WEEK 8

LANGUAGE ARTS

Mercer did Lessons 48-49 in All About Reading Level 2, the second half of WriteShop Level A Lesson 4, Week 7 of his Daily Reading Practice Workbook, 6 pages in Explode the Code Book 3, and Lesson 1 in handwriting.

 

Ryder did Fix It Grammar Week 8 where he learned about strong verbs, Week 7 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 45-54 in his Easy Peasy Math workbook.

Ryder did Lessons 28-30 and quiz #4 in Teaching Textbooks 5. He also used XtraMath online to work on his Math Facts.

 SCIENCE

This week Mercer learned about summer and autumn.

Ryder learned about ways to classify plants (tubes or no tubes, seeds or spores, and flowers or cones. He also took his chapter 3 test.

  

SOCIAL STUDIES/HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY

Both boys did Week 8 in their geography workbooks.

Mercer studied about Abraham Lincoln.

Ryder studied about putting together a campaign, advertising your candidate, traveling the campaign trail, and the presidential debates.

 

BIBLE

This week the character trait was flexibility.

 

CRITICAL THINKING

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

 

MUSIC

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

 

TOT SCHOOL

We did Unit 2 Week 6 on Obedience. We made a bear headband, listened to the songs "Follow My Directions" and "Jesus Loves Me," read about obeying in the virtues book, did a musical color walk, read "The Three Bears," read about Satan tempting Jesus in the preschooler's Bible, colored a 3 little bears greeting card, read a bear story in the Margaret Wise Brown Treasury, and acted out the black bear poem!