A Healer’s Geste

Summer Term 2011 Report

I made a form for a term report for our records and for accountability. Here is the condensed version.

Statistics

Six Rungs

Worship: 30 days out of 30
Work: 30 days out of 30
Read/Listen: 30 days out of 30
Think: 30 days out of 30

Move: 30 days out of 30

Overcome: 30 days out of 30

Circle Time

Count: 19 1/2 days out of 24
Report: Circle Times have flowed fairly well and having the boys read aloud the memory work seems to have increased their retention. Starting the day off with everyone praying is a blessing. I need to work more on being cheerful to start us off.

Lessons

Preschool with Ilse: 12 days out of 18
Children’s Personal Devotions: 5 days out of 30
Daily Proverb: 0 days out of 30 – replaced Prov. with Psalm 119, and haven’t found a place for Provers again.
Listened to Composer: 20 days out of 30

Checklists Fully Completed:

Mystie: 8 days out of 24 (but most days were 80%-90%)
Hans: 10 days out of 24 (might not be totally accurate)
Jaeger: 18 days out of 24 (might not be totally accurate)

Literature Completed

Poems: 12 out of 18
Fairy Tales: 9 out of 12
Shakespeare: 15 out of 18 (completed 3 plays)
Aesop (read by Jaeger): 10 out of 12
Book of Virtues (read by Hans): 10 out of 12
report: Literature is by far the subject I’ve skipped the most. While I should make a more consistent effort with this and with finding a place for audio books, I think it’s a good spot to save time when needed. Stories & linguistics is not the children’s or the family’s weak spot.

Content Completed

CHOW Chapters: 16 out of 18 CGOW Chapters: 12 out of 12 Trial & Triumph Chapters: 5 out of 6 Latin Chapters: 5 out of 5 Bible Lessons: 9 out of 9
Report: I have been very pleased with the history and geography books, as well as with the Bible curriculum. The boys are getting quite a bit out of all these things. Hans is eating up Latin.

Table Lessons & Notebooks

Math

Hans – # lessons completed: 10
Report: He seems to have hit a stride and is enjoying math
Jaeger – # lessons completed: 2
Report: He seems to have hit a hard patch where he just needs to get stronger in his addition before he’s ready to move on. Hans hit a roadblock at this same spot, so I’m confident spending a lot of review here is a good thing. He seems almost ready to move past it. He’s only been occasionally and mildly discouraged with all the repeat.

Penmanship

Hans – report: Doing better than anticipated. I’ve been working mostly on using proper capitalization.
Jaeger – report: Doing well. I’m going to keep him at the same spot as Hans. I think he can do it.
Ilse – report: She loves her sheets and does a good job with starting at the top.

Spelling

Hans – days completed: 5 out of 10
Report: This is a subject I cut when I need to save time; spelling seems to be a strength so far.
Jaeger – days completed: 5 out of 10
Report: This is a subject I cut when I need to save time; spelling seems to be a strength so far.

Nature Walks & Notebooks

Report: We did lots of outdoorsy things, but only brought our journal stuff once.

Board of Centuries

Report: The boys really enjoyed this and retained more than I expected.

Art Study Notebooks

Report: I’m not sure how much they are getting out of this, but they seem to enjoy it and it provides a nice change of activity and subject. My primary goal is exposure, so it’s mostly a fun thing.

Independent Work

Hans

Science: After a rough first week, he’s been eating it up
History: Enjoying the read-aloud, but not his biographies
Writing: Doing better than I anticipated; now I need to start doing tutoring sessions with him
Geography: Doing fine, but could be doing better. Could put more effort into his mapwork.
Drawing: His abilities are growing but he often puts little effort into his drawing lately.
Piano practice: He is really enjoying it and wanting to play for enjoyment at times.

Jaeger

History: he’s retaining more than I thought he was
Science/Geography: he’s doing quite well, and he really enjoys it
Drawing: Skill is really improving
Greek: He enjoys it; it’s primarily for motivation and it’s doing its job
Piano: started Pianophonics and loves it.

Mystie

History Book: Only one chapter into it. It’s fairly draggy.
Theology Book: Haven’t picked it up.
Study Subject: Have made it through 3 hospitality books and it’s giving me lots to think about.
Piano: Nope.
Penmanship: Practiced mine about 3-4 times this term. No progress.