An average week overall.
BIBLE-
Window on the World- Saudi Arabia
Memory Verse
read aloud from Hero Tales "David Livingstone"
Discussion daily about David Livingstone.
Watched "Facing the Giants"
LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH-
Copied Memory verse
Dictation of Memory Verse
DD- Letter A Word Search
Both kids added to thier blogs.
DD- Spectrum Workbook Page 16
DD- Hangman - learning how to spell number words
Wrote letters to friends and family.
MATH-
DD- Saxon Lessons 58-64
She has been teaching herself multiplication! She was listening in on DS' lesson and when we were done with the lesson she showed me what she had been writing- she figured out what x means and wrote out all the x 0's and x 1's! I thought it was neat that she had taken the initiative- she has been drawing number sentences for x problems all week now.
DS- Saxon Lessons 66, Fraction practice- made a fraction book. Slow math week for DS. We were waiting on manipulatives to arrive in the mail for our next lesson and he had a lot of reading to get done before book club so he was stressing a little so we made finishing his book a priority.
Played Money Bags ( You can read some reviews of the game here- It is a great game to teach the concepts of counting money- the kids really love it!)
http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resources-Money-Bags-Value/dp/B00004TDTQ
GEOGRAPHY-
We entered Asia this week. We added Asia to our passports and exchanged our American Dollars for Sudan Riyals.
Added Saudi Arabia to our World Map- Colored and labeled it.
I read aloud interesting facts about Saudi Arabia from "A trip around the World" Pages 58-59.
Labeled and colored Saudi Arabia Worksheet.
Daily discussion about the war in the Middle East. The kids took great interest in this topic so it became a regular topic.
We started our 7 Continents lapbook. We added the following pages- Cover page, This is where I live, Asia, North America, Saudi Arabia,
SCIENCE-
I read aloud from Wild Places- Living in the Desert pages 80-83.
Illustrated World Atlas - Nature, Farming, and Industry.
MUSIC/ART-
We made soap in the shape of tools and heart shape soap for Valentines Day. The kids love making soap so it has been a regular activity in our house for a couple years now.. Here are a few they made.
READING-
DS continued to read from the book "HOOT"
He finished the book this week and is all ready for Book Club next week!
I read aloud from David Livingstone- Chapters 10-18- We finished the book this week. It was our least favorite from the series so far. The kids seemed to lose interest early on- it was a hard one to get through! Ready for a fresh book!
Fancy Nancy- Bonjour Butterfly
The Fleas Sneeze
Pinkalicious
I started reading aloud "Understanding September 11th" by Mitch Frank. Pages 1-18. The kids have had a lot of questions latley, some I didn't know how to answer so we picked this book up. I don't know that we will finish it. It is obviously very heavy subject matter and the kids are young. But we will read through un'til the kids have thier questions answered.
We started our next chapter book "Amy Carmichael" - Chapter 1
SPORTS/EXTRA ACTIVITIES-
Cheer practice 3x
Cheer Competition (They took 3rd this weekend)
Girl Scouts- Selling cookies
Royal Ambassadors
