Week 6

The 6th week of our school year already?! This week we seem to be cramming a lot into few hours, so that we can everything done, and still have a lot of free time.  Some subjects have fallen to the wayside, and sadly, the first to go is formal Nature Study and Spanish. We have still spent plenty of time outside, but rather than draw plants and read about insects, we have been ripping up our summer garden and avoiding the unbelievable spider infestation that has blanketed Silverdale. I realize that this still counts as life skill development, but I still miss the formality of our nature notebooks. Spanish should be easy to practice daily, but I cannot get into the swing of talking to Truman in Spanish rather than English.  Perhaps if I had a few post-its around to remind me. There's an idea. 
We have been able to keep up with the rest of our subjects, especially math and history, which I am scared to get behind in.  We managed to get through 4 math lessons this week, plus many math related games. I have taken to asking Truman the time multiple times per day, and while it takes him a while, he can get it.
The weeks' subjects:
Spelling, 4 tests
Poetry of Walter de la Mare -8 poems
Piano-we are working on some Christmas songs for dad.
Copywork-Truman's cursive is really nice, and I am trying to get him to take spelling tests in cursive. No    
    luck so far.
Spanish-only once DVD lesson, plus food worksheets.
The Little Duke, 2nd half of ch.3, plus character list.
Tree in the Trail-chapter 8 and 9
Burgess Animals Chapter XI and XII
Understood Betsy, chapter 5
Pilgrims Progress-kind of accelerating through this, because I just want to finish.
Among the People
Julius Caesar movie from the 50's.  It was fabulous, although looooong.  Truman was a little bit   
   uncomfortable when Caesar was stabbed, so we had a discussion about movie blood, and had to look up
   how they do it on the internet.
Several Dangerous Boys chemistry experiments.
Albrect Durer-only managed to look at ONE picture, and now that I think about it....I forgot to ask for a narration.



Carbonizing a marshmallow, taking notes every minute for 20 minutes.

 

Titrating bleach and food dye!




Certain the marshmallow can still be eaten, despite being harder than a rock.