10/11/13

Birthday skating and museum visit with friends, family with kids matching my kids' ages.

Links:

Great article on poetry, read a little of it at least.

Mark Twain's announcement of his engagement

Optional, Gladwell on his new book and religion

China products

Expensive, but cool -- been researching "open platform" Irish dancing -- would love any help finding info on Irish dance that is still hard skills but outside the competitive, highly restrictive current system.

Math Mammoth, Glory, Story of the World in car, Abeka reader for youngest

10/11/13

Co-op day

Video after, Glory and Wild America;  that link brings you to a site with games, etc., too  Will have to preview more, these are older videos advertised as family friendly but the site does weirdly have a "birds and bees" link where it lists every episode where mating is addressed. 

10/10/13

Civil War sites to visit, links

Library of Congress, photos

Maps

Mathew Brady photos, and more

Civil War Music

Some of these links come from Vicksburg, The Battle That Won the Civil War, by Mary Ann Fraser, apparently a huge children's author -- the book was excellent

10/8/13 Blue Pics

10/9/13

 Links

Writing by hand


Essay by J. Mark Bertrand on young adult fiction

Finished Vicksburg

Started memorizing Gettysburg Address, looking over the several versions and noting what that means about history

Started Glory (needs to be previewed if you use it)

Watched Burns clip on Gettysburg Address

Watched Geico commercial because discussed Vicksburg and communications, Gettysburg with Stuart, etc.

Watched video and did bracelets from birthday gifts

10/8/13

Visit day with friend for oldest, youngers got video day, many episodes of Carmen Sandiego, which you can buy a whole set of very cheaply


Read some Vicksburg

Collected a load of firewood in national forest

10/8/13 Blue

Eldest
Math- a little disappointed in MM video about subtracting negative integers
Grammar- take a sentence from SOTW2 and sort words by parts of speech
Science/reading- intro, start ch1 A Brief History of Time
Writing- short narration of a bit of the Silmirillion he started to read on his own
Violin practice

Middle
Moffats reading
Math- MM div 1
Acrostic poem for moffats- BOOTS
Grammar- Fll3
Soccer practice
Violin practice

Youngest
Drew squids, cut them out
Read, read to
Outside

10/7/13

Down to town for ortho appointment, then doctor appointment, then dance class and pharmacy visits -- pretty much no school day at all today

10/6/13

Murderous Maths and Proverbs
Started Vicksburg, changed to reading a chapter and doing questions from a 50s Catholic school history book

Watched part of Camelot

Trip to national forest to collect wood for winter

Individual reading