This week was supposed to be a great on, and then the sickness started to rear it's ugly head. We got quite a bit completed all things considered.
Annika
... did wonderful again at Vision Therapy and diligently did her therapy homework every day.
...completed lessons 62-64 and Quiz 9 in Teaching Textbooks 4, which covered long multiplication, multiplication of more than 2 numbers, multiplication word problems, regrouping and started simple division.
... completed step 7 in All About Spelling 2. We've discovered that teaching with the tiles is fine, but she prefers not to use them herself, so she'll just use a small whiteboard for her parts.
...is doing really well in swimming lessons, although she doesn't really need the. Her teacher is helping her perfect her strokes.
...went bowling with me alone, since Everett woke up ill on Wednesday and Lucas wanted to stay with his older brother to keep him company. It was a fun girls day out, even though she got a huge blister on her ball hand.
Everett
...completed lessons 55-57 and Quiz 8 in Teaching Textbooks 7, which wrapped up his Fractions in the Real World chapter and started his Decimals chapter.
... completed Unit 2 in Junior Analytical Grammar. He's really doing well with it this go around. I think before he just wasn't ready for it. He was very proud to have gotten Superiority level on his unit test this week.
...completed step 11 in All About Spelling level 3. He loves this program and unlike his sister loves the tiles.
...he took advantage of his sister and brother having swim lessons in order to get some lap swim time in at the YMCA.
Lucas
...completed lessons 84-93 in McRuffy math. He's blazing through the end of this level, and surprised him mom when I went to teach him to count by 5s. I asked if he had any idea how to count by 5s, and he quickly and confidently counted from 5-100 by 5s for me. Ok... moving on then!
...completed lesson 6 and 7 in All About Reading 1, which means he read another two stories in Run Bug, Run! He's so proud of himself, and he's doing a great job.
...had gymnastics, and like usual did amazing. He's improved so much this year, I'm sure Matt will be surprised to see how far he's come once he returns from deployment.
...woke up on Friday with a sore throat, which I'm sure he caught from his brother.
Science
Everett and Annika completed week 19 of REAL Science Odyssey Chemistry. They learned about molecular formulas and how it make things easier and that using subscript helps cut down on errors. I mean really if you had to write out caffeine's molecular formula would you rather type out...
CCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHNNNNOO
or
C8H10N4O2
...they also completed the Celery Blues experiment which showed capillary action. It's an experiment they've done in the past but love to see how the celery will pull the colored water up through the xylem.
Sorry there is no pictures this week, but Friday it took everything I had to get through those science and math lessons considering I have now caught Everett's cold. My throat isn't as sore today, but it seems a Hag fish has taken up residence in my nasal sinuses.
If you aren't sure what a hag fish is or why having a cold would feel like one is living in your nasal sinuses, here's a video
3 comments:
Looks like you all are doing well.
You did manage to get a lot done considering you had sickness floating around! The celery blues experiment is one that has been repeated at our house as well!
I can't believe y'all got all that done while sick! You rock!
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