Week # 21

Kind of a slow week as far as school work goes, didn't get as much done as I had expected to but I am not dissapointed either as we had a nice week together and played and cuddled alot. We took Friday off to travel to Washington for a cheer competition. We spent the weekend in Tacoma and Seattle, with a lot of learning experiences along the way. It was a great week with a lot of family time!






BIBLE-

I read aloud from Window on the World- Kal-Tamashaq
I read aloud Mathew 13:53-58, 14:1-12
I read aloud from Hero Tales- Samuel Morris
Memory Verse- Daily




LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH-
Copied Memory Verse
DS- Yellow Book- Page 122-124
Vocabulary word of the week- Abridge- added to vocab notebook
Coloring page MLK Jr. (Lots of discussion this week)
I have a Dream worksheet-
DD- Started her Alphabet Workbook - (A-C) Coming up with 6 words for each letter on her own and then drawing a picture for each.

MATH-
DD- Saxon lessons 55-57, Workbook #4 Pages 12-14
DS- Saxon Lesson 62
Played our new game "Money Bags" It is a coin counting game that I picked up hoping it would help DD with her counting skills. It is a great game and they really enjoy playing it! They didn't want to stop so it became our math lesson for the day.
Counting money worksheets (on our drive to WA)
DS- Various multiplication worksheets (on our drive to WA)

GEOGRAPHY-
I read aloud from Illustrated World Atlas- People and Places, Nature
Played AFRICA geography game 2x 25 min.
Watched National Geograhic African Wildlife video- (One of my favorites that I have watched as of yet- though some of it was a bit much for DD)

We made African animals out of homeade dough- baked them and planned on painting them the next day. Unfortanatley, our dog decided she wanted them while we were away at cheer....

We played "Mancala" after learning that it is a game frequently played in Africa. We had intended on making our own game but were lucky enough to find the game very cheap while in town and decided to buy it as it would be more sturdy than our homeade game.

Washington worksheets (busy work for our long drive) I will be sharing this later as her writing was SO impressive!
Book basket- 3x 20 mins.



SCIENCE-
I read aloud from Living World- Grassland Meat Eaters, Survival of the Grasslands, Life UndergroundDD- added a page to her Nature Notebook- drawing of an ostrich
We watched an episode of Oregon Field Guide-



MUSIC/ART-

Wee Sing- Songs from Africa



READING-
DS- Continued reading HOOT, A Juenne Fille Named Marie, Various Pokemon books
I read aloud David Livingstone Chapters 5-8
Martin Luther King by David A Adler, Martin Luther King Jr - from Jan. Teacher resource book, The Story of Martin Luther King by James Riordan




SPORTS/EXTRA ACTIVITIES-

Cheer 4x- Competition in Tacoma WA- (They took 2nd place! It was the biggest competition they have attended this year, the competition was tough but they held thier own!!)

Playdate at our house with a new friend.

Trip to Washington (more on that in a later post)

Week # 20

We had a very busy week- Cheer competition season is in full effect and has us running more than ever- Girl Scouts cookie season is also in full swing so I am bombarded with cookies, and work is still crazy, but we managed and did quite well with our school work. The kids had great attitudes all week which made it all that much better. One of the better weeks we have had :)

BIBLE-
I read aloud from Window on the World- Riffi Berbers
I read aloud Mathew 13:31-52
I read aloud from Hero Tales the story of Marry Slesslor.
Memory Verse- Daily.


LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH-
Copied Memory Verse
Vocabulary word of the week- Abrasive- Copied to Vocab notebook
DS-Yellowbook pages 110-119 + Assesment #13 (100%)
DD- Workbook #1 Pages 100-121 Finished the workbook- she is flying through them, I am going to move her up a level starting next week.
DD- Workbook #2 Pages 26-28- Working on vowels
SPELLING-
DD- Spelling DVD 3x 25 min each
DS- Spelling test (-1)

MATH-
DS- Saxon Lesson 56-61 + Assesment #11 (100%)
DD- Saxon Lesson 52-54, Workbook #4 Page 6, 9-11, 24 (addition tables, greater than, less than, number stories)

GEOGRAPHY-
The kids made thier geography game boards for Africa with no help from me for the first time. They did a really good job!
Played Geography game 2x 30 min each. Did very well for not having studied too much beforehand!
DD- Africa coloring pages- children of Africa
Book Basket- 3x 20 min each.
DS- made Irio (A Kikuyan tribe recipe) for dinner. The only help he had was the peeling of the potatoes. He did great and had a lot of fun with it!
DS- Continued to work on his AFRICA packet.

SCIENCE-
I read aloud from Living World- Grasslands, Grassland plants, and Grassland plant eaters.
We did the "Elephant Experiment"

MUSIC/ART-
Tooth Puppet
Tooth Box
Gingerbread house

READING-
DS read HOOT chapters 1-9 and numerous Pokemon books that he didn't log.(He is a reading machine right now!)
DD- read Hippo wants to Play
I read aloud from David Livingstone Chapters 3+4, A Light in the Attic pages 40-54, AFRICA by A.R, Schafer, A is for Africa by Ifeoma Onyefulu

SPORTS/EXTRA ACTIVITIES-
Cheer 4x (Competion on Saturday- They took 2nd place!)
Book club meeting- They made clay animals and discussed the book- Both of the kids winning the raffles- they were very excited!
Bible Study-
The kids both attended Royal Ambassadors(I have been calling it Royal Rangers...oops!)
Girl Scouts- we have begun cookie sales--- it is going to be very busy for some time now....