Summer School Week 2 -- April 26- May 1

So far our summer Language Arts and Math lessons have been going great.  We have a few things ordered we're going to be trying out.  First is Jackris publishings, the makers of growing with grammar, new spelling program.  The kids are interested to see what it's like.  We also have Sonlight curriculum's Core 3: Introduction to American History Part 1 items on the way.  We had a lot of them so we figured we do a more thorough study of American history and that starting at the beginning was the wisest thing to do. 
Here's what we did this week.
Everett:
Grammar: Growing with Grammar 5: He completed lessons 3.11-3.15. Verbs can be tough but he's doing well and seems to be retaining it.
Spelling: All About Spelling 2 steps 16 was completed.  
Reading: He's taken a break from reading Bunnicula Strikes Again to read other non-fiction books around the house.  He's also been reading picture books to his little brother. 
Math: Teaching Textbooks lessons 56-59 and Quiz 10  were completed. Multiplying and Dividing Fractions was a rough road in the beginning but he seems to have caught on and thinks  fractions are fun now.
Annika:
Language Arts: Well we started our CLE program this week and she completed Light Unit 105 in the Learn to Read series.  She is doing well in her Language Arts lightunit 101 and should finish that next week.  That leaves 5 Learn to Read lightunits and 9 Language Arts lightunits left to go.  She's enjoying the work and is more confident when she reads out loud.  I think the flashcards for words and phrases as well as the mix of phonics and sight reading approach is just what she needed.  I just hope things continue to progress well.
Spelling: On hold until our new Soaring with Spelling comes.  We hit a wall in AAS 1 and she's not ready to move forward there, so we'll just sit and stew a bit and try out SWS when it gets here.
Math: We hit a spot in Saxon math 2 where it was all review again so we went back to doing a test a day until we found her next hurdle.  This means she passed the tests allowing her to skip lessons 41-60 and finished lesson 61 this week.  Her addition and subtraction facts are coming along well.  We've hit the part where they teach what they call the "oddball" facts.  Things like 8+5 and 7+4 where they're is no real pattern to the set of facts that can be taught.
Lucas:
Preschool: Is just doing his thing.  Playing with his smart cycle, doing a work page here and there, having fun being 4 for a few more months. 


We're excited about our lessons lately and I hope that continues.  We're also looking forward to a visit from my Mom in about 2 weeks.  She'll be here for a week which should be lots of fun.

Tune in next week for our Summer School Week 3 review.