Thursday March 6th, 2008

All:
-CHOW Arabian Days (looked at some pictures also in Mosque)
-Nature Journaling while I read from The Burgess Bird Book and The Handbook of Nature Study (we were studying the Nuthatch today). Ariel narrated in his book, while Hannah pasted in some drawings she had finished earlier and Caleb drew and labeled his picture.)
-finished The Last Battle. We read it at lunch and at dinner, as Papa was out for dinner.

Ariel
-Whistle
-Math 20D Zeta
-Latin: rest of ex. 25 Unit One Henle. He also did his vocab. drill.
-Read: -Tom Sawyer
-Fabre Book
-Gospel of Mark
-Writing: he wrote more of his battle scene from The Return of the King
-Spelling: we continued our small foray into a spelling focus by starting the list from the WRTR and reviewing the 1-1-1 rule and the dropping the e rule. Boy, I don't know any of these rules and they do seem a bit much.... we will see!

Hannah
-Math 25 D Zeta (ordered her next book today)
-Latin: rest of ex.25 Unit One Henle. She did her vocab. drill.
-Read:- out loud to me today from the Young Person's Book of Virtues
-a story from the Pink Fairy Book
-Writing: copywork from current poem, Spring by Tennyson (she is making a booklet from this with watercolors)
-Spelling: ditto what Ar. did except I did them separately. Oh yes, and they both did all 70 phonograms.

Caleb
-Math 8D Gamma
-Writing: oral lesson from EFTTChild and his nature journal
-Reading: Spiderwick Chronicles Book 4
-violin

Aaron
We had a nice time in the morning reading a new Anansi story. Later, we worked on a page in Word Mastery (this needs some sprucing up with some stories...it can get dull!). Then we looked at his grip a bit and I made him a cute fruity math page (Caleb always liked these). Then I did something I had done with the other 3; I wrote out the first line of Twinkle, twinkle little star and cut each word out and we practiced putting them in order. That was so easy for him he wanted to do the next line which he also got no problem- he was so proud of himself and grinning ear to ear. I also wrote him a little comic today which made him really happy.

We had a late lunch and then H. and I researched making a larger Guinea pig pen for Ginny. Caleb and Aaron had a blast playing so I really let them be a lot today. After a while we regrouped and did our Nature Journals and then I sent everyone out for some fresh air- the older two walked Goldie and the youngers played in the snow. Boy is it ever cold here again!

After dinner I decided we would play Blokus. I have wanted to for so long but have always been puttering around too much. It was alot of fun, and even Aaron had a good time.

Dinner: Rotini with sauce, coleslaw and garlic bread.