Two Weeks in Review (09/26-10/09)
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 7:32PM The past few weeks have been pretty bad around here. I’m not schooling my Goobs—I’m schooling their doppelgangers. At least they’re cute.
Math: JellyMan finished lessons 106-111 of Saxon Advanced Math. Anemone worked through lesson 5 of Saxon Algebra 2.
Latin: JellyMan translated lines 64-98 of Cicero’s First Oration Against Catiline and completed exercises 6-8 of Henle Third Year Latin. Anemone is still limping along in Henle First Year Latin. She has been working on exercise 301 for about a week now.
Greek: JellyMan completed chapter 18b-19a of Athenaze Greek Book 2. Anemone finished week 7 of Elementary Greek Book 2.
Logic: Anemone working on chapter 3 of Traditional Logic 2. It’s getting hard for her, and we have misplaced the answer key, so I’m having to figure out the answers to all her questions myself. Sigh.
English: JellyMan finished chapter 10 of Classical Rhetoric With Aristotle. We remembered that I had purchased the DVD lectures that accompany the course; we popped one in just to see if they were any better than the Traditional Logic lectures. They are! (The TL lectures simply restate what the text says; the CRWA lectures actually expand on the course material.) JellyMan also finished outlining his upcoming NaNoWriMo novel and read King Lear. Anemone did lessons 97-102 of R&S English 8, revised her report on the history of the polio vaccine, and continued reading The Hobbit.
History: JellyMan listened to lectures 7-8 of the Teaching Company’s Early Middle Ages. He finished reading Thomas Cahill’s Mysteries of the Middle Ages and started How the Irish Saved Civilization. He also did some reading in The Celts by Gerhard Herm. Anemone didn’t read any history because I’m a bad homeschool mom, but she watched two documentaries on the polio vaccine. (History? Science? Does it matter?)
Science: JellyMan watched lectures 9-12 of The Teaching Company’s Understanding the Universe and completed chapter 3 of The Cosmos. Anemone read sections 2.3-2.4 of Miller & Levine Biology and did some reading about molecular structure. Both kids watched two episodes of Medical Miracles.
Fine Arts: Both Goobs had two piano lessons and practiced for about 12 hours. They also spent two hours at ballroom dancing lessons. JellyMan spent eight hours at drama class. He also went to see Sunset Boulevard at the Diamond Head Theatre. He spent 35 hours working lights at his production downtown. Anemone got her audition letter - she is a princess in The Nutcracker! Apparently, the role of princess is EVEN BETTER than the roll of bonbon, so she is very happy. She spent 27 hours at the ballet studio over the past two weeks. Her shin splints seem to be healed.
The Man said, “See all those kids? They should all be in school.”
The Goobers said, “Yeah? So should we! Hahahahaha!”
Reader Comments (5)
We saw Soul Surfer last week and thought of you. Bethany Hamilton was homeschooled, in theory, so that she could spend all her days surfing in the daylight hours. Apparently that is what all the Hawaiin goobs do.
Not nearly a bad two weeks if you ask me!!! You are after all in Hawaii....I wouldn't be studying much there either.
I guess we all have weeks like that. It looks like you managed to finish a bunch of stuff. You are such a good mom to give them ballroom dancing lessons. I hope they appreciate you. :)
Why do I not see Hebrew on this list? Have you abandoned it?
Any time you can work the word "doppelganger" into a conversation, it's a good day. Also "paradigm."
JM did abandon Hebrew after he learned the alphabet (aleph-bet?). He just doesn't have time for it right now.
"Mom! I'd have PLENTY of time for Hebrew if you didn't make me do so much math!"
"Shut up and finish your math lesson, JellyMan."
Sigh.
I'm so glad my Goobs didn't like surfing. See those kids up there? I worry about all of them.