Week 17 in Review -- Jan 10-16

It was another good week here.  We took off Thursday because of Lucas's outside classes and Annika's speech therapy.  We'd been trying to do a little school in between them, but it was getting to stressful.  We still got a lot accomplished.
Everett:
Grammar: Lessons 1.7-1.11 in Growing with Grammar were completed. They covered compound subjects and predicates, the types of sentences and avoiding run ons.
Spelling: Spelling Workout Lesson 4 was completed.
Writing: We started back with Institute for Excellence in Writing's Student Writing Intensive B.  He reviewed Unit 1 on Keyword Outlines.  His subject matter was Sea Wasps and he really enjoyed watching Mr. Pudewa on the DVD.  He did rather well and I think this will help him come out of his shell a bit more with writing.
Reading: He finished The Last Olympian  on Sunday and then on Monday started and completed  Magic School Bus and the Penguin Puzzle.  He's now started reading then 2nd book in the Bunnicula series, Howliday Inn.
Math: Teaching Textbooks Quiz 1 and lessons 9-11 covering a review of long addition and subtraction with regrouping and carrying were completed.


Annika:
Language Arts:McRuffy Phonics and Reading K lessons 139-150 were completed she has read a few readers over the week and is doing well.
Math: McRuffy Math 1 lessons 109-120 were completed.  She worked on adding a string of 3, single digit numbers as well as continuing subtractions with no regrouping.  She is doing well although we do need to focus on basic facts a bit more to help get them mastered.


BOTH
History: Chapter 10 and 11 in Story of the World were completed.  In chapter 10 we read about the Japan and how the emperor closed off the country and how the Manchu fought the Ming dynasty.  In chapter 11 we covered the Moghuls of India.  We looked at some pictures of the Taj Mahal online and discussed it.   Science: We continued our study of elements and completed an experiment with milk and lemon juice to demonstrate that milk was not an element.


Lucas:
Preschool: He continued to work on his fine motor skills and finished his Kumon first book of mazes.

Tune in next week for Week 18 in Review