Weekly Review -- January 9-13, 2012

We're finally back in session.  It was great to take a nice long holiday break, but now it's time to get back on the horse.  We took it easy this week and just did the basics.  

Monday

Annika had vision therapy and her 16 week progress eval for it.  The Doctor was very happy with the progress she's made.  She has made a lot of progress in her reading abilities since starting therapy.  It has definitely been worth it. 

Everett did a math lesson, and Lucas had gymnastics and played a math game with me.

Tuesday

Annika did a math lesson, a spelling lesson, read a little and her vision therapy homework.

Everett did a math lesson, a spelling lesson and a grammar review page. Lucas did 2 math lessons and a phonics lesson.

Wednesday

Annika did a math lesson, a spelling lesson and her vision therapy homework.

Everett did a math lesson and a spelling lesson

Lucas did 2 math lessons and a phonics lesson

We then took off for the bowling alley on at the Navy base.  Lucas bowled 3 games and Ev, Annika and I each bowled 5 games.  As always we had a great time. I retained the weekly high game trophy with a score of 152.

Thursday

Annika did a math lesson, a spelling lesson and her vision therapy homework.

Everett took a math quiz and did a spelling lesson.  He also reviewed some writing pages.

Lucas did a math lesson and played a game with me.

Then we took a trip to the library where they all picked out a backpack full of books.

Friday

We took the day off and went to see Beauty and the Beast 3D.

Then the kids did had some free art time in which they made Key Blades (something from the Kingdom Hearts video game) of duct tape and cardboard.  After this they spent a couple hours playing outside with these crazy creations.

We'll be starting up more subjects next week, we have a little revamping to do with the schedule and curriculum, but nothing major.  

All About Reading 1 has finally been released

I know many have been interested in when All About Learning Press releases new items.

All About Reading 1 has officially been released.

Just click on the link above or here and you'll be taken to the All About Reading 1 webpage.

We have loved using All About Reading level Pre 1 and can't wait to dig into level 1

Weekly Review -- October 31-November 4

This week we kept it easy and light so we could do lots around the house to prepare for Matt's visit.  We're all very excited and can't wait to see him.  He comes in tomorrow (the 5th) and it will have been 70 days since we last saw him.

Everett...

Completed pages 11-13 in his Key to Fractions book and 3 lessons and a quiz in Teaching Textbooks 7. He finished step 8 in All About Spelling level 3, and completed 4 pages in his penmanship book.  He spent quite a bit of time reading to his little brother and played board games with both his brother and sister.

Annika...

Had her first progress evaluation in vision therapy and the Dr. was so happy with the progress she's made.  She's such a happy kid since starting this therapy.  She finally realizes that with the right tools she can learn to be a great reader.   She also completed 5 lessons Teaching Textbooks 4 and was so excited to be getting into multiplication more.  She did 8 pages in Explode the Code book 4, finished step 3 in All About Spelling Level 2, and completed 4 pages in her penmanship book.  

Lucas...

completed 4 lessons in McRuffy math, 8 pages in his penmanship book and 2 lessons in All About Reading Pre-1.  His fine motor skills are really coming along.  He loves having school time each day and looks forward to it each day. 



Next week Matt requested that we plug along with school work while he's here, so he can join in on the teaching and it sounded like a great time to finally bring history and science into the mix.  The kids can't wait to start those subjects.  So I'm going to plug away tonight and get all the prep work done for next week so we can just open our folders and go!