Weekly Report 10/18 - 10/22

Hello and God bless everyone! This past week was probably a "medium" school week. Monday, we went to the kid's museum and I took the girls all by myself!! They did a great job and we had a blast!

Bible - We read from our Bible stories book and our devotional book this week.

Math -  We are still working in Horizons Math. I decided to just go ahead and finish the first book before resuming Singapore 1b. Squeak should have the book completed sometime towards the middle to end of next month. She is flying through that book. We skip a lot of the repetitions and I let her work 5 lessons at a time. We go through about 10 lessons per week.

Science - Plants! Still the topic in science. We set up our kidnet bean experiment this week - a drinking glass lined with a wet paper towel and four kidney beans stuck between the glass and the paper towel. Squeak recorded her first observations in the Nature Diary and later in the week, when we saw roots starting to sprout, we made another record in the diary.

The server is again rejecting all my pictures! And I can't put up one of the flower page that Packy colored!

Other -  Squeak completed the Lollipop Logic book in two sittings. We finished Magic School Bus chapter book #5 and started Pony Pals chapter book #1.

Weekly Report 10/11 - 10/15

Despite a day and a half of Squeak being sick, she still accomplished a lot.

Bible -  We are still making our way through the 101 Bible Story book.

Math - We did not do ANY math this week! We decided to take the week off of math. November 1st is still the start of Singapore 1b so we've just been puddering through Horizons 1 and MEP anyways.

Science - On the 11th, Squeak completed her animal Living Things Unit!! I printed out a little book as her "prize"!

And here is the completed science wall!!

The next study is a plant study, which we started on Tuesday and worked on today (Friday). Tuesday she made this little flower craft:

Today, she colored in the front of her "Nature Diary". We will need that when we start to sprout seeds - she will record her observations. I made it by cutting two cardboard pieces to the size of printer paper and punched 3 holes down the side. Then I punched holes in the printer paper and tied it all together with hemp string (3 different colors). Finally I wrote with a permanent marker in big block letters "Squeak's Nature Diary" (used her real name). She colored in the front while listening to how seeds are spread today.

Read Alouds -  Wednesday night, we finished Magic School Bus chapter book #4 and began #5. We were suppose to start a new chapter book series called Pony Pals after Book #4 BUT Squeak insisted jsut one more MSB book!

Other -  I ordered Lollipop Logic and Primary Logic from Prufrock Press and they arrived yesterday. My plan was to use these on "non math" nights. Well, last night Squeak completed 23 out of the 52 lessons in Lollipop Logic with ease. I knew this was going to be an easy book but I thought it would be a nice confidence booster. She really enjoyed it!

I am also going to re-do Squeak's whole curriculum starting in January (or earlier). I'm going to drop all the extras and just focus on Bible, math, science, reading/writing, and history. Streamline things, cut out the extras and focus on basically stuff required by the state. I just won an A beka History book on ebay! It's the 2nd Grade (Our America) book. I thought that would be a gentle introduction to history before starting something more in depth. Until the streamline, we are going to do the stuff we've been doing. We will do this basic plan for a while then change again. I thought that would keep things spicy! LOL!

Weekly Report 10/4 - 10/8

We had a nice week. My buddy from college came out on Friday and we had play time with cousins most of the weekend! On Tuesday, we went to Library Story time and someone thought Squeak was a boy!! She was wearing a dark blue sweatshirt and dark blue jeans so I guess she looked like a boy! Poor Little girl!! And we went on a playdate Wednesday.

We didn't do a whole lot in school this week...mainly stuff at night during our nightly school hour. Squeak has been asking for school every night now so I went and bought a few extra things for her to work on to fill that time. I don't want to do math 7 days a week! I ordered some logic books and Explode the Code 2.

Bible - The girls are still enjoying Bible stories and Squeak's prayer life is so precious! I am blessed every single time she prays.

Math - Squeak is still working in Horizons and MEP. She did tell me that she doesn't want to do 1st grade math anymore and wants to do "harder stuff"! This was said earlier this past week! Well, we started double digit addition (no regrouping) and she did well. She also likes measurement, so we skipped to the measurement exercises in Horizons.

Science -  All we did this week was learn about whales during our "water life" study. It worked out nice since we were also reading Magic School Bus Chapter book #3 - which is about whales.

Other - We've been reading a lot aloud and I found another chapter book series to try after we read the current Magic School Bus book. It's called "Pony Pals".

Squeak seems to enjoy ETC and we completed 2 pages so far. We are only doing one page at a time. She also worked in her geography workbook and played with her talking globe.

Here she is placing the pre-cut cookies (yes, I cheated and didn't make them from scratch!):

And Packy likes to play Candy Land!

Packy has been counting to 10 since 17 months old and lately she started counting in Spanish  - yes, because of Dora. If she doesn't want to participate in school, she usually watches a Dora show.

What we have been reading aloud this past week....

*Magic School Bus Chapter Book #1
*Magic School Bus Chapter Book #2
*Magic  School Bus Chapter Book #3 (starting tonight)

*101 Favorite Bible Stories
*Jesus Wants All of Me devotional

*The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat

*Franklin the Turtle:
      -Bicycle Helmet
      -Birthday Party

*Arthur
      -Classroom Fib
      -First Kiss

*Bones and The Math Test Mystery

*Stories from The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury

*Clifford's Sports Day

Weekly Report 9/27 - 10/1

So, hopefully I can post pictures because we made our first diorama this week for science! A Coral Reef diorama! I also have pictures of Squeak working independently on some math worksheets I printed off!

Bible - We are still reading through our 101 Bible story book and our devotional book.

Ok, some of the science pictures uploaded and they are in the wrong order but here is the coral reef diorama!!

Here are my little engineers taking apart our R2D2 (he was broken):

Math - We have been working in Horizons 1. Squeak is working on an addition worksheet all by herself!

Read Alouds -  Squeak LOVES the Magic School Bus chapter books. We read through 2 this week but I want to slow the pace because I don't want to whip through all of them so quickly! We are also just a couple books shy of completing the first trimester of the P 3/4 booklist.