2009 - Week 3 - This Week in Homeschooling

We had a great Monday with everyone taking the day off. Marly was sick this week and so we did not expect the level of study she usually applies, but she did a ton of reading while she was sick.

• Devotionals - Gospel Principles lessons 7-9
  
• Classes/Clubs Attended - Principles of Leadership
  
• SAT Prep vocabulary & spelling words - Review last weeks words - New Words - supple, avow, brazen
  
• Grammar & Writing - Journal Entries on each book read - Winston Grammar - Word Roots A1 & A2
  
• Science - The Human Body Unit - Muscles
  
• P.E. - (Marly was sick this week)
  
• Math
• Marly: Math-U-See - Epsilon - Chapters 1-4
  
• Chris: Math-U-See - Delta - Chapter 13
  
• Individual Reading
• Marly: Story of the World, Vol. 2-11 thru 2-16, Oddest of All, Nelly in the Wilderness, Fablehaven - Books 1 & 2, Crystal Mask
  
• Chris: Story of the World, Vol. 1-34, Dragon Rider
  
• Mom School: Reading list - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Young Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews (I highly recommend this book!)
  

SAT Prep - Vocabulary and Spelling words:
I subscribed to a daily email of SAT words through Peterson's Word of the Day. It is a free service and we get the definition, example sentence, and synonyms. I write the word of the day on the dry erase board and we discuss it right after devotional. The website also has test prep questions.

Why do we do this? - I feel that we should focus on getting into college and part of that process is the SAT test. We do not do AIMS testing - that is for public schools to be graded and for funding. They really have nothing to do with the students.