~Week 4~

This week was extremely hectic for us, but we got everything done.   I don't know how, but we did.    We did school Sunday-Thursday morning.   We have three different Scout events tonight, Art class tomorrow morning and my uncle flew in from Germany this morning, so we wanted to be done today.   I have a couple of hours until Scouts starts, so I thought I'd post before I forgot all about it.  And for the weekly wrap-up, I finally have some photos!

Hermoine is still working on some really tough story problems using ratios in her Math book.   It's a good thing Nick has been home in the mornings to help her, because I usually need to grab the Teacher's Manual to figure out where to even start.    She really enjoys this type of problem solving, though, which is a good thing.

All of her other subjects are moving along.  She finished reading The Birchbark House for literature.    She learned about Hadyn in Music, relief sculptures in Art(and then started one of her own,) and single celled organisms in Science.

Hermoine working on her very messy art project

For her Science experiment, she added sugar and yeast together and put them in a bottle covered with a balloon.   She had to explain what was happening to make the balloon expand.   She did it completely on her own and when I checked her work and talked to her later, I found she has a firm understanding of the dynamics of single celled organisms.   I took pictures of this experiment, but the camera appears to have eaten them.  

Ramona is plugging along in Math.   Division and Multiplication are still the focus.   She's doing much better with the extra Wrap-Ups practice.

She started memorizing her first poem of the year in Grammar.   Her current poem is Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay.   She has the first two stanzas down pat and is working on the third.

She finished up The Long Winter and began on Little Town on the Prairie.

For Art she learned about Colonial architecture and how it related to Greek and Roman architecture.   She then sketched an entryway using some of the features she learned about.

Ramona used columns and a frieze in her entryway

 We had a busy week in Science.    She checked the progress of her week one compost project:

Finished up the Limiting Factors experiment she did last week:

Sponges last week

A few of the sponges after having spent time in different temperatures

And focused on populations and competition of animals in the wild.   There were no new experiments scheduled for her this week, but she had a blast playing the population game that went with her lesson.