Week 32

In case you're ever wondering what Hyrum does during school time... Sometimes he's off making mischief with Ellie, sometimes he is playing with toys on his own.  Other times, he steals the iPad or my phone and runs off.  If he's got the iPad, he is usually watching Netflix or another video stored on there.  But there are no shows or videos on my phone, so if he's got that, he's very often playing Starfall or Tozzle (because Mom's boring and doesn't put any more interesting apps on there).

He's got Starfall going here.

Preschool

Letter Craft

It's been rainy lately, so we did U is for Umbrella.  Ellie did hers backwards...

Like has been typical the last little bit, Hyrum has enjoyed participating and decorating his own letter.

Junior K

Language

Reading

While Owl at Home was a bit more of a stretch last week, this week Emmett flew through it!  He's been practicing on his own and decoding words is getting easier for him.  He finished up Owl at Home and moved on to Frog and Toad are Friends.

Spelling

Emmett learned the two ways we can spell the /k/ sound at the beginning of a word.  We actually went to the white board and used blank tiles as he learned when to use the letter c and when to use k.

This week, he spelled his first sentence from dictation!  When he focuses, his handwriting can pretty nice for a 5-year-old boy!

Math

Emmett did some review of math facts.  I am finding he needs to constantly figure sums.  Abby memorized her facts rather quickly.  Emmett, on the other hand, has a much better grasp of counting on and other methods of figuring out his facts that he is not focused on memorization at all.  I prefer this, but would like for him to eventually become more fluent with his facts.  Luckily, he thinks it's cool to race against the clock.

First Grade

Language

Grammar

Abby learned about helping verbs this week.  We are working on memorizing the whole list.  Once again, I'm grateful that we bought the audio companion to FLL because the song and chant on there has been really helpful!

Writing

Abby's writing selections came from "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" which is a story in King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table.  I wasn't sure how she'd respond to the story, but she really enjoyed listening in.  Her copywork focused on command sentences.

Reading

Abby finished up Winn-Dixie this week.  She's excited to watch the movie on Sunday.

Spelling

Abby worked with vowel teams "oa" and "ow" this week.

Handwriting

Cursive was skipped this week.

Math

Abby moved into clocks this week.  She has been having an off-focus week, though.  She can tell time to the five-minute mark now, though!

All Together

History

I should have looked ahead because we had a chapter on Confucius that only had one section that we could have easily completed last week when we talked mostly about China.  Oh well.

After we finished up that, we moved back to Rome and began discussing Julius Caesar.  We read books about pirates, the consuls of Rome, etc.  We talked about how Romans made mosaics using tiles and then did our own mosaics!

I intentionally got ones geared towards younger kids.  They came with the picture pre-planned out and we just added the foam stickers.  Ellie loved this and sat quietly at the table for about an hour finishing up two different ones!

Science

Our strawberries are growing nicely!  I think next week we'll use their leaves to observe what happens to their chloroplast when they are NOT exposed to light.