WEEK 6

LANGUAGE ARTS

Mercer did Lessons 44-45 in All About Reading Level 2, the second half of WriteShop Level A Lesson 3, Week 5 of his Daily Reading Practice Workbook, 6 pages in Explode the Code Book 3, and Lessons 22-25 in handwriting.

 

Ryder did Fix It Grammar Week 6 where he continued to learn about which-who clauses, Week 5 of his Daily Reading Practice Workbook, took 2 timed reading tests, and 3 pages in his Word Roots workbook. He also worked on spelling through Spelling City using Natural Speller words and had a test.

 

 

  MATH

Mercer did Day 29-38 in his Easy Peasy Math workbook.

Ryder did Lessons 21-23 and Quiz #3 in Teaching Textbooks 5. He also used XtraMath online to work on his Math Facts. He finished his addition facts and he has moved onto subtraction!

 

 SCIENCE

This week Mercer learned about the weatherman and he took his Unit 2 test. he also started Unit 3 which is about the seasons.

This week Ryder took his Unit 2 test and he started on Unit 3 which is about plants. He learned about flowers, flower parts, pollination, and seeds.

  

SOCIAL STUDIES/HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY

Both boys did Week 6 in their geography workbooks.

Mercer studied about George Washington and the cherry tree. 

Ryder studied about what voting is, women and minorities gaining the right to vote, and the rules about voting. He also learned about presidents Jackson and Van Buren. He finished the book "Lincoln: A Photobiography."

 

 

BIBLE

This week the character trait was decisiveness.

 

 

CRITICAL THINKING

Mercer and Ryder each did 4 pages in their critical thinking workbooks.

 

MUSIC

This week the kids learned all about the harp! They also listened to music played with the harp.

 

TOT SCHOOL

We did Unit 2 Week 4 on Obedience. This week we focused on the color black and bears. We made a new unit poster, played "Find the Bears," listened to the songs "Follow My Directions" and "Jesus Loves Me," read about obeying in "First Virtues," found items in the homeschool room that were the color black, ate raisins, read "The Three Bears," talked about obedience, read about the garden of Eden in the Preschooler's Bible, colored circles black, read a story about bears in "The Margaret Wise Brown Treasury," and pretended to be black bears while reading the black bear poem!