Friday- Homeschool Week in Review for Duncan

Duncan is my second grader.

Memory Work
What is a Greatest Common Factor?
The GCF is the largest whole number that is a factor of all the members of a given set of numbers.

What is an adjective?
An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun.
What are articles?
Article is the name given to the adjectives A, An, The

What are the 4 main layers of the sun?
Core, Photosphere, Chromosphere, Corona

List 3 important civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia.
Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian

Math
Kumon Math- daily drill
Saxon 76- Investigation 1; Lessons 29, 30
Keys to Decimals Book 2 pp.22-23
The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat pp.2-7

Language Arts
SL LA 2 adv week 2 copywork and activity sheet
More Stories From Grandma’s Attic Chapters 9-16 (reader)
James and the Giant Peach Chapters 1-20 (read-aloud)
Handwriting Help for Kids Workbook 3: Create Cursive pp.8-10
Wordly Wise 3 Lesson 2 reivew only
MCP Word Study D pp.9-12
MCT Grammar Island pp.26-43
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (used selections from 2x this week)

History
Gombrich’s A Little History Chapters 4-5
Enchanted Learning map of Iraq and Iraq worksheet
Mr. Donn’s History online pages on Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria
World Religions for Children- section on Judaism
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Sumerian Slave

Science
Great Science Adventures Space Lessons 3 and 4

Latin
Song School Latin week 2
This is so easy to use and Duncan loves the songs. LOL! Go figure. I was worried that he wouldn’t sing them at all.

Spanish
Barron’s Spanish Every Day
First half of chapter 1 with index card vocabulary
This casual approach is nice, I plan to cover a chapter in 2 weeks and then review it in the third week.

Farsi
BYKI Farsi
Good grief. My husband is Persian. You wouldn’t think that this would be a problem, but we are getting nowhere with Farsi.

Art
Draw Squad
Duncan wants to draw more accurate representations of what he sees, but I don’t know that he is ready for this book. This week we started lesson 1. Duncan drew two pictures- a birthday cake and a T.V. We will be taking this real slow as he is easily discouraged/ frustrated when his drawings don’t turn out like he thinks they should.

Music
Well, violin hardly happened this week. Where is that blushing emodicon?