Week # 8

It has been hard for me to find time to blog. I am behind in posting this and know that if I wait too much longer I probobally won't do it at all. So here it is...

The week went by smoothly, busy as usual, but no problems.

BIBLE
Greenland
George Muller
Mathew 5:27-42
Memory Verse

LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH
Copied Memory Verse
Dicatation of Memory Verse daily
DD- Wkbk#1 Pgs 40-47 with daily review (working on short vowels and sight words)
DD- Wkbk #2 Animal riddles, short vowels
DD- Wkbk #4 Pgs 8-11 Short vowels
DS- Workbook- Reading comprehension 10 pages
DS- Yellowbook Page 38-42
I read to them some about the orgin of pumpkins/ Halloween.
Letter writing- They chose to write to Grandma and Grandpa Abbott this week- thanking them for a care package they sent them earlier in the week.
DD-SPEECH CLASS and homework
DD & DS- Vocabulary- lake and stream, wrote out definitions and added them to our notebooks.
MATH
DD- Saxxon Math Lessons 21-24
DS-Saxxon Math Lesson 30
DS- Math workbook 3 pages (Begining multiplication)
Math Drills-
DD- Addition and subtraction
DS- Division and subtraction


GEOGRAPHY
We continued our study on CANADA this week.
Finished our Canada lapbook- climate, religion, major industries, wow facts, people and landscape
Illustrated World Atlas- Nature Farming and Industry
A Trip Around the World- Read about Canada, crossword puzzle
CANADA STORE- Kids spent thier Canadian dollars on fun things from the "Canadian Store"
Canada Quiz- Quiz on everything we had learned the last two weeks. The kids did AWESOME! Both of them answered questions that I didn't really expect for them to get right. (I really didn't think they had been paying attention, but they proved me wrong!)
SCIENCE-
Living World- Living by Rivers and Streams, Water Birds
NATURE Video- Ugliest Animals of the world- A show I found on OPB, the kids LOVED it and learned a lot from it! SO DID I!
We continued on our Frog Lapbooks- Predator, Prey, tadpole, frog. We also continued to learn how to take care of our tadpoles- While still waiting anxiously for thier arrival!
SAHARA Video- Interesting, but too long and the kids lost interest.
Reading Rainbow- Animal Habitats

MUSIC ART
Going over the sea- Canada songs-


READING
I read aloud- The Frog Princess, Night of the Moonjellies, and Nate Saint Chapters 1 and 2.
DS- Read Cats that Roar, Started Tuck Everlasting, then his book request came through so he started Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chapters 1-5

FIELD TRIP- I arranged for a park ranger to take us out to the lake to identify several different types of trees. I thought it would be fun to share so I invited my Girl Scout troop to come along too! It was really fun! I will post more about it another time.
We also visited ROLOFF FARMS later in the week. We had so much fun! Again, I will have to post more later.

SPORTS/EXTRA ACTIVITIES
Cheerleading, Soccer, Royal Rangers, Bible Study

Still searching for a guitar teacher :(