Week 6

Daddy had surgery on Tuesday, so I was a lot busier this week.  Besides the surgery and busing him and then the kids back and forth to the hospital, when he got home I had to take care of him on top of the kids.  He had a microdiscectomy/laminectomy to take care of a prolapsed disc in his back.  The relief of the sciatic nerve issues has been almost immediate, but the rest of the healing is taking a little longer than he'd like.  It's actually amazing the progress he's made in nearly a week, but he would still have liked to come home and be back to his daily routine in a couple of days.

When he's awake during the day, some of the kids will migrate towards him.  Sometimes they get a quick cuddle and head back off to play.  Other times, Daddy's feeling up to letting them watch a show on the TV in our room.  This is a rare treat in the middle of the school day.

For having dealt with major surgery in our family, I'm amazed that we missed as little school as we did.  On Tuesday, we basically missed the whole day.  But, because Friday is a light day, we were able to make up the excess without too much issue.

Preschool

Letter Themes

Ellie chose the letter C this week.  So, I hauled out the glue and pom poms and we made caterpillars.  She did this one all on her own and was very pleased with her caterpillar.

Having the pom poms out led to Hyrum wanting a turn.  He enjoyed our magnetic ones.  :)

PreK Activity Book

We did some color review, which was super easy.

The book introduced the story of the Three Little Pigs this week.  As I read the story to Ellie, I was reminded of when Abby was three.  She was OBSESSED with the three little pigs.  They played it in the back yard, she drew them on paper, we read the story over and over, she even made a huge cardboard box her very own brick house.  That year, for Halloween the three kids (at the time) were even the three little pigs and Daddy was the Big Bad Wolf.  Oh, memories! (Squee!  Look how TEENY they were!)

Anyway, Ellie enjoyed the Three Little Pigs.  Of course, we pulled out our three little pigs and the big bad wolf and played with them.  When Abby heard Ellie, she wandered over to join in the fun.  It's still fun to do those things!

Junior K

Reading Lessons

Emmett was still giving me grief over reading lessons.  He's got most of his basic phonograms down, so this week we moved back to 100 Easy Lessons.  I'm hoping that just reading the stories at the end of the book will give him a bit of fluency.  That is ALL he needs.

He has also been reading Daddy some of the rookie readers we have.

Math

We're still just playing games.  Sometimes Daddy will play war or something with Emmett.  We're trying to coast sideways because he still is not-quite-five

Handwriting

Emmett worked on forming numbers properly.  Eight and five still give him troubles.

First Grade

Language Arts

Grammar

We're still working with verbs.  This week, we put some nouns on different cards and action verbs on their own cards.  Then we paired nouns and verbs and made short sentences.  She's had some copywork where she is required to identify the noun(s) and verb.,

Writing

This week focused on copywork and narration from Mary Poppins.  I wonder if she would enjoy the book because she seemed to really enjoy the selections this week...

Reading

Abby read Miss Nelson is Missing and a few other picture books.  I have been searching for another good reading book for her.  She loved Miss Nelson, though.

Spelling

We worked the next step of vowel-consonant-e words this week.  She tested them all correct on Monday, but since it was a tumultuous week, we were both grateful to just sail through spelling this week.



Handwriting

We got through G and H this week, which was pretty good... We do lowercase than uppercase and then repeat with the new letter.



Math

We got Singapore 2a this week!  Abby completed the first unit this week, which was basically three weeks of assigned work.  The first few days she was flying through it, but the last couple of days I slowed her down and we are going to plod through slowly the 2a book.  (When I say slowly, I mean at the designated pace.  LOL)  I am hoping to slow her down with math.  She has really enjoyed being back in Singapore.

This week the focus was on extending the number line up to 1,000.  She loved trading out her tens for hundreds and figuring out was 63 tens make.

All Together

Science

Because Daddy had his surgery on Tuesday, we skipped a day of science.  That left one day for science, which we used to introduce the nervous system.  We did a lab where we tried to catch a ruler to test how fast our nerves worked.  I would have thought that Emmett, who has great hand-eye coordination, would have done great at this.  However, he could hardly catch the ruler!  I guess his nervous system isn't as developed as I had assumed!

History

We learned about Hammurabi and his Code as well as the Assyrians this week.  I checked out the Gilgamesh trilogy from the library.  We are planning on reading those this coming week for some review as well.

Our chicken mummy is coming along well.  A few days after surgery, Daddy was able to sit long enough to help change out the salt.  Here it is after two weeks!