Weekly Report Jun 15-19, 2009

Brandon:
Horizons 3 - lessons 15-19 and a test (There's a test every 10 lessons)
Singapore CWP - pages 69-76
ETC 6 - pages 113-121 (We finished up book 6 this week so he took the post test also.)
GWG - lessons 1.9-1.11
Spectrum Reading 3 - pages 26-29 (He's doing this 2x per week.)

Gavin:
Horizons 1 - lessons 11-15
Singapore CWP 1 - pages 9-14
ETC 2 - pages 10-18
I was worried that Gavin might not be ready to do blends but he's just cruising along! It's amazing how much spelling he picks up with us just doing Explode the Code right now.

Both:
History - SOTW 2
- read Beowulf from Favorite Medieval Tales
- Beowulf coloring page
- Brandon did some copy work
- finished up The Celts: See Through History
- started chapter 3
- another coloring page
- both did a narration exercise about Augustine
- read about monasteries in Medieval Life: DK Eyewitness
- made a medieval letter illumination
- completed map work from chapter 3
- read about monasteries from the Encyclopedia of World History and What Were Castles For?
- added Augustine to our timeline book

Science:
This week, we discussed the respiratory system and the digestive system.
- completed a lab about breathing rate and how it's affected by various activities
- did a little experiment exploring how much air you can hold in your lungs
- also made a "breathing model" found in the book Science and Your Body
- read Why Do People Eat? by Kate Needham
- read What Happens to a Hamburger? by Paul Showers
- also completed the fun activity at the end of that book about how digestive fluids affect food
- read about the respiratory system and digestive system in the following books:
What's Inside You
Body by Richard Walker
Tell Me about the Human Body

We also finished up The Sword in the Tree and Gulliver's Travels.