Math: Gabe and John started in earnest on their math lessons. Saxon Math 1 lessons 2- 3 (John) Saxon Math 2, lessons 6- 8.(Gabe) Lily completed math lessons 3-6. John is excelling at playing Rat-a-Tat-Cat with good number recognition and beginning addition.
Language Arts: Lily and Gabe started on their new spelling notebooks completing the vowel and consonant reference page and their first spelling words and sentences. Lily completed the first week of Writing with Skill practicing narration. Advanced Language Lessons 1-4 (concrete & abstract nouns,descriptive & abstract adjectives, capitalization & punctuation of proper nouns, noun gender). Gabe sat in with Lily on the first lesson and can tell the difference between abstract and concrete nouns. We played lots of phonogram bingo together and John started on some handwriting.
History: We read lots of books about prehistoric peoples, archeology and Ancient Egypt from the library. We watched Prehistoric Beasts and Mysteries of Egypt. Lily continued work on her Ancient History Portfolio.
Science: We read Earth and Sky, Lily read the introductory pages about Earth in the Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia. They each completed a narration and made a paper mache planet earth and moon.
PE: Gabe continued with Judo and Lily began Highland Dance. They both went on daily bike rides and ran their paper route.
French: Lily worked for 20 minutes a day on Rosetta Stone French.
Fine Art: Lily and Gabe both continued with piano.
1 comment:
Hello Jaime,
What a full week of learning Lily, Gabe, and John had! I smiled to hear that John is playing Rat-a-Tat Cat and building his number skills. It must be heartwarming to see him grow in his skills and join right in with family studies. It sounds like he is doing really well with his math and handwriting.
How exciting for Lily and Gabe to be starting new spelling notebooks! I am glad that Lily is gleaning a lot from the Advanced Language Lessons and Writing with Skill. It is great that Gabe is also benefiting from the advanced grammar lessons.
Thanks for all the history material you covered as a family this week! I am looking forward to seeing Lily's Ancient History Portfolio already! I am sure she is doing wonderful work highlighting her learning.
The paper mache planet earth and moon must have been fun projects. Were you able to get any photos of Lily, Gabe, and John's creations?
I am glad that Judo and Highland Dance were a good fit. Both activities must be wonderful workouts.
Thanks for starting Lily back into Rosetta Stone! Is it going smoother this year? Is she skipping over the writing sections for now?
I am glad that both Lily and Gabe have already started into piano studies. I hope your new piano books have arrived.
Enjoy your week!
Karyn
Post a Comment