Sept 12-16th

Sept 12, calender, biblestudy lesson 3, HWT BigH cursive writing pg 13. LittleE practiced cursive writing in "School Zone gr 3-4 Cursive Writing" pg 1. They both choose HOP kindergarten reader for their silent reading time. For phonic they both worked in gr 1 orange book, BigH worked on pg 30 which was a short story,  "The Pals,"he knew about 80% of the words and LittleE worked on Reader 16, "Slam & Dunk Go To The Moon" she also answered 5 questions about that story correctly. She did very well and persevered the story was 16 pages long. She new 80% of the words.

We also worked on math BigH worked on MathUSee Beta page 172 lesson 14F, he did well it's the first time we've worked on Math this school year. He was definitely having to use is brain muscles. LittleE worked on MathUSee Alpha, we reviewed her 8+, 9+ and double adding table. She completed pg 133, lesson 11E she did very well with only a few mistakes that needed correcting.

Both the children have had a few reversals when writing their numbers I get them to correct that right away.

Sept 13
Calender, Bible study lesson 4 + Bible reading Genesis 2:8-11, Silent reading, BigH MathUsee Lesson 15A introduction to perimeter. LittleE is working MathUSee 11E. Cursive writing. Reviewed sight words and initial consonant sounds. We also read part of chapter 2 in Wind & The Willows.

The children also spent sometime exploring their new garden and identified a new insect they've not seen before. The found earwigs! I found this site and this is how they identified it. We also found this site and they enjoyed watching videos there of different bugs and creepy crawlies.

Sept 14

HENRY'S Birthday!
It was so nice to celebrate it with friends! On Saturday we our having another party what a lucky boy he is!

Sept 15th

Silent reading,  they picked a sentence out of their silent reading boods and copied it out and read that to me. Calender time. We also worked on Grammar Lessons for the Well Trained Mind, lesson 43 which was working on memorization

The Months

Mother Goose Rhyme

Thirty days hath September,

April, June and November;

All the rest have thirty one,

Except for February alone,

Which has four and twenty four.

Till leap year gives it one day more.

We also worked on Bible study Lesson 5 and read the corresponding Bible Genesis 3:1-5.

For math today both kids worked well Henry worked on MUS Beta lesson 15B (finding perimeter). and LittleE worked on MUS Alpha lesson 11F practiced the 8+, and 9+ tables and worked on the shapes triangles and circles.

Today in HOP BigH worked on sight words, initial consent sounds and building words: swim, swam, snap, snip, stop, step, slam, slim, spot, spin and smog. LittleE worked on new initial consent sounds: fl, gl, cl, bl, pl, gr, fr, br, cr, pr, dr, qu, and tr. She also read me reader 15 Slam & Dunk & The Big Game.

For cursive writing practice BigH worked on pg 15 in Handwriting Without Tears practicing writing a lower case g. LittleE worked on the below page. The style of cursive writing she's learning is quite fancy.

LittleE's cursive writing 9-15-2011

BigH's cursive writing 9-15-2011

Sept 16, 11

Today we went for a field trip to Maplewood Flats we enjoyed seeing all the birds, plants, bugs, and sea creatures on the flats. It's a beautiful walk and we spent about 1.5 there taking in the sites we will be going back again next week with our tree book to identify some of the trees there.