WEEK 15

BIBLE

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

 

LANGUAGE ARTS

Ryder did Spelling Lesson 15 and got a 16/16 on his spelling test.

They both did handwriting.

Ryder did lesson 19-20 this week in English.

Mercer did Lesson 28-30 in All About Reading Level 1.

Ryder had reading time every day. He read "Flat Stanley's Christmas Adventure."

For readaloud time we are reading Christmas books this month!

 

GEOGRAPHY

 This week we studied Venezuela! We read about the South American culture 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 Angel Falls.

 

MATH

Mercer did lessons 57-60 in Horizons Math. Ryder did lessons 20-25 in Teaching Textbooks.

 

MUSIC

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

 

Co-Op

The boys did speeches on Venezuela and some worksheets. For art they drew a picture of the highest waterfall in the world, Angel Falls, which is located in Venezuela. For science, they did experiments with eggs! They tried to crack an egg with their bare hand and they stacked books on top of eggs to see how many books it would hold before it collapsed! It held between 5 and 6 books which was around 16 pounds!