Tot School:
My two-year-old has a death wish! In the last two weeks she has ripped the nailbed of her thumb completely off, stuck a safety pin up her nose (thankfully it was closed and she coughed it out - yuck!), and then burned the tops of all four of her fingers on her right hand.
Her right hand is completely out of commission, but that doesn't stop her. She is one tough chick, that's for sure!
We are continuing on our light little bear theme and made maps for We're Going on a Bear Hunt. You can find the pictures here.
On Saturday, we took the kids on a bear hunt...
... at the zoo!
While we were there, we stopped to see the lions. Hyrum really caught their attention!
Language Arts:
Emmett finished up this week at lesson 34. He is just past a third of the way through it!
Abby started a Mercy Watson book for her reading. She is enjoying the frivolousness of the plot, but also enjoying applying the rules for multisyllabic words she's learned in spelling.
Spelling this week focused on silent e words, which were very simple for her.
She still likes doing spelling on the iPad too.
In grammar, she did some picture narration and started memorizing a new poem: "Hearts Are Like Doors."
We are still working through James and the Giant Peach. Abby and Emmett laugh at whatever the centipede said, especially the part about him taking off and putting on all of his shoes.
Math:
Emmett did some building with C rods.
Abby finished up MEP year 1! The last few weeks included a lot of review. We did a small amount of work with a lot of different things. We did some work with clocks...
...skip counting...
(jumping on every third number)
...patterning...
...and a bit of "machine" work.
She also became interested in fractions recently (now that she is "five-and-three-quarters"), so we did a bit of talking about that. C rods once again proved to be the perfect manipulative.
Geography:
In geography this week we learned about North America. We discussed the Equator and how if you get further from there, the colder it gets.
We also started Abby on Evan-Moor's daily geography grade 1, though it is still a bit easy for her. She seems to get a kick that her grade work is above "kindergarten." LOL
Gymnastics:
The kids are still enjoying their gymnastics.
Their skills are improving and Abby is now excited to move to the older class after she turns six.
They each surprise me with the things they are accomplishing.
And, just for kicks, this is how Hyrum does school:
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