Fall

Math

Mae has been counting all the way to 115, counts backwards from 100, by 2s, 5s, 10s with a 100s numbers with the chart. She can also count by 2s to 18 without looking at the chart. She can also count by 5s to 30 without looking at the chart. She can count by 10s to 100 without looking at the chart.

In MUS Alpha she is up to lesson 13 c working on shapes, adding single digits. Mae is doing much better this year and enjoys using the manipulatives.

Henry

Can count by 2s to 20, can count by 5s to 100, and can count by 10s to 200. In MUS Beta Lesson 16F. Working on perimeter measurements, word problems (we read them to him) and is working on reading out # in 100 000 range.





Hen & Mae

Calendar



Calender has been completed up to November 15th. In October they kept charts whether it was a shirt, sweater or coat day, and in November we are keeping track dew, frost or dry



Language Arts

Henry has been working on HOP orange work book he's up to page 41 and has been working on initial consonant sounds fl,gl. He has also been reading We Explore from Christian Light primer series book 2. He's on page 7. And has finished reading the primer one in that series. Henry has been getting better and better with his reading and confidence.



Mae has also been working in HOP orange work book up to page 44/45 initial consonant sounds cl & bl. She has also been reading Cat in the Hat. Both the children have also been reading the Sword & The Stone Hello reader level 2.



They have also been reviewing sight words previously done as well as initial consonant sounds. ch, tr, th, qu, sh, dr, wh, pr, cr, sm, br, sn, fr, sp, gr, sl, pl, sc, bl, sk, cl, sw, gl, st, and fl.

First Language Lessons up to lesson 53 pronouns and action verbs both children are doing very well with this program. The children have been making lists of all the new pronouns they are learning: I, me, mine, my, you, your, yours, he, she, him, he, it, his, hers, its, we, us, our, ours, they, them, their, theirs. They have also been keeping list of action verbs: jumps, skip, run, play and swim.



Mae has been showing a lot of interest in free writing and gets a bit frustrated when I can’t read something she’s written. I’m very encouraging and give her lots of hugs and tell her how great she is doing because she is showing a lot initiative by writing these little stories. Henry too has been copying pictures and writing out of comics he’s really been enjoying Stone Rabbit. This is great because he’s also doing this on his own free will! And enjoying it.  



For read alouds we have been going between to books Bambi and Wind and the Willows both chapter books.



Evamae is working on her cursive writing and Henry is doing excellent in HWT cursive writing and is on page 22.



Yesterday the kids went to Windsor House for a visit and got to take part in a simulation game. A gold rush that takes place in 1858 in Yale. The school gym is transformed into store fronts from that time period. The kids even got to go gold panning. Along the creek near the school the children have made claims. They have spray painted rocks gold that the kids can find and exchange for cash.



Hen has been having a lot of fun with his Wolf Cub groups they went camping up on Mt Seymour learned about fire safety and cooking on a oil stove. He’s also been doing well in swimming lessons and was moved up to level 2.



Mae loves brownies and does a lot of arts n crafts there. She is also doing well in her swimming lessons.

Mae & Henry took Bun Bun to the 2011 Vancouver Rabbit Festival where they learned about rabbit health & safety. Bun Bun and Mae made the short video of the even 1:34 seconds on the timer. Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhxxhH0sKYY

Sept 26-30 & Oct 3-7

I can't believe how fast September went by. The kids started swimming lessons the first Saturday of October and they both enjoyed it. BigH will be camping up on Seymour Mountain with his Wolf Cub troop.

For language arts over the last two weeks we've been concentrating on reading silently and out loud. Henry has been reading the CLE book We Live (primer series-book 1) and In A People House, by Theo. LeSieg. We Live is easy for him to sound out the words, there are some sight words in, In A People house like:what, there, like, that, and come. That are also in HOP. We BigH and I have been working on the sight word flash cards and initial consonant sounds from the weeks prior. I've also been getting him to choose sentences out of his reader to copy down for print work. With LittleE she has been reading a varitey of DrSeuss books for me I've been getting her to choose a sentence and to copy it down for print work. She has been working on two sets of initial consent sounds. I believe I listed the new sounds a post or two ago. She two has been working on sight words. They both have been working diligently on their cursive writing practice Big H is up to p. 19 in the red book HWT learning how to cursive write the lower case t and join it with other consonants and vowels to write words like, at, hat, that, and catch. LittleE has been working very hard in her book we are on p. 8. The book progressive along quite quickly and she's trying very hard and doing a pretty good job, but I'm thinking I should get her the same book BigH is using because there is more practice and build up to writing words and sentences.

We have completed Lesson 47 in First Language Lessons we are still working on pronouns so far we've covered the pronouns: I, me, my, mine, you, your, yours, he, she, him, he, it, his, hers, its.

I don't think we've done any calender time in October yet! But they did finish the weather graph for Septembers cloud cover. The results 11 days of clear skies and 6 days of low status clouds and 1 day of high cirrus clouds. This is based on the only days we noted the cloud cover.

For math BigH is completed up to 16C Beta and is working on thousands and place value notations. LittleE completed 13A Alpha and is doing much better this year then last. We continue to go over her double + table and the 8+ and 9+ tables. She's humming along. This Saturday we will be going to a Rabbit festival in Vancouver and LittleE is very excited she will be bring her Bun Bun to learn more about rabbit care and get a vet check by donation. We will post pictures next week.

This has been hard week we learned that our wonderful homeschooling mentor lost her husband we have met them several times,  Kim was such a great and interesting person. We mourn with her in her loss. Relieved to know that Kim is heaven bound it's been a learning opportunity for the children to know that life sometimes does not go the way we plan it. God's in charge we love you Holly xoxo

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.

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.



week of sept 5-9th

Calender working on learning and identifying high cirrus clouds, puffy cumulus clouds and low status clouds. Completed lessons 2-4 "Christian Light Education Bible 1" BigH is working on his curisive writing in Handwritting Without Tears 3 (completed pages 12), and LittleE is working on Handwriting Without Tears 1 (completed pages 49).

We also worked on Hooked on Phonic Orange book (1st half of grade one) pages BigH did pages (28-29) and LittleE did page(36) . Did an over view of our kindergarten sight words & some grade 1. We only homeschooled one day this week still getting everything organized and moved in.