HOD Units Two and Three

I will obviously not be posting every week, despite my wishes.  Life is just too crazy and chaotic to make that happen.  We just got back from a week of vacation with my in-laws.  It was fun, but now we need to move back into school mode.  Here is what we completed during week three of school.

Princess M - LHFHG - PreK/K
We are doing all of her work at half pace, so as of right now we are up to Unit 2 Day 2.  She has been learning about Creation and the Fall.  These aren't new topics to her, so it's fun to hear her interject what she remembers.  We have listened to the Hide 'Em In Your Heart CD for over a year, so learning her Bible verses is coming along nicely for her.  In math, she is up to lesson three.  She loves having her own book like her sisters.  Her reading is coming along slowly but surely.  We are halfway through lesson three in All About Reading Level 1.  She has a bit of trouble with blending, but we just keep on plugging away.  She can read the first book in the Bob Books series, but only because she had Princess L telling her the words all summer long and she memorized it.  I'll be giving her the second book some time next week, so I'll better be able to see how she can read it on her own.

Princess L - BHFHG - 2nd
After spending the first week at half pace, I planned to step it up a bit.  So we completed unit two at full pace.  To be honest, it was a little difficult.  I decided that I may alternate spelling with grammar, instead of trying to get both of those done every day.  That will save a little bit of time.  She has been learning about Columbus and Cabot and their trips to America.  She is enjoying the story of Ben and Me.  She is learning to identify the subject and verb of a sentence in her grammar.  We made a list of the "to be" verbs that are not something you can do. 

Princess S - RTR - 6th
She has completed through unit three.  She is learning about the early church during Roman times.  She has enjoyed the read aloud books on her own.  In math, she is cruising right along and is already up to lesson three in Epsilon.  She isn't doing so hot in Latin, however, as she really forgot most of the things she learned.  We started off with a review lesson and though she claimed she reviewed all the flash cards and reviewed all the endings, she bombed the test.  So I will have to teach her how to review for a test again.  She will begin an outsourced art class as well as an outsourced IEW-B class on Wednesday of this week.  She is excited for both of those.

Princess E - Rev2Rev - 8th
After three weeks of allowing her to do school her way in her bedroom, and seeing her take all day and beyond what it should take her, we will be trying something new this week.  She will be required to sit at the kitchen table between 8:30 and lunch time.  I'm going to see how much faster she completes her work, as I believe she has too many distractions in her room.  However, my strong-willed one will most likely try to beat my system and actually take longer at the kitchen table, so it may be a lengthy experiment.  She is enjoying Aleks for math, and will hopefully complete Middle School Math 1 within the month.  She will then begin Middle School Math 2.  She was working on the former all summer long.  She also will be retaking her last Latin test.  She will begin an outsourced theater class (which is an experiment and she'll have to prove she can keep up with all her school work in order to take the second semester of it) and the same outsourced IEW-B writing class.

All four girls will begin the new season of worship dance on Thursday, as well as the Wednesday evening activities as church.  It will be a very busy week for me.  I have things going on every night this week, so I'm feeling a bit harried.  But I will be enjoying some time alone with God every Wednesday night as I'm taking the year off from helping in the kids programs or nursery.  I've got plans to work through a few Bible Studies that I just never seem to have time for.  I'm very excited about the prospect.