Fun things first…we attended Once Upon a Valentine in St. Charles, MO again this year, and the girls took pictures with their favorite literary character (again) at the event!

On to the school work. Ladybug and I were sick pretty much all week, so it’s kind of a muddle, but we did accomplish most of our planned learning. She only has one chapter left in A Tale of Two Cities (it’s really too bad she couldn’t wrap it up before the weekend!). She continued reading Wuthering Heights and Travel as a Political Act (as well as a 1,200 page book she picked up at the library!). She worked on paragraph hooks in writing. In religion, we read about Philip Melancthon, Martin Chemnitz, and Frederick the Wise.

Chickadee learned about different types of lines and the parts of a circle, as well as how to identify complementary and supplementary angles, in pre-algebra. In science she started reading about the five-kingdom classification system, beginning with Monera and Protista. She read about the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark in history. We are down to the last few chapters of The Trojan War. She worked on writing a historical essay about the space race for writing.

Hopefully we’re all feeling well next week…I don’t want anyone else to catch whatever we had!