Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Schoolwork Accomplished:

*Super Hard math subtraction worksheet (from math is fun website)
*Read online article about cats & Egypt and explained it to me in her own words.
*Online Cleopatra madlib game (reviewed parts of speech and the Cleopatra story!)
*English For the Thoughtful Child-redid sloppily done lesson 5, also did lessons 6 & 7.
*Wrote two more poems and neatly copied them into her poem book.
*Began reading Freedom Crossing by  Margaret Goff Clark
*Made waffles all by herself following a recipie I'd printed for her (lifeskills)  She and her brothers ate them and said they were pretty good.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Schoolwork Accomplished:

*Silent reading If You Lived 100 Years ago by Anne McGovern & finished reading Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
*Copied spelling words from list 6 & 7
*math is fun worksheets-one advanced, and one hard.  Corrected together and done with few mistakes.  They were done in a reasonable amount of time and done NEATLY and WITHOUT COMPLAINING!
(We had several talks about homeschooling in general and math in particular last night.  For the first time ever they seem to have sunk in!!  I really hope this lasts!) 
*wrote a poem about cotton candy.
*Understanding Fiction book-read story and answered comprehensive questions

Monday, October 18, 2010

Schoolwork Accomplished:
*Online research on planets again.  Notes taken on planets.Correctly recited planets in order of distance from the sun.
*Silent reading: Guerilla Art by
*math play with  magnetic pattern blocks.
*Math worksheet with three levels of numbers, in the thousands, addition and subtraction.
*began reading Peter Pan by James M. Barre

Wednesday-Friday, October 13, 14, 15, 2010

Catch Up Post -this isn't comprehensive since I don't remember everything anymore!

Wednesday: Geography, Standard 2 pages (13 activities), Spelling workbook lessons 6 & 7.  Math & English pages in comprehensive curriculum. 
Thursday: Trying to catch up work before staying overnight at Grammy's house.  Comprehensive curriculum sheets on math and English.  Geography corrections.  Spelling workbook corrections. 
Friday: She was at Grammy's house.  She made wheat/rye bread with Grammy, chatted with Pop-Pop, played with her Aunt Claire's old Egypt Legoes!  (hey, that fits in perfectly with our studies!), visited the farmer's market and a thrift shop, and later at night went out with Grammy and Mommy to get a much needed pair of sneakers (and socks, tights, and a hat).