Week # 6

September 29- October 5
This was a difficult week for us. We had a lot going on between work and family stuff. By Wednesday we had pretty much given up on doing school work. It was a crazy week. Next week is bound to be better!

BIBLE-

Haiti
Review of Mathew
Memory Verse
Review of previous memory verses

LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH

Copy Memory Verse and add it to journal
DS-Yellow Book pg 25-28
DD- Wbk #2 Pg 14
DD- Wbk #1 pg 32-35 + Review of previously learned sight words
DD- SPEECH + Speech homework

MATH

DD- Saxxon Lesson 18
DS- Saxxon Lesson 27

DRILLS-
DD- Subtraction
DS- Fractions

GEOGRAPHY

A trip Around the World- Pg 3-4
State Puzzle
States Quiz- DD got 10! DS got 26! (Felt so good to know that I had taught them that! And in not much time at all!
DS- Continued Geography packet
Globes and Maps- Finished book
Illustrated World Atlas- Nature, Farming and Industry
Colored a Mexican Flag, wrote what flag represents on the back of it.


SCIENCE/NATURE

Living World- Coping with Dryness
Wild Places- Hunters and the Hunted, Things that come from the desert and making things grow in the desert
DD- We began our series on Seasons- We wrote a story about fall and drew a picture. We chose a tree in our backyard to follow throughout the seasons. (We took a picture of her by it, but my camera was being difficult and none of the pictures really turned out.) We are going to document it through written stories, coloring photos, and taking pictures.

MUSIC/ART

I bought precut puzzles and the kids loved painting thier own scenes on them. They were originally going to make something that had to do with Mexico, but decided just to let them paint whatever they wanted. Niece had fun painting along side them!


READING

I read aloud- MEXICO
DD- Read aloud Big Big Bus
Family read aloud- Cameron Townsend- Chapters 13-16

COOKING
We wanted to do more with this, but as it was a difficult week the dish that we chose from Mexico was salsa. We had hoped to have a fiesta and to have decorated with homeade pinaitas and such but it just didn't happen this week. We made salsa and talked a little about the crops that are grown in Mexico.

SPORTS/EXTRA ACTIVITIES

Cheerleading, soccer, Girl Scouts

Week # 5

This week went much better. I felt like we might finally be finding our groove. We had found workbooks and activities for my neice to occupy her during "school" time and she seemed to really like learning with the kids. It made things a lot easier!

BIBLE-
Cuba
Discussion of John
Memory Verse + review of previous memory verses

LANGUAGE ARTS/ English-

Copied Memory Verse and added to our journal
Dictation of Memory Verses
DS- Yellow Book pages 14-21
DD- Wkbk# 2 pg 15
Vocabulary- Geography from A-Z badland and butte
DD- True/False
DD-Wbk #1 26-31 + review of previously learned sight words and sounds
DD- Having trouble with b's and d's- Practiced them a lot this week
No letter writing this week


SPEECH-
DD- First session of speech started this week at public school, Tuesday mornings
Speech homework- Review of last years concepts

MATH-

DS- Saxxon Lesson 23-26
DD- Saxxon Lessons 15-17
Drills/ Workbooks
DD- Sums, Number sentences, charts, addition
DS- Wkbk - Graphs and charts


GEOGRAPHY-

Illustrated World Atlas- P 20-21
DS- Continued Geography Packet
Money Exchange- We exchanged a $20 bill (Each) for Pesos- (Using fake money) We used the money throughout the next two weeks to buy our meals and at the end of the two weeks had a "store" the kids could buy things from. It worked great as a math lesson as well.
Intermediate World Atlas- pg 25 46-49
A Trip Around the World pg 5
Worksheet- Mexico-
State Quiz
Episode of "How it works" on landfills in New York- It showed NY's garbage system from inside out- We used it as Geography as NY has to haul thier garbage out of state. After watching it we discussed it in great length and used a map to find where the garbage went from NY.

SCIENCE-

Living World- Coping with desert temps
Wild Places- Birds that Live in the deserts, surviving in the deserts

MUSIC/ART

Pin Pon & Tingalayo and at nieces request Eentsie Weentsie Spider OVER AND OVER AGAIN

READING-
DD- Read aloud- Big Big Bus
DS- Read aloud- Hill of Fire
I read aloud- MEXICO, Cameron Townsend Chapters 11-12

Independent reading time-

DS- Stuart Little (Still can't locate reading log)
Book Basket- 30 mins Monday and Tuesday

Foreign Language-

Spanish DVD Lesson 1 Monday and Wednesday

SPORTS/Extra Activities-

Cheerleading, Soccer- We are unable to meet with the homeschool group until the end of soccer season as the two schedules conflict :( didn't make Bible study this week as I had Girl Scout meetings to attend that night. Would have like to have more outside activities this week.

Week # 4

This week was a little tough, as we were still trying to find a schedule that worked well for us while having to adjust to having a 3 year old in the house. We survived.. barely.

Bible-
Navajo
Discussion of our family tree (Review of our summers activities)
Hero Tales- Harriet Tubman (& review of what we learned about her last year)
Memory Verse + Review of previously learned versus

Language Arts-
Copied memory verse
Dictation of memory verse
DD-Wb #1 pgs 20-25 + Review
DS- Yellow Book Pg 8-11
Geography A-Z Canyon, Gulch
DD Wk #2 Pg 11
Wrote letters to person of choice on Friday - DD chose Nanny DS chose friend Benny, did not send them this time- delivered them.

MATH-

DS- Saxxon Lessons 19-22
DD- Saxxon Lessons 12-14
Drills-
DD- Addition, Subtraction, Sums
DS- Rounding


GEOGRAPHY-

Review of state names
Great States Game
DS- Continued Geography packet
Problem solving challenge- States
Coloring of US Flag- writing what the flags stripes and stars represented on the back
States Puzzle
States Quiz
Illustrated World Atlas- Farming and Industry
Online States Quiz http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf

SCIENCE-
Living World- Rain in the Desert
Wild Places- A storm in the Arizona desert, After the rain

MUSIC/ART-

Songs from US- Eentsie Weentsy Spider + review of previously learned songs

READING-
(Read Alouds)-
Mama do you love me?
Papa do you love me?
Cameron Townsend Chapters 7-10

Independent reading time-
DS- Stuart Little (Again unable to locate reading log for that week so unsure of what chapters were read)
DD&DS- 30 min Book Basket- Tue& Thurs

SPORTS/Extra Activities

Cheerleading, Soccer, Girl Scouts, Playdate with the neighbors