WEEK 18

BIBLE

We continued our Matthew study this week. We finished chapter 7 and started on chapter 8. We also do devotionals with daddy most nights before bed. Last night we talked about "love" so Robbie thought of a great idea for the boys to do in school today: They drew a heart and wrote inside the heart things they love.  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Ryder did Spelling Lesson 18 and got a 25/25 on his spelling test.

They both did handwriting.

Ryder did lesson 25 this week in English.

Mercer did Lesson 36 in All About Reading Level 1.

Ryder had reading time every day. He is doing a literature notebook study on "Stuart Little." He read chapters 9-11.

For read aloud time we read chapters 3-5 in "Bash and the Chicken Coop Caper."

 

GEOGRAPHY

This week we continued our study of Brazil. We read about Brazil in "Children's Atlas of God's World" and we watched a video on the 2nd Wonder of the World - Christ the Redeemer Statue which is in Rio Brazil! The geography-themed vocabulary words that Ryder learned about this week were delta and jungle.

 

SCIENCE 

We continued our study of the rainforest this week. We talked specifically about the first two layers. They each picked an animal from each layer and learned some facts about them to share with their co-op class. We also did a little bit of reading about Primates in Apologia Land Animals Lesson 6. 

MATH

Mercer did lessons 69-72 in Horizons Math. Ryder did lessons 35-37 in Teaching Textbooks.

 

MUSIC

We listened to "Michacra" on our WeeSing CD.

 

CO-OP

 This week during class they gave their presentations on their animals and they drew pictures of animals and added them to their rainforest they are making. Here is a sneak peek of layers 1 and 2...

They also played Jeopardy to remember the characteristics of primates. They learned a difference in primates and humans through a little experiment. Primates have opposable thumbs and toes and can even eat with their toes, so they tried to see if they could eat Skittles with their toes (which is virtually impossible for humans because we do not have opposable toes). They also read Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla which is a true story about a silverback gorilla who was captured, displayed in a shopping mall, then taken to the Atlanta Zoo where he died in 2012 at the age of 50.