Here's the run down of what we did this week.
Everett:
Grammar: Growing with Grammar 5 is working really well, he's enjoying the lessons and doing quite well with them. He completed Lessons 2.7-2.11 working with nouns and plurals.
Spelling: All About Spelling 2 steps 5 and 6 were completed and he's doing really well with it. We may speed up the pace a bit since the upcoming lessons are more of a review for him.
Writing: This week he did the reinforcement lessons with the model The Cocks and the Eagle, he's doing well with it and enjoys writing. He's even jumped ahead on his own to start changing the details to create a similar but unique story. I guess he's ready to move on to Unit 3 and the story sequence.
Reading: He had gotten through about half of How to Train Your Dragon with the kids and they are all looking forward to seeing the movie in IMAX 3D when finished. I see a field trip in our future.
Math: Teaching Textbooks lessons 41-43 and Quiz 7 were completed. He completed the unit on fractions and began the unit on Factors.
Annika:
Language Arts:Explode the Code Book 2 is going well and I've noticed just the reading in this workbook has helped her a great deal. Saxon Phonics 2 arrived this Wednesday and she's very excited to start that next week. I think it will help her quite a bit. The coding will be a new thing we've never done, but I have a feeling it will help her make sense of things. She's also completed episodes 61-64 in Headsprout which leaves her only 16 episodes until she's finished, she's very excited about it and I noticed that she has very little trouble reading while doing her episodes. I think reading out loud to me makes her a bit nervous, so we'll have to work on making her more comfortable with that.
Spelling: All About Spelling level 1 steps 11-12 were completed. We may put AAS on hold for a little while, so we can get Saxon Phonics 2 up and running, because it does include spelling.
Math: Saxon Math 2 is going great, she really likes the lessons and was excited to see drawing boxes for the some-some more and some-some went away stories (also known as word problems) come back. After working over last weekend with the assessments to find a better placement for her she completed lessons 21-25 and is doing really well with her math facts.
Lucas:
Preschool: He's completed lessons 32-35 in both his My first book of Coloring and My first book of Mazes.
Subjects we all do together.
History: Nothing again this week, I really have to get us back on track here.
Science: We have continued to track the moon on the nights we can see it and have found a NASA website that shows us what it looks like when we can't see it for ourselves. We also completed units on Venus and Earth. For our Venus unit we did a lab using a glass jar to show how the thick atmosphere on Venus traps in the heat from the sun making it incredibly hot on the surface. For our Earth unit we made a biosphere out of a used 2 liter soda bottle and hope to see the results of our work later next week so we can complete our lab sheet. Next week we move on to Mars and then across the asteroid belt to Jupiter.
Tune in next week for our week 26 review.
Grammar: Growing with Grammar 5 is working really well, he's enjoying the lessons and doing quite well with them. He completed Lessons 2.7-2.11 working with nouns and plurals.
Spelling: All About Spelling 2 steps 5 and 6 were completed and he's doing really well with it. We may speed up the pace a bit since the upcoming lessons are more of a review for him.
Writing: This week he did the reinforcement lessons with the model The Cocks and the Eagle, he's doing well with it and enjoys writing. He's even jumped ahead on his own to start changing the details to create a similar but unique story. I guess he's ready to move on to Unit 3 and the story sequence.
Reading: He had gotten through about half of How to Train Your Dragon with the kids and they are all looking forward to seeing the movie in IMAX 3D when finished. I see a field trip in our future.
Math: Teaching Textbooks lessons 41-43 and Quiz 7 were completed. He completed the unit on fractions and began the unit on Factors.
Annika:
Language Arts:Explode the Code Book 2 is going well and I've noticed just the reading in this workbook has helped her a great deal. Saxon Phonics 2 arrived this Wednesday and she's very excited to start that next week. I think it will help her quite a bit. The coding will be a new thing we've never done, but I have a feeling it will help her make sense of things. She's also completed episodes 61-64 in Headsprout which leaves her only 16 episodes until she's finished, she's very excited about it and I noticed that she has very little trouble reading while doing her episodes. I think reading out loud to me makes her a bit nervous, so we'll have to work on making her more comfortable with that.
Spelling: All About Spelling level 1 steps 11-12 were completed. We may put AAS on hold for a little while, so we can get Saxon Phonics 2 up and running, because it does include spelling.
Math: Saxon Math 2 is going great, she really likes the lessons and was excited to see drawing boxes for the some-some more and some-some went away stories (also known as word problems) come back. After working over last weekend with the assessments to find a better placement for her she completed lessons 21-25 and is doing really well with her math facts.
Lucas:
Preschool: He's completed lessons 32-35 in both his My first book of Coloring and My first book of Mazes.
Subjects we all do together.
History: Nothing again this week, I really have to get us back on track here.
Science: We have continued to track the moon on the nights we can see it and have found a NASA website that shows us what it looks like when we can't see it for ourselves. We also completed units on Venus and Earth. For our Venus unit we did a lab using a glass jar to show how the thick atmosphere on Venus traps in the heat from the sun making it incredibly hot on the surface. For our Earth unit we made a biosphere out of a used 2 liter soda bottle and hope to see the results of our work later next week so we can complete our lab sheet. Next week we move on to Mars and then across the asteroid belt to Jupiter.
Tune in next week for our week 26 review.
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Great to read that you had a lovely week with the children!
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