Bible - Reading Luke, Chps 3 & 4. Select and write favourite verses. Enjoying it
Friendly Defender - 1 Card, Discuss and learn verses still enjoying this.
Catechism - Memorised chapter 3
Read St Katherine Drexel (Vision Book)
Language Arts
Great Explorations In Editing - 2 lessons
Spelling Wisdom - 3 lessons. Writing with fluency and mostly accuracy still.
Shakespeare - Listened to 1 story on Librivox, Winter's Tale
Poetry - The Man from Ironbark - AB Patterson. M's favourite subject at present, impressive memory.
Touch Typing - worked on finger placement, worked hard
Maths - Mathsonline
Enjoying mathsonline so much more, breezed through easier lessons and has slowed down through new material.
Science
Planet Earth - JH Tiner - chapter 5, read and answered. Still enjoying science:)
Nature
Insect Adventures - J H Fabre Read chapter 5.
History - RC History
Read 4 chapters of the City of the Golden House
Genevieve, Saxon & Ignatius
Read Alouds
Cricket in Times Square
Horrible Geography Earthquakes (1/3 of book)
Faith
Faith & Life - Chp 3, Each read and gave oral narration.
New Catholic Picture Bible - Abraham and Isaac, Jacob & Esua. Dictated narration
Once Upon a Time Saints - Read Hyacinth, oral narration.
Catechism - Memorised chapter 3
Language Arts
Reading to Mum. Mercy Watson & Zac Powers. Still powering along in confidence, fluency and interest. Dancing for joy:)
Copywork - G is finally holding pencil correctly, need to monitor that she always does. Accidentally set the lines too close for Saxon this week, made it a bit hard for him.
Schonell Spelling - 4 lists for G, then she wrote 2 dictated sentences per list. Great skill to work on.
All About Spelling - Lesson 15 with Saxon. He is really enjoying using the letter tiles and making excellent connections. I really do love this program!!
Shakespeare - G listened to Winter's Tale via Librivox
Poetry - Memorising and Recitation Nights continue to be a big hit. G learnt The Battle by Spike Mulligan. S learnt Monday's Child and Ig learnt Way Down South Where the Bananas Grow.
Maths
Mathsonline continues to be a huge hit. Saxon is flying through Grade 3 lessons. Genevieve is happy too. Ignatius is doing Grade 1 lessons but he needs extra help with reading the lesson work (note to self)
Science - Earthquakes
Read Horrible Geography Earthquakes (1/3 of book)
Watched Children of the Tsunami. In 2011 Japan was hit by the biggest tsunami in 1000 years, the nuclear plants of Japan spread radioactive material over this area. This youtube told the story of these people from the eyes of the children. They lost their friends, their families, their homes, their communities, their freedom to be children. Oh how I cried.
Nature
Nature Walk and notebooking in our garden for the boys, further afield in the bush for G. I need to go out with them on a longer walk (note to self)
History - RC History
Read of 3 saints from the Early Church in More Once Upon a Time Saints
Read half of a chapter in First Christians - Marigold Hunt
Art
S & Ig watched yuotube tutorials on soft pastels, G watched one on drawing giraffes. They really are enjoying using youtubes for art and I'm thrilled with the process and the results which are terrific!
