We’re wrapping up a week that was full of good times with friends, saying “so long” to Leigh’s family as they leave for six months, starting karate, going to a birthday party and all kinds of other adventures. Lots was learned, in lots of ways. I’ve decided to try and start posting these on Sunday evening (when I’m usually typing up my notes) since I seem to find so much else to blog about on Mondays.
If you’re interested, you can find my summary of the week’s learning notes behind the cut.
Math
- Math-U-See Beta, Lessons 16, 17 and 18 - Thousands and Place Value, Rounding and Estimating Thousands, and Multiple Digit Column Addition (which he loved, of course!) - watching the dvd, doing one practice page and then the test for each lesson
- played “On the Number” - Right Start Math game A55 - adding cards from your hand to make a target number - played twice with me and taught his Dad the game one evening
History
- The Story of the World Volume 1: Chapter 13: New Kingdom of Egypt, reading and review questions
- map work SP37 Egypt, Nubia and Canaan
- re-read several of our personal collection of books on Egypt, especially about King Tut - independently
- used his paper Hyksos warriors with their special weapons and two chariots to stage some more battles
- listened to the audio cd 2 (chapters 8-12)
Science
- started to study basic electricity - with batteries and bulbs
- worked from The Big Book of Experiments and STEM Science
- made several circuits
- made a conductor-tester
- made a light-up quiz board (touch the clips at the ends of two wires to the brad next to the question and the brad next to the answer - if you’re right, the bulb lights up) to test his Dad on Pokemon!
- read The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip
Language Arts
- Handwriting Without Tears lowercase c, o, s and v plus capital practice
- started “learning spelling words” with love and dear
- read “Rapunzel” from Learn to Read With Classic Stories, Grade 2
- completed the worksheets on this story p.253-266 - skills included comprehension (characters, summarizing, setting, story details, cause and effect, main idea), word meaning: story vocabulary, phonics: long vowels, spelling: word endings, writing (mechanics, a poem) - He continues to love this workbook and gobble up the worksheets in one or two sittings. This week he even complained because there were no more sheets to do for this story!
Spanish
- reviewed introductions and greetings daily
- learned some more “polite phrases” including Tengo seis anos. and Hasta luego.
- taught Dad the polite phrases and greetings
- listened to Boca Beth cd
- watched a Dora dvd - Dora’s Egg Hunt
Misc.
- turned in our first quarterly report to the state
- enjoyed Muffin Tin Monday: Shapes
- celebrated the two birthdays of the two Uncle J’s on Monday
- played with the Chessos and other friends Tuesday afternoon and evening
- celebrated BabyGirl’s moreover day on Wednesday
- started karate on Thursday
- reading Dora’s World Adventure, he made the connection that Beauty and the Beast must be in France, because they say bonjour and Dora says bonjour means hello in France
- participated in the Think! marshmallow challenge
- made white footprint ghosts
Reading
- JediBoy had another heavy reading week. On the one hand, I’m thrilled that he now shelves his books immediately after reading them - it makes cleaning up a lot easier for me. On the other, it makes it harder for me to assuage my burning curiosity about what he’s read on any given day. I snagged a few peeks, and he’d read all of our Dora books (about two dozen titles), almost all of our Berenstain Bear books (roughly three dozen titles), and all of our Maisy books (a dozen - most of these aloud to BabyGirl) on one day. He read a big pile of readers in the playroom (probably about 20) and at least half of his King Arthur/castle books in the nursery (another 10-12) another day. Then he read through a bagfull of “fluff” - movie storybooks and tv tie-ins that I was trying to declutter away from the house - on a different morning. He’s been reading the Steven Kellogg anthology we have at bedtime as well as several joke books throughout the day and the Disney Spanish Picture Dictionary too.
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