~Week 3~

I'm without the camera for the weekly update again.   This was our last week without the craziness of Scouts that will be next week.   Hermoine had her GS Lego League, as she does each week, but that was it.   Next week they both have troop meetings, Nick has a Service Unit team meeting, I have a Service Unit leaders meeting and Hermoine has a Lego meeting on top of that.   That is just Scout activities.  Add in Art class and Book Club and all of a sudden we're back in the swing of things.  Next week will be a tough one.  Back to this week, though.

Hermoine is working on ratio story problems in math.   She thought these would be fairly easy since the books give her two problems a day and she enjoys ratios.  But, she found out the story problems are so complicated that there is a reason they only give you a few problems.   She is understanding it well, but it's not going as quickly as she had initially thought when she saw the number of problems.   

Her Langauge Arts, Logic and Latin all went well.   She is reading The Birchbark House for Literature.   She finished working on her mosaic for Art and studied Bach in Music.   

She worked on classifying plants and animals by kingdom, domain, class, species, etc., in Science.  She now says that she wants to become a Taxonomist because of this Science unit.   For the last four years she's insisted she wanted to be a Botanist, so this came as a surprise to us and is evidence of her enjoyment of the K12 Science program.

Ramona is working on division and estimating in division.   Her problems this week looked like this:

8650 ÷ 50  

She would have to estimate the total and then do the long division.   Time consuming, but still review for her.  She gets her 6 and 9 times tables confused, so we've been doing extra practice at the end of the school day with Math Wrap-Ups.

She took a reading test through her K12 teacher this week, which I will write another post about.  Her Language Arts, Logic, Music and Art all went well.   Her Science focused on limiting factors and we did an experiment with temperature as a limiting factor.  We planted seeds that are covered and have no access to light.  We then placed the seeds in areas of different temperature,  the freezer, under a heat lamp(but still covered) and at room temperature.   She is supposed to check them in a week and see if they meet her hypothesis.   It was a fun experiment.   

She moved through three different lessons in her Spanish this week, which is very fast for her.   I make the girls get 95% before they move on in Rosetta Stone, despite the program letting them move on at 85%.    Ramona usually takes a week to move through one lesson and master it, but she was on a roll this week.

For History they learned about Clovis and the Franks.   I have several books from the library for them to choose from to go along with this chapter, but they didn't get to them.   Next week continues with France so I'll keep the books out for that.