Weekly Report: 10/17/11-10/21011

We had a pretty good week.  It is always slow returning after vacation – even 2 weeks later.  Need to get us all aback in the chores habit 😉  We had a long library trip on Monday, two solid days of lessons on Tuesday and Thursday.  A light day today … and a trip to Leeds Farm to round out our educational experience for the week.

Phonics:

N-boy:  has only 18 lessons left in OPG!

R-girl: read a lesson or two, but read directions on a dot to dot page on her own for the first time.  She’s doing awesome!

Assigned Reading:

M-girl: finished Cricket in Times Square before vacation, started Pumphrey’s Pilgrim Stories sometime since.

N-boy:  finished The Storm by Cynthia Rylant.  I need to come up with something else at his level.

Math:

M-girl: did 3 lessons in math.  We did addition practice today and started to talk about units of measure.

N-boy: started working with adding groups of 10 and units together.

R-girl:worked on symmetry (mirror images), patterns, and grouping.  She started the Math Mammoth K pages and is doing very well.

Logic:

M-girl: did a couple of logic pages (see below)

N-boy: started Critical Thinking Activities (K-3) 

Grammar:

M-girl: is learning Prepositions.  She’s having fun with the memory list.

N-boy: has been learning about seasons, months, what to capitalize and what to abbreviate.

Writing:

M-girl: is working on when to capitalize what pronouns.

Spelling:

M-girl: did several groups of spelling lists.  Talked herself out of spelling field and whose correctly, but we’re working on it.

Latin:

M-girl: finished Lesson 17.

Penmanship:

M-girl: wrote s and t.

N-boy: has been working on b.

R-girl: is still working in numbers, but didn’t do these pages this week.

History:  none other than memory work.

Science: none other than memory work.

Art: none.

Read Alouds: We read more of The Bronze Bow, started The House at Pooh Corner, and finished The Wind in the Willows.  I think we’ll read Mary Poppins next.

Bible: finished memorizing Psalm 1, are through Pilate washing his hands over Jesus’ crucifixion in the Vox Story Bible.