Sunday, January 17, 2010

Weekly Report # 20

We had a very productive week! Finally back in the swing of things I think! No playdates this week, none worked out due to conflicting schedules- but it did give us more time for fun art projects! All in all a very good week :)

MATH-
DD- Saxon 2- Lesson 113-118
DS- Saxon 5/4 - Lesson 74-77
DS-Test #14
DD- Math Workbook Pg 1-7 (Clock Review)
DD- Math Workbook Pg 28-34 (Counting Money Review)


ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS-
Reviewed parts of language (nouns, verbs, etc)
DD-Wkbk #2 Pg 6-9 (Reading, Writing, Thinking Skills)
DD-Spelling Pg 70-73
DD- Spelling Pre-test 8/10
DD-Spelling Test 10/10
DD- Wkbk #1- Pg 112-116 (Using Order Words, letter writing review)
DS-Spelling- Review Lesson 10
DS-Spelling Lesson 11
DS-Wkbk Pg 140-141 (Antonyms and Synonyms)
DS-Wkbk #2- Pg 125-129 (Compound Subjects/predicates,Compound sentences)

GEOGRAPHY/HISTORY-
SOTW Ch #14
SOTW Ch #15
SOTW Ch #16
Review Questions Ch #14
Review Questions Ch #15
Review Question Ch #16
Map Work- the New Kingdom of Egypt
Map Work- The Israelites leave Egypt
DD- Coloring Page- King Tut
Coloring Page-Moses
Continued to read from "The Kids Money Book" - Still learning about what Banks do, where the money goes, etc.



SCIENCE-
Spectrum Science 3 Lesson 1.2
Worksheet 1.2
Spectrum Science 3 Lesson 1.3
Worksheet 1.3

MUSIC/ART-
Made Egyptian Death Masks (Fun Project!!Paper Mache)
"Colored Glass" project (melting crayons, cutting them in shapes of blown glass balls- We were all very interested to learn about the Phoenicians beginning this beautiful art! We have been to watch glass blowers many times and own a few pieces ourselves- we had no idea it had such a historic beginning!)

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Listened to Bach throughout the week
Listened to our new compilation CD that has a variety of great composers- (Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, etc.)

READING-
Continued to read aloud from "Among the Imposters" Ch #3-21
DS-Read aloud 30 mins daily
Silent Reading 45 minutes daily

FOREIGN LANGUAGE-
DD- Latin L 1.1 - Speaking
DS- Latin 1.2 Core
DS- Latin 1.2 Pronunciation x2
DS- Worksheet 1.2

SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-
DD-Cheer Private Lesson
DD-Cheer Practice 3x
DD-Cheer Competition (1st of the season!- DD's team took 1st and DD took 2nd for her 1st individual ever! She was only 1.5 points from taking first place! What a great start to the season!)
Church

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4 comments:

Ms Eva said...

Saw the video you posted of the cheer competition! So cool! She did great! :D

What an awesome week you had! Wow! :)

When we read the chapter about the Phoenicians - the kids wanted to make purple dye by boiling snails... I had to say, "NO WAY!" ;D

Christie said...

Looks like it was a great week. Love the masks and the picture of Ry and Chandler together. Congrats to Ryleigh again!

Oregon Mom said...

haha that is funny about the snails!

Sheri Hubbs said...

Great job to Ry! I can't wait to come watch her perform one of these days. I also LOVED the masks. So cool!