The last two weeks have been quite rough. I've had to deal with some stinky attitudes, a great amount of disrespect, and some stubborn strong-willed children. They are issues that never seem to go away and get worse in waves. We've also had some outside activities that have taken some time away from our school time. I'll list both weeks together below.
Princess E - 6th Grade - Dialectic
Latin for Children Primer A: Finish lesson 10 - Flash card blitz. We're going to go through all the flash cards for the first 19 chapters. We'll set aside the ones that aren't known and study up on those for a couple of weeks. I'm hoping that this will help alleviate some on-going problems with translation.
Math-U-See Delta: Continue lesson 25 - We're still on this lesson. I've printed out lots of worksheets and we will spend even more time next week. Princess E is frustrated and wants to go on, but I told her that until she can get two or less wrong per worksheet, I cannot in good conscience give her the test.
IEW: We did a rough draft and final draft for lesson six. Princess E choose to write on Andrew Jackson.
Foundations 1: Finish suffix -ING. Prefix RE- and begin suffix -ABLE.
MCT Language Arts: Practice Island sentences 6 to 13. We worked on some writing projects for Sentence Island Lesson three. At first they were very reluctant because they thought it sounded difficult, but it turned out to be less difficult and more fun than they thought.
Spelling: We did one spelling bee.
Science: We took the last unit test and have begun a review for the end of book test.
TOG Yr4 Wk12-13: Timeline; SAPs; AQ/TQs; Reading - Joseph Stalin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Idiot's Guide, Usborne Intro to the Second World War, The Red Pony, Corrie ten Boom.
Princess S - 4th Grade - UG
Growing With Grammar 4: Chapter 3.3 to 3.8
Math-U-See Gamma: We finished lesson 24 and moved on to lesson 25. Princess S is insisting on using the method of multiplication that she came up with - which is a hybrid of what Mr. Steve showed. While it works, it is tedious. And she insists on crossing out each number as she uses it. But, some numbers get used more than once, and she cannot read them. Nor can I read them so if she gets it wrong, then I am not able to help her because I cannot read her work. Yet, she persists in doing it this way.
IEW, MCT Language Arts, Spelling and Science: same as above
TOG Yr4 Wk11: Quizlet vocab; important people; SAPs; Reading - War, Peace and All That Jazz, The Holocaust, Winston Churchill, Mr. Popper's Penguins.
Princess L - K - LG
We are at a stand still right now. We are focusing on speech therapy right now and the words that she needs to read and say with that. We have virtually stopped Winter Promise for the moment.
Math-U-See Primer: She finished up lesson 24 and did lesson 25. Lesson 26 will have her beginning to tell time.
Awana Sparks verses: New Testament books went faster than I thought. She earned the third red and green jewel and the forth red jewel. I didn't even work with her on those, but since she listens to the CD almost every night, she only needed the reference and the first word and she said them to her leader.
Princess M - PreTOGger
Princess M turned three! She moved into a big girl twin bed. I am putting the crib mattress next to the bed at night, and so far she hasn't fallen out. Experience says that first time falling out won't happen until I move the mattress away - that darn Murphy! She is very excited to be three.
Our co-op participated in preparing meals with Feed My Starving Children. This is the third time we've done this, and it's always a blast! It's amazing to see the before and after photos of what these meals can do for kids with little else to eat. We also prepared meals with our church for the St. Stephen's Men's Shelter. We do this every first Saturday morning of the month and it is a ton of fun! Even Princess M is able to get involved with serving.
3 comments:
I've always wanted to try TOG but I can never understand their website.
Looks like you all are getting a lot done.
We've had some stinky attitudes too, so I tried to break up the routine with some fun activities. It helped a bit, but since my oldest is just in Kindergarten, I figure addressing the bad attitudes is the most important task at hand.
It was stinky attitude day here as well today. But you know, God did give me a glimmer of His hand at work in line with my prayers. Because my one child who is (if I believed in labels) "the difficult child" was not only the only one who DIDN'T have a stinky attitude, but she was also the child who gave me NO headaches at all today (she is consistently challenging, so this was a BIG victory).
Hope the rest of weekend days off goes far in making for a better start to your next week.
blessings,
Toni
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