Wow, last term seemed to drag on because I just needed it to end but this one seems to have speed by and I can hardly believe it's over. But even so, I'm ready for our fall break. We've got some fun stuff planned for our family and Lucy gets a bit of treat herself when her Grandpa and Gigi whisk her away next week for a trip to Disneyworld. So she certainly had a good motivation to get this work done! We always love exams and I make them pretty low key but this year I realized I maybe took that to the extreme. She was giving me pretty lax answers. Nothing atrocious and depending on what kid I had, I might be completely satisfied with her answers but I knew she was capable of much more and I was surprised by her lack of effort. A simple reminder that I wanted her very best effort because I write them down so we can record how we learned all term and make changes if things need work and bam - much better answers! I pick and choose questions for each day instead of going straight down the list so you might be able to pick out which questions were from day 1 and which were from day 2.
Bible
Tell the
story of Ishmael, OR the sacrifice of Isaac.
So God told Abraham to sacrifice his son and Abraham was sad but
he did what God told him to do. And when he was about to kill his son Isaac an
Angel said “Stop, don’t kill your son!” and then they killed a lamb instead.
Tell about Jacob and Esau.
So they were brothers. Jacob
cooked soup and Esau was hungry and he said “Can you give me some of that soup”
and Jacob said “No, not unless you give me your birthright” and Esau was so
hungry that he gave Jacob his birthright and Esau had the soup and later on,
their father Isaac said come here Esau so I may bless you and bring me some
food. And he went to get some food but Jacob went to their mom and said “dress
me up like Esau and give me some food to send to my dad” and Jacob dressed up
like Esau and he puts skin on to be like, so that his father would think he was
Esau and he said “Here I am Father, I brought you some food” and he said “You
are the oldest son and blessed him” and when Esau came back he was sad because
Jacob had taken his birthright AND his blessing and he was angry and said he
would kill Jacob so Jacob ran away he camped and when he grew up and Esau came
to Jacob and Jacob was afraid he would kill him but he didn’t, Esau said “I am
so glad to see you!” and Jacob said “take these gifts” and Esau said “No, you
can have them” so they argued over that which is a bit foolish to argue over
that and Esau took them and that was that.
What are
two of the seven parables Jesus told about His kingdom? Tell about them.
The one about the lamb. If someone has 100 sheep and he loses one,
he leaves the 99 and goes and finds the sheep that is lost and then he comes
back and has a party and says “Look at my sheep that I found!”
If seeds fall on rocks they grow but don’t have dirt. If seeds
fall on weeds, then they won’t be able to grown but if seeds grow on good
ground they will be able to grow. And that’s like the kingdom of Heaven (…How so?) The seeds that fall on rocks
are ones that know about Jesus but then they change their minds, well, and then
Satan talks to them and they change their minds. And the seeds that fall on
weeds that people that don’t believe in God and the people on good ground are
like the people that trust God.
Tell about
the feeding of the four thousand, OR about the Canaanite woman.
So Jesus was talking to the people and they were hungry and they
said “the nearest town is a long way off, what are we going to do?” and Jesus
said “does any of you have any food?” and someone said “I have some food” and
Jesus broke it into several pieces and handed it to the people and there was 12
baskets left over after everyone had eaten as much as they wanted. Like they ate as much as they could and there were still 12 baskets!
Writing/Penmanship
Copy "The Badger strode up the
steps."
History
What do you
know about Richard Coeur de Lion?
People liked him. And he died because he got shot by an arrow. He
was king of England. He was like a lion because he was strong and brave. His
brother was wicked King John.
Why was
John Wicked?
King John was a bad king because he was mean to the people of
England. He made them pay too much money. The Pope and the people made him sign
the charter and he did but he broke his promise. And the people of England did
not like him!
Tell about
the Siege of Calais or Wat Tyler's rebellion.
So, the Siege of Calais was when Edward III surrounded the city of
France and said “Fight or I won’t let any water or food go in” and everyone was
getting so thirsty and hungry and the governor said “we have no food left or
water left, what are we supposed to do” and the guards said we will go talk to
Edward III and Edward III said “Bring 6 men to me with the keys of the city and
then the rest of the city will be free” and everyone was trying to decide which
6 men would go and one of the men said “I will go” and another said “I will go”
until there were six men. And he said “I demand them to be killed” and everyone
said “No” and then the queen said ‘Please don’t kill them” and the king said “Fine,
I will give them to you and you can do whatever you want with them” and she let
them go back to their own city.
Tales
Tell me what you remember about All's
Well That Ends Well or Cymbeline. (She did get stuck on this but honestly, so did I. We love Shakespeare but there are a lot of characters and names. So I pulled up Wikipedia and listed a few of the characters from each until something clicked. Once she got started, she did great. I do like including it in exams though because it is a favorite of hers. Next time I think I will keep the little paper doll characters she makes in envelopes and let her pull them out and give her exam narration with that help.)
All’s Well that Ends Well. So Helena lived with this other lady
and she loved this guy but he was really rich and she was poor and she said “he’ll
never want to marry me” and he was with the king of France and the King of
France was sick and she had this little stuff that could make anyone well so
she went to France and everyone was saying if you can cure the king of France
than you can marry the prince you want and it worked. So then she was going to
choose and she choose the person she had always wanted to marry, that guy. Then
he said “No, I’m not going to marry you, I don’t want to marry you, you’re a poor
girl” and then she was sad and she met another woman and her daughter and that
guy that Helena wanted to marry loved this other woman’s daughter. But Helena
and that guy she wanted to marry were already married even though he didn’t
want to marry her but now he wanted to marry that other man but she was like “go
away, your already married” and then Helena dressed up like that other women’s
daughter and she said “I will marry you’ and then they talked and he was like “I
guess she decided to marry me’ and then they were going to get married and he
gave this bracelet to Helena and then when they were going to get married,
Helena came in and said “you really talked to me, you said you would marry me”
and they were happy.
Tell what you know about Vanity Fair or Doubting Castle. (This was a day 1 question!)
Christian and Hopeful were walking
and the people there killed Hopeful and then Christian went on his way and all
there was countries to sell and women and children and...
Mom interrupts: Okay, wait, let’s start at the beginning and try
to go in the right order and use details. Pretend I’d never heard this story
before.
So Christian and Hopeful got to Vanity
Fair and all the people were looking at them because they were dressed
differently and everyone got confused and they blamed Christian and Hopeful and
some people got on their side and then they got confused again and blamed them
and then they killed Hopeful because they were mad and then Christian started
walking on with Hopeful. Wait, Oops, I messed up, his first friend was
Faithful. He went to heaven.
Draw your favorite part of the Wind in the Willows and explain
your picture to me.
Here is Toad dressed up in his
washerwoman clothes and here is the washing tub and he’s looking at it. And he
doesn’t want to wash clothes even though he’s pretending to be a washerwoman
and here is the lady and she’s laughing at him because he doesn’t want to wash
even though he said he loves to wash.
And she’s pointing at him and laughing. And he’s frowning. It’s so funny.
Tragedy strikes! Norah the toddler destroyer ripped up her drawing. Her first pictures was so funny too. Oh well, toddlers happen. She wanted to draw a different scene this time so she narrated that one as well. But both are from the same chapter. It took her a while to warm up to this book but she loved it by the end.
Toad is riding on the horse that he
stole from the other woman and he’s in his washerwoman clothes and a gypsy is
saying hi and says “do you want to sell that horse” and Toad says “sure, but
you have to give me lots of money and as much breakfast as I can possible eat”
and the gypsy give him money and breakfast and then Toad gives him the horse
and walks away.
Can you tell me about the dragon fly grub story from Parables of
Nature?
Yes. So, there was a dragon flu
grub who wanted to go out of the water. And he was asking “what’s out of the
water? What’s out of the water?” and he was poking about and asking questions
until they got annoyed and said "go away you don’t belong out of the water". And some
of the other asked, "wait he’s right" and they asked questions too. Then a frog
who had been out of the water said “I could take you on your back but you
better hold on, you don’t want to fall off” and he got on his back and he said
“ah!!” and fell back in the water. And said ‘that frog tricked me, you can’t
breathe out there” but that’s just because he couldn’t breathe out of water. Then
the dragonfly said “I feel like I’m going to go out of the water’”so he went
out of the water and he turned into a dragonfly! But before he said , “I will
come back to you” but but of course, he couldn’t because when he tried now he
felt the same shock went he tried to go out before. Then his brother came out
and his brother until all the grubs were turned into dragonflies.
Geography
Santa Fe Trail Map Drill
This is the first time I did a map drill like this but I just printed off the fresh blank map and a page of answers. I sat with her while she went though it. When she got stuck on a few states, we left them behind and I gave her the rivers and cities. And I accidently included a state we hadn't learned and put down Mississippi river as the term but the blank was for the state but we fixed it together and she did end up getting them all in the end.
Below is the map we added to as we read during the term. It will go in her portfolio too. I didn't do much at all for this last term but it picked up a lot at the end. I'm still getting my bearings on what to do for Geography and Map drills but I'm getting there.
Find Greenland on the world
map and tell me what you know about it.
X It’s very cold and icy.
Can you describe what happened during the solar eclipse
The moon covered the sun bit by bit
and we looked through it with glasses and it got dark and the sun if you looked
through it with the glasses looked like the half moons.
Can you
explain why the sun never seems to remain still in the same place?
Because the Earth goes around it
and because the Earth spins around while it goes around it.
Natural History and General Science
Tell me
about one of the animals from the Carnivora order. You can look at our tree to
see what choices you have.
Glutton the Wolverine is hated by man and hated by other beasts.
No one likes him because they fear him and he is mean. He is greedy. He can
just tear down doors of houses if he wants to get inside He’s so smart he can avoid
traps and then hunters think “Why is this trap gone” and no one likes him.
Oh wait, Reddy fox is supposed to be there but we didn’t put the
sticker up yet, can I do him too? (Sure)
Reddy Fox is a more common fox. If a red fox has a baby red fox
that isn’t red, I mean doesn’t have red fur on it, it’s black or silver and
hunters like to catch it because it’s pretty and they can sell it for lots of
money. But it normally looks red and white. It lives in rock caves,
underground, and likes to be in places where no one can dig them out. It likes
to eat Peter rabbit and mice and grasshoppers and toads and fish, although he
can’t fish them himself he eats ones from the shore (I’m not sure about that last part about Reddy and the fish or if Glutton can really tear down doors but I’ve learned not to doubt her
too much during exams unless I’m sure she’s wrong).
The tree. Still doesn't have the foxes on it because we did those in the car on our day of fake camping.
Can you
explain how you knew that the animal we found in the backyard was a shrew and
not a mouse or a vole or a mole?
Well, first of all, I couldn’t see its tail and it would have had
a long tail if it was a mouse. And it was really small. We looked at it’s nose.
It’s kinda hard to describe my thinking. I looked at the color and we looked in
the book and I was right.
Describe
from memory something you drew in your Nature Notebook.
Golden rod is a golden flower. The leaves are fuzzy and they are
getting smaller towards the top. They have little round buds and they open up
into tiny flowers and there is little stems branching off the main.
So I had the notebook in my hands while she did this so I know she couldn't see it but I'm amazed at home what she said to me was exactly what she had written down! Probably more amazed that I should be.
A few more natural journal entries.
The comment about the sticking to your nose! Let it never be said that nature journals are impersonal!
Some larva things she found and wants to save. I think they will grow up to be mosquitoes. Fun!
Describe a butterfly’s life cycle. Include pictures if you want.
Starts as an egg and then it turns into a
caterpillar. Then it started to hang upside down and makes a chrysalis around
itself and then when it comes out, it’s a butterfly.
Describe what makes an insect an insect. (I didn’t require diagram as
we had just done one the previous week).
They have six legs. Three body parts – head, thorax
and abdomen. And they have two antennas. That’s all that makes any insect an
insect. And that’s what they are when they are grown-up. Like a caterpillar
isn’t a caterpillar, it’s a butterfly. They sort of change into the insect form
but I don’t remember that word.
Last week's diagram.
Reading Skill
Father or friend should select a
passage for student to read aloud.
Math: Revision Pages from MEP
Foreign Language
x Copy my actions and tell me what you are doing.
a.
I brush my teeth
b.
I comb my hair
c.
I get dressed.
x Look at this picture of your family
and tell me who they all are? (Jonah is my brother, dad is my dad, mom is my mom, Norah is my sister)
Picture Study
Describe
your favorite picture from this term's picture study (Whistler)
Well, nothing is really my
favorite. I didn’t like him. But I liked the girl best I guess. It’s a girl
dressed in white and she’s holding this plant in her hand.
Nobody is our family really liked Whistler but we actually moved on to Peter Paul Rubens a few weeks ago and everyone is happy although they have yet to learn his name completely. Every week I ask and last week Jonah shouted out "I know, it's disciple disciple something!" We do the same artists and composers and songs as AO but we don't always stay right matched up with our terms, we just keep going until we're done. Not a big deal for school purposes but it makes exams tricky. I think she really wanted to pick a Rubens for her favorite.
Recitation
Father should choose a poem, and two
Bible verses learned this term for student to recite.
Singing
Sing
your favorite folksong and hymn from this term.
X Nothing but the blood of Jesus
X Will ye go, Lassie, go
X Solfa Review Page (handmade based on what we're learning from her Rod and Staff Music curriculum and Youtube Channel Children of the Open Air)
And that's a wrap on the term! I can't believe we only have one more term of year 2. We'll probably split term 3 with a holiday break but I don't really want to spend that break prepping for year 3 so I'll try to do it over the next month or so and then it's time to start buying year 3 books, I know it's repetitive but I can't believe it!
These are great! I love the creative bits you have here, and Lucy did a really good job. :)
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