Week of November 2nd

We began our school week attending co-op. We only have 2 more weeks before we are off for all the holidays. In Bible, we studied about not arguing, complaining, or gossiping. We memorized the five "I Wills of Discretion".

In history, we studied more explorers including John Cabot, Vasco de Gama, and Amerigo Vespucci. We had not really studied the natives living in the Americas, so we spent a few days studying the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas. We also had a brief introduction to native Americans of North America. We studied Mozart this week, beginning with watching a video on his life. They both had library books to read and did notebook pages about him.

Hannah attended writing class and has been assigned a pursuasive essay. She is still struggling with her topic, but hopes to have it nailed down this weekend. She studied statistics in math, and finished up a grammar chapter about adjectives. She didn't have science lab this week, but continued in her study. She read several fiction books this week, including two whole books in one day. She is enjoying the series, The Lightning Thief. She also started the series, The 39 Clues.
David learned about verbs in grammar, include past tense and subject/verb agreement. He worked with measures in math and practiced math facts. He is close to finishing up a weather lapbook on the book Weather Words and What They Mean. He especially enjoyed several books from the library by Mo Willems. We were laughing so hard while we read these two. He actually asked me to read one again, which he never does.