WEEK 11

LANGUAGE ARTS
Mercer did Lesson 2 and 3 in All About Reading Level 3, the second half of WriteShop Level A Lesson 5, Week 9 of his Daily Reading Practice Workbook, 6 pages in Explode the Code Book 3, and Lesson 4 in handwriting.

 

Ryder did Fix It Grammar Week 10 on helping verbs, Week 9 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 68-74 in his Easy Peasy Math workbook.

Ryder did Lessons 37-40 in Teaching Textbooks 5. He also used XtraMath online to work on his Math Facts.
 

 SCIENCE

This week Mercer viewed the seasons and took his chapter 3 test. He also started chapter 4 which is about health and safety and he learned about his body and healthy habits.

Ryder learned about these simple machines: lever, wheel and axle, and pulley.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES/HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY

Both boys did Week 11 in their geography workbooks.

Mercer studied about different ways to travel - horse and wagon, trains, planes, cars/trucks, and boats.

Ryder learned about Washington, DC (our nation's capital) - introducing the people of Washington, DC, becoming the capital city, from mud streets to grand avenues, and a timeline of the DC national park sites. He read chapters 1-12 in "A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt." He also learned about presidents Buchanan and Lincoln.

BIBLE

This week the character trait was joyfulness.

CRITICAL THINKING

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

 

MUSIC

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

 

TOT SCHOOL

We did Unit 3 Week 8 on Patience. We traced a shape of a duck and wrote the bible verse on the paper, pretended to be ducks, listened to "How Many Ducks" and "This Little Light of Mine" on our music CD, read about the ducking being patient in the first virtues book, read "The Fuzzy Duckling," read about Joshua and the battle of Jericho in the preschooler's Bible, did duck puzzles, read about a duck in A Big Treasury of Little Animals, read and acted out the Five Baby Ducks poem, and played with yellow playdoh and duck-shaped cookie cutters!