Preschool
Craft
Ellie didn't want to do a letter craft this week. Instead, she wanted to color a bunch of pictures. She did a Lalaloopsy picture, and Angelina Ballerina, and even a unicorn.
She was rather excited that I found a coloring picture that matched HER Lalaloopsy doll!
PreK Activity Book
The book focused more on matching, one-to-one correspondence and beginning writing with lines, circles and dots. She consistently wants to form her circles clockwise, so I'm trying to redirect her as much as possible to do them counterclockwise.
Language
Reading
We have basically moved on to just reading out loud to Mom. It seems as though Emmett's made a conceptual leap because his reading has become a lot more fluid. He does seem to be able to read words based on context more than just in a straight list. In order to keep him working on his decoding skills, I've started giving him high frequency words to decode in a list. He doesn't care for straight decoding, but I find it valuable for him.
Spelling
Emmett had difficulty with a few words from last week. Due to his pronunciation, he would often misspell am and an. They would typically be spelled "aum" because he does pronounce those words "a-yum" or "a-yun." We repeated his list this week and it seemed to really solidify these words.
Friday was a nice day, so I sent them outside to play. When I called him inside, he immediately sat up to do his spelling...and then I noticed his hands. This is exactly what boys' hands should look like sometimes!
Math
Emmett completed the counting pages in Miquon. He'll move on to addition next week.
Language
Grammar
Abby's got Mr. Nobody completely memorized. Next week I'll have to take video of her reciting it. She also worked through lesson 89 in FLL 1.
Writing
This week's narration and copywork came from "The Velveteen Rabbit." Having heard the story and read it herself, she found these very enjoyable. She really does enjoy that story, probably because she's a stuffed animal lover herself.
Reading
She's still working on Poppy, but rather enjoying it.
Spelling
Abby worked on step 24, which deals with the phonograms "au" and "aw". I thought we might have to repeat this week because some words don't always follow the generalization that "au" is in the middle and "aw" is at the end. This meant she had to basically memorize which words used which phonogram when the sound was in the middle. BUT, by the end of the week she had the words down. Next week is our last week in level 2.
Handwriting
Abby's cursive is really coming along nicely! This week we worked on q.
She was rather pleased with herself.
Math
Abby finished up the section on mental math dealing with addition of two- and three-digit numbers. She grasped the concepts rather easily. Next week won't be as easy, I'm sure, because it's all about subtraction.
Science
We finished up the animal kingdom this week! We learned about mammals, including an experiment which demonstrated how some arctic and antarctic animals keep warm in extremely cold temperatures.
History
We discussed Alexander the Great this week. All of a sudden, Emmett has had much enthusiasm for history. I'm not sure where it's coming from, but I'll take it! We only did a coloring page, mapwork, and narrations, but they seemed to enjoy the content.
Chess
Ellie learned the names of the rest of the chess pieces.
Emmett and Abby learned about the bishop and how it moved. We are working on figuring out ways of "attacking" with a bishop.
(Remember those DIRTY hands? This is post-bath. ;))
The book focused more on matching, one-to-one correspondence and beginning writing with lines, circles and dots. She consistently wants to form her circles clockwise, so I'm trying to redirect her as much as possible to do them counterclockwise.
Junior K
Reading
We have basically moved on to just reading out loud to Mom. It seems as though Emmett's made a conceptual leap because his reading has become a lot more fluid. He does seem to be able to read words based on context more than just in a straight list. In order to keep him working on his decoding skills, I've started giving him high frequency words to decode in a list. He doesn't care for straight decoding, but I find it valuable for him.
Spelling
Emmett had difficulty with a few words from last week. Due to his pronunciation, he would often misspell am and an. They would typically be spelled "aum" because he does pronounce those words "a-yum" or "a-yun." We repeated his list this week and it seemed to really solidify these words.
Friday was a nice day, so I sent them outside to play. When I called him inside, he immediately sat up to do his spelling...and then I noticed his hands. This is exactly what boys' hands should look like sometimes!
Math
Emmett completed the counting pages in Miquon. He'll move on to addition next week.
First Grade
Grammar
Abby's got Mr. Nobody completely memorized. Next week I'll have to take video of her reciting it. She also worked through lesson 89 in FLL 1.
Writing
This week's narration and copywork came from "The Velveteen Rabbit." Having heard the story and read it herself, she found these very enjoyable. She really does enjoy that story, probably because she's a stuffed animal lover herself.
Reading
She's still working on Poppy, but rather enjoying it.
Spelling
Abby worked on step 24, which deals with the phonograms "au" and "aw". I thought we might have to repeat this week because some words don't always follow the generalization that "au" is in the middle and "aw" is at the end. This meant she had to basically memorize which words used which phonogram when the sound was in the middle. BUT, by the end of the week she had the words down. Next week is our last week in level 2.
Handwriting
Abby's cursive is really coming along nicely! This week we worked on q.
Math
Abby finished up the section on mental math dealing with addition of two- and three-digit numbers. She grasped the concepts rather easily. Next week won't be as easy, I'm sure, because it's all about subtraction.
All Together
We finished up the animal kingdom this week! We learned about mammals, including an experiment which demonstrated how some arctic and antarctic animals keep warm in extremely cold temperatures.
History
We discussed Alexander the Great this week. All of a sudden, Emmett has had much enthusiasm for history. I'm not sure where it's coming from, but I'll take it! We only did a coloring page, mapwork, and narrations, but they seemed to enjoy the content.
Chess
Ellie learned the names of the rest of the chess pieces.
Emmett and Abby learned about the bishop and how it moved. We are working on figuring out ways of "attacking" with a bishop.
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