Week 10 in Review -- Nov. 2-7

We had a pretty productive week here, the kids are willing to work hard so we can wrap some things up before going on vacation for Thanksgiving.
Here's the rundown.
Everett:
Grammar: Everett began Unit 6 in JAG which covers adverbs. Adverbs can be tough so I decided to slow it down a bit and only do a few sentences per day instead of all 5. He completed exercises 1 and 2 of the unit and is doing pretty well. I think the slow pace is helping.
Spelling: Sequential Spelling Days 12-14 were completed. I've noticed that this is starting to spill over into his writing which is a very good sign.
Writing: He worked on Week 7 in Writing with Ease level 2 which includes an excerpt from Ginger Pye. He's doing really well with dictation and narration so I think we may jump ahead a bit in the book to add a little more challenge to it. He has done pgs. 21-22 in his Handwriting without tears cursive success book and has even asked to start doing his spelling tests in cursive.
Reading: The Battle of the Labyrinth, book 4 in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series Chapters 9-14 were read this week.
Math: Teaching Textbook 5 lessons 99-103 and quiz 14 were completed this week. He's working on this 7 days a week so he can be done with TT5 by the time we leave for vacation. Matt and I have decided we'll let him start Teaching Textbooks grade 6 when we get home from our trip.
Geography: Daily Geography week 10 completed. The topic was Picturing the World.
Science: He began unit 3 in the Systems book which covers circulation. He's doing really well and we'll wrap this unit up next week.

Annika:
Language Arts: McRuffy phonics lessons 107-112 were completed. Lesson 111 introduced the long A sound which a whole new ball game for her. We've only worked with short vowels thus far and I'm happy to report that long A due to silent e came pretty easily for her.
Penmanship: Handwriting without Tears Printing Power pgs. 18-21 were completed
Writing: She completed Week 7 in Writing with Ease level 1 which includes an excerpt from Peter Rabbit. which is one of her favorite stories. I've been having to reign her in a bit with narrations because she seems to have jumped right to summarizing on me. I guess I need to push her up in the book a bit so she can be a bit more challenged.
Math: McRuffy math 1 lessons 56-69 were completed. I also ordered some math fact practice books from McRuffy to help her cement those addition facts. The calculadders were working ok, but she hit a snag with them so we'll try a different approach for a while.
Geography: Daily Geography week 10 completed. The topic was Picturing a the United States.
Science: We finally started Animals and their worlds. We still don't have our Habitats, Hollows and Homes journal, but it should be on the way. I may just save it and do it over the summer instead. I have a plan to add a simple lapbook in which will I print out backgrounds of the different habitats we'll study and as we learn our animals of the week we'll add them to the picture of the appropriate habitat. Saturday we'll work on a painting of a hippo using a potato and carrot for paint stamps.

BOTH
History: We've covered the world history of Early Modern Times so this week it was back to the birth of the United States. We were starting the American Revolution so we read Can't you make them behave King George? and And then what happened Paul Revere? We also watched the first 7 episodes of Liberty's Kids and placed a few pictures in our notebooks for the Stamp Act, the Townsend Acts, The Boston Massacre and The Boston Tea Party. The kids loved the Liberty's Kids DVD and can't wait to see more.

Lucas:
Preschool: Lucas completed pages 24-29 in his Bigger Steps book.

Tune in next week for "The Week 11 Review"