Week 11

Not a whole lotta' pictures this week... We did have sick kids and a bunch of appointments for Mom and the aforementioned sick kids.  So, we took it a bit easier than normal this week and will do a few more fun projects this weekend.

Preschool

Letter Themes

Ellie didn't really want to do a letter this week, and I didn't push that.  :)

PreK Activity Book

Ellie LOVED what was in her book this week.

She did both the Old Lady that Swallowed a Fly AND Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.  She liked this youTube video for Old Lady.  We also did a few for the Mulberry Bush, but she didn't love either one.  Searching youTube, though, did segue us into finding a bunch of different videos for the kids to dance and sing along to.

Junior K

Reading

Emmett read through I See Sam readers this week (specifically books 14-18).  I'm hoping to build his fluency and these are easy for him.

Math

This is one of those things we skipped.  Not because he didn't enjoy it last week, but because I sent it with Dad to get the spine chopped off and we didn't get around to it till yesterday.  So, it sat in the car all week.  Whoops!

Handwriting/ETC

Skipped this this week as well.

First Grade

Language

Grammar

Because we're ahead here, this was one of the first things to drop because of everything else.

Writing

Writing this week involved the Trumpet of the Swan, which is another E.B. White book.

Reading

I let Abby choose between a few books and she chose to read Ramona, the Pest.  These chapters are a bit longer so she only read through chapter two this week.

Spelling

This week we introduced words that are spelled with "ee."  This included her first "rule-breaker."  In AAS, we send the rule-breaker to jail.

The next few times she was told to spell the word, she denoted that it was a rule-breaker.  The first time, she tried to draw a sheriff like what was on the card.  That proved to be a bit more involved than she wanted.  The next few times, she settled for a sheriff's star.  LOL

Handwriting

Definitely skipped this one this week.  :)

Math

Math this week went over measuring in meters, centimeters, yards, inches, and feet and the differences between them all.  She really enjoyed math this week.  On Friday, we did another review.  She did great, except for two problems with subtracting three digit numbers.  Again, she tried to solve it in her head and really confused herself.  I imagine either she WILL figure out how to solve such problems in her head, or she'll just start using the standard algorithm.  Either way, I'm not worried...

All Together

Science

Well, our worm experiment didn't go as it was planned.  We moved the jars to the kids' closet.  When we took them out next, they were a bit moldy and they had random red splotches on the sides.

Upon further insepction, even the worms at the top had large bulges.

Our best guess is that those bulges on the worms exploded or something.  This is our first "failed" science experiment.  I have no clue what happened, but have a couple of emails in to worm-y people and hopefully the will respond.

We have one other experiment to complete that will illustrate if worms have senses.  We were going to use these worms, but they were pretty sick looking.  So, we had to wait till we bought some more worms.  Then we'll do that this weekend.

History

We moved into the New Kingdom of Egypt this week.  The kids learned about Thutmose I, Hathsepsut, Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten, King Tut, and Howard Carter's discovery of Tut's Mummy.  This weekend we are planning on setting up a little "treasure discover" ourselves.