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Weekly Report # 7

I finally went to the dr this week after being sick for about 2 weeks, I found out I had the flu AND tonsilitis. After getting some meds I am finally starting to feel human again.


MATH-
DS- Saxon 5/4 Lessons 34-39
DD- Saxon 2 Lessons 42-48

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS-
Reviewed Parts of language - Nouns, verbs, sentences, prefixes, suffixes,antonyms, synonyms-
Learned about abbreviations.
Discussed Folktales, Tall tales, storytellers, Comedy, Limericks, Sayings
DD- Workbook Page 52-55 - (Drafting)
DD- Wrkbk 2- Pages 53-63 (Thinking Skills, Reading Skills,Language Skills)
DS-Workbook Pages 85-95
DS- Workbook 2 Page 24-37 (Sequencing, Analyzing characters, Predictions)
Watched an episode of "Classical Baby" (Poetry)
DS- Master Reader Lesson 33

SCIENCE-
Watched an episode of Oregon Field Guide

READING-
Continued to read from "Eleven" Chapter 10-14
I read aloud "The Selfish Crocodile" by Foustin Charles and Michael Terry, "Barbie Loves Cheerleading" "Where the Wild Things are" by Maurice Sendak
DD/DS- Silent Reading 1 hr 4x

MUSIC/ART-
The kids put on a talent show, making a script and even writing their own original song! They worked on it for days while I was sick and put on the show Wednesday night! Very very cute!

SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-
DS- Football Game
DS- Football Practice 3x
DD- Cheer Practice
Watched the movie "Where the Wild Things Are"

Weekly Report # 6

Not a good week by any standards. We still had a house guest and we were all really sick. The kids started feeling better by the end of the week. I on the other hand did not, nor did Grandma. (Still not feeling well if you can believe that!) We accomplished nothing, not even visiting time as we were all sick in bed for the most part! What a bummer!


BIBLE-
DS- studied Ruth with Grandma

MATH-
DS- Saxon 5/4 Lesson 33
Listened to Math Tunes that Teach

SCIENCE-
DS/DD- Both spent two entire days making projects with Electronic Snap Circuits. They literally made projects from 8 am until dinner. They made so many cool projects!

MUSIC/ART-
Listened to Vivaldi

SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-
DS- Football Practice 3x
DS- Football Game
All other activities were cancelled due to being sick.

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Weekly Report # 5

This week was a little different as we had a house guest- Grandma from California came to visit! Also by mid week DS and I (And Grandma!) were all sick.




MATH-
DD- Saxon 2 Lesson 38-41
DS- Saxon 5/4 Lesson 29-32
Listened to Multiplication Tunes that Teach throughout the week

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS-
Discussed Suffixes, the writing process, Antonyms,Synonyms, Reviewed previously learned parts of language and writing.
Continued reading from "The Mythology Handbook"
Played "Parts of Language" Game
DD- Played "I know how to spell No" game
DD- Workbook Pgs 40-51 (Riddles, the writing process- brainstorming, freewriting)
DD Wkbk #2- Pg 46-53 (Reading, thinking skills, language skills)
DS- Wrkbk- 80-84 (Consonant pairs)
DS wkbk #2- Pgs 16-23 (Details,Compare and Contrast)
DD- Continued to work on "ME" book
DD- Master Reader Lesson 12
DS- Master Reader Lesson 32

GEOGRAPHY/HISTORY-
Read aloud from Ancient Egypt
Read aloud from Ancient World
Made "dinosaur fossils" using magic sand
Discussed Farming on the Nile, colored page and added it to our History Notebooks.

SCIENCE-
PYRAMIDS-pgs 4-7


MUSIC/ART-
Listened to Vivaldi throughout the week.
Field trip- Painting Pottery

READING-
I continued to read aloud "Eleven" Chapter 6-8
Finished reading Magic Tree House- Dinosaurs before Dawn
Read aloud "The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash" by Trinka Hakes Noble

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

DD- Latin L.1 Pronunciation x2
DS- Latin L.1- Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Grammar


SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-
DS- Football Game
DD- Tumbling Class
DD- Cheer Practice 2x
DS- Football Practice 3x
DD- Gymnastics Private lesson
DUCKS FOOTBALL GAME

Weekly Report # 4

We had a good week. A lot of extra curricular activities this week but we managed to keep up with our studies! We now have one "official month" of studies under our belt!

BIBLE-
(Integrated in to most things we do although I don't usually list them separately- books, bible reading, music, history etc.)


MATH
DD- Saxon 2 Lesson 33-37
DS- Saxon5/4 Lesson 24-29
DD/DS- Played Pizza Fractions Game
Listened to Multiplication tunes that Teach- Throughout the week in the car


HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY-
Added Vivaldi to our Book of Centuries
Continued to read aloud from Dinosaurs of Eden
Read aloud from "Ancient Civilizations" (The first Civilization)
Read aloud from "Streams of Civilization Volume One"- Pgs 33-36
Added "The Confusion of Tongues" to our notebook (Both wrote summary's of the event in their own words)
Added "The Fertile Crescent" Map to our history notebooks

SCIENCE
I had to stray from our planned activities as the kids have been really bugging me to finish up the unit that we started over the summer...
Experiment: Colorful Jiggly Crystals (Continuing to learn about about acids and bases)

(They really aren't bored like they look! They were thinking hard on their hypothesis!)





ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS-
Continued talking about myths-
Finished reading "the Quest for the Golden Fleece"
Began reading "The Mythology Handbook by Lady Hestia Evans (Pgs 1-13)
Vocabulary word- GRAPH- Made Vocab card, looked up words in dictionary, made sentences for vocab words. No test this week.
Discussed "Nouns, Verbs,sentences, prefixes"
DD- Workbook #1- Page 37- 39(Describing People,Riddles)
DD- Workbook #2- Page 40-45 (Thinking Skills, Reading Skills)
DS- Workbook- Page 68-79 (Vowel Pairs, the sounds of Y,consonant pairs)
DS- Workbook #2- Pages 12-15 (Reading Comprehension- main ideas, details,
Worked on our "All about ME" books
DS- four digit Addition practice worksheet


MUSIC/ART-
Listened to the story of Vivaldi (again-the kids find this less than interesting, so I am putting it on in the car on our drive to work, some of it is sinking in... slowly.)
Continued listening to the works of Vivaldi throughout the week
DD- Made cute signs to hold up during football using scrapbooking material
(I am already slacking in the art department this year. Realizing now that I should have sprung the extra money to buy the art program they recommended for our curriculum this year... oops)

READING-
Continued to read "Eleven" Chapter 2-6
I read aloud "Punctuation takes a vacation" by Robin Pulver,
"That's not what the Bible Says Too!"
Magic Tree House book # 1 "Dinosaurs before Dark" by Mary Pope Osborne Chapters 1-7
DD/DS- Silent reading 30 min 5x

FOREIGN LANGUAGE-
DS- L1 Pronunciation 100%, Worksheet Unidad 1, Leccion 1, Ejercicio 1
(He did great with the lesson but struggled with the worksheet- to the point of tears- Going to take this very slow.)


SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-
DS- Football game
DS- Football Practice 2x
DD- Tumbling Class
DD- Cheer Practice 2x
DD- Private Lesson Cheer
DD- Gymnastics Private Lesson
DD/DS Playdate at our house with friends from church
DS- Sleepover Birthday party at friends house

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