We took about 3 weeks off at Christmas, then started back up a month ago and have been going strong. I think the only major change we made in curriculum use is to add in Ellen McHenry's "The Brain" for our science right now. We are really enjoying it so far!
Tornado Boy
Math: We are doing percentages in Singapore 5B right now. This has been pretty easy for him, and sometimes he's done 2 lessons in a day. We are also catching up to that spot in CWP5, so we'll need to slow down there (I like it to be a BIT behind where we are in the textbook/workbook). We're in Volume in CWP5.
Reading: This week, he began reading George Washing: Young Leader.
Grammar: I must say, I'm absolutely loving R&S English 4 these days. Go figure. :) We are now in the Adjectives chapter, having just finished Pronouns. I usually assign roughly half the written work... yes, written. It is stretching him in good ways. He is also learning to write properly from a textbook on loose leaf paper.
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| Diagramming... and getting silly with the end letters falling into the seas. :P |
Writing: We completed week 26 of WWE2, and we also mailed some letters we had written the previous week for a R&S English lesson. His assignment was to write a letter to a friend, inviting them over. The younger boys decided that they, too, would write letters. So Tornado Boy invited his friend D, The Brute invited D's younger brother J, and Mischief invited the Mom Lori. :) Tornado Boy addressed the envelope himself and did quite a good job. The family did receive the letter this week.
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| Tornado Boy's letter |
Spelling: We have completed 4 weeks of R&S Spelling 4. This book is definitely a step up in the difficulty department! He struggles with some of the exercises, but he's acing the tests, so the exercises are clearly working. :)
Latin: We did lessons 46 and 47 of Getting Started With Latin this week. It had been a few weeks since we last did Latin, but he did very well anyway.
Read-Aloud: We are currently reading Five Children and It, which the boys are quite enjoying! For Sonlight history read-aloud, we are also doing Toliver's Secret, and since we skipped it when it came up as a reader (didn't own it yet), Mr. Revere and I.
Bible: We are still working through the harmony of the gospels. We have gotten through the triumphal entry.
History: We haven't had to read Landmark for the last 2 weeks because we read ahead 3 weeks ago. :) We did do 2 chapters of Story of the USA book 2. I personally like Landmark better. We also started If You Were There When They Wrote the Constitution...
Science: We have done 2 chapters of "The Brain". The first chapter included learning a bit about Phineas Gage and Albert Einstein. This week's chapter taught us the different parts of the brain and what each of them does.
The Brute
Math: The Brute is cruising along in Singapore 1B now. He often does 2 lessons in a day because they are so simple right now. He loves math and is good at it. Yay! Right now, we are reviewing numbers up to 40.
Reading: We have recently started using Phonics Pathways, which The Brute is liking ok. We still pull out Dancing Bears sometimes, but I felt like he needed something "different" for a bit. I have also been bribing him with Star Wars Phonics books - he gets to read one after he does his phonics lesson. ;) They have been wonderful, and he really loves that he can read a "real" book, even if he's only reading the bold words.
Writing: I started him on Pentime 1 Book 1 a couple weeks ago. So far, he has focused on the letter A/a and U. And of course, he wrote that letter to his friend:
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| The Brute's letter |
Other: We have consistently been one week behind in P4/5 compared to Tornado Boy's Core D lately, so this week, I finally caught us up! We read all of week 18 in one day, then did week 19 across 2 days. The boys enjoyed listening to a couple Jim Weiss stories on a Tall Tales CD one day.
Mischief
Mischief is working through Phonics Pathways also, just a bit behind The Brute. He sometimes does just 4 words in a day, which is fine. He also has various workbooks that he does independently. He, too, wrote a letter, as already mentioned, and he drew the "Where's My Water?" board game on the back. I love his alligator!!!! He also wrote his name very nicely, but I've blanked it out in this picture. ;)
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| Mischief's letter - "Dear Lori, Come play." (and some practice D's in the middle) |
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| Pretty good alligator for 3.5 years old! :) |
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