The Roaring Twenties - that is what we've been studying this week. But in our reality it has been more like the "Soggy Twenties (of September)" here. It was a rough week, however, due to our trip to ND which took one day away from our week; and then Princess E ended up catching some sort of bug (probably from the water park) and ran a fever for two days and threw off our week even more. But we got caught up and had our best discussion time yet! And to think it began with tears as she claimed she didn't understand anything and didn't have a clue how to start. But when she slowed down and did things in the order and manner I've been working with her on (gosh darn it mom is right!) then she did pretty well. We ended our discussion with a goal. She is getting better at finding the answers to her AQ/TQ questions in her reading. She also types up her answers in a neat format and turns them in. In turn, she is able to find the answers during discussion in either her reading or her AQ/TQ answers. But, as I pointed out to her, her goal to work on (realistically not to be realized completely until the rhetoric stage) is to not merely quote what the books say, but to "narrate" back in her own words and have it mean something to her.
Princess E - 6th Grade - Dialectic
Latin for Children Primer A: Lesson 15 and 16 - at this point, we will be slowing down our pace a bit. She has reached a few new concepts that she didn't have last year. I haven't worked out the details yet but I hope to have her do one and a half lessons a week through the rest of Primer A.
Math-U-See Delta: Lesson 23
IEW: Due to her illness, we didn't do any IEW this week as I didn't want to do the next lesson without her.
MCT Language Arts: We finished Grammar Island. We will continue with where we left of in Sentence Island and will be starting the Practice Books in another week.
Spelling: Had a bee and every M&M was earned.
Science: Due to the same aforementioned illness, we did not do any science this week.
TOG Yr4 Wk7: Timeline; SAPs; AQ/TQs; Reading - Eric Liddell, Women's Right to Vote, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Idiot's Guide, The Gift of Music, Poetry for Young People Robert Frost.
Princess S - 4th Grade - UG
Growing With Grammar 4: Chapter 1 review to 2.2
Math-U-See Gamma: finish 22 and begin 23. She is having the same problem that Princess E had in remembering to shift over with the second digit in double digit multiplication. But today after she finished her worksheet but before she turned it in, she realized her mistake. She wasn't happy at having to redo it, but when I pointed out that it wouldn't affect her grade that way, she was a little more satisfied.
IEW, Spelling and Science: same as above
TOG Yr4 Wk7: Quizlet vocab; important people; SAPs; Reading - War, Peace and All That Jazz, The 1920s, The Wind in the Willows, Eric Liddell
Princess L - K - LG
Winter Promise Advanced K: Handwriting practice; Explode the Code - pgs 25-32; Reading - Fish Gift and Bill; played Concentration and Word Work games with -id, -ig and -ill word families.
Math-U-See Primer: She reduced her flashcard speed to 1:24 and got another trip to the prize bucket. She whizzed through lesson 21 - solving for the unknown. But she has the tendency to just count the spaces on the blocks rather than trying other blocks when she doesn't know the answer.
Princess M - PreTOGger
Fun and games with big sissies.
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