AHL:Week 4

This week Rabbit covered the Epic of Gilgamesh for English. She did great answering all the questions in the Ancient History Supplement. And, she even wrote short answers for the "Critical Thinking" sections, even though it wasn't required. She scored a 19/20 on the vocabulary quiz. The only question she missed was one of the analogies. She did notice that next week is another argumentative essay assignment. She might have tried to get started on it over the weekend so it's not quite so overwhelming.

She is pretty much staying on top of the history readings. Only 2 days of reading Exploring World History this week. She hasn't complained this week on the history, so I'm assuming it wasn't as repetitive as other weeks. She also did a great job on her map work. 

She keeps plowing through the logic book, The Fallacy Detective. I should probably read it when she is done :), or she'll be out-thinking me.

We added Math back in this week. It was a struggle to get going, so the first day we only did 1/2 an hour. But the next day we did a full hour and finished the lesson. She is only on lesson 43 in Algebra 1. I am hoping we can finish Algebra 1 by the end of this school year.

I think we will add Spelling (All About Spelling) in next week. And, we plan to add in Biology and Spanish in August sometime. I think staggering the start will be good.

I'll be starting Creation to the Greeks with the boys the first full week of August. Looking at all of our activities - P.E. class, biology lab class, dance classes, and AWANA - I feel pretty overwhelmed trying to schedule it all. I've told the boys we really need to start at 8:00am in order to get things done. I am even thinking about doing Bible time during breakfast! 

AHL: Week 3

Another week down. Rabbit is doing fine with the Bible reading and The Old Testament Challenge. We're not sure what to do when the book just kind of makes a statement about something in the passage. Are we suppose to just acknowledge, "Yes, that makes sense." Or, are we suppose to comment or discuss it?

In Exploring World History, she is having me check her answers to her review questions. She usually justs gets a 9 out of 10 on those. She seems to always have one question that she doesn't get the answer very close to what the answer keys suggests. (And I'm not talking about the ones that say, "Answers may vary.")

She did a beautiful job on her map this week. She colored it and labeled it. I had her color in the seas and lakes blue - it helped make things stand out better. Her timeline book was also filled out correctly. Nice to have some easy points.

I was very flexible with her Exploring World History project for the week. I thought she did a good job for her first project. She chose the free-verse poem. Like I said, I was pretty flexible grading it. The main thing was that she wrote something, wrote it well, and turned it in on time.