This week we started on India. We read in Window on the World about India, and reading Amy Carmichael's biography is really tying things together that way. For our memory work, Rabbit has been learning the Lord's Prayer. She did very well. I gave her a week to do the "copywork" part of it, and then we took 3 days to do the dictation of it this week. We've also been reading about Adoniram and Ann Judson's work in Burma (or Myanmar).
Rabbit did well learning her x7 math facts, and aced her math test this week. I am really pleased with her understanding.
We've been continuing on in Sequential Spelling. I cut back to doing one list a day as Rabbit was getting overwhelmed. We do half of the list in the morning, after writing-eights. Then, we do the second half in the afternoon. Usually, the words in the second half are harder and she needs the quiet. She still frustrates easily. We're almost to lesson 40. There is an "evaluation" quiz to give after day 40 if I want. I'm debating.
For English, we've been doing most of the lessons orally, though one day I combined it with our "writing without curriculum" lesson. The English lesson was to continue a story. I knew Rabbit wouldn't have an idea on how to continue it, so I drew a picture for her, and then wrote the questions she was to answer from the picture that would continue the story. It worked great! I love how I could combine the two for her to make it easier.
We were more faithful this week doing math drill - it was a week where I scheduled doing the drills on the computer at the Math-U-See web-site. I try to alternate between Math Windows, computer drill, wrap-ups and flash cards.
For Geography, well, we went into India. Rabbit is enjoying the stories from the book basket. I made up the Geography game cards and my game board on the weekend, so that went faster this week. We did a puzzle from A Trip Around the World and read some about Southeast Asia. Our first time through the Geography game, we were mostly trying to learn where the countries are - especially all the "-stan" countries. I think we got it now. Creating those Vocabulary pages still take Rabbit quite a bit of time, even though I draw the pictures for her. (I'm concerned about using English From the Roots Up next year if she hates doing vocabulary this year...)
Science seemed more like sociology/anthropology this week. A lot of it was about how people survive. But, she still did a science page every day.
The art project this week was to do face painting. While Rabbit would have loved this, I changed it up a bit. I drew a face like the one in the book, and let Rabbit paint on that. She had fun with it. (We had errands to run, and I really didn't want Rabbit going out with paint on her face.)
For reading, we've been reading through Pilgrim Boy - an Abeka novel. She is really enjoying this book. We're near the end.
We've continued on through Power Glide Spanish each day. It is a repeat now, for the third time, so it isn't as exciting now. I'm trying to figure out about next year. I can't justify the cost of Rosetta Stone at this time. I'm looking at The Easy Spanish, as it is Christian based, story based (Rabbit loves stories), and has more grammar built into it. And, it's relatively inexpensive ($139) and can be spread it out over 3 years. That would cover us from 4th through 6th, and then I might consider Rosetta Stone. Unless I can pick up a used Rosetta Stone version 2 at a used curriculum sale.
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