 this week.
• The Little Duke-First half of Chapter 7- I wish we could read this faster than half a chapter a week, it is a very good story.

Science

• Burgess Animal Book-chapters XXV and XXVI
• Chemistry-States of Matter experiments (2 chapters), and Truman helped Henry with his Color Science kit from Christmas

Other

• Christmas Thank-you notes. We do not have too many to write, just 4, but it sure takes a long time....
• Beethoven chapter in Lives of the Composers, Beethoven sections from Story of the Orchestra.
• Big News-Truman taught Henry how to play chess, using No Stress Chess, and they have been playing several games a day!

Kind of a lot of work for a three day week, but we were snowed in, remember.