WEEK 14

BIBLE

We continued our Matthew study this week and read some in chapter 6.

 

LANGUAGE ARTS

Ryder did Spelling Lesson 14 and got a 16/16 on his spelling test.

They both did handwriting.

Ryder did lesson 17-18 this week in English.

Mercer did Lesson 27 in All About Reading Level 1.

Ryder had reading time every day. He read "What Was the First Thanksgiving?"

We finished our read aloud "Bash and the Pirate Pigs."

 

GEOGRAPHY

 This week we studied Panama! We read about the country in our Usborne geography encyclopedia, located it on our world map, did a few worksheets including coloring the country and the flag, read country facts, and watched a video on the Panama Canal, and ate tropical fruit for a snack!

MATH

Mercer did lessons 53-56 in Horizons Math. Ryder did lessons 16-19 in Teaching Textbooks.

 

MUSIC

We listened to Geography Songs CD to memorize the countries of Central and South America.

 

Co-Op

For the Wednesday class, the boys had a Thanksgiving Feast! Ryder's class dressed as Pilgrims and Mercer's class dressed as Indians!

 

For the Thursday group, the kids did a flag worksheet, did speeches on a fact about Panama, and colored a picture of Panamanian children for art. They also did Apologia Swimming Creatures Lesson 4 on Turtles! They completed several pages in their Junior Notebook.



{These are their speeches written out}

WEEK 13

BIBLE

We continued our Matthew study this week and finished Chapter 5 and read just a little bit in Chapter 6.

 

LANGUAGE ARTS

Ryder did Spelling Lesson 13 and got a 16/16 on his spelling test.

They both did handwriting.

Ryder did lesson 16 this week in English.

Mercer did Lesson 25-26 in All About Reading Level 1.

Ryder had reading time every day. He read "Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures: The Flying Chinese Wonders."

We read several chapters in our read aloud "Bash and the Pirate Pigs."

 

GEOGRAPHY

Tuesday was election day! So we spent the day watching videos and doing fun worksheets to learn about the White House, the election/candidates, etc!

 

 The other days this week we studied Argentina! We read about the country in our Usborne geography encyclopedia, located it on our world map, did a few worksheets including coloring the country and the flag, we read about Carlitos who lives in Argentina, read country facts, and watched a few videos on Iguazu Falls which is the widest waterfall in the world located in Argentina and the tango dance which originated in Argentina.

 

MATH

Mercer did lessons 50-52 in Horizons Math. Ryder did lessons 13-15 in Teaching Textbooks.

 

SCIENCE

We did Apologia Land Animals Lesson 3 this week which was all about bears! We read some Usborne books too that were about bears. We love doing the Apologia Junior Notebook Journals too!

 

 ART

This week we completed our art project at co-op. It was a yarn art project. They made a snake out of yarn!

MUSIC

This week we listened to our Geography Songs CD on the South American countries. Hopefully we will have this song memorized and know all the countries in South America by the time we are done studying the countries we have planned to study from this continent!

 

Co-Op

This week in co-op the kids did their Argentina flag worksheet, their yarn art project, and did a speech on a fact that they learned about Argentina for geography.



 

For the science portion, they learned all about transpiration!

WEEK 12

BIBLE

We continued our Matthew study this week and read some of Chapter 5.

 

LANGUAGE ARTS

Ryder did Spelling Lesson 12 and got a 25/25 on his spelling test.

They both did handwriting.

Ryder did lesson 13-15 this week in English.

Mercer did Lesson 23-24 in All About Reading Level 1.

Ryder had reading time every day. He read "Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures: The African Safari."

We read several chapters in our read aloud "Bash and the Pirate Pigs."

MATH

Mercer did lessons 45-49 in Horizons Math. Ryder did lessons 8-12 in Teaching Textbooks.

 

We had a light week this week with sickness still lingering and Halloween! Ready to kick it into full gear again next week with a new country study!