Here's the rundown of what we accomplished this week.
Everett:
Grammar: He's begun using Growing with Grammar grade 5 and completed lessons 1.2-1.6 this week. It's focusing on simple subject/predicate, diagramming subjects and predicates, and began compound subject/predicates.
Spelling: Spelling Workout C lesson 3 was completed, things are going well with this and he enjoys the program. We've decided to continue with it through the year and then we'll use Phonetic Zoo over the summer for "Spelling camp"
Writing: Nothing this week, he'll begin Student Writing Intensive B from Institute for Excellence in Writing next week.
Reading: He has almost completed The Last Olympian which is the last book in his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. I sure hope Rick Riordan gets working on those Camp Half-Blood books he mentioned on his blog. I have to admit Everett was right, I'm now hooked on Percy myself and can't wait to start The Battle of the Labyrinth now that I finished The Titan's Curse last night.
Math: He completed lessons 2-7 in Teaching Textbooks grade 6, which covered Place Value,Writing and Saying Numbers, Really Big Numbers, Comparing Numbers, Number Sequences, Addition, and Subtraction.
Geography: He completed Week 16 of Daily Geography Grade 5, which covered reading a Physical Map of Canada.
Annika:
Language Arts: McRuffy phonics and Reading Level K lessons 127-139 were completed. She covered reading long "O" and "Qu". She's really coming along nicely and getting more confident in her ability. Her penmanship is also included in this program and her printing is getting much better after a bit of a slide downhill.
Math: McRuffy Math Level 1 lessons 97-108 were completed. She learned basic subtraction, and reviewed 2 digit addition without regrouping, as well as reading a clock to the hour and half hour, and reading a thermometer.
Geography: She completed week 16 in Daily Geography grade 2 which covered reading a Land and Water Map of Hawaii.
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History: We've decided to go back to Story of the World for History, so we did a quick review of chapters 1-6 which we'd covered in various History Odyssey lessons and then completed reading, mapwork and coloring pages for Chapter 7 of Story of the World Volume 3 which covered the spread of Slavery from the Caribbean and South America to the Jamestown settlement.
Science: We made a change here too, the Animals and Their Worlds program turned out to be not as exciting as we thought. Everett decided he'd like to do Science with Annika as a group, so we're back with Real Science Odyssey Chemistry Level 1. We completed lessons on Atoms which included building simple models of the first 10 elements on the Periodic Table out of marshmallows. They kids had a lot of fun and really enjoyed eating their "atoms" when we finished. Lucas even joined in and is proud to know the words Proton, Neutron and Electron now. Here's a few pictures of our marshmallow atoms.
Lucas:
Preschool: Other than joining us for Science he completed pages 13-24 in the Kumon My First Tracing Book. His fine motor skills are getting much better and he's starting to trace lines really well. He also played quite a few rounds of Counting Bugs (a new math board game we got for christmas) with his friend (stuffed animal) Clean Piggy.
Tune in next week for Week 17 in Review
Grammar: He's begun using Growing with Grammar grade 5 and completed lessons 1.2-1.6 this week. It's focusing on simple subject/predicate, diagramming subjects and predicates, and began compound subject/predicates.
Spelling: Spelling Workout C lesson 3 was completed, things are going well with this and he enjoys the program. We've decided to continue with it through the year and then we'll use Phonetic Zoo over the summer for "Spelling camp"
Writing: Nothing this week, he'll begin Student Writing Intensive B from Institute for Excellence in Writing next week.
Reading: He has almost completed The Last Olympian which is the last book in his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. I sure hope Rick Riordan gets working on those Camp Half-Blood books he mentioned on his blog. I have to admit Everett was right, I'm now hooked on Percy myself and can't wait to start The Battle of the Labyrinth now that I finished The Titan's Curse last night.
Math: He completed lessons 2-7 in Teaching Textbooks grade 6, which covered Place Value,Writing and Saying Numbers, Really Big Numbers, Comparing Numbers, Number Sequences, Addition, and Subtraction.
Geography: He completed Week 16 of Daily Geography Grade 5, which covered reading a Physical Map of Canada.
Annika:
Language Arts: McRuffy phonics and Reading Level K lessons 127-139 were completed. She covered reading long "O" and "Qu". She's really coming along nicely and getting more confident in her ability. Her penmanship is also included in this program and her printing is getting much better after a bit of a slide downhill.
Math: McRuffy Math Level 1 lessons 97-108 were completed. She learned basic subtraction, and reviewed 2 digit addition without regrouping, as well as reading a clock to the hour and half hour, and reading a thermometer.
Geography: She completed week 16 in Daily Geography grade 2 which covered reading a Land and Water Map of Hawaii.
BOTH
History: We've decided to go back to Story of the World for History, so we did a quick review of chapters 1-6 which we'd covered in various History Odyssey lessons and then completed reading, mapwork and coloring pages for Chapter 7 of Story of the World Volume 3 which covered the spread of Slavery from the Caribbean and South America to the Jamestown settlement.
Science: We made a change here too, the Animals and Their Worlds program turned out to be not as exciting as we thought. Everett decided he'd like to do Science with Annika as a group, so we're back with Real Science Odyssey Chemistry Level 1. We completed lessons on Atoms which included building simple models of the first 10 elements on the Periodic Table out of marshmallows. They kids had a lot of fun and really enjoyed eating their "atoms" when we finished. Lucas even joined in and is proud to know the words Proton, Neutron and Electron now. Here's a few pictures of our marshmallow atoms.
Lucas:
Preschool: Other than joining us for Science he completed pages 13-24 in the Kumon My First Tracing Book. His fine motor skills are getting much better and he's starting to trace lines really well. He also played quite a few rounds of Counting Bugs (a new math board game we got for christmas) with his friend (stuffed animal) Clean Piggy.
Tune in next week for Week 17 in Review
5 comments:
What a great week! We too have almost finished 'The Last Olympian". I did see that 'The Lightning Thief" movie comes out in Feb...cant wait to see that!
Cool marshmellow atoms!
That sounds like it went really well. I love your marshmallow elements.
I love the marshmallow elements--what a cool idea!
Love the art project. I enjoyed reading the Story or the World, I think that's a great idea to pick it back up.
I hope school can keep your mind off the deployment. I'm sure your lovely kiddos will keep you very busy.
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