Week Two

So, this week, we read the story of Joseph (Prophet Yusuf) from Oak Meadow as well as Yahiya Emerick's translation of the Qur'an.  DS illustrated a picture of it, and then did some copywork in his best cursive about it.  I was thinking of seeing if I can find a copy of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", because it's never to early to foster a love of musicals.

He finished reading, "Trumpet of the Swan," by E.B. White. (Who I didn't know was the same White from the "Elements of Style".)  As an activity, I had him narrate back to me a summary of the story.  He also wrote a letter to Sam in the book.

We continued with OM4's Language Arts--looking at parts of speech.  We also worked on remembering our multiplication tables, and did factoring and prime numbers with Math In Focus.

For Science, we did the week three OM3 thing about clocks.  We made the Chinese water clock using a metal bowl and a plastic yogurt container.  We also made the Roman/Greek tin can clock using some tomato sauce cans. I think in future, if you freeze water in the cans and then hammer nails in them, you'll have a much less dented can.   I asked Sonic ways he could make the clock go slower and he suggested:
1) Use a thicker liquid
2) Use bigger cans
3) Use more cans
4) Use a smaller hole

All which were great ideas.  He already has the morning verse memorized and was kind of upset that I almost forgot it this morning.