~Week 13~

We just finished our 13th week of the school year and our last day of school for the next ten days.   The girls and I were getting a bit burned out so I decided to take all of next week off for the holiday.    We'll do some crafts, some reading, and enjoy some lazy time.   We're supposed to get a storm tonight and we're hoping the snow sticks enough that we can do some sledding as well.

Back to the weekly report, though.   Hermoine finished Singapore Math 6A by doing reviews all week.   When we start back up with school she'll be moving on to 6B.   She finished her work in Grammar, Geography, Writing and Spelling.  She did three lessons of Rosetta Stone Latin and two of Getting Started in Latin.  She did three pages of Logic, one in Mind Benders and two in Dr. Dooriddles.   She is nearly finished with Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry for Literature.    In Art she worked on a self portrait.  

She studied the digestion system and took a unit review in Science.    For Music she covered Schubert.

Ramona has been working on finding the perimeter and area in five and six sided polygons for math.  She did all her Geography, Writing, Spelling and Grammar.   She did two lessons of Rosetta Stone Spanish.   She did three pages of Logic.   She has been practicing typing by playing games at freetypinggame.net three times a week.   She has been working on Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder for Literature.   In Art she studied Van Gogh and is really enamored of his story and art.

She spent both days of Science doing a review and Unit Assessment on density, buoyancy, lift, drag, etc. 

For History both girls learned about China in the Middle Ages.  

~Week 11 & Week 12~

I didn't get around to posting last week so I'm doing one post for weeks 11 and 12.   The girls have done all of their school work, including an optional unit Ramona chose to do in K12 Science.    I'm just going to cover the highlights of the last two weeks, though.

Hermoine is working on distances, percentages and fraction word problems in math.     She also finished The Giver and Abigail Adams, Girl of Colonial Days for her literature selections.   She is now reading Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry.   In Science she worked on the circulatory and respiratory systems in the human body.  

Ramona has been working on angles in math.   She finished The First Four Years and moved onto Farmer Boy for literature.   In Science she has been learning about air pressure, density, buoyancy, etc.    In Art she is studying the Impressionists.   Degas, Monet, etc.  So far this is her favorite unit in Art.

Both girls covered the Magna Carta, the legend of Robin Hood and the Diaspora in history.