School Report: February Week?

• Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
• Composer: Franz Liszt
• Extras: Amanda got her cast off this month! Writer's Club, Valentines Party, Bee Keeping Essays, Spelling Bee.
• Scripture of the Week: Esther 4:14, Proverbs 3:5.
• Greece Unit: STOW ch 18-20 (1/2 of 20); The Children's Homer.
• Miles (Preschool): phonics flashcards.
• Amanda (1st grade): Blue Bay Mystery Boxcar Children #6 (68 taking turns reading with mom), phonics readers (finished book 5 and half of 6); Island Story (ch 8), 50 Famous Stories Retold (Bruce and the Spider, The Black Douglas), Aesop (The Ants and the Grasshopper), Paddle to the Sea (ch. 19), Burgess Bird Book (Chipper and Tree Sparrow), Child's Garden of Verses (finished).
• Hannah's Reading (3rd grade): Five Little Peppers (150), Little House on the Prairie (252). Phonics: Set 5 book 12 (finished), and book 13 (all stories). Island Story (ch 26-27 Death of William the Conquerer, William the Red), Child's History of the World (ch 50 Real Castles), A Tree in the Trail (ch 8-11), Burgess Animal Book (ch 10-13). Poetry by Walter de la Mare.
• Emily's Reading (4th/5th grade): The Jungle Book (168), King of the Wind (finished), The Little White Horse (finished), Anne's House of Dreams (finished), Anne of Ingleside (finished), Rainbow Valley (finished), Rilla of Ingleside (80),the Woodbegoods (finished), The Wheel on the School (102), The Bears of Blue River (217), Captivity of Mary of Scottland (part 5), Inventions (ch 6-7 Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin, Elias Howe and the Sewing Machine), Heroes (The Argonauts Part 1 and 2). American Tall Tales (Davey Crocket, Mike Fink), Trial and Triumph (22, 23), Tales of Shakespeare (Taming of the Shrew), Island Story (ch 73-79), Science Lab (through p. 23). Poetry by Sara Teasdale.
• Read aloud: Children's Homer (Greece unit), Gooney Bird and the Room Mother, David Copperfield, The Little Duke, The Pilgrim's Progress (p. 98).
• Gospel Study: Book of Mormon (finished Mormon); Pres. Uchtdorf (Happiness Your Heritage), Elder Dallin H. Oaks (Sacrament Meeting and the Sacrament), (Nov. 08 Ensign).
• Shakespeare: Love's Labor Lost (Act II).
• Biography: Eleanor Roosevelt: Life of Discovery (finished).