Betsy Bailey

Unfortunately, Jake was getting quite ill with a stomach bug on Tuesday last week and we ended up taking him to the hospital for IV fluids that evening. Very scary! Bailey and her sisters spent the remainder of the week with their dad, while Jake recuperated in the hospital. During that time, Bailey kept up with her reading of Gone With the Wind (she’s almost halfway through and loving it) and wrote some fiction entries for her blog.

We received most of her homeschool materials by the end of the week last week, and we’re raring to go with all the new stuff tomorrow!

So, anyway, on Tuesday last week, she completed the following tasks. She really enjoys the Mavis Beacon typing program!

Tuesday, August 12

[ ] Math facts (multiplication) for at least 15 minutes:
http://mathusee.com/drill.html

[ ] Typing tutor for at least 30 minutes:
http://powertyping.com

[ ] Read Chapter 3 in You’re Amazing and blog the exercises. Also tell me in your blog entry what was the most important thing you learned from this chapter and how you think it will affect your life.

[ ] Write a story for your blog, called In Your Lunch. Here’s the prompt:

[ ] Gone With the Wind – read for 30 minutes

[ ] Review the brownie recipe you made yesterday in your blog. Include a link to the recipe, maybe a picture of the brownies, and information about what it was like making the recipe (easy or hard? were the instructions clear or confusing?) and, of course, how the brownies turned out. What was their texture like (Where they crumbly and dry or moist and dense?) How did they taste?

[ ] Watch the Origins of Slavery video and read the accompanying text.
http://hippocampus.org/hippocampus.php/course_locator.php?course=US%20History%20I&lesson=7&topic=1&width=800&height=550&topicTitle=Origins%20of%20Slavery&skinPath=http://hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default

[ ] Slavery vocabulary exercise – see email.