Devotional - "Let Him Ask of God" daily inspirational readings.Government - "The 5,000 Year Leap" by Cleon Skousen - Part I - Discussion on the Articles of Confederation and how it was inadequately balanced.
Math - Individual Math-U-See books
History - Story of the World, Vol. 2 - "Medieval Monasteries" - Famous Men of the Middle Ages - "Alaric the Visigoth" - Stories of Beowulf Told to Children - "How the Fire Dragon Warred with the Goth Folk", "How Beowulf Overcame the Dragon", "Beowulf's Last Rest" - We are also keeping a Book of Centuries (see Mom Notes below).
Science - Magnetics Kit - "Chemistry for Every Kid" - Learning about how magnetism is a force of nature.
Latin - We began Latin two years ago and pretty much let it go after awhile, but we are getting more serious about it as our foreign language for high school. - Latina Christiana I - Lessons 1-3.
Family Projects - Reading: "On the Banks of Plum Creek" - We had a lot of yard work and cleaning of camping equipment to do. I am so much cleaner with the camping gear than when our stuff is used by the Boy Scouts. We had a LOT to clean! I took the kids to the Retreat last week only to find all of our stuff was so filthy that we attracted a lot of bees.
Fieldtrip - We attended our first outing with the local homeschool support group. There were tons of young adults, which was very exciting for our youth. I can see that there will be lots of youth for them to get to know that have common educational lives.
Individual Phases and Studies
Marlayna (Project Scholar) - Projects: Guitar practice. - Reading: "Ugly", "Zel", "Bound", "Boy Proof" - Mind Benders A4-B1
Christian (Love of Learner) - Projects: Guitar practice. - Reading: "Wizard Heir"
Mom (Ready to be a Mentored Scholar - but, still looking for a Mentor) - Reading: "Utopia" by Thomas More, "The Edge of Recall" by Kristen Heitzmann, and "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine - Math: Math-U-See Algebra - Reviewing what I have forgotten. Apparently I can't remember how to divide fractions either...
Mom Notes: We created a Book of Centuries last year, but actually put very little into it. I decided to put more effort into this in hopes of making a binder of reminders of all the history we have studies and where it fits in a time line fashion. For more information, see this site about the Book of Centuries.
I forgot to add that Marlayna made a very cool guitar strap. I'll have to post pictures of it another time.
ReplyDeleteWhat in the world happened to Christian? It looks like he has had a several inch growth spurt. Can't wait to see the guitar strap that Marly made, I am sure it is just beautiful, and how cool that they are learning to play the guitar. I am super jealous of the trees and scenery. I WANT GREEN!!!!!
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