Around the House: This week in review should be pretty quick too, since I don't feel like we got much done. Except- I organized my kitchen cabinets and I feel like a new woman! Yes sirree...those kitchen items in their new locations make me feel like I have a brand new kitchen. There's nothing like changing where you keep the baking power.
We purchased some gamma lids for my 5 lb buckets where I keep my soft and hard wheat, my dehydrated refried beans, and oatmeal. It is now super easy to open them.
In School: 5 yr. old-
- This week we learned some new phonograms - and reviewed some that she doesn't quite have down: ed, ew, ey, ei, ar. We normally work thru her Hooked on Phonics workbook and in the meantime I teach her the phonograms from the original Writing Road to Reading method. She has also enjoyed reading from some of the early Abeka readers.
- In Math, I've introduced subtraction using cusienaire rods and she seems to like figuring them out. We also reviewed decimal street by having her take- say number 52 and in our place value mat making the number with rods. So she would pick out 5 ten rods and place them in the tens place, and 2 unit rods and place them in the ones place. She's getting good at this. She practiced counting by two's, tens, fives, and backwards from 20.
8yr.-
- In Math this week he is working on perimeters and subtraction with borrowing. He learned the concept of $ sign/decimal point verses the cent mark, and we used rods to demostrate the dollar and cent place values. We also spent more needed time playing some math games from Math Mouse games. The games involved addition and multiplication. (He used his skip counting facts to help him solve the multiplication problems.)
- L.A this week involved him working on his poem memory work. He spent time writing out a post card and mailing it. He also worked on copy work and dictation. He learned about adverbs this week and seems to understand them well. First Language Lessons does a really good job teaching this for a child his age.
10 yr. old-
- This week in math he learned about percentages/fractions, quadrilaterals, and two step word problems. He spent time playing during our math time with 8yr. old a game from Math Mouse games where he could work on fractions and multiplication while brother worked on addition and multiplication.
- In L.A. He also wrote out a postcard and and a letter to family and mailed out. He also reviewed adverbs- which were not really set in his mind well. We have been working on newspapers and so we researched a little a bout editors, publishers, opinions, facts, and the set up of the front page. He made a front page with Flag, Editorial, Index, and Top Story. He also spent some time writing some letters to our make-believe editor.
Other subjects-
- I can't say we did an awful lot of other subjects, except music has been a biggie around here for everyone. The children have begun playing Music Ace on the computer, and Music by Jumpstart.
- We visited the police station this week and the children got a chance to see what the inside of the station looks like and how the police files a report.
- 5yr. old has been commenting on how her nervous system seems to really get the message to her brain quickly about being cold after a shower.
- Avoiding the very appearance of evil seems to keep coming back into our conversations.
That's our review of the week. It seems I had a hard time moving on this week because we didn't really continue too much our science and social studies. I think that's ok though. Maybe we needed it. We should be covering insects next.
The weather is getting nice again and it makes me anxious for Spring.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment