Review -- Oct. 4-8

This week was a bit hectic, we had lots of appointments on Tuesday and Thursday, but still  managed to have a great school week and lots of fun.


Everett  
Continued working through his decimals unit in Teaching Textbooks and is doing really well with  them.  He says they are much easier than fractions.  He finished up the Noun unit in Junior Analytical Grammar and started in on Unit two: Articles and Adjectives. He completed steps 2 and 3 in All About Spelling level 2, and did a few handwriting pages in Can Do Cursive.  


Annika

Asked to return to the full McRuffy Language arts program instead of just doing the dynamic phonics and we worked on lesson 51 and she read half of Super Pork Makes Friends. She completed a few lessons in Teaching Textbooks 3 and said it's kind of boring and could she use McRuffy math again.  She admitted she likes it when I teach her math better, which gave me a huge ego boost. We did lesson 1 in McRuffy math 2 and will be back at it full force next week.  She completed  steps 5 and 6 in All About Spelling level 1 and a few Handwriting without Tears Cursive pages. 


Science and History for Everett and Annika
We did not do any science this week and will start our NOEO Biology level 2 curriculum next week now that it's arrived.  For history we listened to Story of the World Volume 3 chapter 2 about the Protestant Revolts and colored pages of William the Silent and Mary Queen of Scots as well as a map page.  I asked them to give the Story of the World audio book another chance and said they thought it was nice.  I guess Jim Weiss doesn't have such a creepy voice now that they are a little older.  


Lucas
He completed lessons  11-13 in both McRuffy Phonics and Reading K and McRuffy Math K.  He also did lesson 4 in McRuffy Science K which started our unit on the five senses.  He finished a few pages in his Handwriting without Tears Letters and Numbers For Me book. He's doing really well and is starting to get the hang of blending some letters together to make words.  


Art for All
This week we got out another craft box I picked up at AC Moore and made paper plate bugs.  The kids have been having so much fun with these, but unless I find more we'll have to go back and finish left over projects from the ones we've done or try something else.
Here's a few pictures of the art day fun.

The last thing we did this week has nothing to do with school, but we'd like to share.  Annika and I were out picking up a few pet supplies and the local Petsmart was having Adoption Days.  We found a very loving, cuddly, 6 year old, big lump of a cat that really needed a home.  It was his last chance for adoption and would have been put down if nobody chose to take him today.  We just couldn't see leaving such a sweet, gorgeous cat  like him behind.  He's truly a joy and is settling in very well in our home.
Here's our new Big Boy...   SAMMY!

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