Week 7

Week 7 is in the bag.   A pretty non-eventful week overall.   We had a few activities...scouts, book club and a scout event tonight as well.

Hermoine is working through some fairly hard percentage problems.    They look like this:   There are 42 boys and 24 girls in a chess club. How many more percentage of boys are there than girls?  

In Language Arts she worked through her spelling, grammar and handwriting.  In Writing she worked on putting events in the proper sequence and then wrote an essay with the events she had been working with.  For literature she finished reading The Silver Crown,  read Seabird by Holling C. Holling in it's entirety and began The House of Arden by E. Nesbit.  

In Art she finished painting her cave art, and moved on to ancient pottery.  She started a pottery project that she'll finish next week.   For Music she studied Tchaikovsky.  In Geography she covered projection maps, the Robinson Projection map in particular.    She completed three lessons in Rosetta Stone Latin and two lessons in Getting Started with Latin.

She learned about DNA and RNA in Science.  K12 had some fun activities to go with these lessons.

Ramona is working on adding and subtracting mixed numbers and then taking them down into their simplest form.   

In Language Arts she did her spelling lessons and handwriting.   Grammar was all review.  When First Language Lessons does review the lessons are really long.   She is about half way through memorization of Ozymandias.   She was also working on sequence in Writing and wrote a paragraph about major events in her life.   She began reading These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder for Literature.

In Art she learned about American Folk Art, in particular the quilt.  She made her own quilt designs on paper and read about how the women and girls would come up with their designs.   She really loved this unit.     In music she began a unit on string instruments starting with the violin.   In Geography she was practicing finding coordinates of cities in South America by using the degrees of longitude and latitude.    She worked through two lessons of Rosetta Stone Spanish and two lessons of BBC Typing.

She learned about solutions and mixing molecules in Science.   We had two fun experiments that were also quite easy with mixing liquids.

Both girls learned about the Vikings arriving in the British Isles for history.