DG had another great week! She is enjoying her studies very much, and I am thrilled to see her excitement over learning and completing her work!
This week she completed Unit 18 in Creation to Christ. We are now officially over half way through the year's plans!
In history, she began reading about Ancient Greece. Our new read aloud is Archimedes and the Door of Science. I have read wonderful reviews of this book, and it is as good as I was hoping it would be so far! She is reading from Streams of History: Ancient Greece independently and we are reading Old Greek Stories together. (The last book mentioned is not scheduled in Creation to Christ.)
History narrations, timeline and map work for this unit:
In Science she finished reading Birds of the Air and completed an experiment to see how oil might affect the feathers of a duck. (We used paper "feathers".)
She completed a beautiful sketch of a cardinal----one of my favorite birds.
She memorized a Robert Frost poem,
wrote a book review and completed the Unit 8 Cumulative Review in English.
She continues to work diligently through her math book!
We both enjoyed returning to our Community Bible Study class this week. She prepared for class over the break and into the early part of this week by completing three weeks of at home questions.
We are working on including singing and poetry reading in our days more often as we embark upon the new year. This week we sang "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty" several times and enjoyed various poems from Favorite Poems Old and New.
To wrap up our week, we spent part of this beautiful day at the zoo. It was such a nice trip. We were able to watch this fellow
make some nice mud puddles to play in. Take a little water....
Mix it with some dirt....
Enjoy!
--And there you have a glimpse in to our homeschooling days for this week! Thanks for stopping by!
Kim, what a great week. I love all the pictures.
Yes, we are still using Latin for Children. With Thanksgiving and CHRISTmas we are way 'behind' but oh well ;)
Blessings,
Linda<><
Posted by: Linda | January 06, 2012 at 08:37 PM
Hi Kim, Ann here also doing CTC with an only 11 yr old dd!
You're exactly one week a head of us! Doing the bird experiment tomorrow!
:)
Posted by: Ann Ellis | January 11, 2012 at 02:16 PM
Linda, thanks for your reply and for stopping by!
Ann, how neat that we are so close in our unit work in CTC and in homeschooling daughters close in age. Thanks for stopping by as well!
:-)
Posted by: Kim | January 11, 2012 at 09:43 PM