We are at the end of our 2008-2009 school year, and it has been great. We have completed Saxon 2 this year, and Katherine has mastered a lot of new concepts. She has learned addition, subtraction, fractions, multiplication, reading graphs, measuring, finding areas and perimeters, estimating, and much more. Although not her favorite subject, she has done very well and knows the material. Although she is only in the 1st grade, she is reading on a 4th grade level and is constantly surprising me with what she has learned on her own. We have worked on the basics of sentence structure, and I think her unending reading will definitely help when we begin breaking out sentence structure. In science we study plants and gardened to watch how plants grow. We also studied the human body. Her favorite subject is history, and this year we studied ancient history. She liked learning about Rome the best, from its early beginnings to the time Christians were martyred. We worked on an Internet project, "It's Spring" during the spring. It was a lot of fun to work with other people around the country. We observed how the temperatures fell across the U.S. as cold fronts came in, and how it warmed up as warm fronts replaced them. It was neat to see how even though the sun was shining in Fort Worth, there was snow falling in Ontario. Katherine was able to write her first poem ever for the project and we made a field trip to the Botanic Gardens to draw pictures of Texas spring and as part of our science program this year.
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