Week 10 Review -- December 1-6

Well we had a nice vacation of 2 weeks to celebrate Annika's birthday and Thanksgiving. We read a few books on the first Thanksgiving and did a few crafty type things too. It wasn't easy coming back but we've been in a rut lately with someone seeming to have a cold every time I turn around. Gym class has been consistent at least and kids really enjoy it. We've focused on only Language arts and Math this week, the next 2 weeks we'll be keeping it light with the holidays coming up and Matt's work schedule being a bit hectic until the holidays.

Here's the run down of what we did accomplish.  No pictures this week as all the worksheets were pretty boring stuff. 

Everett

Grammar: He started working on Direct and Indirect quotations.  Growing with Grammar is a nice program but the amount of writing is becoming to much and he would like more interaction in grammar from me.  We will be trying Shurley English once it arrives in a few days and see if that fits his style better.

Penmanship: He's still working through Handwriting without tears and his cursive is getting much better.  We may even have him start doing some of his other work in cursive.

Spelling: Completed step 12 and 13 of All About Spelling level 1.  This curriculum still seems to be a big hit with him.

Writing: Copywork  about Davy Crockett and Sacagawea was done this week with some oral narrations.

Math: Saxon 5/4 is still working well for him, we have had to adjust it a bit so that I present the lessons instead of him reading them on his own and now we work the new concept and practice problems on the board instead of on paper.  He completed Lessons 28-30

Annika

Grammar: We've decided to put grammar on hold with her for now until her reading takes off a bit more.

Spelling: She loves using All About Spelling level 1 and we've noticed it is helping her in phonics so we're using it at a very slow pace.  She completed steps 8 and 9 this week, we'll do a few more steps before taking a break from it.

Penmanship: As usual her printing is amazing.  She's very precise and loves handwriting without tears.

Phonics: Hooked on Phonics seems to be the thing we've been waiting for.  She's even getting brave enough to try some other easy readers we have in the house now.

Writing: Copywork  about Davy Crockett and Sacagawea was done this week with some oral narrations.

Math: She started Rightstart Math level B this week and so far it's going well.  She is "getting it" and likes the more hands on approach.  She doesn't seem to miss the Saxon worksheets at all.  We only completed 3 lessons this week, but it's a very different approach to math so we're taking our time with it and having fun as well.

I've decided to put of Vocabulary for Everett until after our trial run of Shurley English and Latin just hasn't happened.  We did get some art covered but mostly just projects we did for fun.  We'll start our actual art curriculum this week.  Maybe we'll get Latin in there too, I guess we'll just see how it goes.  We did decide to give the Library another shot and found they've done some rearranging there and it's much more user friendly now.  We will mostly likely start weekly or biweekly Library trips into our schedule.

I'll be back next week with the Week 11 review.