Week 18 review -- February 16-22

It was another nice week here at Fawkes Academy. The kids worked hard and have been enjoying the lessons.
Here's the run down of the week.

Everett
Grammar: Growing with Grammar lessons 3.1-3.4. This began the unit on pronouns. He's done incredibly well. He seems to be grasping pronouns without much trouble.

Penmanship: Pages 64-71 of Handwriting without tears cursive was completed. He's still enjoying the work and his cursive is coming along nicely.

Spelling: We've decided to return to All About Spelling. He enjoys working with the tiles and I feel it explains things really well. He completed a quick review of the phonograms and rules we'd covered in the past as well as Step 17 of the Level 1 book.

Math: Lessons 29-34 were completed, which began teaching about line segments and angles as well as review of multiple step word problems and multiplication of multiple digit by one digit problems.

Geography: Daily Geography week 18 covered reading a physical map of Africa

Annika
Penmanship: Pages 64-71, as always she's doing great with penmanship.

Phonics: We tried the Writing Road to Reading and although I find the methodology great, I was having trouble trying to figure out how to implement it. We've decided to use All About Spelling very slowly and continue reading the simple readers we have. I may also have her go back to her Headsprout phonics lessons as well just for some fun phonics time.

Math: CLE lessons 33-37 were completed. Math is still one of her favorite subjects and this program has made it very easy for me to teach. I love math and sometimes I find it hard to convey the basics on her level. CLE has made that possible for me.

Geography: Daily Geography week 18 covered reading a land and water map of Oregon.

BOTH:
Writing: Writing With Ease Level 1 week 18 which included excerpts from The House at Pooh Corner was completed this week. They really enjoyed this week as they are both lovers of Pooh.

History: Super history Sunday this week will consist of a simple booklet about the Nez Perce tribes. We're also ready Meet Kaya: An American Girl which is about a Nez Perce girl. They are enjoying the story. We have 2 more weeks of our Native American study left and then we'll move on with History Odyssey Early Modern Times Level 1.

Science: This week "Super Science Saturday" was about the Genes. They enjoyed comparing what traits they each had to what Matt and I have. We also discovered the Annika has dimples while Matt and I do not. We also did a finger print activity where they had to compare different finger prints of the family to the "Mystery print" Turns out the mystery print on Everett's paper was Matt's and the one on Annika's paper was mine. :)

On a personal note, Matt has about 2 weeks left before he rotates to his next duty station. He will begin XO (Executive Officer) school shortly which will then mean he will be 2nd in command on his next ship. He was also presented with a Meritorious Service Medal for all of his accomplishments while with the Strike Group. This is truly an honor for him and we are all really proud of him.

Come back next week to check out our Week 19 review.