Summer School Week 1 -- April 19-23

It's our first official week of summer school.  This will actually be a long session because we wrapped up a lot of subjects early this year and because we'll be starting later than normal so we can have lots of time off when Matt comes back from deployment. 
Here's what we did this week.
Everett:
Grammar: Growing with Grammar 5: He completed lessons 3.6-3.10 even sneaking down Wednesday night when he couldn't sleep to get his grammar work for Thursday to work on in the middle of the night.  He's doing so well with this program and things seem to be sticking. 
Spelling: All About Spelling 2 steps 14 and 15 were completed.  
Reading: He is reading  Bunnicula Strikes Again.  He's purposely slowed down to try and stretch the book out. 
Math: Teaching Textbooks Quiz 9 and lessons 52-55  were completed. I think he finally understands GCF and LCM, and has now moved onto Unit 10 which works on multiplying and dividing fractions.
Annika:
Language Arts: UGH!  That's almost all I can say about LA with this girl.  We're still working on reading at grade level and fluently.  Saxon phonics ended up being a flop, so we're back to Christian Light Education Learn to Read.  She only needs to do the 2nd half of it because we did the first half last summer.  She'll also be adding in CLE's Language Arts along with it since that's how the program is set up.  We spent the last 3 days of this week doing a review of the first 4 lightunit workbooks for Learn to Read using the reading primers, word and phrase flashcards.  She did so well with it, I guess she wasn't as far behind as I thought, now I just have to keep moving her forward.  I will get this girl reading fluently if it kills me, which many times I've thought it will.
Spelling: Nothing in All About Spelling, but we'll have some spelling work in our CLE work.
Math: I'm so glad that math has been figured out and finalized for her.  Saxon is working great and she enjoys it.  She completed lessons 36-40 this week and seems to have mastered those pesky doubles +1 facts.
Lucas:
Preschool: He's still working away at his Kumon maze, number and cutting book.  I do have the Rod and Staff ABC series on it's way for him because he's blazing through these other books. 


Because the kids asked about continuing history in a relaxed way I've decided to just read Story of the World Volume 3 to them at a leisurely read aloud pace through the next month or so.  We'll probably throw in a coloring page or map from the activity guide from time to time.  The reason I decided this is because our last program didn't have us read this book in order, which made somethings a little hard to understand.  The kids enjoy the book and were very excited to hear I'd decided to read it all over again in order.

Tune in next week for our Summer School Week 2 review.