Wrap Up Feb 14-18th

What a week Valentines Day was not all we were hoping it would be, BigH was sick and had a fever thankfully it broke Thursday. I'm also very thankful nobody else seemed to catch whatever it was he had. Poor guy! We did do some school work this week despite it all.

BigH worked continued on doing Lesson 9 in his MUS beta program and he helped LittleE with her math flash cards this week. LittleE also tried doing some the drills on the MUS website

LittleE has completed the HOP K program. Shout out to Miss LittleE! BigH has been showing some frustration with ETC online, it does sometimes seem a bit glitchy. I'm not sure if it's their computer or ours. So for awhile he's going to join LittleE and doing HOP 1. LittleE is helping BigH to learn the sight words from HOP K it's very cute when they can take turns teaching each other. Here is a list of sight words they are working on.

Sight words HOP level K
"no, now, see, he, game, where, with, you, this, need,want, play, me, what, is, be, are, and, has, says, do, look, to, too, we, the, of, like, on, for, my"

For HOP Level 1
They are learning initial consonant blends such as: ch, th, sh, wh, sm, sn, sp, sl, sc, sk, sw, st. They won't be moving along in level 1 until they have mastered level k sight words and the initial consonant blends. So we are working diligently on them. We go over twice a day 3 x in a row. I lead in reading them so they are not guessing by the end of next week I'll start to see what they've retained. Especially BigH because he's not been working on these particular sight words although he seemed to know a few of them. LittleE is having problems remember the words: want, what, play, game. We are also having some read aloud time with the level k HOP books. I'm trying to boost BigH confidence in his reading.

Language Lessons are going well we have finished lesson 24 to date. Lesson 24 was a picture narration of an oil painting called the, "The Family" by Mary Cassatt.

We talked about what the picture was, an oil painting and who was in the picture. Was the baby a boy or a girl. LittleE said it was a girl. Then we looked up the picture online so we could see it in colour. The picture in the book was black and white. Both children seem to appreciate doing picture narration work. It is a fun way to bring out their langauge development.

 The children have also been working on writing their full names, and have been doing some copy work from the Bible Psalms 91:1 and completed their Valentines cards this week. We decided to hold out giving them out because BigH was sick. We have started reading Usborne Greek Myths we've read two stories so far, "The Gift Of Fire" and "Pandora's Box." This is not satisfying their story time needs however and BigH made me read to chapters of "George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orpahns."

BigH has shown an interest in stamps and would like to start collecting them. I told him about pen pals and he's decided he'd like to write to one. The children still have to respond to a letters they received from their Great Aunt Yvonne a few weeks back.

The kids have a hockey game in Clearwater BC this Saturday it's very exciting. After this they have one more game and that will be the last game of the year. 

Friday we are going into town to do somthing fun. I'm not sure what we are doing yet but I'll think of a few things and let the kids decide.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.     ~Christopher Morley, To a Child