~Week 6~

This week we wanted to attend the K12 Zoo field trip on Friday so we really packed the work in for four days to make that possible.  It made for some extra long school sessions, but we get to go to the zoo tomorrow.  

The girls also had Cadettes for Hermoine on Monday, Nature Center class on Wednesday, Juniors for Ramona and Lego League for Hermoine tonight.  A very full week.

Every sixth week they have a week off of their writing program, which made it easier to double up on other subjects.  Also, they like every sixth week of Spelling Workout because it is all review and puzzles.  

Hermoine is working on percentages in Math.   She is working through diagramming complex subjects and verbs in Grammar.   She has done this before so it's not an issue for her.  Spelling was a review, handwriting was basic cursive practice.    In Art she is learning about early cave art and sketched her own cave art which she will transfer to a painting next week.   She studied Beethoven in Music and basic cell structure in Science.  She had two fun experiments this week with petri dishes and the microscope.  She completed 3 lessons of Rosetta Stone Latin and two of Getting Started with Latin.  She is nearly finished reading The Silver Crown for literature.  

Ramona is still working on basic addition and subtraction of fractions with common denominators in Math.   She finished memorizing her first poem in Grammar and has moved on to her second which is Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley.    She has also been working on adjectives and diagramming sentences with them.    Spelling was a review.  Her handwriting is improving, the book is getting ready to transition her out of manuscript practice and into cursive.  Her cursive is much better than her manuscript.   In Art she completed her sketch of George Washington crossing the Delaware by adding color and moved on to American art in the west, a very fun unit.    In Science she delved deeper into symbiotic relationships.   She finished two lessons of Rosetta Stone Spanish and two lessons of typing.   Ramona also finished Little Town on the Prairie for literature. 

For History the girls learned about Norse Myths, the vikings and the beginnings of Norway.   In particular we covered Leif the Lucky and Eric the Red.