Homeschool Friday: Sept. 30-Oct. 4, 2013 {Week 5}

I'm sorry this is a day late! My poor cat got cut claw cut a little too short yesterday morning, and I spent most of the rest of the morning trying to get her to sit in one place long enough to make sure the bleeding had totally stopped. Luckily, she is fine, though I lost several hours of my day cat wrestling, and later, cleaning many tiny drops of blood out of the tan carpet. I think they all came out, which is kind of amazing. Then my sister spent the evening watching a movie with our Dad at his place, so my mom and I watched Lost.

Anyway, all of that was to say, yesterday was kind of crazy, and I didn't get a chance to get this written until this morning.

History
In History this week, I did a lot of textbook reading about Islam and the Middle East in the 800-1100's. I also did a map about the spread of Islam through Europe and Asia during that same time period, I did mini bios on several of the people I had read about, and added a bunch of dates to my timeline. I was supposed to do more bios and add more timeline dates yesterday, but I did not get that done.

Science
For earth science this week, I was studying rocks. I did one day on an overview of rocks, and then on on igneous rocks. I did not get the last on of the week done, which I think was on metamorphic rocks.

Math and Spanish
With both of these subjects, I have just been continuing on without anything particularly new this week. The math lessons I did were on radicals and roots, while the Spanish was on learning the numbers 13 and up.

Rhetoric, English, and Vocabulary
For Rhetoric, I finally finished the chapter on definitions I have been working on for weeks. In English, I did more stuff on verbs, and I did a chapter in Vocab.

Other Stuff
This week also marks the beginning of a few discussion groups I have joined. Both are made up of local homeschool families, and one is being led by a homeschool dad. That one is a Current Events group that will meet twice a month, with the first day being next Monday. The topic this time is the government shutdown, and so I read some articles he suggested about it. Our new World Lit groups will also be meeting once a month, and October's book, which I started this week, is the The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.

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