Math: John learned to write the numerals 1-5, 9 this week and has been practicing them everywhere! He also completed 2 math lessons and can recognize numbers and build/color correspondingly. Gabe completed lessons 8-11 and Lily completed lessons 7-9. Both Lily and Gabe's lessons have been review of last year, which they having no trouble recalling.
Language Arts: Lily and Gabe each completed a spelling list and wrote original sentences with their spelling words. Gabe has been spontaneously writing in a journal. He is also making good progress in his reading books, completing the red book and onto pages 2-5 in the green book. John practiced his phonograms along with Lily and Gabe. Lily worked on Writing with Skill completing the introductory lessons of narration and summary. She also completed lessons 5-6 in Advanced Language Lessons. Gabe and Lily played a rousing game of Apples to Apples with friends.
History: We continued our study of Ancient Egyptians this week playing a board game called Egyptians in which you have to answers questions in order to move. We read chapters 3-4 in Story of the World: Ancient Times and completed the accompanying map work. Gabe's Ancient History Portfolio arrived on Saturday and he immediately added some of the work he's already completed.
PE: Lily loved Highland Dance! She has been practicing the sword dance all week between lessons. Gabe is already showing potential with Judo and I was able to sit in on his class and make note of exercises we can do at home. They continue to ride their bikes daily, run their paper route and played at the park this week.
French: Lily is working at Rosetta Stone 20 minutes a day. She is keeping a notebook of vocabulary to help with the writing sections.
Fine Art: piano lessons (Gabe & Lily) with daily practice. All three sing in church, at mealtimes and just for fun! We draw and colored pictures for our history lessons.
In addition we played a family game of Settlers of Catan: Seafarers and Gabe and Lily's strategic skills are really advancing. Gabe needs very little help now and Lily won the game with no assistance!
2 comments:
Hello Jaime,
I enjoyed reading your blog this week and hearing about all the wonderful learning that is happening at your house!
I commend you for your use of games to bring many different subjects alive. Your children are not only learning academics through games, but are also picking up many abstract skills such as forward thinking, strategy, turn taking, cooperation, and decision-making. (I am sure you could add to the list.) Settlers of Catan is quite involved. I am impressed that Gabe and Lily have caught on to the game and need very little help. The game is a great way to solidify concepts you are covering in “Ancient History” studies such as natural resources, trade/bartering, and settlement.
It is exciting to hear about John’s success this week in learning to write his numbers and practicing his phonograms.
Thanks for the solid work Lily and Gabe did in both math and language arts.
I am glad that Lily is enjoying Highland Dance and has even been practicing at home! It sounds like Judo is a great experience for Gabe.
Thanks for adding a notebook to help Lily keep track of the new vocabulary she is learning through “Rosetta Stone”. I am sure that is helping with the writing sections.
I am glad that Gabe’s History Portfolio arrived! I am impressed that he has already added his work to the notebook. Have your music books and other amazon purchases arrived?
It is great to hear how that your world is filled with music through piano lessons and singing at church and at home.
Enjoy your week!
Karyn
Karyn,
We are still waiting on the Animal Encyclopedia from Amazon and on the Science encyclopedia and experiment book from One Stop Learning. This lost my order so we're still waiting for those books. We've been reading books from the library but it does make it harder to follow my lesson plan and we're hooped for the experiments.
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