Week 9/27/10 Notes.

Monday Notes:

Spelling: bridge, two, to, too, foe, strait, thousand. We started our day with a spelling quiz from last week's words.

Recitation: After the spelling quiz, we moved right into her memorization work. She is averaging about 3-4 verses each week plus a poem.

Mathematics: Fact families, not as painful as I anticipated, though those darn subtraction problems continue to present confusion. I am interested in finding alternative ways in teaching this concept.

Latin/Grammar: Review of Nouns, Began Pronouns lesson with a demonstration of singular/plural first, second and third person pronouns. We did not chant the Latin words today.

History: Chapters 23 & 24. Discussed in GREAT depth the events of the beginning of Rome’s Republic, the Persian empire and the Battle of Marathon. Used a map to locate these areas of the world. At the playground today, Mara narrated the whole story of Horatius back to a couple of her friends so they could pretend they were brave Roman soldiers.

Poetry: I had intended on reading only a portion of Macaulay’s poem titled Horatius at the Bridge, but it was so well received that we read the whole thing.

Writing: Journal entry, Mara wrote verse 29 as dictated by me then illustrated the verse. 

Reading: Burgess Animal Book, Tanglewood Tales: The Minotaur, The Wind in the Willows

Tuesday Notes:

   We started our day today with a Science lesson. Mara did a great job independently reading her chapter. We reviewed her new vocabulary words first, then after I went over the reading again with her. She did a journal page drawing the differences between a eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell. Then we had a power outage so we took off the rest of the day to picnic at the Villa Borghese. When we returned around 4:30, our power was back on, and we decided to squeeze in a Grammar review and to read Chapters 25 and 26 in History. Mara then read more of the Burgess Animal Book to finish up for the day.

Wednesday Notes: 

    We began with a science vocabulary review game today. I made an answer sheet with her new vocabulary then the object was to match the vocab with the definitions, three new words at a time to avoid to much complication. It seemed to go over pretty well. And I enjoy any activity that doesn't add to her (what I feel to be) already heavy daily writing.   From there, we moved into mathematics, where we are continuing fact families and I reintroduced the lesson using a triangle for this concept. We went over all problems previously completed this week in her workbook using this method and it really started clicking for her. We did the Q & A history review and I retold the history we've read so far as a narration in my own words, Mara helping along the way. She finished another verse journal page for memorization and read aloud The Hound and the Hare.

Thursday Notes:
Mathematics - More Fact Family Triangles and figuring out the cues in word problems. 
Poetry -Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Fields 
Draw - Illustrate Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 
Listen -The Island Story: - The Romans Come Again. I am to read aloud 
Activity - The Roman Arch 
Grammar - Latin exercise 
Language - Padre nostro 
Memorization - psalms 23 - didn't have time for this. Do on Friday
Review - history review Q & A
Literature - Tanglewood Tales – continue; after schoolwork is complete.


Friday Notes:
Mathematics - Finish up unit 5 in math.
  :: Think about doing supplemental exercises to review instead of moving to chapter 6 for next week. History Activity - Add new events and dates to time line. 509 B.C. 
Drawing - Draw a picture of La Lupa. 
Review - Review Science terms 
Spelling - go over spelling words for Monday 
Memorization - Psalms 23 
Language - Padre nostro Grammar - Friday chant: all six Latin chants. Drill again. 
Literature - Tanglewood Tales – continue; after schoolwork is complete.