Review -- Oct. 11-15

Another week done, but also another week of crazy schedules.   We didn't accomplish as much as I would have liked, but we did get to break into our new science curriculum which was a lot of fun.  I'll apologize in advance for the lack of pictures this week.  I didn't get a chance to scan anything in or take any pictures.


Everett...
is almost finished with the first decimal unit in Teaching Textbooks 6 and only has 45 lessons or quizzes left before he's done with this level.  He finished up the Articles and Adjectives unit in Junior Analytical Grammar and is continuing to do well. He completed step 4 in All About Spelling level 2, and did a few handwriting pages in Can Do Cursive.  


Annika...

is continuing to read Super Pork Makes Friends to work on her fluency.  We should wrap up the lessons on this book next week. She did lesson 2 in McRuffy math and although she likes it enough says the pages are a bit short.  We'll probably add to this using Saxon math.   She completed  step 7 in All About Spelling level 1 and a few Handwriting without Tears Cursive pages. Her cursive is coming along nicely and she is enjoying learning to form the letters.


Science and History for Everett and Annika
They listened to chapter 3 of Story of the World vol. 3 about James III of Scotland and James I of England, colored a picture of The Susan Constant and did some mapwork about James and the ships he sent to America which lead to the settlement of Jamestown.  They also asked if we could take a trip up there in the spring to see it.  Sounds like a great field trip to me.  Science was fantastic this week.  We started our new NOEO Biology 2 lessons and made waterscopes with a piece of cardboard, a thin piece of plastic (small piece I cut from a page protector), some tape and a drop of water.  They have done 3 narration pages with this program so far and love it.  I am very happy about this because we tried NOEO in the past and the narration pages were a bust,  now that Everett is willing to write more and Annika isn't as afraid to ask for help on them they are doing a wonderful job. 


Lucas
He completed lesson 14 in both McRuffy Phonics and Reading K and McRuffy Math K.  He also did lessons 5-6 in McRuffy Science K which continued our unit on the five senses.  He finished a few pages in his Handwriting without Tears Letters and Numbers For Me book. He's starting to hit a wall with McRuffy due to the quick pace of it, so we'll put it on the shelf for a while and work through The Do It Carefully book from Rod and Staff's ABC series of workbooks.   


Art for All
We did no formal art this week, no fun project packs or anything.  The kids just had fun doing drawings and other various art type things throughout the week. 


Due to the crazy schedule we also had a Home Ec day where we spent time going over general household chores and cooking things.  We also had a Math Game day where we spent the whole school day playing different games to work on math skills. 


Enjoy your weekend and come check us out again next week.