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For C. and Aa.
~keep on in Child's History of the World and read last 6 lives in Plutarch for Children: Greek Lives
~ then keep on in Child's History or begin Famous Men of Rome- but honestly I think I need a break from this book. I have read it through twice out loud to my kids and as good as it is I must admit that when I near the end of the book I don't ever want to hear about another famous man of Rome!). Maybe we will just read in the Hillyer book or maybe in the Story of Rome by Macgregor that Ar. loved or perhaps we will read in Hillyer and C. can read the Story of Rome later to himself.
~when we get to Rome I will read Ceaser's Gallic Wars (kids) to all the kids- I have wanted this book for years and finally found a reasonable copy.
~C. is reading Otto of the Silver Hand, but when he is done I might give the Children's Aeniad or In Search of a Homeland. I personally like the first one better but I think he will enjoy the pictures in the second one.
~H. is plugging away in Dicken's History of England and getting more into Ivanhoe
~Ar. is approaching Alexander the Great (he will read the Plutarch life for him I think). After this I will have to rethink the Rome part of his year as the Greek part will take us over half. My thoughts (off the top of my head) are...
~ the Aeniad (he really wants to read this)
~Ceaser's Gallic Wars (kids version with the family)
~Julius Ceaser- Shakepeare (being read now)
~readings from A Short History of the World by Robert's with notetaking
~not sure after that...

Today- Tuesday January 25th

Today I was feeling a bit better and M. was working closer to home so we drove him to work, got some groceries and hit the fish store. H. has been working hard on her marine bio. and I have been promising her a trip to look at the sponges and fish and for the kids to grab some more fish for the tank.

A:
~work on narrative essay from the Illiad (a few hours again!- looks great). We worked on the polishing together this afternoon
~Henle Latin (he did this on his own- probably 4 sentences of translation in Unit 3)
~Algebra
~Ancient History and Lit: listened to the Illiad (he has read all the other books this year and we found a great reading of this at the library so he decided to do this one as an audio book, not his usual medium for books!)
~Science- did so much yesterday. We are swamped in all the functions of the parts of animal and plant cells that I told him to skip it today
~Spiritual Reading: Gospel of John with commentary
~Music practice

H:
~field trip at the fish store!
~Algebra
~Spiritual Reading- Gospel of Luke
~Lit: The Two Towers (almost done!!! Way to go!!!)
~Science- a great review of thermohaline circulation. We finally got it I think! Made a great blown up map of the global conveyer belt for her science fair project
~making a great soup as we speak

C:
~field trip at the fish store!
~Timez It
~a chapter of The Order of the Phoenix
~30 minutes violin practice

Aa:
~Explode the Code- consonant blends
~read lots of Russian Folk Tales to him over the last couple of days while I have been sick (my they are gruesome!!)... but no books to him today yet. Right now he is hooked into the retro cartoons as we got cable for the Olympics
~violin practice

Me:
~kept up the laundry mountain
~mopped the floors
~morning prayers
~good lunch of chicken soup and grilled cheese with Papa home for lunch
~off for my knee exercises and some Crime and Punishment

Until next time...

Monday January 11th, 2010

All: (while playing Lego- a patience testing ordeal but Aaron was a little put out today)
Church History- 2 pages
The Mother Tongue- review of 1st 4 parts of speech and adverbs review and exercise
Julius Ceaser- Act 1 scene 2 (a long one!)
Great Expectations- 1 chapter
The Jungle Book- finished the chapter
Golden Bible- Joshua
Bede's Ecclesiastical History- 2 chapters

Aaron:
Read in the Beg. Bible and did a bunch of Explode the Code. He wrote out some Orthodox copywork with 3 perfect words! He practiced his name in cursive and basically poured over the new lego mag.- this should be a quarterly holiday because my boys can't focus at all on that day!

Caleb:
Read Otto of the Silver Hand- 1 chapter
Violin- 4 pieces with listening
Math- next exercise
Writing- copywork from Paedia classics
Spelling- day 1 copywork

Hannah:
Read the Two Towers- 45 minutes in bed
Read the Gospel of Luke- 1 chapter
Writing- Orthodox copywork and narration of St. Photina
Math- next lesson and #4
Latin- vocab. drill
Science- read in Seaside Naturalist
(off to ballet now)

Ariel:
Spiritual Reading
Read the Illiad
Writing- Orthodox copywork from quote from St. Seraphim of Sarov in cursive
Science: spent the morning on unit 6 day 1 (hard stuff) in Biology
Latin-vocab. drill
Library job
Hopefully some good music practice in there!! (30-45 min. whistle)

Dinner: mac and cheese and carrot sticks (Ar. will put it on the table and serve but I will make it tonight~)
Lunch: fresh bread and poached eggs/cream cheese and jam

Me: 2 loads of laundry folded and hung and washed.

Good day (with a very late start!)