M:
* Reading - Listen Up! Alexander Graham Bell's Talking Machine, Eat My Dust! Henry Ford's First Race, Lewis and Clark: A Prairie Dog for the President, Dogerella & Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner (The book about Alexander Graham Bell was her favorite this week.)
* Reading Comprehension - She worked on identifying story elements in the story Best Friends, and developing vocabulary in the story Redwood Trees
* Grammar - Lessons 7-9 (She learned about pronouns and memorized a list of the most commonly used. She also reviewed common/proper nouns, plurals and on Friday she started a poem memorization of The Land of Nod.)
* Spelling - Steps 8-13 (She's completely got down segmentation of words, and it has helped so much this week with her spelling in other areas of work.)
* Phonics - Lessons 11-13 (She finished the book this week and also took the post-test. The next book was delivered on Thursday, and she was ready to jump right into it. However, upon completion of the post-test I noticed that she still got a bit hung up on vowel digraphs, so we are going to spend the upcoming week reviewing those before moving on to the next book. Also, I am seriously going to limit the amount of pages per lesson she can do in one day - down from an entire lesson (10+ pages) to 2 pages a day - that way each lesson is stretched out over a week giving us more time to focus on the new phonograms/digraphs that she is supposed to be learning. I'm pretty sure that's why she had some trouble with the digraphs on the post-test, she just rushed though the lessons to quickly for anything to really stick with her. She was just so excited, and I was thrilled that she actually wanted to work on phonics that I let her go ahead and threw out my previous plans. Should have known better. Oh well, a week of review and then she should be more than ready to move on.)
* Writing - Lesson 3 (She worked on action verbs and using strong verbs in her writing)
* Copywork - Parts 2 & 3 of Young Night Thought
* Geography - Week 3 (Parts of a Map)
* Math - Lessons 11-18 & a quiz (Pretty bummed out that Life of Fred has not arrived yet. Hopefully by the beginning of this upcoming week.)
* Handwriting - Letters g, h, and t
T:
* Math - Lessons 13 - 20 (writing numbers up to 9, counting up to 20, counting pennies, along with review of facts already learned)
* Reading - Endings -ob, -og, -ug, -un & -ut and lots and lots of reading (T really has CVC words pretty down pat. He's ready to start adding in some beginning blend sounds, but we're taking our time and only doing a lesson a day so that he doesn't get too overwhelmed. We should be done with book 2 in about another 7-8 days and then we'll move right into the first grade workbook 1.)
* Writing (Handwriting Without Tears) - I added in Handwriting Without Tears this week (The book only arrived on Thursday morning, so we only got two lessons in this week. This will take the place of a "formal" writing program with him for now - between writing he does in science/history/phonics it's more than enough.)
* Phonics (Explode the Code Book 1) - I had been planning to hold off and wait to introduce ETC until this fall because there is quite a lot of writing involved, but he's ready for the material now, so we'll just do some of the pages orally. This also came on Thursday, and he has completed the first 4 pages so far.
* Language Arts (Spectrum Language Arts K) - Also a workbook I had planned on waiting until the fall to start, but he found it and wanted to start. It's a very easy introduction to language arts, so really at this point it's more like busy work (ex. circle the capital letters, cross out the lower case letters, match the upper case letter to the lower case letter etc.) but he loves it. (Eventually it does move into more formal language arts and introduces nouns and verbs, but that's not for weeks and weeks.)
Both:
* Readings - Chapters 12-16 of Charlotte's Web (We made it to the fair) & Poetry (Holding Hands & The Field Mouse)
* World History - This week we started our introduction to Ancient Egypt. We learned about Upper & Lower Egypt and the king that united both kingdoms (King Narmar); the Nile River (why it was so important to the ancient people and why the ancient Egyptians believed that it flooded every year); we also learned about some of the gods the ancient Egyptians believed in. We read selected readings from Eyewitness: Ancient Egypt, Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile, Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, and a book of Egyptian Myths (T's absolute favorite this week). We also read tales from Cuba, Puerto Rico & Mexico. From Children Just Like Me we read about Gabriel from Alaska, Levi from Canada, Ari from Europe and Monika from Hungary. Plus an end of the week test and work in our lapbook.
* Biology - We moved onto a formal study of mammal animals this week. Specifically, lions, cheetahs and elephants. Both M & T memorized a poem about mammal characteristics, filled out pages on each animals studied for their notebooks, and started on the animals lapbook. We did a fun experiment on reflectors (like cats eyes). This week we also stated our animal study project. For the next 17 weeks we will be studying an animal in its habitat to see the changes it goes through and write about those changes. M picked ladybugs, and T picked an ant farm. (I'm so thankful that neither picked frogs.) I ordered the kits on Monday, but they still have yet to arrive - hopefully soon. M/T also took an end of week test.
* US History - This is the area that suffered this week due to our not feeling so well. We finished up our study on Christopher Columbus and read Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620, but that's as far as we got this week. We were also scheduled to read/learn about Pounce de Leon and then of course our state study (New Jersey). We'll catch-up with what we missed on Monday morning.
Picture post of our week to follow...
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