Moving Along

This week has been going quite well. I thought the field trip would really mess up the week as past experience has shown me. But, the kids have been doing great. Although this morning was a little tough since they stayed up to watch the Yankee game with dad. A historic moment watching the Yankees win the World Series in their brand new stadium. That was educational, right?

In math B is working on finding the greatest common factor. He is enjoying this lesson a lot more then dividing fractions. He also started doing the Life of Fred book on fractions. A friend loaned it to me to see if he would enjoy it. He is. For History, this week he is reading The Door in the Wall. He hates it. Thinks it is incredibly boring. Truthfully, I thought it was incredibly dull when I had to read it too but I think this is a good exercise in how sometimes we have to do things we don't enjoy.

M started her next lesson in math-prime numbers and multiplying by 12. I thought multiple digit multiplication was going to go on forever but she finally got it. For History she did some reading on Charlemagne.

Science-we concluded our chapter on the different types of chemical reactions. Next week-the experiment. Seeing how different things react-lemon juice, baking soda, balsamic vinegar, etc.

Latin- I have totally not been consistent with this one. But, we finally reached the end of the first chapter. Lots of moaning and groaning when they had to copy their 20 vocabulary words and study them. Happy smiles when they realized they already knew quite a few of them.

Literature-we read Romeo and Juliet. No, not the long original Shakespeare version. This was a well done children's version by Michael Rosen. The play was presented as a story but with original passages and references to the act and scenes. The kids really enjoyed my modern day translations (i.e.-All those fancy words meant Romeo thought she was a one hot babe and Juliet thought he was a hunk). We had some good discussion on true love/lust and OMG! They were only 14.