April 18 (plus discussion from the night before)

Today was kind of an abnormal day since Frank fell and had to go in for a little check-up (he bruised a rib). This is not a complete list for the first day, just had to get started anyway.

Ria -

Catechism discussion, part II of Sacramentum Caritatis - Liturgy, Beauty and a lot more

Art Class

Key to Algebra

Henle - worked on terminology cards, added endings to regular Latin cards (* see note at end of this post about terminology cards)

Gus -

Listened in on catechism discussion (he really likes these)

Delta Level Math-U-See - whipped through some review pages with me, studied harder division cards and did two full pages on his own

LC II - one section?

Our American Catholic Heritage - read the story of Fr. Juan de Padilla, did a short narration and started writing a blog post about it.

Gymnastics class - he had a lot of things that needed polish after two weeks of Easter break. One thing I noticed, though, is that he wasn't frustrated by these things as he has been in the past. He was working his way through them step by step and very responsive to the teacher. We've come a long way!

Terri:

Latin (she's studying simple vocabulary words from Prima Latina for her co-op class)

Grammar (she already finished her book for the year so she didn't do anything today - I should set up something for her)

Math (Math U See - 2 pages)

Religion - she's already finished her Faith and Life 3 for the year, so generally reads a short Saint story each day

Spelling (CHC)

Reading - Pinocchio

Lots of Art

Bernie:

Reading

Religion - chapter of Faith and Life 2

Spelling

Math (Math U See - 2 pages)

Phonics

Lots of Art

We managed to read aloud two chapters from King of the Golden City during the day. Read-alouds during the day have generally been hard because of distractions from the littler ones and, sure enough, Frank hurt himself while we were in the middle of reading.

No kid or Daddy night time read-alouds since we were busy welcoming the grandparents back from California (they've been gone for months!). John generally reads a chapter or two or three to the kids at night after their prayers. Before their prayers, they each read something they choose from a book relating to the Faith - generally a Saint story (especially the Saint of the day) or a story from the Bible. It was an idea they came up with on their own and is competely voluntary. This is another piece of what I'd like to keep track of on this blog as it's becoming a significant part of their daily studies. Bernie in particular (because of her age and reading level) has benefited from all the read-aloud practice - including some fairly challenging stuff!

*Terminology cards for Henle Latin - This is something I came up with for our co-op Latin Class (13-15 year old girls) after noticing that the previous class got bogged down with verb terminology after awhile - all the different tenses, moods, voices, etc. What I came up with was this. Make up a card in English for each person (1st, 2nd, 3rd), number (singular, plural), tense (present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect), mood (indicative, subjunctive) and voice (active, passive). Take any English verb and practice identifying what it would look like in an English sentence for various combinations of these terms. For example, for the verb "praise" (we typically practice with verbs from Henle), I might have them give me the English form for the 2nd person plural pluperfect indicative passive. We're doing some of these in class, but some practice at home will be key. Having the cards in front of them really helped so they can look at the various terms while working their way through it. Eventually, I'd like the exercise to be so facile that we can do it without the cards AND in either Latin or English.