Weekly Report - Year 3 Week 9

We had a normal week with the normal few interruptions. :) We had a great visit with my parents Tuesday, so no school that day. Then Wednesday we did a special lunch out, followed by haircuts and grocery shopping. Then Thursday, The Brute started up speech therapy again, and we hit the playground afterwards. Somehow, we still finished things by 2pm that day. Strange!

Next week, we're technically supposed to be on break for 3 weeks (taking a trip soon), BUT... I'll probably still do a few days of school and just take the last couple days of the week off to prepare for our trip - doing any last minute shopping, etc. We'll see. With it still being pretty warm, I'm thinking it'd be better to save our "week off" for a nice, fall day.

Tornado Boy

Math: We dove into word problems this week, which involved bar diagrams and also a chance to introduce some basic algebra (for problems where they expected "guess and check"). At one point, I was explaining some algebra concept that Tornado Boy was completely not understanding, so I reworded it and went over it again... and again... and again... Finally, he sort of understood. :) Then when doing the word problems in his exercise, lo and behold, he actually used similar algebra for one of the problems! Woohoo! He's sort of on the cusp of understanding this stuff - sort of there, sort of not. The funny part was that he was trying to use T-T to represent "tank tops" and T-S to represent "T-shirts", and he had set up his equation properly, but it looked like you were subtracting T from T and S from T. :) So I suggested calling them 't' and 's'. He was then able to easily solve the problem without confusion. He also did a problem with a complicated bar diagram on his own. Some problems are easier with algebra and some are easier with bar diagrams.

Reading: He finished Pocahantas and the Strangers this week. He is also still working on Lord of the Rings 2.

Grammar: We focused on adjectives and adverbs this week.

Writing: He wrote a paragraph on George Washington. It was a bit awkward, but he met the assignment. The awkwardness came in because he forgot to put in his "who/which" and "because" clauses before writing the rough draft.

Spelling: He finished review week 24, getting a 100 on his test.

Handwriting: Didn't do anything this week.

Latin: We finished lessons 31-33 in GWSL. We now know how to do first, second, and third person singular and plural verb forms.

Vocab: We discussed the stem "sub" this week.

Poetry: We talked about onomatopoeia and personification this week.

Read-Aloud: We have continued with Chomp. It's more interesting after the first chapter. :)

Bible: Still doing life of Jesus. He has called his apostles and done some more miracles. We also continued with our daily Proverbs study.

History: This week, we learned about the Mayans, noting some things we read in The Corn Grows Ripe earlier in our studies (seems like that book should have coincided with the Mayan section of Incans, Aztecs, and Mayans).

Science: Still reading chemistry books and also some dinosaur books.

The Brute

Math: We worked on order and position this week, finishing up that unit. We have started the first review. There are two more reviews after this one. We are still waiting on our Life of Fred Butterflies order to come in so we can start that up! We missed Fred Friday, after finishing the book Thursday. :)

Reading: We completed another page of Dancing Bears and also started reading "The Little Red Hen" in the Free & Treadwell Primer. He did VERY well reading that! We completed the story. We also read a little bit in McGuffey's Primer.

Handwriting:We worked on the letter 'u' this week and wrote some words and his name.

Other: We finished week 7 of Sonlight P4/5.

Mischief

Mischief worked through some random preschool type workbooks I got from a friend. We also built staircases with C-rods. :)