Hannah also finished up her 12th week at the same time as Benjamin. I just haven’t had time to write it up until today.
For Bible devotions we are working our way through the New Testament for her Girl’s Ministry requirement. She also has selections to read for school and we have been doing a pretty interesting workbook called Remembering God’s Awesome Acts. She has done a timeline and some graphing and other linguistic activities on Genesis and it has been different but fun. She is memorizing longer passages so I think we did one twelve verse chapter over this last unit.
In history/social studies, we are continuing in our studies of Eastern Hemisphere nations and cultures. Hannah has a weekly current events assignment and we have weekly readings about cities in the 10/80 window in 100 Gateway Cities.
We began the unit by studying Japan and Hannah made a calendar with all the Japanese holidays marked on it. Then we read about Korea (North and South) and made kimchi fried rice. We finished up the Pacific Islands and Hannah’s project was a journal entry as if she had volunteered for the Peace Corps and was assigned to an island. And we finished with a study of Australia and she made a model didgeridoo.
Read Alouds have been fun. We read The Master Puppeteer, a collection of Arabian Nights Stories, Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Torches of Joy, and Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze. We also have readings from All the Small Poems to get some poetry in there.
Reading and language is pretty much steady on. Hannah has a weekly cursive, dictation, and creative assignment. We do spelling in Sequential Spelling 2, grammar book, and vocabulary in Wordly Wise 3000, Book 5.
Books Hannah has been reading to herself to supplement her studies are: The Kite Fighters, Call it Courage, Born in the Year of Courage, The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Sommerset Sisters, and Lights in a Dark Place. I’m still catching up. 😉
Science was all about our bodies this unit. We had Blood and Guts, The Usborne Complete Book of the Human Body, and Understanding Your Brain.
Math has been going well. We are still in Horizons 4, working on manipulating fractions. It has been helpful for her baking measurements.
Extras are always the best. We have some educational apps that we do when we are still wanting school time. And we still practice piano to stay on top of that skill. We have weekly park day and Girl’s Ministry. We had a math bee and history fair as well as a field trip to the zoo. We’ve been home for Thanksgiving and birthdays and had other playdates as well.
Ready for next year.