Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Homeschooling Wednesday

Math - Geometry - finding the area of 3 dimensional shapes.
Language Arts - Caesar's English - Vocabulary - Vex, Martyr, Articulate, Abyss, and Prostrate. Read some Latin and excerpts from Caesar's from Commentaries on the Gallic Wars
Japanese - Writing in Katakana
Music - practicing piano and voice pieces for Spring Recital
History - Read primary source from Spanish Priest d Sahagun of the destruction of in Inca empire by Pizzaro, compared the Aztec to the Incas.
Science - Cellular mitosis and cellular respiration
Reading - Swallows and Amazons (Zoe is loving this book. It is so very British. I loved it a lot when I first read it.I really recommend Arthur Ransome.)
Read- Aloud - The Little Princess. (This is a rereading)
Art - Artistic Pursuits - Line and Shape - Art as a visual recording of history - Practicing drawing from memory

Other:
Last episode of Star Trek the Original series
Wrote a letter sprinkled with Fairy Dust to her friend in California
Read all about Carbon in this month's Odyssey magazine.
Polly Pocket/Littlest Pet Shopalooza playdate with neighborhood friend

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