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Friday, June 10, 2011

First week of Summer K/1st

Our first week of our "summer K/1st" was this week. I posted previously about our plans for the summer - we are taking a break from our regular curricula and working with other stuff!

Read Alouds:

I won my first ebay auction and it was a set of chapter books called "Ready Freddy". I was really excited about using these as our chapter book read aloud! Well, even though we will continue reading them, there is a lot of name calling involved - especially between Freddy and his sister. I edit as I read. There are 22 books in the set but I plan on continuing with them but with lots of editing. We read the first book in the set this past week.

We also were blessed with a half a garbage bag full of chapter books and a few picture books from my sister! Yeah! Since we completed Ready Freddy #1, we are going to try a Flat Stanley book before returning to Ready Freddy. I figured we can rotate between Freddy and the books from my sister for a while.

MBTP:

The Concept we started this week is the Matter and Movement Concept. Again, nothing in this concept is new material for Squeak. We are just having fun with hands on activities and activity pages involving matter. Both girls listened to  What's the World Made Of by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld and Paul Meisel and Squeak worked on some activity sheets and did a few hands on activities. I returned the Teacher's Manuals and I'm glad I did...for what we are doing, I don't need them as guidance.



Other:

Squeak worked a couple of pages in the Vocabulary for the Gifted Student book. It wasn't very challenging but she did practice some handwriting while filling in her answers.

I printed two FREE ebooks (I put the link in the previous post) and Squeak completed one of the Color Me Physics activity books (minus two of the really hard pages). This was just something I came across and she enjoyed it.

Tonight, we may try a few pages in our Complete Book of the Solar System. I'm not sure yet.

The bottomline is that I think I have enough variety and Squeak is excited.
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  1. RockerMomJune 10, 2011 at 8:39 PM

    That sounds really cool! I'm glad that squeak is excited. :)

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  2. kewkewJune 13, 2011 at 12:34 AM

    Sounds great. What exactly is the MBTP? I'm sure I could find it if I looked, but it is after midnight and I am tired. Gotta look at those ebooks you posted about.
    Glad Squeak is excited.
    We are taking a break this week for VBS over at the church where we go to play group. And I've still got the girls asking for lessons.

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