Week 14

Preschool

Letter Themes

This week we did t and made a tower.  We read Rapunzel and put our own little Rapunzel in our tower.  To my little girly-girl, this was the perfect craft.

PreK Activity Book

The book this week focused on the fine motor skill of coloring, some storytelling, and followed up on AB patterns.

There was a part where Ellie was supposed to put some cut outs of a story in order.  It had three pictures: kids building a tower, the tower really tall, and the tower falling.  If I had been placing it, I would have placed them in that order.  Ellie placed them as the tower really tall, the tower falling over and then the kids building the tower.  I had her tell me WHY she put them where she did and she said, "The tower was really tall, and then it fell over.  The kids were sad, but wanted to rebuild their tower."  Perfectly valid, so we left it like that.

Junior K

Reading

Emmett read some stories in Frog and Toad and did a great job with them!  He is still sounding out a lot of things, but really seemed to enjoy the different stories in Frog and Toad.

Math

We worked some on numbers above fifteen.  He's funny because he can recognize and say the numbers in math names when given a group or rods, but when he counts them, he's constantly off in his counting.  He understands one-to-one counting, but sometimes he is very confident in his counting that he misses things because he's moving so fast.

First Grade

Language

Grammar

We did lessons 68-70 which focused on writing the names of some months, was verses were, and reviewed action verbs.

Writing

Same ol', same ol'.  We worked with a Robert Louis Stevenson poem and a folk tale.

Reading

Abby started in on Meet Molly.  It has a much higher interest level, so I'm wondering how much of the book she's understanding/retaining.  I guess we'll see...

Spelling

We continued our focus on r-controlled syllables.  This week was focused on spelling /ar/.

Handwriting

We worked some again on not holding our marker/pen/pencil so hard and forming words, not just independent cursive letters.

Math

We moved into the 2s times tables today.  Since she knows her doubles in addition, this was not a hard math week.  At all.

All Together

Science

We are learning about arthropods for the next chunk of time.  First we are focusing on insects and raising butterflies!  Just in time, we got our butterfly larvae on Monday.  So, we swapped our science and history days this week and did our observations of them.

They grew quite a bit by the end of the week.  The kids are excitedly anticipating their transformation into chrysalises.

History

Our chapter this week was The Return of Assyria.  The kids learned about Ashurbanipal and have been singing They Might Be Giants' The Mesopotamians.