Week 8 in Review -- Oct. 12-Oct 16

It was a good week with a great field trip to the pumkin patch on Saturday.

Everett:
Grammar: We're back to Junior Analytical Grammar and he's really getting it. This week we worked on Unit 4-- Prepositions. We will finish the unit up next week when we take the test.
Spelling: Sequential Spelling is still working well, He completed Days 5-7. Hopefully this will be the program that does the trick for him.
Writing: He worked on Week 5 in Writing with Ease level 2 which includes an excerpt from Misty of Chinoteague. He has progressed to the point where he's writing his own narration out which is a huge step forward for him. He has done pgs. 15-17 in his Handwriting without tears cursive success book.
Reading: The Titans Curse, Chapters 11-19, tonight he'll finish up this book and move on to Book 4 in the series.
Math: Teaching Textbook 5 lessons 91-92 and Quiz 13 were completed this week. He also completed pages 15-25 in Singapore Extra Practice book 3.
Geography: Daily Geography week 8 completed. The topic was reading a Mercator Projection Map
Science: He worked on Unit 2 of MPH Systems. He also completed activity 2.1 which was making a lung model with a plastic cup, 2 balloons, a straw and some playdoh.

Annika:
Language Arts: McRuffy phonics lessons 98-100 She's slowly but surely progressing in her reading. We also started doing lessons in The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading, she completed lessons 46-49 this week and really looks forward to this book.
Penmanship: We finally got our Handwriting without Tears Printing Power book and she completed pages. 6-11.
Writing: She completed Week 5 in Writing with Ease level 1 which includes an excerpt about The Princess and the Frog. Her narration has gotten so much better and she's really enjoying the stories from this book.
Math: McRuffy math 1 lessons 45-47 were completed. . She completed the unit 1 test in Sinapore Primary math 1A and started in on unit 2 about number bonds.
Geography: Daily Geography week 8 completed. The topic was reading a map grid.of the state of Ohio
Science: She completed pgs. 10-14 in her Singapore Earlybird Start Up Science workbook 1.
Hopefully we'll receive the last few book and teachers guide for our new program this week. We've decided to start using Winterpromise's Animals and their Worlds as her science program, she's very interested in animals and is looking forward to the new program and books.

BOTH
History: We've taken a step away from American History and wrapped up a unit on the Industrial revolution in Europe. Next week we'll work on the Ottoman Empire.

Lucas:
Preschool: Lucas was really into school this week and completed pages 13-18 in his Bigger Steps book, a few pages from his Kumon Let's Color book and watched a few educational DVDs.

We wrapped up the week by taking a field trip to the Pumpkin Patch. We had a hayride pulled by 2 beautiful Belgian Draft Horses who were very sweet. Unfortunately we had a camera malfunction. Turns out I forgot to grab the battery off the charger on my way out the door. :( Oh well, maybe next weekend we'll go back for another hayride and get some pictures then.

Tune in next week for "The Week 9 Review"