WEEK 5

BIBLE/HISTORY

The memory verse for this week was "He would guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity." Proverbs 21:23 Ryder practiced handwriting by writing out the Bible verse and he went over the verse daily. Each morning we also did a devotional from "My Big Book of 5-minute Devotionals." We started a new character trait that we will be learning and reviewing for the next 4 weeks. This month we are focusing on enthusiasm. On Monday, the boys watched a nature story about the humpback whale and did a coloring sheet. The rest of the week we reviewed the definition of enthusiasm.

 I also got our timeline hung on the wall! And I cannot wait to start adding to it each week!

 READING/LANGUAGE ARTS

Ryder did Lesson 5 and 6 in All About Reading Level 3. He also had several handwriting and phonics worksheets. He did All About Spelling Level 1 Lesson 2 and First Language Lessons Level 1 Lessons 2-5.

  MATH

Ryder finished Lessons 11 through 14 in Horizons Math 1.

  SCIENCE
The topic this week was trees. We read in our Usborne Science "Things Outdoors" book and read a few read-alouds about trees. We discussed leaves, bark, growth rings and roots.

 ART

This week Ryder colored "The Sorrows of the King" by Henri Matisse. In the original artwork colored shapes were cut out of painted paper and pasted into place. The swirling leaf shapes suggest music and movement filling the air. Ryder added leaf-shaped stickers to his artwork to represent movement.

 PRESCHOOL for MERCER

This week Mercer did the letter E. He finished all his papers in 3 days so sorry for the lack of photos from his week!