TOG Year 4 Week 3

This week, we began a four week study of WWI.  In some ways, I am looking forward to studying this myself.  I only have a vague recollection of the Progressively tilted public education I received in history, but history has always fascinated me.  So to get to study it now, when I have the benefit of being able to care about the subject and want to learn from the mistakes that were made, is exciting.  Yet, the brutality of WWI - any war - is not something that I look forward to.  It will no doubt bring questions that are hard, but that I realize my children must begin to ask and have answered.  We must understand that the problems in this world are all traced back to the sin of humankind and their refusal to follow God's plans.  And WWI is no exception. 

The older princesses had a sleep over on Thursday with the Bible Study they have attended this summer.  So we had to cut short our normal Friday activities due to tiredness.  Princess E has two assignments yet to hand in (Sunday morning) and will have to complete them this afternoon.

Princess E - 6th Grade - Dialectic
McCrabb: Book A Tests 4-6
Latin For Children Primer A: Review lessons five (second half) through first part of lesson eight.
IEW: We wrote the final draft of our Sea Snakes paragraph.  They each choose another paragraph to do a KWO for and will do another paragraph this next week.
Math-U-See: Reviewed sections in Delta done last year and watched a few lessons on DVD that weren't remembered
MCT Language Arts: We began reading Grammar Island.  It is a quick review, so far, of what we already know.  But we are doing some fun whiteboard exercises.  They love to write on the whiteboard!
TOG Yr4 W1:  Timeline; President Notebook - Woodrow Wilson; Student Activity Pages (SAPs); Accountability and Thinking Questions (AQ/TQ); Reading - The Gift of Music, Stories for Young People: O. Henry, Home Run to Heaven: Billy Sunday, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the 20th Century, The Usborne Introduction to the First World War; Read Alouds - The Story of the World Volume 4, Pollyanna

Princess S - 4th Grade - Upper Grammar
McCrabb: Book A Tests 4-6
Growing With Grammar 4 (GWG4): Chapter 1.7 to 1.9
Math-U-See:  Reviewed multiplication facts from Gamma that we learned last year
TOG Yr 4 W1: Quizlet vocab; Important People Copywork; SAPs; Read Alounds - same as above; Reading (again - portions each week) - An Age of Extremes, World War One, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Fanny Crosby: Queen of Gospel Songs
IEW and MCT Language Arts: same as above

Princess L - K - Lower Grammar
Winter Promise Advanced K: Review letters u,c,l,g,w,y,v,z, and x; study the -an family and -ap family; practice handwriting letters; read "A Cat" - A Word Family Mini-book.
Math-U-See: We continued working on flashcards and added in the +0 and 0+ facts.  Working on saying them faster.
TOG Yr 4 W1: Read Alouds - same as above; Reading - The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Pom.  This last one, we pretty much just read the poem and looked at the pictures and talked about the fact that there was a war almost 100 years ago that included much of the world. 

Princess M - PreTOGGer
Did some games from Letter of the Week.  She enjoyed the size and shape sorting activities with Princess E.  I printed out the A-Z Floor letters and laminated them.  Princess S made a maze around the house and they hopped from letter to letter saying the letter names.  I printed out the Do-A-Dot pages and she covered the circles with pom-pom magnets with Princess E and then with small circle stickers with Princess S.  Yes - I am relegating preschool this year to my eldest two princesses.  They do a fabulous job and they love it, and so does Princess M.  I need the time with Princess L for Kindergarten, and the only way to do it is to have them attend to Princess M.  When you homeschool, you just do what works.  And this works for all of us for now.