School Report Jan 5-9

• Greece Unit: Pandora's Box, King Midas and the Golden Touch, Minoans.
• Astronomy Unit: learned about the Big and Little Dippers, North Star (Polaris), Earth rotating on Axis, the sun and seasons.
• Miles (Preschool): stories about Moonbear and Little Bear. David and Goliath.
• Amanda (1st grade): read Frog and Toad Are Friends to Mom; King Alfred and the Beggar, cont. Benjamin Franklin, cont. Paddle to the Sea, Smudge the Little Lost Lamb, Child's Garden of Verses.
• Hannah's Reading (3rd grade): Five Little peppers (108), Little House on the Prairie (162). Cont. The Little Duke, cont. A Tree in the Trail, CHOW 49, Story of Mankind ch 30. Phonics: Russ Fixes Lunch (Set 5 Book 10), Who Wants Soup, The Old Queen Who Went to Town (Set 5 book 11). Poetry by Walter de la Mare.
• Emily's Reading (4th/5th grade): Anne of Windy Poplars (finished), The Princess and the Goblin (finished), King of the Wind (67), The Little White Horse (45), Anne's House of Dreams (74), the Woodbegoods (90). Parables of Nature. Poetry by Sara Teasdale.
• Read aloud: Peter Pan (142), Children of the New Forest (finished), The Water Horse (76).
• Gospel Study: Book of Mormon (3 Nephi 13-17); Sister Julie Beck, Fulfilling the Purpose of Relief Society (Nov. 08 Ensign).
• Shakespeare: Love's Labor Lost (act 1, scene 2). The Tempest (Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, E. Nesbit).
• Biography: Starry Messenger (Galileo), Eleanor Roosevelt: Life of Discovery (Russell Freedman).