Weekly Report 4/14 to 4/18

Here's a summary of what Nature Girl has been doing this week.
History: Story of the World continues to intrigue and inspire. This week, we learned about the Wars of the Roses, and some of the Medieval African Kingdoms. These are examples of what Mary copied from the white board--and I can see a couple of my own spelling errors! Oops, we'll have to correct those. Have to say her handwriting is back on track--nice and neat. We haven't done any projects for a while, so I'm looking ahead to see what we can swing next week.
Bible: NG did a few lessons independently in Studying God's Word A this week. She wanted to get back to making her lapbook, largely because I told her she could have her very own Bible when she finishes it (the "give it to her at Easter" didn't happen). She made a mini book about Leviticus--hopefully, my summation on the inside is sufficient.

We are finishing up Saxon 3. The end of the year always brings more advanced concepts that don't show up again until about Lesson 40 of the next year (so far, that is!). This week, we learned about obtuse, right and acute angles--easy to remember for Nature Girl; she said "Oh, A Cute angle! It's little and cute!" Good enough for me. She also learned about division with remainders. That was hard, but she got it.

We picked up Farmer Boy again, and will finish it next week. It's so good, I don't mind reading it for the 5th time (out loud--she's read it herself 4 times now). Dh finished Prince Caspian with her, just in time for the movie. And Sky is reading her Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (second time thru for that one). On her own, she's continuing her Nancy Drew spurt, and read The Secret Garden this week, too. She loves to read, that's for sure. We didn't do any outside history reading this week, but next week, I'm going to go to the library and pick up a few more books.
The camilia's are out, as are plenty of violets, wisteria, and azaleas. She pressed some wisteria for her nature notebook, and, while in the phone book (our "press!") discovered pine and violets that she had pressed previously. Nature Girl really loves flowers--she'll add a few descriptive words to her pages this week.
Speaking of descriptive words, we are on Adjectives in Rod and Staff Grammar. I thought it would be fun to make a word wall--so we started writing out all the adjectives we could think of, and here's what we came up with (in the half hour we had for grammar!):
She liked it so much, we added more words today. The wall is about 12 feet long, so we have plenty of room to add other parts of speech. We do grammar mostly orally, so we can usually get 3 or 4 lessons done at a time--that won't continue, but at least we are on Unit 3. We blew it off for several months, and I did want to cover all the parts of speech before she goes to 3rd grade.
That's it for last week! Here's the back of our house, from the hammock where she spent a good half hour snuggled next to Sky while he read to her:
It's soaking wet around here, and plans are in the works for an Ark...Hope it's a good Spring where you are!