A very disjointed week with the R family coming in the afternoons and the local Festival on Thursday. For some reason it didn’t run as smoothly as the first week with the Rs. possibly we were just all lacking energy in part due to the hot weather.

Little Ones
To be honest they were left pretty much to their own devices.

Mariah
-Listened to several Uncle Arthur Bedtime Stories.
-Consistently worked on Beatrix Potter handwriting.
-Participated in WC.
-Spelling, Club 60. 57 correct! Excellent speller:)
-Wrote Letter to Vashti
-Writing- Participating in NaNoWriMo, very enthusiastic.

Mega Map– coloured in Africa.
-Listened to Chp 5, A Little History of the World; God’s Chosen People.
-Worked on Meat Eating Predators Project with James. Nearly complete. Still enthusiastic.

Malachi
-Listened to several Bible Stories.
-Maths; Word Problems
-Participated in WC.
-Spelling, Club 60 & 100. Revised
-Blog Post – LOTR Review
-Writing- Participating in NaNoWriMo, very enthusiastic.

Mega Map– coloured in Australia, Sth & Nth America & Europe.
-Listened to Chp 5, A Little History of the World; God’s Chosen People.
-Worked on finishing Vikings Project with Hannah. Little more to do.

Xavier
-Mathematics.com. Continues to be very excited, putting in long hours and doing very well!
-Participated in WC.
-Wrote a couple of Novel pages

-Listened to Chp 5, A Little History of the World; God’s Chosen People.
-Created a crossword and answered an online quiz.
-Worked on Engineering/Electricity Project with Dominic and Grace. Has trouble completing an assignment. Had to sit on him.

Dominic
-Participated in WC.
-Wrote several pages for Novel.
-English; Ridout.

Mega Map– coloured in Asia.
-Listened to Chp 5, A Little History of the World; God’s Chosen People.
-Worked on Engineering/Electricity Project with Xavier and Grace. Has trouble completing an assignment. Had to sit on him.

Chiara
-Read 1 Chp ‘How To Mass’, ‘How to Enter the Church”.
-Participated in WC. Sentence beginning with inversive verbs.
-Spelling, Lesson 3, Wordly Wise.
-Dictation; Christ Speaks
-English; Ridout
-Writing: Info, 6 pages on Redwall and GA Henty
-Writing: 7 Q and Map of Eastern Europe
-Writing: Blog, 3 posts, Halt’s Peril, 8 Q meme, Hymn

-Science; Chapter 3 Biology (John Hudson Tiner)
-Geography; American States Notebook, maps and facts
-Listened to Chp 5, A Little History of the World; God’s Chosen People..
-Worked with Jessica on Manners/Etiquette Project.

Picture Books
My Manners Matter – Pat Thomas
Someday We’ll Have Very Good Manners – Harriet Ziefert
Excuse Me – Brian Moses
Fancy Nancy – Jane O’Connor
The Scallywags – David Melling

Reading Roundup
Malachi
The Rocking Down Mystery – Enid Blyton
Xavier
Mossflower – Brian Jacques
Halt’s Peril- John Flannagan
Dominic
Halt’s Peril- John Flannagan
Split Cherry Tree of Places
Stoneholding – James Anderson & Mark Sebanc
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
Chiara
Halt’s Peril- John Flannagan
# Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz
# Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead
# Ultramarine by Jenny Nimmo
# The Swallow Summer by K. M. Peyton
# Specky Magee & the battle of the young guns by Felice Arena & Garry Lyon
# Tale of the Missing Mascot by Alexander Steele
# Cyclops by Clive Cussler
# Night Probe! by Clive Cussler
# Melissa Woodruff by Celia Syred

Outings & Extracurriculars
-Ballet for Chiara
-Gymnastics for Mariah and Genevieve