Unit 12

 This week was another good week! I thought I would try a little different approach to our blog this week : ) First, I will post what our weekly plan is and then follow it up with photos and captions. As we go about our day, I check off what we get done each day. This is a great help for me because I am a serious type A personality. 

                                               Homeschool Lesson Plans 2014/2015          

Week of                                            Unit # 12Topic: George Washington’s Early Years

	Day 1                Day 2                    Day 3                   Day 4                Day 5
Prayer, Calendar
Language		p. 122-23	p. 124-25	p. 126-27	p. 128-29	p. 130-31
Bible		Verse:   Proverbs 21:23 “Self Control”    Devotion: Little Pillows p. 29-31
Poetry		“Marching Song”
Dictation		Passage 24	Passage 24		Passage 25	Review
DITHOR		Day 15 Work on Project Character Puppet	Day 16 Work on Project	Day 17 Work on Project	Day 18 Work on Project	Day 19 Share and score projects
HWOT		Favorite Activity p. 165	X words p. 96 Song 15	Z words p. 97 Letter story p. 59 Review p 98	Paragraph p. 99	Sentences p. 100
Read Aloud		Title: Farmer Boy     Genre:  Historical Fiction   Story Element:  Setting   Trait: Faith
Writing		Write a Summary p. 93	Shared summary of a book	Write a summary of a science reading	Write a summary of a history reading	Journal: summary of DITHOR book
Math		Fractions TB 52/53  and 53-55 WB 40/41	Write Fractions TB 56 WB 42/43	Compare Fractions TB 57 WB 44	Make a whole TB 57 WB 45
Science		John Audubon p.40-43  Narrate	Notebook draw a bird beaks	John Audubon p45-41 Experiment	John Audubon p 52-59 Narrate	John Audubon p. 60-65 Exploration
Art					Paint a tree
Geography		Heat and zones
History		Stories of great Americans p.43-47 John Stark	First Book of American History p. 102-105 Activity	First book in Am. History p105-108 Narrate VOCABULARY!!!	Stories of Great Americans p. 58-59 Washington	Notebook: Poem Timeline Entry
Music		Kids Heart Vol.1 Track 6 Amazing Grace ” Page 47-50 and Piano Practice
Extra’s		Technology	Liberty Co op	Piano Lessons	PE	PE /Technology

Ian’s Lessons	Ian’s speech
Letter Jj Bible/Activity Samuel Listen to God Finger Play God Sends Samuel Music: None Count on Me:
	Rotating Look at old photos, drama, patterns, paint Saul	ETC/HWOT

Weekly Notes: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Curriculum Resources: Heart of Dakota: Bigger Hearts for His Glory, Singapore Math, Handwriting Without Tears, Internet, Library, Drawn Into The Heart of Reading, Preparing to Build 2, Heart of Dakota: Little Hands to Heaven, Get Ready for the Code

Ian is working on the letter I this week, which is was so excited about!! 

Our art for the week, using symmetry to paint a cherry tree. 

We found youtube video of someone reading aloud each chapter of Farmer Boy! This saved Mommy a little time this week. 

This week we focused on writing a summary with our history and science readings. This is the girls summary we did together after reading about John Stark. They went on to copy this into their history notebook section of their binder. 

This is the girls science notebook page on the different types of beaks that birds have and how each beak helps birds get the kind of food they need. 

Math this week was on telling time to the 5 minutes. It took Audrey a day to catch on but now she is a pro! 

This weeks vocabulary. 

We made a model of a food chain for our science experiment. In their guess section the girls thought a food chain was something in your body that helped pull your food through! I am glad that they now know what is really is. In our science reading one day we read about John Audoboun finding an owl that he thought was a ghost! The girls thought that was really funny. 

The girls finished reading their historical fiction books this week so as a concluding activity they made a mask of their character and then I interviewed them and they had to answer from the point of the view of the character. 

This was the girls history notebook page about George Washington. Some of the things they learned were how he cut down his dads cherry tree but was honest about it. They learned he was a surveyor and a solider. That he was very tall and that his mother raised him because his dad died when he was 11. I had them write six facts each on their page. 

Last week the girls enjoyed writing cinquain poems so I tied that in with our work on writing a summary.  As a summary about what they learned on George Washington they had to write a cinquain poem about him. These were really good and they remembered a ton! 

In addition to all of these wonderful activities the girls memorized Proverbs 21:23 about using self control and we read the story of Samson to coincide with it. We read our poem and we had fun clapping and then singing the meter. Since the girls take piano lessons they really enjoyed this and could relate a poems meter to a piece of musics meter. We worked on pronouns in our language study and continued on with our HWOT in handwriting as well as dictation. We will start with dictation passage number 30 next week.

In reading we ended our study of historical fiction and next week we will move on to fantasy. We went ahead and filled in our calendars with out new books and played a fun game of Chutes and Ladders to introduce the genre.

The girls and sometimes Ian really enjoy the hearing the history and science passages I read aloud to them and are getting better each week at narrating them back to me!