Weeks 8 & 9 ~ In Review

So, I didn’t get around to posting a weekly report last week. No…I wasn’t trapped under something heavy…just very busy. You can read more about it below, if you’ve got the time or inclination. If not, here’s what’s been happening at Evergreen Eclectic Academy over the past two weeks.

LANGUAGE ARTS: Our switch from SWR to Spelling Workout is going well. We’ve completed the first two weeks of SWO-B…discussing spelling rules & phonograms (from SWR) as we go along. FLL is also going smoothly. When we reached lesson #111—the first reading of FLL’s adaptation of “The Year” by Sara Coleridge—it was fun to find several different versions of the poem and compare the differences from one to the other. In the end, I had Grace choose which version she wanted to memorize. It was not the one in FLL, but rather the *original* by Sara Coleridge. Grace will begin memorizing it next week, as well as creating her own illustrated book of the poem.

READING: We started—and finished—a new read-aloud over the past two weeks. Let me just say that if you’ve never read Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield, you are missing out. It is a fabulous book! For independent reading, Grace chose several Halloween-themed selections. She also finished her first Junie B. Jones chapter book…and then promptly chose another one to read. And, no...these photos are not in the least bit staged. Would I ever do such a thing?!? And would my dear daughter so graciously agree?!?

MATH: Still moving along in Horizons 2, and I’m quite pleased to report that Grace’s interest in math has increased with her understanding of it. YAY!!! Those who know me well will understand (& appreciate) this next statement…those who don’t may think I’m a little strange. (OK…let’s be honest…even those who know me well will think I’m strange.) I am absolutely, positively ecstatic that Grace actually does math for fun…on her own…without any prodding by me. She makes up her own math problems and then works them. She asks me to make up problems for her. She asks to do extra one-minute timed drills. She was even working math problems today while shopping at IKEA. Here's one of her *for fun* sheets:

HISTORY & SCIENCE: We worked through chapters 4 & 5 in SOTW1—Ancient Egyptian pyramids and the first Sumerian king—and finished our study of bats. We did lots of fun reading & watched some good UnitedStreaming videos too.

SPANISH: We did a couple of lessons from Elementary Spanish, including some activity sheets & copywork. Sidenote: I know I still haven’t posted on our eclectic Spanish plan…{hanging my head in shame}…it’s coming…soon-ish.

And that sums up another [bi]weekly report. I'll leave you with a photo of the newest 3-year-old in our house—along with proud big sis—taken on a cool fall day here in the Pacific Northwest. Happy fall, y'all!