Weekly Report: Sept. 19-23 Week 4

This week ds 11 read from The Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill. This is probably his least favorite book this year. It is over 500 pages and uses some more difficult language, but I think it's a good stretch for him, as he has gotten a bit lethargic in the brain of late. He is also reading The Once and Future King by T. H. White and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. He and dh are discussing Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis as they go. They are not as far along as I had scheduled... but they are both getting a lot more out of it then I had expected. There was some science done and some math. I am beginning to think that we are cursed to use Epsilon and Delta forever! He did sequential spelling, penmanship, Practice Town, Finished Grammar Town and began Caesar's English 1 (the intro and ch.1). I hope to accomplish more next week.

No school happened on Friday. Dh was taken by ambulance on Thursday night for chest pain and is why I didn't post this Friday.
*He is fine by the way.

Ds 9 read from Ten Queens by Milton Meltzer, Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling, Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Heidi by Joanna Spyri and a couple science books I can't recall the names too. He did some science and some math. He did sequential spelling, penmanship, Practice Island, Finished Grammar Island and began Building Language (the intro) We just didn't get around to Latin or Logic last week.

Ds 7 read from Phonics Pathways, Reading Pathways, Bob Books, Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats by Anns Earle and was read to from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. He also did a chapter of math and some science.

Dd 4 read from Phonics Pathways, Reading Pathways, Bob Books, and was read to from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. We also did a fall study. She did her starfall school 4 days last week.

Weekly Report for Sept. 12-16

My dh got berated this week for homeschooling by a co-worker. Why do so many people think that we (homeschoolers) would care one cent worth what they think? The sad thing is that this co-worker has a daughter who was a public school teacher and quite her job to homeschool her children. How sad that she is so adamantly against it.

Anyway...

So in Language Arts Josiah (ds11) has finished the third level analysis of Grammar Town. He's doing very well Practice Town though they are getting a little more difficult for him. I'm thinking I really should have picked up Voyage for him instead. I don't think that he has misspelled any words this year in Sequential Spelling. His Italics is beautiful lately and I'm hoping that it translates more into his daily writing soon. I know this will take some time. He's about half-way through Birth of Britain Book One and is really enjoying Once and Future King. I think he will have them finished by end of next week. Math was slow this week, he did 1 chapter. I am so looking forward to being finished with Epsilon. Science was done on his own. I don't think he is very interested, but really enjoyed building and flying paper airplanes. Latin and Logic were done. Logic is still a little fuzzy for us both. He did some typing practice. He did some art.

Micah (ds9) has finished the second level analysis of Grammar Island. I really love that it doesn't require a ton of writing for ds. Practice Island is going well, ds is having a little trouble finding prepositions, the subject and sentence compliments, but I think we had a light bulb moment after rereading those sections. His is doing well with SS. It seems the right level for him, but it takes him twice as long to write out the words then it would take for him to do them orally. He's reading Ten Queens: portraits of women of Power for history which he is thoroughly enjoying. He has read Story of the World vol. 2 twice this year and is reading through it again. History is his favorite subject this year. He has finally gotten into volume in Delta. I think he may finish it next week or the week after. He's looking forward to fractions. He did science with some help with the Note-booking. He breezed through both Latin and Logic. He did typing. We did a little art but didn't have time for much else.

Zechariah (ds7) is doing wonderfully with First Language Lessons and I'm glad that I waited to have him do it this year then last. We are speeding through the lessons. He has an incredible memory. And I am finally seeing some of his exceptional thinking skills translated into academics that I hadn't really seen in Kindergarten. Italics is going well. He is finally writing the letters correctly on the page. He missed one spelling word because he wasn't paying attention. He seems to be a natural speller. He listened to Story of the World vol. 2 and did narrations. He did Math on his own. The writing aspect is really slowing him down though. He did Logic, I can't tell if he enjoys it or not. We did some art and lots of playing.

Selah (dd4) is enjoying school. She isn't all that into writing but will do the few pages that I offer as long as they aren't "too" hard. She would do starfall all day if I let her. haha