-Week 17 Review -- February 9-15

After a week long break we were ready to get back to lessons. The kids did really well this week and had fun showing Dad what a day of school is like when he took the reins for the day on Tuesday. I had a class to go to for training in being an Executive Officers spouse. I will have a much more active role at our next duty station so I wanted all the information about what my responsibilities and role will be.

Here's the run down of the week.

Everett
Grammar: Growing with Grammar lessons 2.10, 2.11 and the Chapter 2 review were completed. This wrapped up the noun unit and he did really well on the chapter review (which we use as a test) and scored an A on that.

Penmanship: Pages 56-63 of Handwriting without tears cursive was completed. He's doing pretty well with it and his cursive is looking fairly decent.

Spelling: He finished groups 9 and 10 in Level C of Spelling Power and are now taking a break to use The Writing Road to Reading to get more acquainted with the spelling rules. We covered Rules 1-3 and will continue with this until all the rules have been completed. After the rules are done then I'll decide where to go.

Math: Lessons 25-28 and Quiz 4 were completed. He covered Multiplication with carrying, which I thought would be tough, but he caught on quickly. He scored a 100 on his Quiz which made him very happy.

Geography: Daily Geography week 17 covered reading a physical map of Mexico

Annika
Penmanship: Pages 56-63 completed in her usual perfectionist style.

Phonics: After a bit of thought I decided to take a look at The Writing Road to Reading and found it really made sense to me. We started it this week very slowly. We have covered phonograms 1-26, which she knew already, but I wanted to make sure they were truly mastered before we added any new ones in. I think this will be the best program for her when it comes to learning to read. We'll also add Explode the code back in after the first 45 phonograms have been covered. She likes the ETC workbooks, so I may as well use them.

Math: CLE lessons 25-32 were completed. She is continuing to love this program. This week we started some simple subtraction of -1 and taking away all but 1. We also received our shipment of CLE lightunits for 2nd grade math which we'll use next year and she just pored over them after they arrived. I kept hearing "Wow mom, I'll get to do multiplication," and "Mom the first lesson is about telling time, these are going to be fun"

Geography: Daily Geography week 17 covered reading a land and water map of Hawaii.

BOTH:
Writing: Writing With Ease Level 1 week 17 which included excerpts from The Reluctant Dragon was completed this week. They enjoyed the excerpts so much they asked if I could find the book so we could read the whole thing. I was able to find a copy on Paperback Swap and we're anxiously awaiting it's arrival.

History: This week we decided to institute "Super History Sunday" and covered the Navajo and read If you lived with the Hopi. We completed our Navajo pocket and had fun making a Navajo Necklace, a Navajo Rug and a Pueblo model.
Here's a few pictures of the model

Science: This week "Super Science Saturday" was about the Nervous system and our Senses. We did a reaction time lab, and a "mystery" station lab which had the kids using different senses to figure out what was hidden in the bag or jar. They had a lot of fun, especially when asked to stick there had in a bag with their eyes closed. They were both so worried it would be something like a bunch of slimy worms or icky goo, only to find it was only cotton balls.

Our decision to use the weekends to cover the interactive subjects has turned out great. We love that we're able to take our time and really enjoy the things we're learning about, it's also freed up a lot of time during the week, which means we were able to enjoy the few 70° days we had!

Come back next week to check out our Week 18 review.