Weekly Report - Week 13

Maybe these are bi-weekly reports, but I'm still doing separate posts for each week! :)

Week 13 (a week ago from date of posting) went very well. Since we half-schooled through our break, it was easy to get back up to speed afterward.

Originally, DH was going to take the big boys to the zoo and stay overnight at a hotel, but we had a lot of severe weather that day, so the trip has been postponed. We still finished up school by Thursday though.

Tornado Boy

Math: We started chapter 4 of MM 2A, learning addition with regrouping. I was surprised that when I explained it, he immediately understood the place value part of it. When adding the numbers in the 10s column (including the "carried" 1), he gave an answer in the 10s, not ones (ie, "80", not "8"). That showed me that he understood what was going on. Nifty! He enjoyed learning this, and he was able to extend the knowledge to bigger numbers. On day 2 of learning this, I had him add 2 5-digit numbers together. He did it just fine. :)

Reading: Still plugging through The Trumpet of the Swan.

Grammar: We started FLL2 this week. We are taking it at regular pace and doing the copywork and such involved. This week we reviewed nouns and pronouns, and started memorizing the poem "The Goops", which Tornado Boy likes.

Writing: Someone slap me when I say I'm going to double up on writing for no reason, ok? I changed back to one week = one week. No reason to get ahead. Afterall, we'll end up starting WWE2 in October, I believe, and that will still put us ending it before we started 3rd grade. It's all good. We school year round. I don't know what I was thinking last week. So... we did week 15... just week 15. :) This week's passages were from The Railway Children.

Spelling: We're at a spot where we're doing one step per day at this point. The "new concepts" are fairly basic phonics, so we can breeze through them. We did steps 11-14 this week, learning blends with vowel-consonant-e ("prize"), plural vowel-consonant-e words ("stones"), the vowel teem "ee" ("feet"), and I or O followed by 2 consonants ("find").

Read-Aloud: Still plugging through Misty of Chincoteague. Phantom and Misty are in the pony pens, and a storm is coming!

Bible: In the morning, we've been reading about King Saul and his pursuit of David. I still haven't checked his workbook work. He's been reading it on his own.

History: We studied the Assyrians this week. We learned about how Ashurbanipal used siege towers against other cities and also how he created a library at Nineveh. We built a Lego siege tower.

Science: We began our study of wolves this week, reading some library books on wolves (during his free time).

Art: One of these days, we will get to art... really...

The Brute

Reading: Lots of progress here! I pulled out OPGTR and started using that to give us some sentences to read on the white board. I'm mixing it with Webster's Speller. This week, we just did sentences from OPGTR. It went very well. He has to sound out each word, but then he can go back and read the sentence without sounding out.

Math: No math this week.