WEEK 19

LANGUAGE ARTS

 Mercer did Lesson 17-19 in All About Reading Level 3, week 16 of his Daily Reading Practice workbook, and Lesson 12 in handwriting. He also did Sonlight Language Arts 2 Week 2 which consisted of spelling words with suffixes, copy work, creative writing focusing on action verbs, learning about similes, reading in his reader and answering comprehension questions, and 8 pages in Explode the Code Book 4. 

 

Ryder did Fit It Grammar Week 17 on adverbs, took 2 timed reading tests, did week 16 of his Daily Reading Practice workbook, and did 3 pages in his Word Roots workbook. He also worked on Spelling through Spelling City and Natural Speller and had a test.

 

MATH

Mercer did Day 130-135 in his Easy Peasy Math workbook.

Ryder did Lessons 63-64 and quiz #9 in Teaching Textbooks 5. He also used XtraMath online to work on his Math Facts.
   

 SCIENCE

Mercer learned about animal marks.

Ryder started Unit 3 (Moon and Oceans) Chapter 7 (The Moon) this week. He learned about the moon's properties such as shape, size, atmosphere, temperature, mass, and gravity, the moon's light, and the moon's surface such as the Maria, mountains, rilles, and craters. He also did a "moon math" worksheet.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES/HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY

Both boys did Week 19 in their geography workbooks.

Mercer studied about Italy, Kenya, and Egypt this week.

Ryder learned about the Presidents Coolidge and Hoover this week. He also learned about the United States military, four years at West Point, and Three Days of Marine Basic Training.

 

CRITICAL THINKING

The boys each did 4 pages in their critical thinking workbooks.

 

BIBLE

This week we started something different for the remainder of the school year. Both boys have daily reading Bibles, so they started on January 1st reading their assigned chapters everyday. We are excited to see them accomplish this goal throughout this year!

 

MUSIC

This week the kids learned about the tuba. They listened to music played by the tuba.

 

TOT SCHOOL

We did Unit 6 Week 16 this week. This week we made our unit poster, ate brown foods such as peanut butter and pretzels, played a "copy me" game, went on a color hunt to find things that were brown, read about Ravens giving Elijah good food in the Preschoolers Bible, colored a shape coloring sheet, and read the squirrel poem. We also practiced saying "thank you."