Week 25

Preschool

PreK Activity Book

Lately Ellie asks me, "Is it a school day?"  If I answer in the affirmative, she says, "Yippee!" and grabs her activity book.  She only has a few pages left so I'm trying to slow her down a bit.

She's also been drawing people!  This is the first person she drew.  It's actually a picture of Emmett.

Letter Craft

We did H is for house this week.  The kids had a good time constructing their own houses.  Ellie even put her door up high and then asked me to make her a ladder for it.  LOL

Junior K

Language

Reading

I started Emmett on the first grade Sonlight Readers this week.  We jumped in reading Little Bear.  The first reading seemed rather frustrating, though I'm not quite sure why.  By the end of the week, he was sailing through most of the reading.  He loved that he could watch the same stories after he finished them.

Spelling

We took a break this week to review words Emmett has spelled in the past.  His ability to segment CVC has improved drastically in the last few weeks.

Math

We played War and read a few math stories.  I am beginning to think that we should start Emmett in Singapore Year 1.  The EM K is too easy for him and I think he'd really thrive with math.  He already has his addition facts to 5 and doubles facts memorized.

First Grade

Language

Grammar

We zoomed through the last five lessons of FLL 1 this week.  Abby was too excited to wait any further.  She finished up her sentence work and reviewed everything she learned within the first book.

Writing

Abby narrated and did copywork from Pollyanna this week.  Abby had a hard time keeping characters straight, but otherwise didn't mind the story.

Reading

Abby finished Poppy this week! She even read some at the doctor's and in the evenings to finish it up!

Spelling

Abby's list this week worked with vowel teams "ai" and "ay."  She probably will need to read through the list a few more times to gain some visual retention of these words verses a-e words.

Handwriting

We moved on to writing capital letter R!  She also did some review of letters in the past.

Math

These multiplication sections are fairly straightforward.  I'm not requiring memorization of the facts because, well, she's only six.  AND, we're planning on moving on to Beast Academy next year which will have a whole new section on skip counting and multiplication.  To solve most problems now, she's skip counting or using rods, which I'm fine with.

All Together

History

We began a long chapter on Rome.  This week we learned about Gods and Roman builders.  The kids were fascinated about constructions of roads so we drew a lot of roads and looked at a lot of pictures of famous roads such as the Appian Way.  I told the kids their Uncle Joey served a mission in Rome.  They thought that was really neat.

Science

We did a bit of RSO on chloroplast and why leaves appear green.  After that, though, we have basically stopped RSO: Life.  It's going to take a month or so for spring to spring here so we can finish studying plants more extensively.  Until that point, we are working some plant pages from the Giant Science Resource Book.

Chess

Skipped again this week!