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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