Weekly Report - Year 2 Week 8

This was an interesting week! We had a little delay early in the week due to a friend's emergency. Thankfully, we were able to go out and help as needed without worrying about getting back in time to pick someone up from school. Love it. ;) We were a bit slacking toward the end of the week, especially with a multi-store shopping trip on Thursday, but that's ok.

Tornado Boy

Math: We finished grade 3 MM!!! Well, he's still working on the end of year test, technically. It's 8 pages! We're about halfway done with it. I'd like him to finish it so I can see any glaring holes, since we have skipped some things here and there.

Reading: He finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Next week is The Phantom Tollbooth!

Grammar: We did lessons 4-6 in FLL3. This early stuff is mostly review, so it's still easy right now. :) We are skipping the "optional dictation", since we're doing dictation in WWE2.

Writing: We completed week 2 of WWE2. So far, this has been easier than WWE1. I suspect that this will change. It's lulling us into a sense of comfort and ease, and then suddenly we'll get a passage that we have no clue what it's talking about. Just waiting for it now... :)

Handwriting: This week, we went out in the sand and drew 'a' and 'd', plus the combination 'ad'. I had to convince Tornado Boy not to press so hard in the sand. Light touches are fine! He's getting there. He has some nice letters in the sand.

Spelling: We skipped spelling this week, and I'm contemplating some changes, after doing some more research on Writing Road to Reading (Spalding) and Spell to Write and Read (Spalding-spinoff). Now that I have used AAS, I understand WRTR/SWR and think it might be better for Tornado Boy, since more phonograms are learned up front.

Read-Aloud: <hangs head in shame>

Bible: This week we learned about Daniel's prophecies, some of the Jews returning to Jerusalem, and how there was trouble rebuilding the temple.

History: We learned about the first emperor of China's grave (with thousands of clay soldiers), Confucius, and then we went back to Rome and learned about Julius Caesar being kidnapped by pirates!

Science: Skipped this week.

Art: Skipped this week.

Spanish: We finished most of Chapter One Part B. Not quite done yet.

The Brute

Math: We did a little bit of Book B, but not much yet.

Reading: We worked on some phonograms (Spalding style) and started learning how to read some cursive letters. We'll start some pre-writing activities next week (salt box and such).

Mischief

Mischief sat in on our phonogram  lesson, and while he was doodling on his Magnadoodle, he suddenly said "A says /a/!" and I saw this: