Weekly Report - Year 3 Week 4

This was a short week for Tornado Boy, since DH took him on a "field trip" to DC Thursday-Saturday. He got everything done that was planned though, and even finished before lunch the last two days (the first day he finished around dinner time after threat of not getting pancakes for dinner, so he worked much more diligently the next two days). The Brute and Mischief got to continue their normal school week, which of course took very little time.

On the plane, ready to fly...

Tornado Boy

Math: We finished the 4B lessons and just have the last review and the 4B placement test (which I use as an end of book test). We learned about volume this week, including 1mL=1cm^3, and he got to figure out that a m^3=1,000,000cm^3.

Reading: He finished Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I'm still not even halfway through the book. Oh well. He's taken the second book on his trip to DC, along with some other books. He also officially well surpassed his 10,000 page summer reading goal! and I haven't even entered everything. I think he's really closer to 12,000 pages now.

Grammar: We had an early introduction to verbals this week. Those sentences got a bit tricky!

Writing: I only had him write the final copy of his "Zombie and the Nuts" story. The rest of the week was a reprieve, since he was going out of town. Next week, we'll continue on with the next story. :)

Spelling: He did week 19 and only missed one word on the spelling test, which was a silly mistake. He knew how to spell the word.

Read-Aloud: Still working through The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom. We're getting introduced to the third Prince Charming now.

Bible: Continued through Romans and Proverbs.

History: Still none officially.

Science: We started reading Introduction to Biology by Holzmann. It's a bit dry, but there is certainly meat there. We'll give it a fair shot. This may be one I need to pre-read, then hand to him to read on his own, so he can really soak up the information.

The Brute

Math: We finished the first unit of 1A. Next, we'll move into Subtraction. These addition pages have been super easy, yet they're confidence building.

Reading: Still making steady progress here. Some words are getting into his brain without having to be sounded out. Hooray! Usually, sentences involving sharks are a-ok. :)

Handwriting: We practiced 'b', 'e', 'h', 'i', and 'j', plus some simple words such as 'be', 'he', and 'bed'. He's doing very well. We are continuing to use the white board right now, but we'll move to a pencil later.

Other: We've done Sonlight P4/5 pretty much at pace this week. Sometimes we rearranged 2 days so that the first half of both days was done on one day and the second half of both days the next day. That seems to help with some of the jumping around between books (like when there is a 4 line nursery rhyme, you don't really want to put the book down and switch to something else). He also continued the DEL workbook 1, and did very well on the pages for this week.

Mischief

Mischief is now bored with the C-rod Alphabet book and wants to do DEL instead, so I've been letting him do that with The Brute. I also have started MEP Reception, just to try it out. Below is a picture of part of the family we drew for lesson 2. He wanted to do "math" this week, and that was math closer to his level. He wanted to do Singapore Essential Math, but I would rather wait a year on that.

I drew DH and a dog, and Mischief drew me :)

Mischief is also joining in on phonogram flash cards for Dancing Bears. He knows almost all of the ones that The Brute is going through. These are one-sound only, not all the sounds. I was surprised that he knew phonograms such as "ar". Crazy.