This was in incredibly busy week for us. We had a LOT going on and I was determined not to get thrown too far off track. I had to work all week and hubby was out of town so I played "single working parent- homeschooling mom" NOT AN EASY TASK by any means! We didn't accomplish all on the agenda, but we did ok. We even managed to take our first field trip of the school year. Not too bad considering I worked a 35 hour workweek on top of everything that we had going on!
MATH-
DD- Saxon Lesson 22-26
DS- Saxon Lesson 14-18
Played Yahtzee, Mancala
ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS/WRITING-
Vocabulary Word "Sauros", looked up vocab words in dictionary,Review, Test
DD- Workbook #1 Pg 23-28 5 Senses,Adjectives,adverbs)
DD- Workbook #2 Pg 26-31 (Thinking, Reading, Language, Writing skills)
DS-LA Workbook Page 42-57 (Ending blends,Silent Consonants,vowel pairs)
Spelling Lesson #2
DD- Letter Writing
DD/DS- ZOO Scavenger Hunt
DD/DS- Animal fact worksheets
SCIENCE-
Field Trip to the zoo
HISTORY-
I read aloud from Dinosaurs of Eden- Pages 22-27
MUSIC/ART-
Coloring
READING-
Read aloud The Doll People Chapter 8-11
Silent Letters Loud and Clear by Robin Pulver
Read aloud the short story of Robin Hood, From Tiger to Anansi
Silent Reading 30 min daily
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
DD/DS- Started Rosetta Stone Spanish Level 1 Lesson 1.
SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR/FIELD TRIPS-
Trip to the Zoo with Home school Group
DS-Football Practice 2hr 3x
DD- Cheer Practice 1x
DS- Sleepover at our house with a friend
DD/DS- Both kids mastered thier front flips on the trampoline this week!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Weekly Report # 2
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Experience Music Project
Last week while in Washington for a cheer competition we made a quick stop to The Experience Music Project. Though we only had a short time there we had so much fun and can't wait to go back! Here are a few of our pictures from our trip!
You can check out the EMP online at : http://www.empsfm.org/
Learning about the mixing board.
Rocking out to an original Pokemon song :)
Loving the drums!
Playing the guitar
Friday, October 24, 2008
Nature Study- Tree identification field trip
As much as I love it, nature isn't my strongest subject. I have to ask for help a lot when it comes to teaching the kids anything new. Before the leaves fell I wanted to an activity with the kids about the different trees that are native here in Oregon. I was lucky enough to meet a park ranger who was willing to lead an activity for me. I decided the activity was too neat not to share so we invited my Girl Scout troop to come along.
It was such a fun activity. The kids walked around the lake learning how to identify different trees by thier leaves and bark. Afterwards, they did leaf and bark rubs and made a book to take home for reference.
The kids had fun and so did all the parents!
Field Trip to Roloff Farms
Our family ran across the show "Little People Big World" A couple of years ago. I had seen the familiy years before the show appeared on a few talk shows and really admired them. They had been through so much and had persevered through it all with thier heads held high. Anyhow, we began recording the show and watching it every weekend. It opened the door to so many conversations with the kids. The kids became very interested in the subject of dwarfism and we began studying it over the summer. The kids love watching it also for all the references to Oregon, as they live only a couple hours away from us! It also doesn't hurt that one of the sons, Jacob, LOVES soccer and Chandler does as well. (You can guess who his favorite family member is!)
Anyhow after talking about it for the last couple of years we decided to take a trip to thier pumpkin patch this year. I am SO glad that we did!
We had such a great time! We got to meet Amy and Matt, and also Matt's mom and dad. Oh and we can't forget Rocky- Thier dog! They were all so friendly and exactly how we had pictured them to be. We took two different tours of the property and got to see all the neat places we had seen on t.v. After we finished the tours, got a snack to eat, and visited all the other fun little places they had set up around the farm we finally picked our pumpkins! It was an awesome day! We hope to go again next year!
Our family with Matt's parents
One of the kids favorite places on the farm!
In the western town
My lil pumpkin with her pumpkin!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Week # 8
It has been hard for me to find time to blog. I am behind in posting this and know that if I wait too much longer I probobally won't do it at all. So here it is...
The week went by smoothly, busy as usual, but no problems.
BIBLE
Greenland
George Muller
Mathew 5:27-42
Memory Verse
LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH
Copied Memory Verse
Dicatation of Memory Verse daily
DD- Wkbk#1 Pgs 40-47 with daily review (working on short vowels and sight words)
DD- Wkbk #2 Animal riddles, short vowels
DD- Wkbk #4 Pgs 8-11 Short vowels
DS- Workbook- Reading comprehension 10 pages
DS- Yellowbook Page 38-42
I read to them some about the orgin of pumpkins/ Halloween.
Letter writing- They chose to write to Grandma and Grandpa Abbott this week- thanking them for a care package they sent them earlier in the week.
DD-SPEECH CLASS and homework
DD & DS- Vocabulary- lake and stream, wrote out definitions and added them to our notebooks.
MATH
DD- Saxxon Math Lessons 21-24
DS-Saxxon Math Lesson 30
DS- Math workbook 3 pages (Begining multiplication)
Math Drills-
DD- Addition and subtraction
DS- Division and subtraction
GEOGRAPHY
We continued our study on CANADA this week.
Finished our Canada lapbook- climate, religion, major industries, wow facts, people and landscape
Illustrated World Atlas- Nature Farming and Industry
A Trip Around the World- Read about Canada, crossword puzzle
CANADA STORE- Kids spent thier Canadian dollars on fun things from the "Canadian Store"
Canada Quiz- Quiz on everything we had learned the last two weeks. The kids did AWESOME! Both of them answered questions that I didn't really expect for them to get right. (I really didn't think they had been paying attention, but they proved me wrong!)
SCIENCE-
Living World- Living by Rivers and Streams, Water Birds
NATURE Video- Ugliest Animals of the world- A show I found on OPB, the kids LOVED it and learned a lot from it! SO DID I!
We continued on our Frog Lapbooks- Predator, Prey, tadpole, frog. We also continued to learn how to take care of our tadpoles- While still waiting anxiously for thier arrival!
SAHARA Video- Interesting, but too long and the kids lost interest.
Reading Rainbow- Animal Habitats
MUSIC ART
Going over the sea- Canada songs-
READING
I read aloud- The Frog Princess, Night of the Moonjellies, and Nate Saint Chapters 1 and 2.
DS- Read Cats that Roar, Started Tuck Everlasting, then his book request came through so he started Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chapters 1-5
FIELD TRIP- I arranged for a park ranger to take us out to the lake to identify several different types of trees. I thought it would be fun to share so I invited my Girl Scout troop to come along too! It was really fun! I will post more about it another time.
We also visited ROLOFF FARMS later in the week. We had so much fun! Again, I will have to post more later.
SPORTS/EXTRA ACTIVITIES
Cheerleading, Soccer, Royal Rangers, Bible Study
Still searching for a guitar teacher :(
