Weekly Review

Another abnormal week.  I ended up not feeling to great for a good part of the week, so we took it easy.  I just could not get motivated especially between not feeling good and having taken an easy week the week before.

Language Arts:

The main thing we did not cover this week was Writing With Ease and First Language Lessons.  We are on track with both of these, so I was not concerned with missing a couple weeks.

She did two lessons in spelling and had 100% on both tests.  Worked with “ee" and plurals.  She also added the word “been” to her jail (something designed to help with rule breakers).  This was good timing because we had been talking about “been” since she had misspelled it in a couple letters.  I was about to add it to her word wall when I saw it was coming up in spelling.  On the second lesson, after her test, I also asked her to rewrite her spelling words in cursive, which she enjoyed!

She worked through more of her cursive book.  Learned how to connect letters to “b,” “w,” “v,”  and “o”.  Tow truck letters, her book calls them.

Wrote a few more letters and received some in the mail!  She was really excited about that!  She has a couple people to reply to now.

For memory work, we passed a poem and her pronoun list from everyday review to a couple times a week.  She also passed the western states to a couple times a week and started working on the mid west states.  The first three she memorized were:  Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.  We then added North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa.  I think she will have these down next week.

Math

This was another area we took light just because.  We played around with multiplication tables for 2’s and 3’s.  We timed her with flipping over and answering her two facts (1-12).  Her fastest time was 14.5 seconds to go through all 12!  We started working on her threes this was as well.  She can figured her tables up to 5 and also table 10, but we are now working on speed.  Also started a little bit into her new book, but did not do any in her workbook, it was all oral.  For instance “How many 10s are in 10,000”  “How many 100s are in 3,000”

History

Continued with Story of the World learning about the Israelites in Egypt and about the Exodus from Egypt.

Science

Nothing from her curriculum this week.  We did watch the shuttle launch and talked about the rockets and speed.  She was glued to the computer screen and just amazed.  We are hoping for a clear night when it will pass over, attached to the space station would be neat too.

Emma also free read through a few books on the human body that we checked out from the library and is reading through the companion guide for a Magic Tree House about the Antarctic.  She was telling me all about icebergs.

PE

Lots of swimming this week.  She had her two lessons and we also went twice for free swimming so she could practice what she is learning in class.  She is now able to float on her back and kick across the pool! 

Art

Art class went well.  They finished up a project from the previous week and started to learn about working with metal which they will do this coming week.

Violin

Getting ready to pass off on Minuet 2 (maybe this coming week) and working on Minuet 3.