Tornado Boy
Math: We finished all the material in 5A. Next week, we'll do Review 6 and then do the placement test. I feel pretty confident that he'll do well. He has enjoyed this book. This week, we learned about ratios, which are incredibly easy, so he did 2-3 exercises per day, taking about 15 minutes total. Yes, that easy.
Reading: We hadn't gotten to The Bears on Hemlock Mountain last week like we were supposed to, so I told him Monday to read it. He came back 15 minutes later and said he was done... with the whole book. He told me all about it, and yep, he'd read the whole thing. It is a short, easy book, but I wasn't expecting it to be quite that quick!
Grammar: We did some R&S English 4 this week again, talking about present, past, and future tense, and the "helping form", which lead to be explaining past perfect, present perfect, and future perfect. R&S doesn't introduce those terms yet, but I did. :) We did all of this orally, as it was pretty easy, but we have had some terminology that was new, so it was good to go through it.
Writing: Zip. Zilch. Nada. I'm sure Tornado Boy is happy about that too!
Spelling: We worked on week 27, though I didn't give him his test yet. I might do that this weekend.
Handwriting: He did the letters 'f' and 'o' this week.
Latin: We learned the verb "carry" this week.
Vocab: Skipped.
Poetry: Skipped.
Read-Aloud: We finished The One and Only Ivan. The ending is very good. The last 1/4 of the book was much less depressing. :) Overall, it was a good book, but I think it'd be more interesting to a middle school student maybe? Tornado Boy liked it ok, but I was kind of depressed through most of it. The depressing parts were probably lost on the kids, so I doubt they were as depressed as I was. :) We started I, Robot last night and have read "Introduction" and "Robbie".
Bible: Continuing our harmonizing of the gospels. Jesus has cast out demons, slipped away from people in his town wanting to throw him off a cliff, and healed more people. :) We have also continued studying Proverbs.
History: We finished the Landmark reading through chapter 2 this week. Tornado Boy is still enjoying the book, and he is having no problem understanding it.
Science: He read through an Usborne science encyclopedia and also some of The Way We Work.
The Brute
Math: This week we learned how to add within 20 (12+5, etc.). This was pretty easy. We also continued working through Ray's orally, which practiced the basic facts and the making tens concept learned last week.
Reading: We are oh so close to finishing the Decoding Power Page. We were going to finish it, but DH was off work today, and he told the kids if they cleaned up all the toys and paper from the whole house, they could help him test a video game he's been fixing. So we did one line of reading today, and now I have a clean house. <g>
Handwriting: We learned the letter 'x' and did "fox", "box", "sh", and "ee".
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| Drew his own on the back :) |
Other: We did all of week 10 today.. in about 30 minutes. Go me! It wasn't that much this week, apparently. We also did chapter 9 of Life of Fred Butterflies.
I also gave him some story paper, since he wanted to draw a picture and write something like Tornado Boy had done after we went to Disney. He wrote something about hyperspace and monsters in Star Wars oceans. He had me write the big words so he could copy them.
Mischief
Mischief worked through some more of Adventures With Books. He knows his color words, and he is learning to outline, then fill in when coloring. It still looks like a 3 year old coloring, of course, but he has the concept. :) He also did some tracing pages. I've noticed that he starts with his left hand, then halfway through the page, he switches to his right hand. He's equally good with both hands, though he hooks his right hand a tad. When The Brute was doing handwriting, Mischief insisted on also doing handwriting, so I gave him a printout of the same 'x' page I'd made for The Brute. He liked that.
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