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!

Weekly Review -- October 23-28, 2011

This 'week' worth of school took us two calendar weeks to get through because we had a run of head colds come through and then lots of appointments mixed in there. We're all getting very excited because Matt will be home for a visit in 8 more days.  It will be great to have him home even if it's only for a short while.  Here's what we did this past two weeks.

Everett...

Working on his Peter the Great paragraph

Completed pages 6-10 in his Key to Fractions book and took his first spot check on the Key to Tracker and scored 90%.  He also completed 3 lessons in Teaching Textbooks 7, and half of step 8 in All About Spelling Level 3.  He did 3 penmanship pages and I must say his cursive is really coming along nicely, he starting to use it more often then print in his assignments.  He also worked through week 1 days 2 and 3 in Writing With Skill.  They were tough lessons for him because he's moving from summarizing short paragraphs to larger stories.  He had a rough time with the day two assignment on the excerpt from Wolves of Willoboughby Chase but was super excited when the next days excerpt was from The Story of the World: Volume 3 and was about Peter the Great.  I was happy with the paragraph about Peter he turned in. Lastly he got braces this week and is very excited to have them.  He had pretty sore teeth for about 3 days, but says it's getting better everyday. 

Annika...

I finally got a picture of her. 

Has been doing really well is vision therapy and has begun reading me a picture book each day.  She's really enjoying the books and doing an amazing job in working on her fluency and decoding.  It so nice to see her being able to enjoy reading instead of dreading it.  The books she's read are listed on the sidebar.  Her book work this week included 4 lessons and a quiz in Teaching Textbooks 4, 6 pages in Explode the Code book 4,finishing step 2 and half of step 3 in All About Spelling Level 2, and 5 pages in her penmanship book.  

Lucas...

completed 8 lessons in McRuffy math, 6 pages in his penmanship book and 3 lessons in All About Reading Pre-1.  He's having so much fun playing the games again and doing the letter pages this time through. 

Art

I bought a huge bucket of air dry clay and let the kids go to town with it, they make a few dragon figures and then painted the.  They also helped me make our Angry Bird costumes for Halloween.