This week Ladybug learned about the snob appeal and transfer fallacies in logic. She finished There Are No Children Here and started Driving the Green Book. In writing, she practiced avoiding the use of the word “there” as well as avoiding using first and second person. She continued reading A Tale of Two Cities and read all of The Screwtape Letters. Since we can’t make it to the ice skating rink as often as we’d like, she also began roller blading.

Chickadee learned how to calculate the volume of prisms, pyramids, and cylinders in pre-algebra, and also learned how to calculate the surface area and lateral area of different shapes. In science she learned about the criteria for life. She read about the death of Achilles in The Trojan War. In history we discussed China and the opium trade and had an introduction to Napoleon. We learned about Wycliffe and Hus in religion…we’ve almost reached the time of Martin Luther!

We’re supposed to have some spring-like weather next week, but I haven’t decided how we’re going to take advantage of it yet!