Bible - We are going back through the New Testament stories again using the 101 Bible Stories book and the Rod & Staff Bible Stories & Coloring. Here is a picture of them working this morning...actually Packy was busy counting the markers and colored pencils in the Crayola Crayon Caddy:
Science - We buzzed through 2 weeks of Sonlight Science K this week. I thought the material was a bit tedious. We were looking at how things work and the detail was just getting...well...boring. So we kind of read the main passages about each item in one sitting and moved on. We will begin Astronomy next week.
Math - This week, we started BJU Math 2. The first chapter went horribly! Squeak was very bored and just shut down. I have to admit, I thought we would just go through stuff for review because Horizons 1 already covered this stuff (and about 40% of BJU Math 2 - that's how far ahead Horizons is because I think BJU is pretty much at grade level). But that "thought" backfired! So we are going to skip chapters 2 and 3 and work on Chapter 4, which is calendar and time. Then we can go back and do portions of Chapters 2 and 3 (again, Horizons 1 covered a lot of the material).
History - American History has been a hit so far this past week (our first week)! We are using a couple of different resources including Sonlight materials (some of the history spines and the regular readers) and project stuff I have gathered.
First we are reading through a picture book called North American Indians by Marie and Douglas Gorsline. We also started making a tepee village using a kit from Rainbow Resource. Squeak is decorating her first tepee here:
For our nightly chapter book, we began reading through A Lion To Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla. This is a Sonlight regular reader that correlates with the history spine. Squeak is really interested in the story and is able to easily answer comprehension questions. Tonight, we are going to make two more tepees and read another chapter or two in the book.
Other - We have been doing our "regular" stuff like snack/story time and crafts. We also went to the library for a new story time. Packy was the "wildest" kid there...sigh. Squeak made a birthday gift for Grandpa too!
Looks like you had a fun busy week! You'll have to post a pict of your teepee village!
ReplyDeleteWhat made you stop Singapore again? Also... how far did ya'll get into it?
ReplyDeleteWow! You guys covered so much this week. Your girls are getting such a well-rounded education. Great job!!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fun first week back.
ReplyDeleteWhy will you go back to the BJU chapters you skipped? It sounds like she doesn't need to?
What a fun week! I like how you do so many different stuff :)
ReplyDeleteI would also love to see a picture of the completed tepees. Looking cool.
ReplyDeleteWas wondering why you switched to BJU. Was Horizons not working anymore? Were you wanting more depth? Just wondering. I am contemplating Horizons for when they are older because I hope to use the Weaver curriculum (this will not be until Tabitha hits 3rd grade as I won't have to be official til then in Pa, which will put Amelia in 2nd or 1st and Hannah in K) and the Horizons math looked good to me. Until then we are really going to be creating our own curriculum as we can't afford a package curriculum yet.
Anyhow, looks like you had a great week.
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