Snow Storm

It started snowing Thursday morning and is still going strong (Friday afternoon).  It is beautiful!  I'm glad  11yo let me know about it ahead of time so we were able to stock up on food.  Yes, I am the "first snowflake freakout lady."  : )

Listen to First Snowflake Freakout Lady.

About the snow... it means we are having snow days.  These are great for 11yo, but her teacher is having withdrawals.  We have done a little school here and there but with 11yo being the master of avoidance we aren't getting as much accomplished as I had hoped (in the evening).

We finished another book to give to the grandkids.

Faith in God  - an award that 11yo can earn before she turns twelve next month.  We sat down this week and went through her Faith in God booklet to see what she has accomplished.  We are working on it a little every day to tie up the loose ends.

Math - R&S 5 (82/170).  Finishing up a set of lessons on adding and subtracting unlike fractions.  Using Math Reflex daily.

Spelling - still struggling to make it happen ... but we did do a bit this week.  

English grammar - R&S 4 (117/127).  The end is so close I can taste it!  Diagramming prepositional phrases, identifying if a word is being used as a preposition or an adverb, conjunctions, and reviewing the parts of speech.

Latin - a miss this week.  We've worked on using "est" and "sunt" at the beginning of a Latin sentence.  For example:

Taurus est.  It is a bull.

Est taurus.  There is a bull.

Current events - CNN Student News

Sayings - another slide this week.  A few done but not many.

Hmmm....this week really has been a bomb!  It's amazing what a couple of snow days can do.

World History - reading about the Old Kingdom of Egypt.  Mostly mummies and pyramids.

American History - A History of US: The First Americans Chs. 14-17.  Gutenberg's Press and Christopher Columbus.

Science - R&S 5 (30/47).  Using chemicals safely and a chemistry review.