This week, Ladybug finished A Tale of Two Cities, and is working on her final essay on the book. In psychology she learned about Freud’s id, ego, and superego, as well as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. In religion, we took a closer look at The Book of Concord and especially the Augsburg Confession. She worked on writing and rewriting sentences in active and passive voice in writing. She continued reading Wuthering Heights and Travel as a Political Act.

Chickadee learned about the Cartesian coordinate system in pre-algebra, and also solved two-variable equations and graphed the results. In science, we finished up the chapter on the five-kingdom classification system, and did a classic experiment with celery and dyed water to demonstrate turgor pressure in plants. She finished reading The Trojan War. We revisited Napoleon and read about Waterloo in history. We continued reading Heart & Soul.

Our library has been incubating chicken eggs, so we got to go see an egg candling this week…I had not idea how much detail we’d be able to see, but there was definite movement within the eggs, and you could clearly make out the shape of a foot in more than one of them!

The eggs are supposed to hatch next week, so we’re planning on going back and seeing the chicks at some point!