In Bible time, we read about when David was moving the Ark of the Covenant and the first time he did it on the back of the cart, and one of the priests was killed. That was a little shocking, but just understanding how God wants us to follow what he says, exactly. Then we read about God's promise to David that from him would come an everlasting kingdom. It was neat to make the connection to Jesus. And finally we read about Mephibosheth and how David honored Jonathan's son by having him eat at the king's table. It showed us that keeping your word is important.
I've been using Easy Test Maker to make Vocabulary quizzes for Rabbit to do. It's really easy to use, and they have a free version. I've been using it since about week 17. This weeks Greek root was petros, and last weeks was lithos. Petros means rock, and lithos means stone or rock. Those were the only ones Rabbit missed on her quiz this week.
We finally finished our Writing Strands story. I should type it in to be read. She did a pretty good job with it.
Rabbit was having trouble narrating back from The Children's Homer, so one day I had her narrate back paragraph by paragraph. That helped, and she has done much better since.
Otherwise school is going well. The boys still fuss about starting each day, but they do it. I'm amazed that missing so much school due to sickness didn't affect them in the reading department. In fact, at bedtime, they've been reading to me a little bit from their Usborne Phonics Readers (Fox on a Box, Big Pig on a Dig, and Frog on a Log). They haven't learned more than one syllable words yet, and there are some sounds we haven't covered yet (or, ar, and such). But it is fun to see them start to read other books. Pooh has some of the pages memorized, so I'm not sure how much he's really reading at this point.
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