Weekly Report Week 14: 5/15/2011-5/20/2011

We didn’t do Circle Time any day this week, and Tuesday we went to open gym for two hours … and we’ve had tumbling, tball, and soccer besides.  We still had a pretty good week! 

Phonics:

N-boy: He read two lessons this week dealing with silent consonants.

R-girl: She started learning short /i/ words 🙂 and read two whole lessons!

Assigned Reading:

M-girl: she’s *almost* done with Little House in the Big Woods

N-boy: I didn’t assign any reading, but I see him reading all the time!

Math:

M-girl: has started adding numbers to 10, so working on place value.

N-boy: is doing very well adding up to 8s … and understanding concepts beyond what we’ve studied.

R-girl:  We did two lessons … one worked up to 6s! Hooray!

Logic:

M-girl: Qwirkle, Set, and Blokus were played often this week.

N-boy: He did two Mindbenders Warm-Ups questions and played the above games.  He’s going to give me a run for my money with Blokus before I’m ready.

Grammar:

M-girl: worked on a narration and contractions.

N-boy: worked on a narration and proper nouns.  He’s doing a great job with his poetry.

Writing:

M-girl:  is doing a nice job with her narrations and copywork.

Spelling:

M-girl:  she only had one review word from her two lessons this week.

Latin:

M-girl: finished learning her numbers up to 10. 

Penmanship:

M-girl: her lower case cursive ‘f’s look great!

N-boy: his lower case cursive ‘a’s look pretty good 🙂

R-girl:  loves writing in the salt box.

History:  We started reading about India this week and discussed why ancient civilizations grew along major rivers.

Science: We read about stems this week and talked about their functions, characteristics, and growth.

Art:I didn’t do any art projects with the children this week, but they did some art with my mom … drawings and painted butterflies.

Read Alouds:  We finished Bambi: A Life in the Woods and loved it.

Bible: We’ve been reading about the rebuilding of the Temple and the Samaritan attempts to thwart it.