Camian Academy

Since Ani doesn’t tend to finish a day’s list in a day and today we’re starting giving her a week of school assignments at a time I figured it would make more send to write what she has done weekly instead of daily. So here is what she did last week.

First what we did together.

I finished reading Ivanhoe (great illustrated classics) aloud. Ani told me the synopsis and the kids reviewed it (Ani loved it, Cameron liked the fighting). I read The Hunchback of Notre Dame (great illustrated classics) aloud. Ani told me the synopsis and the kids reviewed it (Ani said it was all right and she liked it - which means she didn’t hate it but didn’t really like it and Cameron said he liked it a very little bit). It wasn’t as bad as Moby Dick, but it sure wasn’t one of the better ones. Let’s just say Disney made a lot of changes to the novel when they made the movie version. Victor Hugo certainly tends to be very bleak in his writing. I mean, there’s a reason why in the musical version of Les Miserables what would normally be the “big finish” finale song, One Day More, is just before intermission. By then only Fantine is dead. By the end a good number of the cast is dead. If the song waited to the typical spot, the end, it wouldn’t be a very impressive song. Victor Hugo was into death. Lots of death.

I read 50 pages of the Illustrated Book of Mormon volume 6 aloud.

In Story of the World volume 1 I read the sections on The Death of Alexander, The Nazca Drawings, The Heads of the Olmecs, Rabbit Shoots the Sun, and Romulus and Remus aloud. Ani narrated all of them (history).

For science, we read about learning, playing, voice, feelings, and moving. Ani narrated about all of them. That finishes our unit on the human body.

Ani had a piano lesson and did a page in the lesson book and a page in the activity and ear training book.

She took two regular spelling tests and a misspelled words test. On the first test she spelled one of the 20 regular words wrong and two of the five bonus words wrong: whale (wale), champin (champion), and which (witch). On the second test she spelled four of the 20 regular words wrong and three of the five bonus words wrong (she said she forgot to look at the bonus words): rough (ruf), laugh (laigh), elephant (elephent), cough (cogh), wrinkle (wrinckle), tough (touf), and anchor (anker). On the misspelled words test she got 11 of the 21 wrong: diamond (diomand), special (specil), hockey (hocky), shovel (shuvel), champion (champin), witch (which), rough (ruf), laugh (lauph), elephant (elaphent), cough (chugh), and anchor (ancker).

We read about Aaron Copland and listened to Hoedown from Rodeo (music history). Listening to that so inspired Ani that she ran downstairs and played the piano for a while.

We read about Pablo Picasso (art).

And now what Ani did on her own.

In Latin for Children A, she read the grammar page and completed the worksheet and pre-quiz and three activity pages for chapter 12. She watched the video for chapter 13. She went through all her flashcards (100 vocabulary words) and made a pile of the ones she knew (72) and a pile of the ones she didn’t remember (28). She then wrote down the Latin words and the English translations for the 28 vocabulary words she didn’t remember. She read the derivative study and review of grammar page and completed the review of grammar from chapters 1-6.

For her piano lesson, she completed a page of her notespeller book and a page of the theory book.

She completed 10 pages in Spelling Workout C.

She worked on memorizing Building Sentences daily.

She did 5 bits of copywork in cursive (she started working on copying the Articles of Faith).

She did free writing with prompts of this weekend, black, white, colors, and rainbow.

She read lessons 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 in the McGuffey Fourth Reader.

She did lessons 54, 55, 56, 57, and 58 in Rod & Staff English 3.

She played with the Flashmaster daily and did 10 math look-ups daily. The first day she missed one (6+7), the second day she missed two (7+8 and 4+8), and the last three days she got all 10 correct.

She played in Rosetta Stone Spanish daily.

She made an art project of a picture of a face she drew cut into pieces and glued onto another paper all mixed up a la Picasso.

She continued working on memorizing the ancient wars daily and on Friday started working on memorizing the first Rome list (history).

She got a lot done. Mostly she tends to work on school at night. She especially likes to do her school while Jamie is studying his school. One night while Jamie was sudying for his statistics course she sat at the table with him reading the dictionary.

This week starts the new adventure of giving her a full week at a time. We will still work together daily and there are still things she needs to do each day, but for doing math and grammar and Latin work pages she’ll have more leeway in doing her work when she wants to. We shall see how that goes.