This was a good week, we hit the books and got quite a bit done. The weather was crazy, warm, then cold.We were able to do take a field trip and did a fun art project.
Everett...
completed the rest of Steps 19-21 in All About Spelling level 2. Saxon math 7/6 lessons 17-19 were completed. Penmanship with Handwriting without Tears Cursive is continuing to go really well. First Language Lessons level 3 is going well, he completed lessons 3-5. He also completed week 2 of Writing with Ease level 3, and has really enjoyed the reading passages from the. His narrations are getting better every time we do one, and he's doing extremely well with the dictation exercises. He even wrote out one of his narrations in cursive, which was great practice, and a huge surprise for me. I've included a picture of it here.
Annika...
completed pages 5-10 in Explode the Code Book 4. She finished steps 13 and 14 in All About Spelling level 1. Saxon Math 3 lessons 29-31 were completed. We worked through lessons 4-6 in First Language Lessons level 1. She's memorized The Caterpillar by Christina G. Rosetti, but is having trouble remembering the authors name. Over all I'm really impressed with her work in FLL. She had fun with Writing with Ease level 1 week 6, she managed to cut her narration down to include just the highlights.
finished pages 48-54 in his Get Ready for the Code book. He completed lessons 14-16 in Saxon Math K. Here's a few pictures of him having fun with pattern blocks during math.
Lucas...
Science and History
This was a Science week, but we also did a little history. For science we worked on the elements beryllium and magnesium from group 2. The kids dissolved some epsom salt and then let the water evaporate to show the difference between the crystals of the dissolved epsom salt and the way it comes when purchased. For history we read about the start of the slave trade in america and then made some african stamp paintings.
We also had a fun field trip this week. We went to the Virginia Zoo because they were allowing zoo members in to get a sneak peak of the new Trail of the Tiger exhibits. The tigers weren't out yet, as their habitat is not quite finished but we saw lots of other fun animals and had a great time. The zoo was fairly quiet which made for an enjoyable trip, where the kids were able to see all the animals an ask zoo staff questions about them.
We're ending the week by anxiously awaiting the arrival of our new All About Reading Program for Lucas. Hopefully we'll have some nice weather as well.
2 comments:
Looks like you had fun! I want to go to the zoo! =)
Those stamp paintings are pretty cool. Sounds like a lovely, productive week.
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