Hah…so much for getting this up each Saturday! I have a feeling this will be normal…sometime during the next week I’ll be able to finally post about the week before. I’ll continue to shoot for Sat. for the next week or two…otherwise expect the homeschool update post early to mid-week.
Bible
- Daily Bible Time: Started Psalm 12 this week and continued 1 chapter/day throughout the week.
- Night devotions J and E worked on Proverbs mostly.
- Monday Emily completed Chapter 7, Lesson 3 in Elsie’s Life Lessons. This was called Faithful in Times of Testing.
Language Arts (I'll post our reading list after the other subjects.)
- Spelling Workout D (SW-D), Lesson 33. She missed 1 word on the pre-test, so she completed her daily lessons, finishing up with 100% on the test along with 5/5 bonus words correct. Yay!
- First Language Lessons 2 (FLL), Lessons 53-56. Adjectives, adverbs, story narration and finding adj/adv in the piece. Introducing articles. We also made a cool grammar flipchart that we saw on Pinterest. Should be quite handy!
- Writing With Ease 3 (WWE), Week 14 all and 15-1. The reading selections were from The Moffats by Eleanor Estes and The Lemonade Trick by Scott Corbett. We worked a little with direct objects following action verbs.
- Write Shop (WS) Activity Sets 3:5-3:8, 4:1. Did Guided Writing Practice a few times (this is where we brainstorm using our Story Wheel, adding in all of our story elements to create a paragraph together on the board/paper/etc- wherever we happen to be working. The week prior of WS she had written a rough draft. This week she worked on self-editing her work with Consumer- her editing buddy frog (stuffed animal), checking spelling, organization, story elements, etc. She added any extra details she wanted and changed some of her adj/adv/verbs to be more ‘powerful’. The next day she worked on her final draft. The day after that we created a Writing Skills Checklist together for future lessons which will help her to self-edit before handing things in. The last day we started the next unit which is on journal writing. We introduced the lesson and completed an activity page, along with a short paragraph- unedited- about a personal memory.
- Building Language Lessons (BLL), pages 114-121. This week we finished up the stem port and were introduced to dis.
- Red Hot Root Words- Book 1, Grades 3-5 (RHRW), page 32. This was a review week of ex, anti, contra and counter.
- Presidential Penmanship 4 (PP), lesson 80.
- Zaner Bloser Handwriting 3 (ZB), pages 146-151.
Math
- Horizons 3, lessons 56-59. Worked more with equivalent fractions…seems to be doing well for now with that. Roman numerals, subtraction in the thousands, shapes 2 and 3d, decimals (tenths), what a bushel/peck/gallon is (I will not require her to remember this!), measurements, simple division, writing word problems, place value in ten thousands, equivalent equations with +, -, x; even/odd numbers, 4 number addition problems in the hundreds (that equal in the thousands) and word problems.
- Singapore Primary Mathematics 2A (SM), week 12-A. Lessons 56-58. Worked on division- grouping, sharing, multiplication and division sentences and then practice. We did not finish week 12 and moved it to this week.
- Math games- We did another math fun-reading book or two on fractions, as well as a critical thinking worksheet mid-week.
History/Geography
- Story of the World Ancients (SOTW). We finished chapter 21- The Medes and the Persians/Cyrus the Great. We made and played our Conquer Mesopotamia board game- cute and fun! Emily and I made a ‘gilded plate’. We also started, but did not finish chapter 22, Sparta and Athens. We read the chapter, discussed and answered questions, read a resource or two, did our mapwork and cut out some paper dolls and stickers to use throughout the coming weeks. She has picked them up to color and play with in between lessons this week.
Science
- Apologia Astronomy. We completed the rest of our Mars lesson- the volcano project, our notebook, reading extra resources. We put the space rocks unit off until this week.
Art
- Did not do our formal lessons this week. Instead, we did odd projects here and there, like these cute bookmarks from Pinterest:
Health/PE
- 1hr skating class at co-op
- Abeka Health Grade 3 (Health): Lesson 6. Fighting Diseases- talks about the spread of disease, prevention, cures. Also a bit of fire safety at the end of the chapter.
Co-op/Field Trips/Etc
- Wednesday was co-op. We had science (Botany), lunch, then skating. Botany was about seed dispersal- lots of fun with dandelion seeds and maple helicopters whizzing around the room, burr throwing, etc. Skating was fun too- another gorgeous day for it.
Other
- Monday morning Emily got her stitches out. Looking good!
Books Read (I don't always catch everything she's picked up throughout the week, but assigned books, library books and ones I see her reading that she hasn't read before, etc I try to write down)
- Greek Mythology, Teachers Vid Co, DVD
- The Isles of Greece and Crete, World Life International, DVD
- Theseus and the Minotaur: Greek Mythology for Students, Schlessinger, DVD
- Ancient Persia, Neil Bramwell
- Fraction Fun, David Adler
- Ali and the Magic Stew, Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
- Mr. Semolina-Semolinus, Anthony L. Manna
- Wholey Cow: Fractions are Fun, Taryn Souders
- Fraction Action, Loreen Leedy
- Appples: How They Grow, Bruce McMillan
- Oliver’s Fruit Salad, Vivian French
- From Blossom to Fruit, Gail Saunders-Smith
- Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden, George Levenson
- Flowers Fruits and Seeds, Jerome Walker
- The Persian Empire, Karen Zeinert
That wraps up our week!
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