Week in Review Feb. 4-8

It's been a busy week for us. We started out with a trip to the local teachers store on Monday to pick up a few things we'll need for science. The kids have been working very hard.

Everett:
Languages arts: He wrapped a week of spelling working on words that use the long /i/ sound spelled in different ways. Grammar is continuing to go very well, he has been learning about the different types of sentences and is retaining tremendous amounts. I think we've found a grammar program we can really stick with for the long haul. He's also continued reading various books and we've been working through Evan-Moor's "Write a Super Sentence" which he really enjoys.

Math: We've continued workin on graphing and reading various types of graphs. We also started to work more with imperical measurements. Next week we'll begin 2 digit by 1 digit multiplication. We've also begun using the Timez Attacks multiplication computer game which has been great fun.

Penmanship: He continued to work on his cursive writing which is coming along nicely

Geography: He worked on learning to read a Political Map.


Annika:
Language Arts: She has continued to work through the Click n Kids phonics program and her Explode the Code phonics books. She successfully covered all of the short vowel sounds and read her first 5 real books over the last few days. The books are very simple phonics readers that are only 7-8 pages long and come from Starfall.com

Math: She has been working on reading the calendar, has been mastering left and right and finishing up learning ordinal numbers 1st-3rd.

Penmanship: Continuing to work on perfecting her manuscript printing.

Geography: Learning to read a world picture graph.

Both Everett and Annika:

History: We covered The Maori from Austrailia, The Franks and finished the week with the Islamic Invasion and the Rock of Gibraltor.

Science: Even though it wasn't a science week we still did a Pocket in our Penguin pocket book.

Physical Education: The kids have started soccer in homeschool PE at the Y, but we also had a beautiful warm day and had some fun playing on the playset as well as a fun game of dodgeball in the backyard.

Lucas spent the week coloring and playing as usual.

Have a great weekend.

Kel

Not quite Wordless Not quite Wednesday

I'm a day late in getting this up.





Sometimes playing trains is so tiring.

Week in Review Jan 27- Feb 2

Boys being Boys



The kids decided to draw pictures of crabs.

The week went well for school we took off on Thursday since we were all feeling a bit rundown.
Here's a little of what we did.

Everett is still enjoying his Growing with Grammar program, he says it's fun and I so happy we found something that just clicks for him. He's also kept up with his math lessons and was learning some more multiplications tables, working on time to the minute, and did some graph work. He also took the Teaching Textbook placement test to see where he'd fall for next year. He placed into the 5th grade program, no bad for a kid that's only 1/3 of the way through 3rd grade. We didn't do history this week as we've decided to adopt a rotating schedule with Science for the rest of the year. This week was a Science week so we continued our Penguin pocket book and reading Mr. Popper's Penguin. Ev has also almost finished reading The Chalkbox Kid and is starting to look for the next book he'll read.

Annika has been doing really well with the Click n Kids online phonics program and her Explode the Code books. She is doing really well reading simple phonics readers. She's also still really enjoying the Saxon math that we recently started. She's doing very well with the 1st grade math program and is very proud of herself since most kids of her age are in Kindergarten.

Both kids have been enjoying Homeschool PE class in which they are learning some basketball fundementals.

Lucas is just busy being a 2½ year old. He's been learning about Pokemon from his older brother and sister and enjoys trying to squeeze in to color during school time and loves listening in to the read alouds. He's a busy boy.

Kel