Week 10

This was our last week with Daddy home recovering from surgery.  It was so fun having home (after the immediate recovering part)!

Preschool

Letter Themes

We did the letter P this week.  This craft was easy to throw together.  Ellie made a Pink Paper Polka Dot P.

PreK Activity Book

Ellie worked with comparing colors some more in her book.  She also did a page which required her to line up ant stickers in a line and then a circle.  She really liked that one.

Junior K

Reading

I pulled out Green Eggs and Ham at the beginning of this week, thinking it would be a good book to read through for the whole week.  Emmett read through the whole thing in one sitting!  He just wanted to keep going!  Towards the end he did get a bit exhausted and started making goofy mistakes.  The rest of the week, he read Hop on Pop.

Math

I got Singapore Essentials Math book B this week.  It's a kindergarten-level curriculum for the second semester of K.  It starts out with one more than and one less than, which is still too easy for him.  I imagine he will accelerate through these pages until he finds something that's a bit more challenging...

Handwriting/ETC

We didn't do any this week.  :)

First Grade

Language

Grammar

Abby did lessons 61-63 in grammar this week.  The first involved proper pronoun usage when answering, "It is I."  The second was a narration from the story the Pitcher and the Crow.  The third was a review of the months of the year and days of the week.

Writing

We worked through some selections about Davy Crockett and Sacagawea.  She had a hard time with the narration about Sacagawea.  I wonder if that's just partly exposure...

Reading

Abby finished Stuart Little!  She really enjoyed this book and was happy to finish, but really bummed that it was done.

Spelling

This week's step involved plural vowel-consonant-e words.  The only word that tripped her up was "lakes."  She spelled it "lax" even though she properly spelled "brakes."  After a few days, though, she was working at  it with no problem.  Still, that particular card is under the review section.

Handwriting

We completed the letter j and I did some letter review with her on the white board the rest of the days.

Math

Her math introduced the traditional algorithm for regrouping (or "borrowing") this week.  She worked through it fine.  If she lines the problem up, she has no issues completing the problem.  She still tries to complete a problem in her head, though, and if it involves regrouping within more than one place, it seems like it's a lot to hold in her head.  She is still INSISTENT on solving problems her own way.  I'm sure some of that will change with maturity and experience.

All Together

Science

We began our unit on worms this week.  We went on a worm hunt.  The kids were supposed to hypothesize where they might be.  Since we've had some gardening moment and Emmett is our current Critter King, they went straight to the garden spaces.

We also created our own composting jars to observe the worms composting our layers or oatmeal, sand, and soil.  Unfortunately, though, we put them in the garage and then our weather turned cold.  Rather than beginning to compost, the worms huddled on top of the jar and went dormant.  Whoops!  We moved them into a closet and will check on them next week.

History

We talked about the Middle Kingdom of Egypt this week.  The kids learned about Amenemhet and the Hyksos this week.  I tried to show the kids what a chariot was, but was having a hard time explaining.  One day, though, we were at Target and saw this Lego box.  The kids are going through a Lego stint so it was a perfect way to explain to them...except the mummy/skeleton/monster-ish part.  LOL