TOG Year 1 Week 14

After a week off for Thanksgiving break, we hit the books again this week.  This week we returned to Greek mythology, which is a topic that both my older princesses seem to enjoy.  In fact, I think Princess S remembered almost every single Greek god and goddess that she read about from our first time through this several years ago.  The little princesses made some Greek food at the activity time with our TOG friends, and brought home some awesome spanakopita.  Everyone liked it so well, we decided we needed to make some more soon.

 Princess M - Pre-TOGGLER
We finished up "d" week.  She really enjoyed the "How Do Dinosaurs . . ." series of books by Jane Yolen.  Over the past three weeks, her numbers have finally started to stick.  I give the credit to the iPad that DH's dad bought.  So far, most of the apps she uses are free ones, except for two apps from Leap Frog.  Those are the two that are helping her the most.  Here she is enjoying her iPad time.

She also had fun with our "d" crafts - a dinosaur and a duck puppet.

Princess L - 1st Grade - LG
This little princess is really enjoying our library time.  Here are the books she read this week:

 

(And no she didn't wear the same outfit two days in a row - we just forgot to take pictures one day.)   She is also in lesson three of Explode the Code 4.  I decided to wait to incorporate PAL Writing until after Christmas.  I'm going to condense some of the first several lessons of the 2nd book as she is doing the copywork portion with another program.  But we are going to focus on the story outline elements.  We'll do some practice ones, then we'll start using the chart with the books she reads during her library time.

Princess S - 5th Grade - UG

This princess is almost done with lesson 20 in Delta.  She also is almost done with lesson 9 in Latin for Children.  Since she had already read her Lit book for the week, she read through Princess E's book too.  

Princess E - 7th Grade - D

Princess E is working on lesson 19 in Epsilon.  She is on lesson 15 in Latin.  She is continuing to assist Princess L with her piano lessons.  They even played a duet of Mary Had a Little Lamb this past week.   She is working on Module 8 in science, and then we are going to take a break.  She will be starting The Fallacy Detective for the second semester.  I have a few ideas for taking science in a different direction with my "not-so-science-minded" child.