WEEK 10

LANGUAGE ARTS
Mercer did Lesson 1 in All About Reading Level 3, the first half of WriteShop Level A Lesson 5, Week 8 of his Daily Reading Practice Workbook, 6 pages in Explode the Code Book 3, and Lesson 3 in handwriting.

 

Ryder did Fix It Grammar Week 9 where he learned about apostrophes to show ownership (possessives), Week 8 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 61-67 in his Easy Peasy Math workbook.

Ryder did Lessons 34-36 and quiz #5 in Teaching Textbooks 5. He also used XtraMath online to work on his Math Facts.
 

 SCIENCE

This week Mercer learned about winter.

Ryder started unit 2 which is all about forces and energy. He learned about forces, gravity, friction, and uses those forces through motion or work.

 

  

SOCIAL STUDIES/HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY

Both boys did Week 10 in their geography workbooks.

Mercer studied about America growing, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa.

Ryder studied about getting ready for election day, going to the polls on election day, finding out election results, the electoral college, and the transition team. He also learned about presidents Fillmore and Pierce.

 

 

BIBLE

This week the character trait was generosity.

 

CRITICAL THINKING

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

 

MUSIC

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

 

TOT SCHOOL

We did Unit 3 Week 7 on Patience. We did our unit poster, listened to the songs "How Many Ducks" and "This Little Light of Mine," read about patience in our First Virtues book, went on a hunt to spot things that were yellow, ate bananas and sandwiches in the shape of a duck, read "The Fuzzy Duckling, read about Isaac in the Preschooler's Bible, read "The Little Duck" in A Big Treasury of Little Animals, colored ducks and shapes yellow, and acted out our weekly poem "Five Baby Ducks."