Weekly Report (2/22 - 2/26)

We had yet another relaxed week since Monday (3/1) is the "big day" to start our new math curriculum. According to Fed Ex, our Sonlight Science is suppose to arrive next week as well! As I type everything out, it seems like we really got a lot done!! It's amazing the drive kiddos have to learn - I pretty much think of this week as an "unschooling" week because Squeak and Piglet led me in all these activities....

Reading- I started keeping a list of our read alouds. I began that list after our library trip last Friday and we've read 15 books so far. Not including the books we re-read over and over! We finished two chapter books - a Berenstain Bear book and a Junie B., First Grader book. Squeak has chosen the Ralph S. Mouse books for our next chapter books. I bought all three from Amazon so we will begin The Mouse and The Motorcycle tonight. Today, we are going to make some bookmarks for our chapter books.

 Math- I put Reader Rabbit away for now. Squeak was getting bored with it and despite wanting to complete the certificate, she asked for her new math. Squeak did a terrific job - she completed about 90% of that 320 page book in one month!!!

I did buy a small Word Problems workbook from the Dollar Tree and it turned out to be an Evan Moor book! It said it was for grade 1-2 but I hope 2nd graders aren't doing that easy of math word problems!! We worked in that book Monday night along with a subtraction book I bought from the Dollar Tree.

Bible- I also bought 4 books at the Dollar Tree for Piglet and I've read those about 100 times to both girls. We still listen to Little Tree in the van and have been going through the devotional. Squeak's prayers have been really cute as she prays how she loves Jesus and that He is in her heart. What a blessing to hear such sweet things come from little ones!!

Science- We conducted an overnight experiment with our Mind Blowing Science kit - we were creating a "sunset in a test tube". So we followed the directions to make our mushy crystals and put them in the test tube to sit over night. We had blue and red crystals and they were going to kind of "bleed" together in the test tube to make a layer of pink then purple then blue. Squeak and I looked at online pictures of sunsets as well. So the next morning, Squeak went to check her experiment and.............nothing happened!! It didn't work! She was disappointed but still had fun doing it.

Projects- Both Squeak and Piglet have been busy all week making projects. I have projects all over the kitchen table! Lots of foam and construction paper projects mainly! Squeak is working on a new project as I type. We are going to make bookmarks today too.

Printing- I also bought, from the Dollar Tree, some simple ABC workbooks so Squeak can practice her tracing and even some writing. Her writing is definitely age appropriate and she gets so frustrated when she can't write stuff. So I thought we can work informally on it now - Squeak working in the workbooks when she wants. She completed a whole book the other day (they are only 32 pages) by tracing all the letters in it! She did miss a couple of pages but I was really proud of her!!!

Other-  I opened Squeak's "Rev Up for Writing" and "Rev Up for Reading" CDROMS and she worked on those through the week.
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I updated our curriculum listing to the left. I included the Horizons/R&S combo and the Sonlight Science (with links!!). We completed one lap book activity and ran out of room in our lap book!! So I decided Peter Rabbit was done. It wasn't the hit I thought but we finished it! I am excited to start the new math and I think Squeak will like it.

Here are some pictures of our week:

Squeak has a "book basket" so I made Piglet her own "book box" this week. It has some of her board books in it (I rotate them) and here she is selecting a book to look at:

Piglet working on a puzzle but I think she was using a piece as a phone to her ear!

The girls are working on their computers: