Weekly Review: Week 5
Kinda late on this one. Another week has flown by! Can you tell he is excited about our upcoming Japanese Festival trip?
Math was really good this week. He checked his work consistently and was able to catch the few little mistakes he did make. Seems like the Mathscore.com website has helped. He can’t wait to go back to it too. (paper worksheets are not his favorite)
Latin: Did a fun exercise this figuring out the path Iulius would have taken on his trip to Dacia. Even got out the big atlas to look at. Led to a great discussion on traveling without cars.
Japanese: Had his first lesson with his Karate instructor. She had some good suggestions (like starting with Katakana rather than Hiragana… Sam chose to learn both!) I think he’s done most of the stuff she’d be suggesting but I am hopeful her sequence will be more cohesive than mine or at least more productive. His homework was to practice the first characters in both alphabets, memorize the basic syllable sequence and choose 10 words he’d like to be able to say in Japanese.
PE: He’s really enjoying poi spinning. Has the forward 3-beat, weave down and is trying the reverse. He seems to be really enjoying Karate too.
Science: Space sounds! We had so much fun listening to them. One even sounded like R2D2. LOL! I really like his planet illustration this week. You can just see it in the picture.
Nature Study: I blogged about this earlier. We went back the next day too.
Music Appreciation: Gregorian Chant. The dislike for this was so great that we didn’t listen to it all the way through the week. (I like it though. 
Makes me want to do calligraphy and illumination) So we listened to more AyePodcast for the remainder. Next week I’m going to create a mix of our music to date and we’ll listen to that.
Dictation: again it was good. I could tell he was really trying hard to get the punctuation right. We need to review semicolon usage rules.
Penny whistle: nothing new here. He still enjoys playing and trying to pick up tunes by ear.
Vocabulary: He can do this completely on his own now. Posting them on our wall has been helpful when I forget to check his work. It reminds me!
Things we didn’t get to this week: Shakespeare, Librivox, Pres. Phys Fitness test & program, Sewing.
“Next week” (now this week) is already half through. Things have been busy in a good way. Next week we are taking the week off for holiday and I plan on working as hard to make it a fun week as I do to make the other weeks academically full.