Tornado Boy
Math: We've finished the first unit of 5A and done the first review. I don't think there was really anything "new" to him in this unit. We also worked through all of the challenging section of CWP 4 Unit 1. I think we've already done those in Unit 2, so we'll skip to Unit 3 next week, just doing the challenge section. He did a few chapters of Life of Fred Fractions as well.
One day, while he was supposed to be doing a practice page dealing with factorization, I found him doing his for fun:
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| Finding all prime numbers within 100 |
Reading: Nothing assigned. I think next week he'll have something from Sonlight.
Grammar: We finished KISS Level 1.2 (Adding Complements). We did a few R&S exercises last week, but didn't plan any for this week.
Writing: Last week, he did "The Donkey and His Driver". This week, he did "Peter the Great". He has absolutely no problem adding a who/which clause. That has become "easy". He usually has no problem adding an -ly adverb, but this week, the material didn't lend itself to obvious usage, so I had to help him a bit. No problem avoiding banned words this week. Last week, he did very well replacing the banned word "said" with "remarked", and that doubled as a strong verb. :)
Spelling: We finished weeks 21 and 22 of R&S Spelling 3.
Handwriting: For grins, I wrote down the cursive alphabet on a white board and had Tornado Boy copy it (note that he has not been taught how to write cursive yet). I was rather shocked by the results! Mischief erased part of it, but you can see some of it still:
Read-Aloud: Still reading The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom. We're nearing the end. The Princes Charming have now found Ella ("Cinderella") and are trying to stop the evil witch Zaubera from her plan to take over some kingdoms by killing everyone.
Bible: We started the daily Bible reading that my church elders have put together to study the Life of Christ, harmonizing the Gospels. So far, we're keeping up! ;) We also continuing our daily Proverbs study. Each day, we have found verses that were applicable to situations in our lives.
History: We started Week 5 of Sonlight this week, and have read about the Aztecs. The gross parts were the most interesting to Tornado Boy, of course!
Science: He has been reading a bit about chemistry and also doing some nature study. We did find a weed in the backyard that we cannot identify. I've seen it a lot over the years and know it's common around here, but I can't find it online. If anyone knows what it is, let me know!!! We're in Alabama, btw.
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| Identify me please!!! :) |
The Brute
Math: We picked up Life of Fred Apples for $5 locally last week, so we've been reading a chapter each day usually. The Brute LOVES it! He does very well with the questions, and he likes the "zero game" and even taught it to the eye doctor yesterday. We also continued through Singapore 1A unit 4, chapter 2, learning various methods of subtraction. It's still pretty easy at this point, but that's ok. It's good to give him confidence in a subject like this!
We also built some towers, a la Education Unboxed. What impressed me was that as he was covering the 100 flat with 5-rods, he said, "I'll need 20 5-rods!" Multiplication! I haven't taught him that yet.
And this tower has a electricity/sewer system around it:
Reading: He passed the first Mastery Test in Dancing Bears. Yay! We have begun the next section and are progessing nicely.
Handwriting: We learned 'm' and 'n', which are VERY difficult for him to write (and those are the letters that confused him in speech AND they are letters he gets confused in reading... they are his nemesis!!!). We also did the letter 't'. I had him copy a word that I wrote - "ham", then he had me copy a word he wrote - "cat". :)
Other: We finished Sonlight P4/5 Weeks 4 and 5. Still enjoying it! It really helps to keep it all in one tote bag, so I just grab the bag and sit on the couch to read for a while!
Mischief
We did some rod play from Education Unboxed:
We also practiced phonograms from Dancing Bears and read through the first part of the book. He's pretty good at sounding out words and blending.
He did a little bit of handwriting on his own:
He also studied the paranormal a bit...
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