September 20, 2013

Tired.  This might end up being the theme for the remainder of this blog.  I hope not but it might.

New science textbook arrived and I've been too tired to sit down and enjoy it.  Hopefully I can find some cuddle time this weekend. ;)

We finished a couple of resources recently: D'Aulaire's Greek Myths (Memoria Press study) and The Magic School Bus DVD's.   11yo loves Greek Myths and wants to start over.  I am happy to donate the Magic School Bus DVD's to my grandson.  We enjoyed them but the theme song was about to make me bonkers.

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I rediscovered a book at the library, Get Oregonized: Oregon's History, People, Natural Resources, & Agriculture, and have added it to our reading of A History of US.  It is an older edition than the one pictured above.

And...one more book added which will help us with the beginning of our Memoria Press study of Famous Men of the Middle Ages.

D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths

Math - Distance, Rate, and Time.  Started working with fractions.

Spelling - grown, loud, join, coat, and cook

English - Sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and diagraming statements.

Latin - derivatives for vocabulary C, Horatii and Curiatii, finding the subject of a sentence.

Composition - continuing KWO and summaries of paragraphs (beluga whales, narwhals, chameleons, vulture bees, and fungus gnats).

Sayings - (from the Core Knowledge Sequence) It's raining cats and dogs, Where there's a will there's a way, A.M. and P.M., An apple a day keeps the doctor away, and Fish out water.

Literature Studies - 

Classical Studies - Starting Famous Men of the Middle Ages -  "The Gods of the Teutons, section 1"  

D'Aulaires' Norse Myths - introduction and "The First Gods and Giants."

Christian Studies - Three lessons (10, 11, and 12) about Joseph in Egypt.

World History - 

American History - Core Knowledge What Your First Grader Needs to Know - "Crossing the Land Bridge."  A History of US chapters 5-7 (Inuit, Anasazi, and PNW).  Getting Oregonized - pg. 2-5 (first people, archaeology, and tribal regions.

Geography - chapter in We Visit Israel.

Science - lesson on crustaceans, visited the pond to see burrowing crayfish.  Watched several Magic School Bus shows - wetlands, cells, stars, gravity, smell, electricity, and computers.

Art - 

Music - CK What Your First Grader Needs to Know - "Instruments and their families" and "The Orchestra."  The  Story of the Orchestra - Bach.

Never enough time.  We still need to do something with art!