WEEK 12

LANGUAGE ARTS
Mercer did Lesson 4 and 5 in All About Reading Level 3, the first half of WriteShop Level A Lesson 6, Week 10 of his Daily Reading Practice Workbook, 6 pages in Explode the Code Book 3, and Lesson 5 in handwriting.

 

Ryder did Fix It Grammar Week 11 on apostrophes with contractions, Week 10 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 75-81 in his Easy Peasy Math workbook.

Ryder did Lessons 41-43 and had quiz #6 in Teaching Textbooks 5. He also used XtraMath online to work on his Math Facts.
 

 SCIENCE

This week Mercer did an experiment on clean vs. dirty hands and learned about teeth.

Ryder learned about these simple machines: inclined plane, screw, and wedge. We did an activity discussing tools and simple machines and how they could have been used to build the ark. He also took the chapter 4 test.

 

 

SOCIAL STUDIES/HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY

Both boys did Week 12 in their geography workbooks.

Mercer studied about different ways Americans have sent messages to each other in the past and today - smoke signals, town crier, Pony Express, stage coach, telephone, mail truck, radio, newspaper, internet, and TV! He also learned about Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Plantation, Niagara Falls, the Statue of Liberty, Fort McHenry and the Star Spangled Banner.

Ryder learned about the responsibilities of the president, the leadership role of the president, a day in the life of a president, and the president's cabinet. He finished the book "A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt." He also learned about presidents Johnson and Grant.

BIBLE

This week the character trait was orderliness.

CRITICAL THINKING

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

 

MUSIC

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

 

TOT SCHOOL

We did Unit 3 Week 9 on Patience. The girls colored a picture of a duck. We listened to the songs "How Many Ducks" and "This Little Light of Mine." We read about patience in the first virtues book. We reviewed the three colors we have learned about and we counted up to 5 ducks. We read "The Fuzzy Duckling." We also read about Jesus going back to heaven in the preschooler's Bible. They colored a greeting card. We read a story about ducks in "A Big Treasury of Little Animals." We read the "Five Baby Ducks" poem.