We were able to get some work done this week, and will spend the weekend re-organizing and rearranging the school room so we're ready for a fresh start in March.
Here's what we did get done.
Everett:
Spelling: Spelling Workout Lesson 9 completed.
Reading: He finished The Celery Stalks at Midnight and began Nighty Nightmare.
Math: Teaching Textbooks lessons 25-28 were completed. These lessons worked on elapsed time, and two step problems.
Annika:
Language Arts:McRuffy Phonics and Reading 1 lessons 1-4 were completed. They were a review of the short a and short i sounds. She did great and continues to improve in reading ability every day.
Math: McRuffy Math 2 lessons 1-4 were completed. She blazed right along with these lessons, that covered some review of +0 through +5 facts. She's really enjoying the Math Journal part of the program as well as the response book for mental math.
Lucas:
Preschool: He's completed lessons 17-20 in both his My first book of Coloring and My first book of Mazes. He's doing so well and loves doing school each day.
History: We're back at learning about the birth of our Nation and watched a few episodes of Liberty's Kids as well as started reading Meet Felicity.
Science: We've made a move to Earth and Space science because Chemistry was just too much for Anna, we'll pick up Chem again next year for another go. This week we worked with weather changes, did some work with temperature, rain gauges, made an anemometer, and started a weather journal.
We have a few changes coming up, I received IEW's Student Writing Intensive A, which Everett will use. I had purchased B and it was a bit above his head. We also made the leap back to All About Spelling, after testing the waters, we realized this is the one that works and with which they actually retain what they learn. We're all very excited for these changes, and Anna has asked to work through All About Spelling even though spelling is already covered in McRuffy. She said AAS is just too much fun not to do!
Tune in next week for our week 22 review.
Spelling: Spelling Workout Lesson 9 completed.
Reading: He finished The Celery Stalks at Midnight and began Nighty Nightmare.
Math: Teaching Textbooks lessons 25-28 were completed. These lessons worked on elapsed time, and two step problems.
Annika:
Language Arts:McRuffy Phonics and Reading 1 lessons 1-4 were completed. They were a review of the short a and short i sounds. She did great and continues to improve in reading ability every day.
Math: McRuffy Math 2 lessons 1-4 were completed. She blazed right along with these lessons, that covered some review of +0 through +5 facts. She's really enjoying the Math Journal part of the program as well as the response book for mental math.
Lucas:
Preschool: He's completed lessons 17-20 in both his My first book of Coloring and My first book of Mazes. He's doing so well and loves doing school each day.
History: We're back at learning about the birth of our Nation and watched a few episodes of Liberty's Kids as well as started reading Meet Felicity.
Science: We've made a move to Earth and Space science because Chemistry was just too much for Anna, we'll pick up Chem again next year for another go. This week we worked with weather changes, did some work with temperature, rain gauges, made an anemometer, and started a weather journal.
We have a few changes coming up, I received IEW's Student Writing Intensive A, which Everett will use. I had purchased B and it was a bit above his head. We also made the leap back to All About Spelling, after testing the waters, we realized this is the one that works and with which they actually retain what they learn. We're all very excited for these changes, and Anna has asked to work through All About Spelling even though spelling is already covered in McRuffy. She said AAS is just too much fun not to do!
Tune in next week for our week 22 review.
In Loving Memory of
Rumples
June 1,1997 - February 18, 2010
6 comments:
My condolences to your family.
Despite your grief it seems as if you were productive. I hope next week is easier for all of you.
I'm sorry to hear about your dog. That's rough!
We are loving AAS! I wish I had started it last year with Ryan but oh well.
My kids love Liberty Kids. You might check your library or Netflix for This is America, Charlie Brown. It is an 8-episode series that my son really loves watching. It's just fun.
Thanks for the kind words.
Daisy I know what you mean about AAS, I wished we had found it sooner and stayed with it. I had a real lapse in spelling judgement this year.
Thanks for the tip on the This is America series. I'll check it out.
Sorry to hear about your dog. She looks like she was a great family dog! We have an 11 year old Rotty... she's getting up there! We love AAS too! I'm glad to hear your feedback on that... I was mildly contemplating SWO as it would be less teacher intensive for me. However, they really are learning spelling well and like you say there's great retention. I'm convinced to stick with it.
Oh, I am sorry about your dog.
The loss of a pet can hit kids hard. They get so attached to an animal(s).
Wishing you good next week!
Iris
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