Weekly Report - Year 3 Week 5

We had a great week, even though we didn't do everything on the schedule. The first 3 days were as scheduled, and then the next day we had a rocketry day at a friend's house - all day rocketry projects! Such fun! Then we recovered on Friday. :P

Tornado Boy

Math: We finished 4B! He got an 80% on the placement test, which is the minimum for moving on. I know that sounds low, but I have tried to get him to a place where he has to work for 80%, so this is GOOD! ;) Most of the problems missed were silly errors anyway. His concepts are solid. We will start 5A on Monday (and work through CWP 4). Of course, I always have him correct missed problems on tests and such, so that 80% will become 100%. ;)

Reading: Nothing specific, but he read lots of library books and such.

Grammar: We did a quick review of complements and a couple lessons in R&S 4 on combining sentences and such.

Writing: He rewrote "The Cocks and the Eagle", including his -ly adverb and who/which clause. That completes lesson 3 (of 15).

Spelling: He did the workbook exercises for Lesson 21. We will do the test Monday. We were supposed to do it Wednesday, but he didn't feel ready. I had him practice the words instead - writing them with his finger on the couch, spelling them out loud, etc. He thinks so much like me... His way of remembering "thousand" is "thou sand". :)

Read-Aloud: Continued The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom. Currently, the 4 Prince Charmings have just escaped from the Bandit King.

Bible: Continued reading through Romans and Proverbs.

History: None officially (though he's been reading books about the Revolutionary War, and he and Mischief played "Minutemen vs. the British", where Mischief literally marched around with a hockey stick on his shoulder like a rifle - hilarious).

Science: Various science books around the house, and of course the big Rocketry Day! A friend did a subscription to Aurora Lipper's summer e-science stuff, and she decided to do a bunch of the projects all in one day with several boys invited over to join in. It was supposed to go from 9-1:30, but it ended up 9-4! We had a great day though.

And from last week, pics of our nature study subject...

 

The Brute

Math: We started subtraction. The number stories get pretty silly. One day, he did a number story that went on and on and on and on and on. He really puts the "story" into number stories! Another day, there were 4 frogs on a lilypad and one more jumping off. So his story was, "There are 5 frogs. One turned into a shark and ate the other frogs." I asked how many frogs were eaten, and he said, "4!" :)

Reading: We're on the last drill page before the first Mastery Test. I imagine it will take us all week to finish it.

Handwriting: We did 'k' and 'l' this week. Kind of slacked off the last 3 days. :/

The 'k' in the middle is his... and he demanded checks. :)

Other: We finished week 3 of Sonlight P4/5. We're a little behind on the DEL workbooks, but that's ok. We did several pages this weekend. Clearly, I need to teach my kids to color...

Mischief

He has continued with MEP Reception. We've done 6 or 7 lessons now. One lesson had him tear brown paper to make a bear. We did that (with my help), and The Brute came over and decided to make the bear a girl (top half)... I then added a dress to the bear. :P