Friday, November 21, 2014

November 21, 2014

An afternoon appointment here, an afternoon appointment there and suddenly you realize your weekly plan has been sabotaged.  I have accepted that we lose a couple of hours prepping for and driving to swimming lessons each week , but I made the mistake of scheduling short appointments during school hours this week.  In trying to accommodate others, I robbed 12yo of education/learning hours.

And then there is the stomach bug which is creeping up on us.  So far only two of us have experienced mild symptoms (queasiness), but it did make a difference in time on task.

Math
69 - Reading Problems: Estimating in Everyday Life
72 - Intro. to Decimals
73 - Changing Fractions to Decimals
74 - Changing Decimals to Fractions
75 - Comparing Decimals
Skipped adding and subtracting decimals since it is so similar to +/- money.
78 - Multiplying Decimals by 10, by 100, and by 1,000

Lesson learned - she needs a little more practice than I planned.

Latin
Lessons 22 - more practice with conjugating the imperfect tense.

English Grammar
44 - Linking Verbs or Action Verbs
Skipped lesson on giving oral book reports.
46 - Chapter review (direct and indirect objects, predicate nouns and adjectives)
47 - Using Lay & Lie
48 - Using Raise & Rise

Literature - The Hobbit
Studied the dwarves song, listened to chapters two and three on CD, and finished a good portion of the workbook for chapter two.
Lesson learned - 12yo was unable to define quite a few of the vocabulary words even in context, so studying the vocabulary words really is important.

Geography
Sudan and South Sudan

World History
Story of the World CD - listened to Ch. 5 - Sargon and Ch. 7 - Hammurabi
Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World - pp 24-27 "The First Empires" and "The Rise of Babylon"
Gilgamesh the Hero retold by Geraldine McCaughrean - visited the cedar forest and slew Huwawa, Ishtar wants to marry Gilgamesh, the Bull of Heaven, Gilgamesh mourns Enkidu.

Christian Studies II
11 Saul and the Spirit of Samuel; David the King

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