It is birthday week for the big girls!! They are turning 9 years old!! My little guy has his 6th birthday just 10 days after his big sisters so to celebrate we are having a big pool party this weekend with family and friends!
Day1:
LHFHG
*Calendar: We are counting down the days until our school year is officially over!!! It is not much longer and Ian will be in the first grade!!
*Phonics: We started lesson 5 in TRL and Ian did well with the h,u, and n sounds and reading simple words.
*Fine Motor: Ian had to write some numbers and sight words today as well as work on his straight lines.
*Math: We started fractions today and it is the last unit in our K book!!!! Ian did well and we used wikki stix to divide shapes into equal parts.
*Storytime: We started a new book, The Adventures of GrandFather Frog. Ian was so excited!! We learned that two animals are planning to trick him but that his good friend warned him of the trick!!!
*History/Rhyme: Our story today was over Mary pouring perfume on the feet of Jesus and also the Last Supper. Ian was excited to hear these and keeps calling Judas, the bad guy
*Bible/Music: The Lord's Prayer is our memory selection for this unit. It is a bit long for Ian to memorize but we will do what we can. The song will really help.
*Rotating: We talked about how our church does The Lord's Supper. Ian has not participated but has watched a few of them.
Preparing
*Reading: Our adventure study is going very well. We compared and contrasted our world to the world being described in their books and wrote a few sentences about which would we would rather live in and why.
*Writing: "Why are birthdays special?" is the topic the girls will be writing about this week. Today they had to come up with a topic sentence and 5 details to add to a rough draft.
*Language: We are on our last unit in RS 2 over poetry. The girls are enjoying these lessons more than some of the other ones. Ally worked on her dication passsage and Audrey did a lesson is AAS level 2.
*Poetry: We read our new poem The Hayloft and talked about it and found the meaning of each stanza as well as used context clues to figure out word meanings.
*Bible: We are working Pslam 98: 1-6. We read and sang along to our verses and talked about them.
*Math: The girls did a lesson in CLE over volume. This was a new concept to them but we did dome modeling and they did very well.
*Science: The girls started a book about stars today. They made the cover and added in one constellation.
*History Reading: I read from a CHOW about the Peloponisian Wars between Athens and Sparta both Greek cities. The girls were fascinated with it and thought it was funny that Sparta was jealous of the Athenians fleet of ships when they were not even close to water!!
*Independent History: The girls read from YCITB and learned how the Old Testament books were grouped.
* Project: We are working on creating a Greek amphora drawing. We watched a video during our research.
*Rotating: We researched Greek pottery on the Internet and by watching youtube videos. The girls had a blast with this.
Day 2
LHFHG
*Calendar: Ian is doing great on his daily calendar skills!
*Phonics: We did some work in lesson 5 of TRL and read a few pages of his MFW homework from co op. Ian is doing better in his reading.
*Fine Motor: We cut things out and wrote some words and numbers as well as worked on our coloring.
*Math: Ian finished his Singapore K book #2!!! I am so proud of him. We will do lots of review the rest of the year.
*Storytime: We read how Little Joe Otter and Billy Mink were going to use Lobglegs to scare Grandfather Frog while he was asleep!
*History/Rhyme: We sang our rhyme and then read about Jesus in the Garden and the soilders with the help of Judas took Jesus away.
*Bible/Music: We listened to our song to help learn our verses. We also traces some of it as we sang.
*Rotating: We did art by drawing lips and writing people we love in them and then kissed them!
Preparing
*Writing: The girls added an ending to their writing and then went back and revised and edited it. They then published them in their journals. *Language: We finished up our poetry lessons in RS 2!! We will finish up and do the review lessons and maybe some practice worksheets.
*Reading: The girls are still on adventure books and it is going well!!!
*Writing: The girls added an ending to their writing and then went back and revised and edited it. They then published them in their journals. *Language: We finished up our poetry lessons in RS 2!! We will finish up and do the review lessons and maybe some practice worksheets.
*Poetry: For today we did a writing activity with our poem. They has robust their sense of smell from a place of their choosing and write a description about it.
*Bible: We read our verses and sang our song then we prayed to have a spirit filled with joy for the Lord in all we do.
*Math: The girls are almost done with book 3.10 in CLE!!! They will take the final test next week.
*History: Reading and retell one about stars and their magnitude was what we did today. We also named the brightest stars in a few constellations.
*History Reading: Comparing our history text of CHOW to Daniel 11:2-4 is what we did. We leaned that King Phillip of Macedonia became King of Greece too. After he was killed his son Alexander, became king when he was only 20.
*Independent History: The girls had to read from YCITB and then do some copy work in cursive.
*History Project: Working on our amphora was what we did today!!! The girls are loving this project.
*Rotating: We did vocabulary today: forefathers, lukewarm, stammered, pupils, orator.
Day 3
LHFHG
*Calendar: Ian is doing better at skip counting by 2. We only go to 20 for now.
*Phonics: We wrote individual letters that need some work as well as our numbers.
*Fine Motor: We did a lot with handwriting and pencil grip today.
*Math: We started a new review book today since we finished both of our Singapore books. A friend gave this to me for free :) *Storytime: Grandfather Frog pretended to be asleep when Longlegs tried to scare him.
*History/Rhyme: After singing and acting our our rhyme we read about Jesus being taken before Pilate. Jesus was to be crucified.
*Bible/Music: We sang our song and did some more racing of the Lord's Prayer.
*Rotating: Today was science day!!! We talked about and acted like a rooster.
Preparing
*Reading: Our adventure study is still going strong!
*Writing: We will be working on writing about the kids birthday party this weekend. We created topic sentences and details.
*Language: We are reviewing our lessons this week. 
*Poetry. We learned that RLS was an only child and his poems reflected that.
*Bible: The girls had their bible quiet time for the unit.
*Math: The girls worked on some Roman numerals today in math and did well.
*Science: Reading and answering questions about stars was done today. They placed their completed work in their science binder.
*History Reading: Chapter 30 in a CHOW was read aloud and then the girls gave me an oral narration. We leaves about how in 10 years Alexander conquered the world or most of it! He died before he had an heir so his kingdoms was divided.
*Independent History: Thr girls had to pick a quote from Alexander the Great to place in cursive in their common place book.
*History Project: We finished our amohora protject!!
*Rotating: We used our world map to track the path of Alexander the Great. We also reviewed the equator and hemisphere.
Day 4
LHFHG
*Calendar: The year is flying by!! Only a few weeks left!
*Phonics: We worked a lot on reading short vowel words today. Ian gets better everyday!
*Fine Motor: We did some coloring, cutting, gluing, drawing, and writing!! It was a workout!
*Math: Ian loves his new math book and is doing very well.
*Storytime: We read about Grandfather Frog not being asleep but just pretending and fooling everyone! Ian then wrote that he is good at baseball and math.
*History/Rhyme: We read about Jesus being crucified.
*Bible/Music: Ian traced his verse and sang his song.
*Rotating: For science we discussed light and dark and how Jesus is the light. We drew things for night and things for day on a t chart.
Preparing
*Reading: The girls are finishing up reading their adventure books!!
*Writing: The girls published their writing about their birthday party!!
*Language: We are using some R and S worksheets for review since we finished the book.
*Poetry: We shared our poem in a video.
*Bible: Adding our verse in our common place book was on our agenda for the day.
*Math: We finished CLE for this year!!!! Both girls made an A on the end of book test!
*Science: Today we did an experiment to show how stars twinkle. They twinkle when their light rays are bent or refracted. The girls then filled out a lane sheet for their science notebook.
*History Reading: We read from CHOW about the Rome and Carthage War. Then the girls did a written narration that included who, what, and how.
*Independent History: We started a new book, Little Miriam of Galilee. The girls read a chapter and then told me about it.
*Rotating: The girls added Socrates and Alexander the Great to their timeline.
Day 5
LHFHG
*Calendar: Skip counting by 2's to 20 has done really well!!!
*Phonics: We did a short lesson in TRL and then worked on his MFW homework from co op.
*Fine Motor: Ian did some writing and cutting today.
*Math: We reviewed some measurement and subtracting.
*Storytime:Grandfather Frog had a narrow escape from White trail the Hawk thanks to a warning from Jerry Muskrat!
*History/Rhyme: We read about Jesus coming back to life just like he said he would!!!! What a blessing!
*Bible/Music: Ian listened to his song and finished copying his verse. We also worked on AWANA verses.
*Rotating: We played a thinking game to discover what was missing out of a bowl just like the disciples discovers that Jesus' body was missing from the tomb!
Extras we do each week:
Piano practice for the girls 15 minutes each day with a 30 minute lesson once a week.
Keyboarding using Keyboarding Without Tears twice a week for all three kids.
I also try to get them active each day with various activities from their sports and dance to playing outside, going to the park, putting in a PE video, you tube videos, elliptical,
taking a walk, and more!!
Journals: Each week the kids do a journal entry. Usually it is free write time but sometimes I do give them a topic. I throw in math lessons sometimes as well.
Co op is attended once a week for all of us! We to on Tuesdays from 9-12. The girls are taking MFW Adventures in History and Apologia Flying Creatures. Ian is taking MFW Creation A to Z and Emersyn is in the nursery. I teach Kindergarten with Abeka K5.
Highlights of the Week: April 11-15 2016
Ally and Audrey turned 9!!!!
The kids had a big pool party on Saturday.
Ally had her dance recital pictures.
Here is the kids weekly video!
https://www.facebook.com/lisa.vanevera/videos/10209447504128034/?l=5534718833072216942
https://www.facebook.com/lisa.vanevera/videos/10209447504128034/?l=5534718833072216942
Hightlights of the Week April 18- 23, 2016
Ian turned 6!!!!
Between the two ball players in the family we had a total of 5 games this week!
Ian lost his first top tooth and was welcomed into the snaggle tooth club!!!
This week in our video the kids share a math test, science, and a journal entry.
No comments:
Post a Comment