We continued to love the layout of the teachers guide. It seems to be a perfect fit for our family. Hailey is able to work fairly independently, and she is liking that. In Unit 2 Hailey did many fun activities.
History
For her reading about history section she is continuing to read The Story of the Ancient World. This week she read and studied about, The Tower of Babel, and The First War. It was really great to dig into these stories and where they fit in history. She learned all about the Cushites, their language, and about their lifestyles etc.
Hailey enjoyed her projects for the week. She made salt dough and use it to create a signature seal, and a tablet which she etched cuneiform letters on and then used her signature seal to sign her name. (instead of the standard signature seal Hailey made a snail)
For her Independent history she continued to listen to her What in the World discs. The delved into Noah and his descendants, Sources and Evidences of Noah and his descendants, Prophecies about Christ and their fulfillment, The oldest cities, The 10 generations from Adam to the Flood and 10 more from Noah to Abram. And she completed a few pages in her History notebook.
Reading/Story Time/Language Arts
For story time in Unit 2 she continued to work her way through The Golden Bull. She is loving this book. She is doing great with her narrations, and is loving making story connections with Proverbs. We started our first book for Drawn Into the Heart of Reading. A biography. Caddy Woodlawn’s Family. We are liking the layout of the study components for this genre. She also worked in Rod and Staff Following the Plan, and Write With the Best.
Bible Quiet Time/Bible Study
Hailey truly treasures this time each day, and I am so thankful to help her foster this part of her relationship with the Lord. I have no photo’s as she takes the guide and everything she needs for this up to her room so that she can really focus. In Unit 2 she memorized Philippians 2:2. She is not really liking the CD’s that go along with memorization so we ditched that. She read, Day 1 – Gen. 10:8-12, 11:1-9 Day 2 – Job 1; 2:1-10; 42 Day 3 – Gen. 12 Day 4 – Gen. 13; 14:11-24; 15. Each week it guides her through prayers of adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication.
For Bible Study Hailey and I are going through Genesis Finding Our Roots. We are really liking this book, and our study time together.
Science
Hailey is working through Apologia’s Land Animals of the Sixth Day. I have loved the schedule laid out in the HOD manual, it has kept us on track, and we don’t leave out the fun make it stick stuff. In this Unit Hailey created an animal tracks book to be used throughout the next few units. She added dog tracks to the book that she made. Here are a few key points that she learned this week in science. (I couldn’t begin to record it all)
*Mammals are animals that have hair, are warm blooded, have a backbone, and breath oxygen. They must sweat to cool off. They also nurse their young.
*Within the order of Carnivora there is a group called Carniforms. These include animals like; bears, dogs, raccoons, red fox, and coyote. Wild dogs change over time through breeding and natural selection, but the KIND of creature will remain the same.
*The Alpha Male and Alpha Female are the dominant pair in a pack. This pair has puppies, which are cared for by the pack. A “pecking order” is established among the rest of the pack. The pack hunts.
*Dogs have a sensitive sense of smell, often human’s sense of smell is affected by sight.
I do not have a photo, but the experiment for this was really neat. Hailey took two cups of orange juice. She added red food coloring to one cup and left the other plain. Then she took the two cups and served them to her brother. She first had him smell each cup to guess what was in the cups. He said one was orange and one was strawberry. He then drank each one to see if he was right. He again said one was orange juice and one one strawberry. The conclusion was that sight can in fact affect taste, and smell in humans.
Geography:
Hailey is going through the book A Child’s Geography Vol. II. She is learning so much about Turkey right now and it’s connection to History, and Biblical history. Here are the key points she worked on this week.
* Practice finding and recording the locations of various places on the map of Turkey.
*Share three sights from Turkey
Math:
Hailey continues to work on her Times Tables. (almost there)
Poetry/Art:
Hailey is really enjoying her Robert Frost poems, and studying them. This week she completed a water color project to go along with the poem. This is one of her favorite things about this section in the manual.
The Pasture
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I shan't be gone long. -- You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I shan't be gone long. -- You come too.
Robert Frost
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