Summer School Week 4 -- May 24-28

After a two week break we had a few lessons this week.  The first of our weeks off was spent painting and reorganizing our school room, the second week was spent enjoying some time with my mom who came into town.  We went to the Virginia Aquarium, the Virginia Zoo and Busch Gardens Williamsburg.  Everett also celebrated his 11th birthday.
This week we did some lessons on Monday-Wednesday and spent Thursday and Friday doing fun art projects.
Here's the run down.
Everett:
Grammar: Growing with Grammar 5: He completed lessons 3.19-4.3, he wrapped up the verb unit and started in on pronouns.  
Reading:  He's continuing to read  The Fire Within and is really enjoying it.  He asked me to pick up the other 3 books in the series and plans to read all of those over the summer. 
Math: We've reached the point of math maintenance for the summer.  He's working through Evan Moor Daily Word Problems and other various fact sheets I give him.


Annika:
Language Arts: CLE LTR and LA was moving a bit slow so we've dropped the workbooks and are just using flash cards and the primers.  We're also doing some lessons from The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading which she's enjoying since I started writing out the parts she's supposed to read on the white board.  She's also working on Explode the Code workbook 3.  She asked to start using ETC again, because she likes the funny pictures. She also has only two more speech therapy sessions left for the year.  It's amazing how far she's come.  
Math: She's been working on Horizons math and has completed Lessons 1-12 as well as test 1 since the books arrived.  She's really enjoying all the colorful pages and loves that she's working with the hundreds and thousands place now. She's doing really well and I've noticed her addition facts are almost all mastered.
Lucas:
Preschool: Lucas continues to do some fun pages from Kumon books, playing with his smartcycle and listening to someone read him a story.  


All three kids worked on some Model Magic presto dot kits that I bought and had a lot of fun with it.  I'll have to work on bringing stuff like that out more often.

We've received all of our curriculum for the next school year and have placed it all on the shelves so it's ready to go when we start up full time again.  It may be a while since we're enjoying our summer.

Next week will be another casual week because we have some appointments to take care of and the following week is standardized test week.