Week 15 Review -- January 19-23

Another great week is behind us. We have a little to finish up because we decided to save all of our science work for the weekend, so the 24th will be Super Science Saturday!
Here's the run down of what we did.

Everett
Grammar: Growing with Grammar lessons 2.4-2.7 were completed. He worked with plural nouns, irregular plural nouns and started working with possessive nouns.

Penmanship: Pages 46-51, his cursive is coming along nicely, although it will be a while yet before he's comfortable enough to use it for everyday assignments.

Spelling: He completed the second half of group 7, group 8 and half of group 9 this week. He's doing fairly well and is able to spell words that I thought would be difficult for him.

Math: Lessons 18-21 and Quiz 3 were completed. He was working on multiple step word problems and some basic multiplication.

Geography: Daily Geography week 15 covered reading a physical map of the United States.

Annika
Penmanship: Pages 46-51 completed in her usual perfectionist style.

Phonics: We started using Winterpromise's Adv. K phonics program, which may seem like moving a level backward, but it's turned out to be a good jumping off point. We've covered the first 3 weeks worth of lessons this week. It was a review of the letter sounds, but uses vertical phonics which is going ok with her. She's excited about next week when we add in spelling, making a picture dictionary and starting Explode the Code.

Math: CLE lessons 17-22 and the Lightunit 1 test were completed. She is still enjoying CLE math and did excellent on the test. She also enjoyed that she now does speed drills, which went really well.

Geography: Daily Geography week 15 covered reading a land and water map of Colorado.

BOTH:
Writing: Writing With Ease Level 1 week 15 which included excerpts from The Railway Children was completed.

History: This week we covered the Iroquois and read If you lived with the Iroquois. We have a few projects to finish up on Saturday because we were waiting for supplies to arrive.

Science: This week we have decided to have "Super Science Saturday" and complete all our science work on that day. We have started our human body unit and will did some reading and activities about the skeletal, muscular, and circulatory system. The projects are really fun and make science a real highlight of our schooling.

Art: We've decided to use the projects from our Native American studies as art time and will continue to do that for the next 4 weeks.

Here's some pictures from "Super Science Saturday"

Come back next week to check out our Week 16 review.