Weekly Review -- May 16-20, 2011

This will be my last weekly review until we start school in full force again next Sept.  For the remainder of this month we'll be doing math only on a 7 day a week schedule.  Other than that we're done for the year.  

Everett...

Tried out Life of Fred and didn't care for it, so he'll just continue with Teaching Textbooks as his only math program. I'm fine with this, he loves it and learns well from it.  He also worked on some writing of the story from his "Brain" that he wrote a story sequence outline for a few weeks ago. 

Annika...

completed lesson 28 and Quiz 4  in Teaching Textbooks Math 4, we covered 5 lessons in AAS   1, which were doing as a phonics remediation. She also did a good amount of reading out loud to me and took a DORA test, which told me just what I thought.  Her reading level is high 2nd grade, but her comprehension of something read to her is mid 11th grade. 


Lucas...
did a little bit of Math and Get ready for the code, but was very excited to get Singapore Earlybird math from the UPS man on Friday and insisted on doing the whole first unit in book A right that moment.

Art
Since Friday was Everett's 12th birthday he requested a special art lesson of a trip to the local paint your own pottery shop.  The kids had such a blast and talked to the owner about what art camp days they'll be attending.  She's so nice to them (as is her husband) and does really wonderful camp days during the summer where the kids can make some great things.


Here's a few pictures of them at the studio and  Everett's cake (not my best work but it was hot so the icing was really melty). I'll try to remember to post more after we pick up our fired pieces.