Week 20

Busy, busy, busy...that is life as a homeschool family. This week we went to the Grand Canyon on Wednesday with some family. It was a beautiful day!

Christian - King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Sir Thomas Mallory, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Playaway)
Marlayna - Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques, Salamadastrom by Brian Jacques
Me - Books - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Do Together -

• Devotionals - Let Him Ask of God
  
• Read Aloud - Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingals Wilder
  
• Government and Freedom - Key Constitutional Concepts (Judicial Branch) Part 1 & 2
• Mathematician - Mathematicians are People Too "Count on Pascal"
  
• Musician - Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers - "Mozart", The Story of Mozart CD
  
• History - Grand Canyon feidltrip -History of the buildings, founding of the Grand Canyon, etc.
• English and Grammar - Winston Grammar - Adjectives and Adverbs, The School House Rock videos Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get You Adverbs Here and Unpack Your Adjectives (see Mom Notes below)
  
• Science - skipped science this week
• Fieldtrip - The Grand Canyon! We went to the Grand Canyon on Wednesday with family that stopped in to visit. Pictures coming soon!
  

Mom Notes - Instilling good grammar and writing skills in my children has been something I have worried about. Many people ask about teaching grammar using the TJED or Leadership Education method. I think that reading classic books helps a lot, but I have noticed a need for more description in my children's writings...and that is where Winston Grammar fits into our curriculum. We have actually finished the basic books before and I just go back and review things on an "as needed" basis. I asked my children to go back over a couple of journal entries and make some lists of adjectives and adverbs that could be used to enhance those particular entries. We will be going over some of these lists next week in an effort to write more descriptive journal entries.