Week # 10

We had a great week. There were a few minor issues but overall things went really well. Probobally our best week yet. I feel like we accomplished a lot even though on paper we have had "bigger" weeks. We focused a lot on Math and reading. The only real issue is that I am still finding it very hard to find time to work and the business is suffering from my lack of time. It is a really hard thing for me to balance. Hopefully I will figure out something that will work for us all very soon!

No Bible this week. I am sad to admit that I slacked on my own reading schedule as well.

MATH
We got back on track this week, finally.
DD- Saxxon lessons 26-30
DS- Saxxon Lessons 33-36
DS got frustrated a couple times this week. He was trying to hurry through his math worksheets and as a result got 90% wrong and had to redo the worksheets. Which led to him getting really upset. Trying to teach him that taking his time to do things right will result in less time spent than doing things the way he currently does them. This was a problem we had in public school as well.
DD- Worked on telling time. She is doing great! Telling time doesn't come in to play until quite a bit later in the Saxxon program, but she had shown an interest during her brothers math time. I decided to do it now since she seemed to want to.
DRILLS- Subtraction/Addition DD
Multiplication- DS
We watched a multiplication video that I found at the library. It was very old and outdated... and boring....

GEOGRAPHY-
Continued reading from the Illustrated World Atlas. We are still learning about South America, with a focus on Brazil.
We spent a lot of time playing our geography game, this week adding the North America game in as well. The kids find it challenging but enjoy it, and are really seeming to retain the information. I am not focusing as much on the capitals as the cirriculum suggests, more so on the location of the countries, which continents they are in, and facts about the continents, countries, ect.
DS- Continued working on his Geography packet. It is an advanced assignment reccomended for kids 5th grade and up- but there were quite a few pages I knew he was capable of doing (and he was) and the ones that were a little too hard I did with him.
We continued working on our Brazil lapbook.

SCIENCE/NATURE
We continued reading from Wild Places about jungles, where animals live in jungles, what lives in the trees, rain forests.
We also read more from Living World - Learning more about the rain forest floor, Monkeys and Apes andAnimals that climb and glide.
We worked more on our Frog lapbooks. Observed our tadpoles, and focused on the frogs of the rain forest, reading more about them and adding some more info about them to our BRAZIL lapbook.
We continued with our potato experiment.
We watched a video about the rainforest.

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS
DD- continued working on her workbooks. Pg 50-59 with daily review of sight words. She is doing excellent! Reading first reader books on her own now!
We also worked in a seperate workbook focusing on vowels and short and long sounds.
DD- Speech and speech homework- Her speech teacher took me aside after class and told me she doesn't think we will need to continue much longer. DS's speech patterns seem to be consistent with her age group now :)
DS- We didn't work from Yellow Book this week. DS gets really frustrated with handwriting, writing in general really, and since he was having issues with math I decided not to push it this week.
DS- Finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last week. I had him do a book report on it this week.

MUSIC/ART
No music this week. It just didn't fit in the schedule. The suggested art projects for this week required me buying a lot of materials and I didn't feel it was neccesary so we skipped that as well this week.

READING
DS- Finished Charlie and The Chocolate Factory this week. I caught him up at night reading several times this week :) Once he finished CCF he read from numerous Pokemon books and a few others that I didn't require him to log. He really seems to enjoy reading now. I am so happy with the progress he has made in such a short time!
DD- Read When I am Big (The same book that we used to help DS to read) It brought back so many memories. It was such a neat feeling when she finished it on her own for the first time! My kids are growing too fast.
She also read Pop Pop Pop
DS- Read to DD a lot this week as well. I noticed him reading Fancy Nancy to her as well as some other random books on the rain forest and animals, some Pokemon books too. It was a big reading week around here.
I read aloud from Nate Saint- Chapters 4-7, Fancy Nancy (DD loves those books!) Also read aloud from numerous books on the rain forest, animals, and atlas'.

SPORTS/EXTRA ACTIVITIES

Cheer, DS had his last soccer game, Girl Scouts, (We had a nut and candy booth that consumed A LOT of our time this week) Two playdates at different neighbors houses on different days. (We got to know a neighbor that we had been hopeing to get to know better for 2 years!) Royal Rangers, and Sunday School.