Week In Review: July 9-13

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RecumbentHeart
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Location: Charlotte, NC

Week In Review: July 9-13

Post by RecumbentHeart » Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:55 am

Ok Girls,

What was YOUR week Like?

You can post:

a- A picture
b- A blog Link
c- A written synopsis
d- Your favorite memory
e- Anything you want that shares your HOD excitement!

Important Note: If you are linking us to your blog, please make sure it's not just a general link, but to your specific post of HOD. That way if someone reads through these a year from now they can find your share without needing to hunt!
Alicia
DS10: CTC (beginning Sept.)
DD8: Bigger (beginning Aug.)
DS7: Bigger (beginning Aug.)
DS5: LHfHG

RecumbentHeart
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Re: Week In Review: July 9-13

Post by RecumbentHeart » Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:52 pm

I know a few of us were starting the new school year this week and I'd like to hear how it went - please share! I don't have a blog so I'm sharing here. :)

DS6 did really well this week. He's been cooperating with the new schedule and accepting the higher workload with very little complaint. It must be all those prayers being offered up for me this week!

He has been engrossed in Pioneers and Patriots. Today he begged to read it but it's not scheduled! I told him we'd be back to it Monday and he moaned, "That's like three thousand days away!" He loves Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin and it's driving him nuts to only read a chapter a day but it sure is nice to see him so enthusiastic to get started each morning. He has fun with the physical activity that's with the memory verse practice. He has enjoyed the activities. Here he is working on his shield today:

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I had considered continuing with R&S 2 since he'd already started it but I'm not so sure that I want him to do it all orally and I'm not sure about increasing his daily writing requirement even more so I did add it some days this week but then just did the day 5 scheduled grammar today instead. At this point I think I'll leave R&S 2 for Bigger. For spelling, I'm trying to figure out where he is in spelling. He over-knows the List 1 words up through Unit 8 so I might just go with List 2 for a couple of months or start List one from Unit 9 next week. I don't know. Would it matter?

Anyway, here are a couple more pictures. First is his illustration of the poem for this Unit. The picture on the right is "during the storm" (I'm guessing the rodent was fearful of flooding). Notice on the left, "after the storm", the tree is gone because it was consumed by the fire that was ignited by the lightning. During his recitation of the poem today, he added a line about the creatures during the storm.

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And lastly, since he has already learned cursive but not quite to "fluency" yet, I used a free site to make up the copywork for him in cursive. He has had renewed interest this week in his handwriting.

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Alicia
DS10: CTC (beginning Sept.)
DD8: Bigger (beginning Aug.)
DS7: Bigger (beginning Aug.)
DS5: LHfHG

KristinBeth
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Re: Week In Review: July 9-13

Post by KristinBeth » Sat Jul 14, 2012 8:03 pm

Wow RecumbentHeart your son has beautiful handwriting! Hard to believe he's only 6! :D
Kristin
Mom to two girly girls (7 and 5) and boy/girl twins born May 2013
Have used LHTH, LHFHG, Beyond
Sharing our joy at http://www.broomandcrown.com

spidermansmum
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Re: Week In Review: July 9-13

Post by spidermansmum » Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:42 am

Bigger week 22
http://stanleysmagicgarden.blogspot.co. ... ek-22.html
Nathan found a hornets nest in his shed this week.n empty one 8) but we enjoyed having a good look t their work.It tied in really well with our Pioneer sampler lessons from last week.This week we tried to make butter.
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and it was cow appreciation day on Friday and we found this website
http://www.dairyfarmingtoday.org/dairy- ... ltour.aspx
- Delighted to have used LHTH,LHFHG and Beyond, Bigger , Preparing and DITHOR
currently Using
LHTH slowly with my 2 year old
Starting Bigger with my 8 y/o About to add on DITHOR
Finishing Preparing with my 12year with ASD/LD

spidermansmum
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Re: Week In Review: July 9-13

Post by spidermansmum » Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:43 am

LHFHG weekly review
http://stanleysmagicgarden.blogspot.co. ... eview.html
I love the bible studies we do with LHFHG .
- Delighted to have used LHTH,LHFHG and Beyond, Bigger , Preparing and DITHOR
currently Using
LHTH slowly with my 2 year old
Starting Bigger with my 8 y/o About to add on DITHOR
Finishing Preparing with my 12year with ASD/LD

Dustybug
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Re: Week In Review: July 9-13

Post by Dustybug » Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:23 pm

RecumbentHeart, I agree that is impressive handwriting!! My 6.5yo still is a tad sloppy! I like getting a peek into what we will be doing next year when we start BLHFHG.

spidermansmum---I remember doing the Lazarus part! (and fwiw, I also get a similar or the same style when I get new glasses.:)

Here is my post on Units 23-24 of LHFHG:
http://reachtothemoonandback.blogspot.c ... -with.html
Dusty
Mommy to
Gabriella (7) BLHFHG, ETC, Song School Latin
Aron (5) TMJ's Fruit for Tender Hearts, ETC, Singapore Essentials Math K
Lydia (3) Learning letters, numbers, shapes, and colors
http://www.tothemoonandbackblog.net

RecumbentHeart
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Re: Week In Review: July 9-13

Post by RecumbentHeart » Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:43 am

Thank-you for your kinds words, ladies. I will pass them on to my son and I know he will great appreciate them - he was working very purposefully on his handwriting last week. :)
Alicia
DS10: CTC (beginning Sept.)
DD8: Bigger (beginning Aug.)
DS7: Bigger (beginning Aug.)
DS5: LHfHG

Carrie
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Re: Week In Review: July 9-13

Post by Carrie » Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:44 pm

Ladies,

I love to catch a glimpse of HOD in action in your homes! :D Thanks so much for taking time to share. :D What cute kiddos you have! :D

Blessings,
Carrie

witheagerhands
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PREPARING w/ Extensions & DITHOR Week In Review: July 9-13

Post by witheagerhands » Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:07 pm

We started with my oldest child, per all your wonderful suggestions, at the end of June, then took a week break, and started back on this week. Here is a link to our work!
NOTE: This is exclusively Preparing, with Extension read of the Woolly mammoth book and DITHOR, level 6/7/8. In the next couple weeks, LHFHG...then Beyond...then a SUPER LITE LHTH will be included.

http://31thirteen.blogspot.com/2012/07/ ... -9-13.html

Enjoy!
Sally
http://31thirteen.blogspot.com
MG, 11yo -- Preparing * Extensions * DITHOR, Level 6/7/8 + MUS
EK, 8yo -- Beyond + Cheerful Cursive + MUS
HR, 6yo -- LHFHG + Happy Handwriting
SA, 3yo -- keepin' it lively!
OCJ -- She came! 10/13/12

lissiejo
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Re: Week In Review: July 9-13

Post by lissiejo » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:26 pm

I went back and wrote a weekly update :)

http://gracefilledhomeschooling.blogspo ... -9-13.html
Melissa (Pastor's wife in NC)

http://gracefilledhomeschooling.blogspot.com
Rose (12-years-old) - Revival to Revolution
Beth (10-years-old) - Creation to Christ
Grace (8-years-old) - Bigger Hearts for His Glory

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