Week 7 Review -- October 27-Nov 1

We've finally gotten back into the swing of things after our long vacation back to the midwest. It was a really good week for the kids and I. We had lots of fun and can't wait to start again on Monday.

Here's the rundown of what we did.

Everett

Grammar: Continuation of Subjects and Predicates, differenciating between simple and complete ones, as well as diagramming of them.

Penmanship: He began Handwriting without tears Cursive.  He has worked on mastering the letters C and A.

Spelling: Completed steps 6-8 of All About Spelling level 1

Writing: "Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter copywork and narration.

 Math:  Test 3, Investigation 2, and Lessons 21-22 completed, these included learning about radius, squares, circles, and rectangles as well as perimeter.

History: Continued learning about France and the French Revolution, we will wrap up the unit on France next week.

Geography: Reading of projection maps was covered.

Science: Covered Creepy Crawlies.  Learned about land invertebrates. Next week we'll start in on the Cactus Desert Habitat.

Annika

Grammar: The question was introduced as the next sentence type.  

Spelling: Completed Step 5 and began step 6 of All About Spelling Level 1

Penmanship: Started Handwriting Without Tears My Printing Book, she covered a review of capital letters.

Phonics: She began Hooked on Phonics Yellow book.  She's made great progress and read her first HOP story.

Writing: "Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter copywork and narration.

Math: She completed unit 2 in the Evan Moor Skill Sharpeners book and week 2 of the Daily Math Practice which focused on simple graphs and basic addition facts..  Next week we'll return to Saxon 1

History: Continued learning about France and the French Revolution, we will wrap up the unit on France next week.

Geography: Reading a Map Key was introduced.

Science: Covered Creepy Crawlies.  Learned about land invertebrates. Next week we'll start in on the Cactus Desert Habitat.

Next week we'll also add in Song School Latin, and may start Artistic Pursuits.  The kids have also started some classes at a place not far from the house called The Little Gym.  Annika has started in the non-competitive gymnastics class.  Her teacher says she's doing great and has the gift of being ambidextrous when it comes to cartwheels, which apparently is quite rare.  Everett has started non-competitive basic Karate and is loving it.  He's the tallest boy in his class but is very gentle and patient with his smaller and younger couterparts.  He teacher says he's showing great skill and promise.   Lucas has joined the toddler gymnastics class which they call funny bugs.  He's now mastered forward rolls and is almost able to walk the balance beam unassisted.  His teacher really enjoys having him in class and says he's a great listener and she is very impressed at how quickly he picked up the forward rolls.

We hope you all had a wonderful Halloween and wish you the best in the coming weeks.  I'll be back next week with our Week 8 review.