Weekly Report #25

We had a really nice week. DS went to Washington once again with DH on a work trip. He is always really motivated on the weeks when he knows he will be leaving as he knows he has things to get done if he wants to be able to go. DD was looking forward to GIRLS DAY so she worked hard as well. It was so nice to have a whole week of great attitudes! We had fun and learned a lot!

BIBLE-
Dictation of memory verse daily

LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH-
DS- Yellow Book Pages 133-147
DD- Spectrum Workbook pages 17-27
DD- Sight Word tests- Level 1+2 (See previous post)
DS- Washington State worksheet, Washington State Flag quiz
DS- Lesson 1 & 2 from "180 Essential Vocabulary Worlds for 3rd Grade"
DD- Workbook #4 pages 29-30- Long vowels
DD- Letter to friend+ revision of letter to friend and rewrite
Played Number Words Hangman

MATH-
DS- Saxon Lesson 67- 71
DD- Saxon Lesson 66 -70
(Listened to Multiplication-tunes that teach)
DS- Made a boxed dinner - following directions and doing all the cooking by himself :)
DS- Multiplication table, Multiplication squares, Labeling fractions worksheet



GEOGRAPHY-

We entered INDIA this week. Exchanging our American Dollars for the Indian Rupee.
We located India on the World Map, locating all of the bordering countries, bodies of water, etc.
Added India to our World Map- Labeled and colored it.
Located, labeled, and colored, countries of Asia on blank Asia map.
Added Asia stickers to our Flag sticker workbook.
I read aloud pages 76-81 from Intermediate World Atlas.
I read aloud from Another Trip Around the World pgs 104-105
India Crossword Puzzle
India Quiz
DS- Advanced India Quiz
DS- Continued to work on Asia packet
Discussion of the history of Henna tattoos
DD- Henna tattoo-


SCIENCE-

I read aloud from Wild Places pages 30-31, 2-3 (Mountain Ranges, Mountain vocabulary)


MUSIC/ART-

Kathakali face paintings- The kids did each others faces and had so much fun with it. It was hilarious to watch them!




Wee Sing- Songs from Asia- listened to them throughout the week at random times.
Multiplication- Tunes that Teach

Made Valentines Cards

Made Dog Puppets for "Dog Club"



READING-
DS- Began reading his new book club selection "Limmeny Snicket"
I read aloud from our new chapter book "Dodger and Me" Chapters 1-5
DS- read numerous Pokemon books


SPORTS/EXTRA ACTIVITIES-

Sunday School (DD invited a Girl Scout friend to go with us, they had so much fun together- we are going to try to take her on a regular basis)

Cheer Performance- It was a family and friends event and DD had her first cheering section crowd ever! It was so awesome to have people there with us to cheer her on!

(Just one of the many photos of herself I found on her camera, funny girl!)

Cheer Practice 1x (They actually gave us all two nights off this week as we just came out of 6 weeks straight of competition and practices!)

Dog Club- After a long wait DD finally had her first meeting. She organized the whole club months ago, but has had to wait until we had the time to have everyone over. She did so well! She used her schedule and kept things running smoothly. She asked DS to make a snack and he was very excited to do it- making brownies all by himself. She planned cute activities and crafts. The kids all had such a good time! It will be a monthly activity.

Playdate at our house with a friend from preschool.

DD- went to see Madagascar 2 with a friend.

Sight Word Test Week #25

I have been testing DD on level 1 sight words since we started in September. I am really excited by her progress. I decided to go ahead and test her on Level 2 words this week as well.
I haven't been practicing them with her in flash card format. Only practicing them as they come up in books and worksheets. I was hoping by doing it this way she would really learn the words rather than just memorizing them- It appears to be working! I am excited by how well she did on the Level 2 test as there were a lot of tricky sounds (kn, ou, ould, etc.)

Here are the results:

LEVEL 1

Sept.9-08 29/108

Nov.11.08 68/108

Feb. 9.09 82/108

LEVEL 2

Feb.9.09 60/108

Weekly Report # 24

This week we were battling terrible colds and a few late nights due to special activities- Because of the added stress of being sick and tired we didn't spend much time on Math as math is one of our biggest stress triggers. We spent a lot of time cuddled up in bed reading, finishing more than one chapter book even this week!We also watched a lot of movies as by the end of the week we were all miserable and not up to doing much else! Looking back at it now I am actually quite surprised at how much we did accomplish with everyone feeling under the weather!

BIBLE-
Memory Verse for the next couple of weeks is The Lord's Prayer.

"Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name
They kingdom come,
They will on earth be done on earth as it is in heaven,
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our debts
As we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not in to temptation
But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory forever. Amen."


DS and I watched movies 1-3 of "The Left Behind" Series

LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH-
Copied Memory Verse - The Lord's Prayer
We talked about Groundhog Day- what it means, what legends are, etc.
Daily dictation of memory verse
The kids then wrote out their own predictions. (They both predicted an early spring) We watched last years prediction on YOUTUBE. We read Phil's prediction for this year.
We added to our Months of the Year book- Adding the February page. DD- has been doing a lot of independent writing lately. She brings her notebook with her just about everywhere and is always writing.
We wrote letters to Great Grandpa and made cards for his upcoming birthday.
DD- Continued our "Seasons" Study- Adding WINTER, drawing a picture of the tree we selected at the beginning of the year, and writing a description of winter.

Watched 3 episodes of Reading Rainbow- (Team Work ,living with disabilities, Astronomy)





MATH-
DS- Multiplication Worksheet
DD- Saxon Lesson 65 (Assessment # 12)`
Played Money Bags 1x 30 min

GEOGRAPHY-
(life skills) We continued using our Saudi Riyal currency to pay for things (meals, etc.)
Review of what we learned previously of Asia- specifically Saudi Arabia. Continued to study Asia map.

Read from " A Trip Around the World" (pg 60) Arabic alphabet- numbers 1-10, common Arabic sayings, Days of the week
Copied the Arabic Alphabet
Colored the Saudi Arabian flag- talked about flag facts
Saudi Arabia Flag Quiz
Watched "Wild Asia" Video
Wrote a paper about all the facts we know about Asia
Added to our "Continents" lap book- South America, Saudi Arabia, Europe

Watched "Wildest Asia" (though it has a similar title- this one was about the endangered animals in Asia)
Book Basket 20 mins




SCIENCE-
I read aloud from "Living Places" Pages 84-87- A Sahara Salt Caravan, Oases
Watched 2 episodes of "Oregon Field Guide" -Geologic Structures. Burrowing Owls


MUSIC/ART-
Card making.
Clay figures

DD- Dot to Dot DVD


READING-
I read aloud "Asia" by Allan Fowler.
The Boxcar Children "The Ghost Mystery Ship" by Gertrude Chandler Warner
DS read "Snow Day from the Black Lagoon" by Mike Thaler , Started new book club book "Limeny Snicket"
I read aloud "Spongebob- Ice Cream Dreams" "Barbie and the Pyramid Adventure"

SPORTS/EXTRA ACTIVITIES-

Girl Scouts- We rented Skate World so that the girls could have the place to themselves. We all had such a good time! DS brought a friend and all the girls brought Mom and Dad and their siblings. DH even closed shop early to come skate with us! It was a late night though and we definitely paid for it the next day- the kids were so grumpy and tired!

Cheer practice
Book Club meeting- Discussion of "Hoot" They brought in a live owl from the Raptor Center. The kids then made owls out of pine cones. They had a great time!

Cheer competition

Weekly Report # 23

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.

Intro the the Middle East- Read from the Intermediate World Atlas- became familiar with Asia- found Asia on the map- Located what hemisphere, bordering countries, water, ect.
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

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

Week # 22

This week was definitley one of the most social weeks we have had. We have been so busy latley that we haven't had much time for friends so we made them a priority this week.




We watched the Presidential Innaguration. It was exciting for me to see how much DS seemed to be soaking in. Even saying "Wow, we are watching history right now." He was even commenting on how Rosa Parks and MLK Jr. contributed to this event. It was so neat to hear him really"getting it"

LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH-

"I have a dream" promise worksheet

Barack Obama book

DS-Yellow Book page 127-129

DD- Started her new Spectrum workbook- Pages 1-15

Martin Luther King Jr. Report

DD- Wrote a paper about Rosa Parks

GEOGRAPHY-

National Geographic Video- Baka- The People of the African forest

MATH-

DS- Saxon lesson 63-65

Assesment # 12 %100- Doing very well in Math although he still isn't caring for it, but his attitude has improved GREATLY from the beginning of the year. \

Played Money Bags Game-

READING-

DS- 4 Various Pokemon chapter books, 2 chapters "Hoot"

I read aloud "The Gum Chewing Rattler" by Joe Hayes, "Diary of a Fly", David Livingstone Chapter 9

SPORTS/EXTRA ACTIVITIES:

Cheer practice 2x
Playdate with friend from cheer
Girl Scouts - Skating party at Skate World
Cheer camp - through the high school

Cheer routine at CHS Varsity Basketball game

Cheer Competition- DD's team took 1st place!
Homeschool Group Meeting- The kids all did presentations but DD & DS chose to sit this one out. DS was shy and DD didn't feel like sharing. maybe next time.

Playdate with a neighbor.
DS had his first real sleepover at a friends house- they went skating the next day and had a great time, though DS could barely walk all weekend!

MUSIC/ART-

Field Trip to the Experience Music Project.

We visited the Music Experience Project in Seattle. I have wanted to go there for years so it was exciting to finally get the opportunity to go. We didn't have as much time there as we would have liked as we had to travel home that day, but we did get a membership so we can return when we are in Seattle next (In March) The kids loved the music room where they got to use and learn about real music equipment and the process of making music. The kids were not as interested as DH and I in the exhibits with the music history. DD took interest in the poster press exhibit. She loved seeing the actual presses and the posters that they produced.





We visited the Science Fiction Museum as well. It was interesting but as I am not a science fiction fan it didn't hold my interest, except for the Teengage Mutant Ninja Turtles memoribila :P The kids thought it was ok, but it was geared more for a real science fiction buff!





Our last stop was Pikes Market Place. We had such a great time walking around the shops, exploring the streets. We had hoped for the kids to see the famous "fish throws" but we weren't there at the right time. Maybe next time. We were lucky enough to run across a shop called the "Taj Mahal" where we found some really neat Henna tattoo materials that we are excited to use when our studies take us to India. There were so many cool shops down there, I would love to go back when we have more time!

Washington trip- in DD's words

I asked DD to draw a picture and write a paragraph about our time in Washington. She did really well and was so proud of herself when I read it back to her, not having to stop and ask her what certain words were. She replied "You could read all of that by yourself?! I am a very good writer!" It was nice seeing her be so proud of herself. I am proud too. She is making so much progress.

"We slappt in a hotall room. We wet to cherled. We drev to Seadall then we wet hom now that the end. "


(We slept in a hotel room. We went to cheerleading. We drove to Seattle then we went home now. That's the end.)