September 19-23 2011

Sept 19, Field trip to Lynn Canyon park & Ecology Center. We enjoyed the ecology center and watched a 30 minute video "Eyewitness Bugs" The child learned that all bugs have a head, abdomen, thorax and six legs, and most of them have wings. We found too that monthly the Ecology Center hosts the Young Naturalist Club we are thinking of joining. In October they will be learning about mushrooms which is one of BigH's interestes.

Sept 20, MUS  BigH worked on Beta Lesson 15C and LittleE worked on Alpha Lesson 12 A. In  HOP LittleE is working on site words she's been having problems with: where, no, from, ask, now, what, thank, want, this. HOP BigH is working on some site words he's having problems with: like, my, with, of, down, now, what, this, where, from, thank, come.

For cursive writing Little E worked on pg 4 of "School Zone grade 3-4 Cursive Writing." BigH worked on cursive writing in HWT. We also worked on Grammar Lessons, lesson 44, learning how ideas are nouns. We have already reviewed/learned that a noun is a person, place and thing, now we are learning about what an idea is.


Sept 21 The First Day of Autumn
We all took the dogs for a walk today. Dad actually walked the dogs. We walked down to Maplewood Flats. The weather was overcast but no rain we went for about an hour or so. We saw a black capped chickadee and a female mallard.

We worked on MUS when we got back BigH completed lesson 15D in Beta and LittleE completed lesson 12B in Alpha. We also practiced counting by, 2, 5, and 10s. The kids have been keeping track of what type of clouds we have been getting each day and will be making a graph at the end of the month.

For language arts, LittleE worked on her problem sight words and her new initial consonant sounds she needs to learn. BigH worked on building words (with letter cards): swim, swam, snap, snip, stop, step, slam, slim, spot, spin, and smog. He also copied them down. LittleE copied down her sight words as well.

In First Language Lessons, lesson 45 we reviewed 'The Months' poem and reviewed four types of nouns; person, place, thing and idea. We also reviewed the differences between common and proper nouns. We did not do the copy work for this lesson yet, the lesson was longer then usual and we will work on the copy work on Thursday for this lesson. BigH worked on his cursive writing today. And both of the children worked on silent reading. We started to read Black Beauty by Anna Sewell over the summer and continue reading it. We are almost finished we are all enjoying it. I'v cried several times while reading it's really a wonderful book. I don't think children younger them mine (7&9) would understand it well.


Sep 22

Started our day out with Bible study we are on seven 'The First Family.' The children enjoy the projects in the book after each lesson. I've found some children's creation movies on youtube I'm considering for the end of this booklet Christian Light Education; Light Unit Bible 1 book 101.

BigH finished lesson 15E in Beta and LittleE finished lesson 12 C Alpha. She also worked on her flash cards double addition.

BigH had his first Wolfcub meeting tonight. Looks like it's going to be a fun year.

Sep 23
 Short school day today. BigH did lesson 15F in Beta MUS, LittleE did 12D in Alpha MUS. We also did our calender time. And we did dictation as well using our HOP sight & phonic words.

HOP BigH worked in the Orange book p. 33


LittleE worked on p. 6 & 7 in her cursive writing book.