Week 28

Preschool

I ordered a Kumon sticker and paste book for Ellie for the next little bit.  I think that might satisfy her want for "school work," but my want for her to do something other than the next Core Knowledge PreK book.

In the meantime, she is enjoying more read-alouds.  Even Abby reads to her sometimes.

Letter Craft

We stamped As with apples this week.  I've mentioned Hyrum's fascination with letters on here.  Ellie liked this letter craft, but Hyrum loved it.  He had been crying and whining at me all morning due to an ear infection.  The instant I gave him his A, though, he grinned and started saying the short sound of A.

Junior K

Language

Reading

Emmett finished up One Fish, Two Fish.  He was excited to get his OWN Book Adventure account and take his first quiz!  He now wants to earn HIS own library card.  :)

He started A Fly Went By for the rest of the week.

Spelling

Emmett's lesson this week focused on words that end in "x" and "s."  The words in this list were still fairly simple for him, which makes for great time to reinforce his handwriting.  Look at how nice it is!

Math

All of that play with number bonds last week made this week's jump into reviewing number bonds to ten and beginning addition super easy.  He won't probably won't have a huge challenge with his math until we get to the section on completing a ten to add over ten.

First Grade

Language

Grammar

We finished up talking about state of being verbs.  We only did two lessons this week because the next lesson goes into linking verbs so it was a very natural breaking point.

Writing

Our selections this week came from Little House on the Prairie and On the Banks of Plum Creek.  Abby found the selection on the grasshopper cloud particularly humorous.  I asked her if she wanted me to pick up these books and she said maybe On the Banks of Plum Creek would be fun to read.  I'm not sure how I feel about her reading the Little House books out of order, but at the same time, if she read and enjoyed one, she might go back and enjoy the rest of them...

Reading

On the same day that Emmett was riding a high of taking his very own Book Adventure quiz, Abby finished Trumpet of the Swan.  They were both so excited, that we took up the excitement and cashed in their Book It coupons for lunch!  It is so neat to be able to do that RIGHT THEN!

After completing Trumpet, she started Sarah, Plain and Tall.  I offered either that or Gooney Bird Greene.  She grabbed the latter first, but brought it back in seconds telling me it was "ridiculously baby-ish."  LOL

Spelling

Abby learned the fourth job of Silent E this week: It adds a vowel to a consonant-l-e syllable.  Her words all ended in consonant-l-e except the rule-breaker "said."  She LOVES when there is a rule-breaker in her lesson!

Handwriting

We focused on connecting letters and not having so much space from one letter to the next in a word. Her cursive is starting to really look nice!  She will definitely be ready to take some copywork in cursive next year.

Math

Abby worked on adding money this week.

There was one day where she was supposed to practice adding where the cents would go over a dollar with the standard addition algorithm.  Abby doesn't use the standard addition algorithm much because she finds mental addition so much easier and quicker.  I was pleased to see that she had no problem applying the algorithm and solving it that way.

She also had a lesson where she was adding money where one of the addends was very near to a whole dollar amount.  She quickly and successfully reasoned that she could add the whole dollar and then subtract the missing amount without me even introducing the lesson.

All Together

Science

We read some books on photosynthesis this week.  Just a few more weeks and we should be able to get back to APPLYING and OBSERVING all of this talk about plants.

History

We read about the Aryans of India.  This included an introduction and discussion on Hinduism and Buddhism.  Not surprisingly, our library didn't have many kids books discussing these topics.  We did find a few, though.

Yes, Ellie is asleep in this picture.  LOL

Chess

We skipped it this week.  We usually do chess on Fridays and yesterday was a bit rough in the morning.