Weekly report Feb 15-19

I wasn't going to write a weekly report this week since it wasn't very eventful. But I figure, why not? We took Monday off so it was only a 4 day week.

L - Reflections on France finally arrived so we are back on track with Omibus primary readings. She's almost done with Killer Angels. I rented Gods and Generals for her to watch when she's done. Chemistry and Latin are proceeding nicely. Classical Writing will be light next week since they have next week off for classes. She starts Intermediate Poetry along side Herodotus on March 5th. She took a Lukeion project workshop called 'Meet the Romans' to help review for the upcoming National Latin Exam. It just finished this week. She said a lot of the info was not new but it was still quite interesting and she did learn a good amount. She'll be taking a workshop on the Crucifixion week coming soon.

R - Her week was a little choppy. We had Monday off and then Tuesday she only did CW Poetry and math because she had to have 2 teeth pulled. UGH. She was fine by Wednesday but didn't feel so well Tuesday afternoon. I decided not to do a VP card this week but she continued her reading in George Washington's World and Awakening of Europe. CW Poetry is good. I am pleased with what we are learning. She was excited to discover that her gymnastics coach is a self-proclaimed math geek so she brought her our collection of Life of Fred books to show her. That was the last I saw of our LOF Calculus book. I have been assured that it is being well loved by a math geek gymnastics coach LOL.

C - She had a good week. One RS lesson took three days but it was set up to be 2 - 3 days so I guess that's ok. We learned about exchanging with addition, not on paper but with manipulatives. She seems to really get the concept so that's good. She is nearly done with Phonics Museum and I finally made the decision to order Phonics Road to Writing and Reading. I am anxiously awaiting it's arrival. Darn Media Mail LOL. Dh and I also decided we needed to be more visual with our history lessons (she has auditory learning issues) so we signed up for the self-paced history course with Veritas Press. We did one demo week last week to check it out and signed up this week - finishing the first card - Creation. She absolutely loves it and begs for more. Even better, the interactive, visual nature of the course is really helping her understand and retain the information much better than when I was just reading to her. So we'll continue reading other history books (SOTW, American history etc) but we'll do the bulk of our history through this.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Yet another gymnastics meet for us. But since she's already qualified for state championships, the pressure is off some and it's just about trying to improve. But as a mom - you are always stressed LOL.