This week came to us after a not so fun week of the stomach flu. As many of your read in my week 8 review, Lucas got the stomach flu that week and by the weekend it had found it's way into Everett. Then after Everett was finally feeling better it made it's way on to Annika and then finally to me by weeks end. I'm glad to say that this week has been much better, we're all feeling great again and managed to get lots accomplished.
Everett...
completed lesson 2.2-2.3 in Growing with Grammar 6. He watched the remainder of the 2nd disc in IEW's Student Writing Intensive A, about the Story Sequence and together we outlined a short story about Paul Bunyan and Babe the Big Blue Ox. I gave him his completion certificate for All About Spelling Level 2 and we completed Step 1 and part of Step 2 in AAS level 3. We also decided that returning to Teaching Textbooks for math is best for him. It frees me up to work with Lucas more and he does much better with TT's approach. He completed lessons 1-5 in TT grade 7.
Annika...
has been doing some review work for phonics. We pulled out some of her old McRuffy Readers and she's been reading those as well as some of the All About Spelling Readers to practice her fluency. She's got one chapter left in Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark, and we're so proud of her for making it through this book. She completed lessons 17-19 in All About Spelling Level 1. It amazes me how her brain can take sounds and convert them to letters for spelling so easily, but when going the other way for reading it's so much more difficult for her, but she's is always slowly making progress. We also placed her into Teaching Textbooks math, and she placed into their Grade 4 level. She completed lessons 1-5 and loves the program.
Lucas...
was very excited to see me pull out our new All About Reading Pre-1 level package. He loves his Ziggy the Zebra puppet and was all giggles during our 1st lessons with it. He really likes the alphabet sheets he's getting to do and his fine motor skills are making great strides due to them. I'm so happy this program finally came out, we're really enjoying it. He'll be going back to McRuffy math K next week because Saxon is just too easy for him and he enjoys the McRuffy games and worksheets.
Lucas...
was very excited to see me pull out our new All About Reading Pre-1 level package. He loves his Ziggy the Zebra puppet and was all giggles during our 1st lessons with it. He really likes the alphabet sheets he's getting to do and his fine motor skills are making great strides due to them. I'm so happy this program finally came out, we're really enjoying it. He'll be going back to McRuffy math K next week because Saxon is just too easy for him and he enjoys the McRuffy games and worksheets.
Science and History
I finally downloaded the pictures for our Slime that Ate Slovenia lab from Real Science Odyssey: Chemistry level 1, so I'll include those in this weeks reports. We also got our Sonlight Core 3 books and began that this week. The kids are really enjoying the stories and discussions. Currently I'm reading Walk the World's Rim and The Corn Grows Ripe to them and Everett is reading A Lion to Guard Us to his sister and brother. I wasn't sure how he'd like assigned reading, but so far he's really enjoying the story and the responsibility or reading to his siblings.
Art/PE
No art this week, but we did take a PE day on Friday and went to the base bowling alley and had fun with that. The kids really enjoy it and I have to admit I have a lot of fun too.
I think it was a pretty good week considering we were coming back from illness. Hopefully the approaching spring will make for some fun school weeks.
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