Almost wordless wednesday Jan 29,2008

Their master is Pizza.

Weekly report Jan 20-26

Well it was a nice week here.

Here's what Everett did this week.

LA: 2 Flashkids writing workbook pages, Spelling workout Unit 3, 6 practice lessons in A Reason for Handwriting transition level (cursive letters) 1 lesson in Growing with Grammar grade 3 (we just got this yesterday and he seemed to love it today)

Math: 3 lessons and 1 test in Horizons math 3. He got a 96% on his math test

Geography: He completed 4 pages in The Complete book of Maps and Geography.

This is what Annika did this week.

LA: 10 pages in Explode the Code 1, Spelling workout Units 3 and 4, A Reason for Handwriting week 12 and practice reading some basic phonics easy readers.

Math: 4 lessons in Saxon math 1 (we just started it this week and she loves it so far)

Geography: Week 12 in Daily Geography practice grade 1

Both kids worked on History and Science together, here's what we did there.

History: We did Chapter 9 in Story of the World 2. We learned about The 3 kingdoms of Korea and about Japan's Yamoto dynasty.

Science: We've continued our penguin study and made a penguin mini book and some penguin fact pages about different types of penguins.

PE: 2 classes at the YMCA

Lucas of course drew pictures and played with whatever math manipulatives he could pull out in between breaks for riding his train around the play room or playing with toys in the living room.

On the non-school front we've been just hanging around the house having fun. Since I've enjoyed baking bread and rolls as well as making pizza crust from scratch we've decided to take the next step and buy a home grain mill so we can grind our own fresh flour. We're anxiously awaiting the arrival of the mill and have also found a local co-op that we can get our Wheat berries from. The co-op couldn't be more convenient as the pick up place is a block down the road.

Have a great week and happy homeschooling.

Kel

Wordless Wednesday January 23, 2008

Brothers, just hanging out.

Week in review Jan 13-19

It was a pretty normal week here. We're going to be making some changes to curriculum soon as we've finished somethings and are ready to move onto the next. Annika is half way through her official Kindergarten year (last year she was legally considered in preschool) and she's very excited to be starting 1st grade math on Tuesday. She's been waiting to get into a grade with a number on it. We did spend some time making a cake (home ec). The kids started homeschool PE at the YMCA and like it so far. We also went to see the new Veggietales movie (the pirates who don't do anything) Saturday. It was a hit with all of the kids.

Here's a few pictures.

Lucas loves his Mama.

The cake we made.

Week in review 1-11-08

Well it's been a good solid week at Voyager Learning Center. It was our first full week back after break and the kids did amazingly. They worked on some peguins shaped book covers for a penguin study we're doing.

Annika's reading is getting better everyday and Everett is starting to enjoy reading and now reads each night before going to bed. He's currently enjoying The Third-Grade detectives.

Here's a few pictures of our Penguin books

My first Wordless Wednesday

Week in Review

Well it was a short week for us so we decided to spend it finishing up some things that had gone to the wayside the week before Christmas Break. We finished up some spanish work and Ev did some geography as well as reading his 3rd Grade Detctive book. Annika worked on finishing some handwriting work she hadn't quite gotten too before break.

It does have some spots where the word spacing needs some work, but all in all it's very nicely done.

We're all excited to get back to the thick of it next week and will be starting Mr. Popper's Penguins as our Read Aloud as well as starting some Theme Pockets which will be fun for art.

Happy New Year to all!