Everett worked continued working on pronouns, which have proven to be a real pain in his backside. We found a few things in math that he needed some review on, so we put the higher level math aside and went back to work on parallel and perpendicular lines as well as finding the area of a triangle. He began his Student Writing Intensive C, and completed a keyword outline and rough draft on a paragraph about music, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence. He did pretty well, but we did have to go over the steps in the writing/editing process to refresh his memory.
Annika continued on lesson 8 of her Barton Reading and Spelling level 3. This lesson has her working with the unit endings -ank, -ink, -onk, -unk, -ang, -ing, -ong, and -ung. She also reviewed her previous spelling rules. Math for her included finishing chapters 14 and 15 in Math U See Gamma, and her second unit test of the year. She's doing really well with math and loves the new program. Lastly for the week we went back to Student Writing Intensive A, and she wrote a small paragraph on Starfish. She really enjoyed the topic and did quite well.
Lucas worked on writing cursive As, and did many work pages from chapter 8 in Math U See Alpha. He is learning to add 8 to a number. He still wasn't feeling 100% so it was a pretty light week for him with lots of read aloud and snuggle time on the couch with mom.
We had a little discussion on history which just isn't cutting the mustard for them and they asked to go back to the beginning of the 4 year history cycle. After a few days of research and thought I decided on Sonlight's Core G which looks like it includes many books the kids will enjoy and uses some old favorites as well. I'm rather excited to be going into a different time period, the 19th century was really starting to bum us out.
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