Week of April 25-29th

This week Big H finished story # 15 in HOP 1, "Slam & Dunk: The Big Game." He worked through this story working very hard at it. I'm going to stay in this review area to build up more confidence and ease with these words. He was very proud to be reading such a big book to his father. Little E has just started this book but has not finished it yet.

In First Language Lessons we are up to Lesson 35 and I've found our copy of it. Thank you Holly for lending me yours. I'm going to have to mail it to you, I meant to bring it to the convention this weekend. This week we did a picture narration of NC Wyeth's The Master Bedroom.

We also reviewed proper pronouns for days of the week. I had the kids put the days of the week in order they both did very well at this. Little E needs a bit more work. The both mix up Tuesday and Thursday. We also reviewed are memory verses: The Caterpillar, Work, and Hearts are Like Doors. They also were introduced to a new memory verse.

Days of the Week

Mother Goose rhyme, adapted by Sara Buffington

Monday's child is fair of face,

Tuesday's child is full of grace;

Wednesday's child is ever so sweet,

Thursday's child is tidy and neat;

Friday's child is prone to a giggle,

Saturday's child is easy to tickle;

But the child that is born on restful Sunday

Is happy and cheerful, and loves to play. 

We ventured into dictation this week. These are the sentences we worked on.
1. The cat ran.

2. The dog sat.

3. The man can tan.

They have such a hard time with the sight word 'the' I wrote that on the board for them to copy. I also corrected any reverse letters they wrote as we went along. They both did surprisingly well and I don't think it will be as stressful as I thought it might be. I've decided to start off by using words from HOP K program. I think they will both being doing three sentences.

For Math U See Big H is on lesson 13 Beta and Little E worked on lesson 11 Alpha she was working on the shapes: circles & triangles.

For science we finished week 10 and are half way through week 11. We finished up week 10 learning about the animals of Madagascar in "Usborne World of Animals" and learning how sausages are made in, " See How it's Made." In week 11 we are starting to learn about the animals of Europe the children watched 10 part, 10 min each video series on youtube called "The Wildlife and Scenery of Europe." The children located Europe on the map, as well as the Pyrenees Mountains and Coto Donana in Spain. They learned about the habitat and animals that live in the Pyrenees Mountains: Ibexes, Marmots, Bearded Vultures, Pyrenean desmans and Butcher birds. They also learned about the habitat and animals of Coto Donana in Spain some of these animals are the: Iberian lynxes, Red deer, European bee-eater and Flamingos. In the Western Isles they learned about seals, puffins and otters. They have just started to learn about the animals of Asia at the end of this week. They located all of these areas on a map.