Weekly Report - Year 3 Week 16

This week has gone very well! We used our brand new school room for the first time, and I can't believe how much that helped us stay on task and be productive.

The Brute and Mischief helping Daddy put shelves together

All moved in!

My husband plans to put a big white board on the wall those desks are facing. Currently, I just have my old 2'x3' on an easel in the corner by that wall.

The white shelves separate the "school area" from the "toy area". I wasn't sure how well that would work, but so far, it has been fine. Library books are on the back side of the shelving unit also, so sometimes the kid that isn't doing school can be back there reading. In fact, one day, Mischief was reading so quietly there that I forget he was back there! :)

Tornado Boy

Math: We did Exercises 3-7 in the decimals unit. They were pretty easy, but it was good to practice those concepts a bit. We also did 2 pages per day of CWP5. This week was Fractions, and those problems were mostly easy for Tornado Boy. He loves fraction word problems!

Reading: He finished reading The Matchlock Gun.

Grammar: We did 3 lessons in R&S English 4, including action verbs with and without direct objects and learning about predicate nouns. These are all review topics for Tornado Boy, but it had been a while since he diagrammed, and he likes diagramming. :)

Writing: I had intended to do IEW this week, but when I made the schedule, I forgot to put it on there, and I had already messed up the first printing of the schedule and reprinted once, so I decided to let it go one more week. We'll do the rewrite of the Princess and the Pea the next two weeks before our Thanksgiving break. I did not replace the writing this week, but I did have him do the exercises in R&S that included writing a couple original sentences based on a picture. He had those in two of the lessons and did them with ease, with all words spelled correctly! Hooray!

Spelling: We finished week 29 of R&S Spelling 3. 100% on the test. I had forgotten to test week 28, but I gave him one of the harder words from that list, and he got it correct also. Next week is a review lesson.

Latin: We did 2 lessons this week - tabula and aqua.

Vocab and Poetry: Just here for placeholders in case we ever get back to them. :P

Read-Aloud: We finished the 5th story in I, Robot and started the 6th.

Bible: Continued harmonizing the gospels. Our daily reading schedule has dates, and we finished September this week. Ha! We're a bit behind, but that's ok. I'm not in a hurry. We just plug along at our pace. :) We also read Proverbs each day.

History: We read a lot about the House of Burgesses and the Virginia Aristocracy this week in the Landmark book. It was interesting reading about some colonial times elections in Virginia while the US elections were going on for us. Some things haven't changed.

Science: I forgot to put this on the schedule also. :P

The Brute

Math: We did exercises 12 and 13, plus Mental Math 2 and 3. We are now adding and subtracting within 20 pretty well. My biggest challenge during math time is getting him to write numbers properly instead of big, scary numbers or numbers that are eating other numbers, etc. :)

Reading: We finished a whole page of Dancing Bears.

Writing: I started the WRTR word list this week, doing both print and cursive. The Brute sits at his desk with his lap size white board, and I write the words on the board and have him read and copy them in manuscript and then cursive. This is NOT how Spalding is supposed to be done, btw. So don't copy this and think it's Spalding. ;)

Other: We finished P4/5 week 12.

And we have bad news about our pet "Astronaut"... When you see a caterpillar make an upside down 'V' like this, it's a virus:

He stayed up there for a couple days, then finally died, hanging on by only one pair of legs in the middle. Dr. Google said virus, and sure enough, he didn't make it. :(

I still need to move some leaves around to see if Flower is still alive. I'm hoping he's in chrysalis form now.

Mischief

Tornado Boy worked with Mischief a few days this week, using a variety of preschool to first grade workbooks, including The Brute's Singapore 1A (no, Mischief is not actually ready for 1A :P ). He also joined in on The Brute's WRTR lesson, reading those words.

And the funny for the week... Thursday, Mischief came out saying, "Ok, I have my clothes on!" My reply was, "I wasn't planning to rob anyone's house today..."

He did change again before taking The Brute to speech therapy that day:

And later, I found another hat (or toque, for the Canadians) and put it on Tornado Boy, who was complaining that he was cold:

Doing school work so they don't have to have a life of crime...