Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Journal 9/16

  • Read story of Thutmose and the Sphinx to B and S
  • S worked in Language of grammar book
  • B did some cursive
  • Did mental math with B
  • S did some math from L. 6
  • Read F&L ch. 2 to B.
  • J worked on Alg. Rick helped
  • W went to Music Theory class
  • S practiced piano
  • B set up a restaurant in her room; she cut up cheese and had crackers and a bowl of blueberries. She was looking for the Mozart cds but they mysteriously gone missing.
  • B and S are building a 'town' downstairs in basement.
  • Dropped off something for girls' club on the way to pick up Will, took forever!
  • Got home just in time to take S and B to VT; we were late.
  • Sent care package to H
  • Collapsed from about 4:30 to 6, ordered pizza for dinner
  • Met with W and J to see how much stuff they'd gotten done. J did more Alg. W did some reading for tomorrow
  • Took W and J to CLC
  • Did 10 minutes of Latin with S. Still reviewing grammar, chanted 1st and 2nd delensions went over N, G, D, A, A and what a predicate nominative was
  • Read another chapter of Farmer Boy to B
  • Rick is reading The Lightning Thief. Everybody, including W and J are getting into Greek Mythology because of this. Ties in with reading Heroes of the City of Man Theogony chapter.

2 comments:

Suburban Correspondent said...

Looks like I'll have to break down and buy The Lightning Thief - it's never available at our library.

I keep mailing cookies to Theo in a pitiful attempt to get him to communicate with me.

Karen Edmisten said...

My older girls love the Percy Jackson books, and they learned a lot about Greek mythology from them, too.