Week 24

Preschool

PreK Activity Book

Ellie was all about her workbook this week.  She worked with some prewriting skills, and some story sequencing as well as a ton of extra read-alouds.

Letter Craft

We did Y is for yellow yarn this week.

 

Even Hyrum got into decorating his y!

Junior K

Language

Reading

Emmett read some more in the Free and Treadwell Primer.  I think next week we will move on to the last few Sonlight grade 1 readers.  He will like reading from real books, I think.

Spelling

Daddy was home most of this week, so we skipped spelling.  :)

Math

Emmett worked through some Miquon pages and we played some dice game for sums.

First Grade

Language

Grammar

Abby worked through lessons 92-94 this week.  We began learning about sentences.  She should finish up volume 1 next week!

Writing

Writing focused on the Happy Hollisters this week.  I love that we are doing WWE1 a bit behind work in FLL, so she gets a review of the concepts we went over in grammar.

Reading

Abby is still working through Poppy.  At night she's also read a few others at bedtime.  She is very motivated by Book Adventure and points.

Spelling

Abby was excited to begin her level 3 book this week!  The first week was all review so she wrote a bunch of review sentences.

Handwriting

We worked on lowercase r this week.  We didn't do capital R because apparently lowercase r is difficult in cursive.

Math

Abby moved on to the multiplication unit in 2b.  This week was working with multiplication facts for the fours times tables.  Once again, I was surprised that she could skip count by fours without explicit instruction.  Yay for Teacher and the Rockbots: Multiplication!

All Together

History

We began learning about Ancient Rome this week.  Abby has a Nat Geo Kids almanac that she's looked at for the last nine months or so (and loved the thing to tatters).  A few weeks ago, she found a page that discussed Greek, Egyptian, and Roman gods.  She was fascinated that the names of the Roman Gods were PLANETS!  So, naturally, it was really neat to read about the Roman gods this week.  :)

Science

We learned a bit about seeds.  We colored a picture showing the parts of a seed, to include the cotyledon, coat, and embryo.  Then, we dissected both a monocot and dicot seed.  The kids thought this was fascinating!  The next lab, however, is on traveling seeds.  I'm beginning to think we might have to pause learning about the Plant Kingdom in RSO for a month or so until it becomes true spring here so we have good specimens to observe.

Chess

Skipped this week!  The kids were bummed, but Daddy was off so we took time to go play!