After a good nights sleep and a cup of coffee I was ready for Herman today. We've been reading Moby Dick by Herman Melville for weeks and have not yet encountered a whale. Actually, we are on chapter 31. Today was a difficult day of reading because it read almost like a script. It described each of crew members who were on the upper deck singing and dancing. Whew I was happy to finish that chapter and glad it was relatively short. One thing Moby Dick is not short on is vocabulary terms. Each page can offer the children 5 new words, though I only assign those they cannot understand in context.
Reprieve from reading aloud comes with our math curriculum. The boys are using Math U See, which presents the lesson on DVD. That gives mom a chance to take a break while the boys have a new lesson presented.
History is one of the boys favorite subjects. The All American History by Celeste Rakes is the series we are using. It's very textbookish, but thorough. The book alone can be dry, so additional biographies from the library are helpful. The teachers book is loaded with activities that extend the lesson. Today we read more about the North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia colonies.
Today Ben made his first batch of homemade buttermilk biscuits. He should be proud. They turned out very well.
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