We’ve officially completed week nine of our school year, so we’re 1/4 down, 3/4 left to go!
Captain Science had a pretty great math week. He did chapters 16-19 of Life of Fred: Fractions, though he did rather bomb the first bridge to chapter 20 today. I’m not sure what was going on with that, other than he just never puts in a good day of work for his dad. I think he’s a lot more self-conscious doing school work for Officer Daddyman than for me. We’re doing a half-day tomorrow, partially to make up for his broken arm days and partially to make sure he’s really cemented this math thing. He’ll correct his first try on the bridge and do at least the second try.
Science has been a little piddlin for Captain Science. He plays upon Eclectic Girl’s sympthies, gets her to come up with the answers, and then writes down what she wrote. We put a stop to that tonight (he does science Thursday morning and Friday evening) and had him redo the experiments on his own. His cast should be off by next Thursday, so he will hopefully go in with a good attitude. He loves science, but he also loves sympathy and having someone else do the hard stuff. He’s one of those gifted kids. *eyeroll* Nice try, pal, but I was one of them, to, and half-ass isn’t going to fly.
We kicked back into gear with history this week, starting “pre-Greece” (aka Crete). On Monday, Captain Science read the Crete, Mycenae, and Minoa sections of Eyewitness: Greece and on Wednesday, he read the “Europe’s First Civilization” chapter (pg. 76-77) in History: The Definitive Visual Guide (H:TDVG from now on, ’cause that’s long!). He typed two summaries this week, one on Mycenaen culture and one on Minoan trade/crafts. He’s finishing up The Tale of Troy and read the first Percy Jackson book for free reading (it’s a nice mesh).
In grammar, we started adjectives. He did a good job diagramming them, even if it was awkward w/ his left hand. He covered chapters 5.1-5.6 in Growing with Grammar and took an adjective quiz on comparative adjectives, which he passed with 100%!
I’m really missing having a writing curriculum, so I hope he’s able to get his cast off this week. Typing papers has at least given him a way to demonstrate composition skills for history, but it’s not the same as really getting into a creative writing assignment.
Because we’re treating tomorrow as a half-day, we’ll do more math and our music appreciation lesson. We’ll either do Benjamin Britten or we’ll do Chopin. Not totally decided yet.
The best thing of all this week is that our school room is just about finished! All of this week’s work was done at our new school desk, which makes it much more pleasant for everyone.
