Several MONTHS in Review
Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 9:17PM 
This toad peed in Anemone’s roller blade. I laughed.
Math: JellyMan completed Saxon Advanced Math and Understanding Calculus. But because of this and that and the other thing, we decided that he should take the rest of the year to re-do the Advanced Math book. He finished lesson #41 this week. Anemone is slowly but surely working through Saxon Algebra 2, and has completed lesson #47.
JM saw the Italian inscription on the inside of his Il Dottore mask and thought it was bad Latin. I laughed.
Latin: JellyMan translated lines 98-289 of Cicero’s First Oration Against Catiline and completed exercises 9-30 of Henle Third Year Latin. He also translated many lines of Macbeth into Latin for his drama group to perform. (That makes me SO proud!) Anemone is struggling, and I’m not quite sure what the problem is - she knows the conjugations and declensions cold, but she has trouble applying that knowledge to the translation exercises. We’ll just continue going very slowly, and I’m sure she’ll work it out. She finished exercise #324 of Henle First Year Latin this week.
Greek: JellyMan completed chapter 22b of Athenaze Book 2. Anemone finished week 12 of Elementary Greek Book 2. Greek is hard, y’all.
Logic: Anemone completed chapters 3-6 of Traditional Logic 2.
These birds pooped all over the fence and The Goobs had to clean it up. I laughed.
English: JellyMan finshed Classical Rhetoric with Aristotle and wrote 1-2 essays every 1-2 weeks. Anemone finished Rod & Staff English 8 and is a few lessons into Essay Voyage. She finished The Hobbit and read most of The Jungle Books, and now she’s about halfway through Bullfinch’s Mythology.
Me: “Really, you guys? Really? That’s all?”
Anemone: “Well, I read all the Percy Jackson books. Oh, and The Pointe Book. Oh! And some of that other ballet book I got for Christmas!”
JellyMan: “I’ve been busy, you know! I reread The Art of War. And I read most of the Shakespeare Song Book. And Macbeth and Saturday Night at the Pahala Theater. And The Walking Dead comics. Hahaha!”
Anemone: “Oh, oh! I read those too! Hahaha!”
Me: “Har-dee-har-har-har.”
JellyMan: “And I started writing a historical TV mini-series.”
Anemone: “Yeah, and I read Jurassic Park. Twice.”
JellyMan: “Didn’t you read The Book of Lost Things?”
Anemone: “No.”
JellyMan: “But you carried it around with you for a month!”
Anemone: “But I didn’t read it!”
JellyMan: “Why won’t you read it? It’s great!”
Anemone: “I don’t want to read it! I don’t want to read it! Stop pressuring me!”
Me: “My eyes! My eyes!”
Awwwwwwww!
History: JellyMan read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, St. Augustine’s Confessions, The Rule of St. Benedict, and Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. He also read chapter 9 of Spielvogel’s Western Civilization and finished listening to the 24 lectures in the Early Middle Ages series. Anemone outlined pages 330-371 of DK’s History: The Definitive Visual Guide. We also watched a few history documentaries, but the only one I can recall at the moment was about the Greely expedition.
JM did an awesome Gloucester!
Science: I don’t want to talk about science, but I will. JellyMan watched lectures 13-27 of Understanding the Universe and completed chapters 4-5 of The Cosmos. Anemone got through four chapters of Miller & Levine Biology before we got sick of it yelling at us all the time. (Look at THIS! Now look at THIS! Wow! Hey, look, a rhino!!!) Now she’s outlining Science Matters.
Look! It’s a princess!
Fine Arts: “Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.” - Inigo Montoya
Music: The Goobs are still taking piano lessons and practicing at least an hour every day. They had their recital in November; JellyMan played Clementi’s Sonatina Opus 36, No. 4 and “Imagine” by John Lennon. Anemone played Clementi’s Sonatina Op. 36, No. 3 and “November Rain” by Axl Rose. Ha! Hahaha! They also played a duet, but I can’t remember which one and nobody is home to ask. They were terrific!
They hate playing duets. I laugh.
Dance: The Goobs have continued with ballroom dancing lessons and have learned the bolero, the waltz, the samba, the foxtrot, and East and West coast swing. I LOVE watching them dance. JellyMan likes to spin his partners as hard as he can, and Anemone is determined to keep a full three feet of dead space between her and whoever she’s dancing with. And she wants to lead, dammit. Anemone is still spending about 17 hours per week at her ballet studio. Those hours increased substantially during rehearsals and production of The Nutcracker; she was a princess, and she was beautiful. BEAUTIFUL.
Drama: The Goobs went together to see a production of Oedipus Rex put on by one of the community colleges. JellyMan went to see The House of Blue Leaves at the University of Hawaii with his drama peeps. They also had a movie night at their theatre and watched an old version of Macbeth. He and his group put on a fantastic show in December, and they’ve had several master classes and workshops, including Mask, Shakespeare, Voice, Physical Acting, Stage Combat, TaKeTiNa, Slam Poetry, and Commedia dell’Arte. They also put in many hours making masks for their upcoming production of Macbeth, and they meet three times per week to rehearse. JellyMan has also been working about 16 hours a week doing tech at a local theatre.
What, no lightsabers?
Other Schoolish Stuff: The Goobs listened to me read about half of Bill Bryson’s Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States aloud before my voice gave out. (I don’t know what is wrong with me, but I HATE READING OUT LOUD. I always have.) The Goobs took their standardized tests and scored high enough that I can be an obnoxious braggart whenever I feel like it. JellyMan also decided to participate in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad after watching a lecture series on linguistics, and Anemone has baked many cakes and cookies.
Other Not Schoolish Stuff: The Goobs got their braces off! Woo-hoo! Also, we’re debt free! AGAIN! Just in time to buy next year’s school books…
Reader Comments (3)
Wow. That is an impressive few months and completely makes up for the lack of posting. Well, mostly. :)
Can you get video of the ballroom dancing styles? It would make for some good memories/torture at future events such as weddings.
This sentence alone made this the BEST WRAP UP EVER: "This toad peed in Anemone’s roller blade. I laughed."
Also, why didn't you tell me you didn't like to read aloud? See, this is the sort of thing that would make a mere mortal, such as myself, feel better. You should focus more on your shortcomings. That would really work for me.
Also, your Goobs are funny and beautiful and cute and you are going to have to fend of the admirers very soon, if you aren't already. They are almost all grown up! Weren't they just little and cute a few minutes ago?
No pics of the no-braces teeth?
Warning: Piano teacher alert.- Duets are good for you. They make you learn timing. Repeat. Duets are good for you. Having said that, the kids look so cute sitting there!
I don't like reading aloud either. Bleh. That is why I taught them to read in the first place. So I wouldn't have to do it.
Great review and great pictures, as always!