2013-2014 Week 5

Everett works on his history narration

Over all this was a pretty good week.  We had an appointment one day and the weather took a rainy turn later in the week, but that just meant we could stay inside and get quite a bit accomplished. 

Everett got an A on his Grammar test, which he was very proud of.   He completed another step in spelling, only a handful left until he moves to the next level.   He wrote a keyword outline for a paragraph on Standard Time, completed Unit 1 in science and worked on exponents in math. 

Annika working on her narration

Annika continued working on the pronoun unit in grammar, this unit is a tough one.  She'll take her test for it next week.  She wrote a rough draft for her Oyster paragraph, worked on editing it, and started lesson 9 in reading and spelling.  In science she continued working with the microscope this time looking at cheek cells and learning about the nucleus of a cell. 

Lucas and his coloring page

Lucas had another good week, he continued working on writing cursive Ds, read words that have beginning blends and learned about words with a short i sound for spelling. In math, he blazed through the lessons on circles and triangles.  For science he learned about the differences between natural and human-made items. 

In history we decided to not continue reading the book Mara: Daughter of the Nile, the kids felt it was a little too "soap-opera" for them.  We did continue reading The Golden Goblet, which they are enjoying.  I read aloud from Story of the World Volume 1, about the first nomads, and the older two kids wrote a narration about it.  Lucas colored a picture of a Shaduf and they all colored in some maps of the Fertile Crescent area.  I was really proud of Ev and Annika for doing written narrations for the first time and not a complaint could was lodged.  They both said they enjoyed it and want to do it routinely as part of history.  

For Art we finished our study of Piet Mondrian.  We each made an interpretation of one of his works with our own vision.  Next week we'll take a break from Meet the Masters to work on some fun Halloween art projects.