HOD Unit One

We have completed our first Unit in our four HOD programs we are using this year.  Everyone went at half pace because we also had swimming lessons which took up our morning.  Princess M will continue at half pace, as it has been my intention to do Little Hearts over two years.  She will just be five in November, so though she isn't really kindergarten age, she is ready to begin the skills slowly.  Princess L will be moving up to full pace, however we will be only doing HOD four days a week.  This will stretch the guide out half way through her third grade year, which is exactly where I want her.  The fifth day we will do math, literature studies, and hopefully piano lessons.  Princesses E and S will be moving up to full pace as well, however their writing, art and theater classes will not begin until the second week of September.

Princess M - LHFHG
This week Princess M learned about how Jesus is at the center of history.  We talked about how Jesus was with God when the world was made, and then from Adam until the time of his birth, the people look forward to Jesus coming.  Then after he died and rose again, people began looking forward to his second coming.  She did the first lesson in MUS Primer and started the second lesson.  We also finished the first lesson in All About Reading Level 1.  She can say all of the sounds by themselves, and can begin to blend.  She has a bit harder time when you have to say the sounds faster though.  But she read four words on her own.  Here are the photos.

Princess L - BHFHG
This week, Princess L began learning about Christopher Columbus and his dream to find a sailing route to Asia.  We learned about how it was hard to find people to believe in his dream, but when he finally got going, it changed the course of history.  She completed the first few pages of her math book.  She is still doing vision therapy, so I'm holding off on her additional reading lessons as she reads each day with her special lenses.  Here are the photos.

Princess S - Res to Ref
Princess S was excited to see she gets to do history projects.  I think that is going to be her favorite thing.  (This was the part of TOG that we were never able to get to because it would take them so long to get the rest of their school work done.)  She also seemed to enjoy the audio CD's for her independent history study.  She also began her science by learning about her most unfavorite creature - the spider.  She is almost done with Epsilon lesson one.  She spent a little time reviewing the first half of the Latin book she did last year and began the review lesson.  She did a great job with her first oral narration and her first written narration.  I think that using IEW's method of writing a KWO and using it to give an oral presentation helped her with the oral narration.  Plus, she has a great memory for details when it is something that truly interests her.  Here are the photos.

Princess E - Rev2Rev
Princess E spent most of the week working in her room, her chosen work environment.  I told her she had to get everything done in a timely fashion in order to continue that way.  She has to do her history projects, math and science in our school room/living room though.  She is working her way through Aleks Middle School Math 1, and will hopefully be able to move on to the second one in another month.  She enjoyed making her Indian headdress history project, though she wasn't so excited about modeling it for me for a picture.  She is to finish up Latin for Children Level B on her own.  I gave her the answer book and she will study and learn on her own.  She will come to me for the tests.  It's something new for us, and we'll have to see how it works out.  I gave her deadlines for each test, so she should be done around Christmas time.  Here are the photos.