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I have only entered a couple of contests and never win, but yeah, you never know!
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Weekly Report 9/19 - 9/23
Praise the Lord...we wrapped up Week #4 today! This week was a 5 day week to make up for a few missed days last week and a lot was accomplished. Our Pizza Hut BOOK IT! materials arrived this week too and that begins October 1st.
Bible - Squeak worked in BJU Bible all week completing the Creation lessons, learning about the Table of Contents and navigating in the Bible and some topical lessons about her Savior.
Math - Squeak is still easily working through math. Even though I regret waiting to start 2a, she is whizzing right along without any problems.
English - I found a new time slot for English - right before breakfast. We used to work English in the nightly rotation but it's nicer to get it done with. The lessons are short and it works out well. Squeak is working through BJU English 1. We are 3 pages shy of completing Unit 1. Squeak is doing well and is excited to start the next Unit (there are lots of cute cartoon animals! LOL).
Science - We started working the the My Pals Are Here (MPH) "Systems" activity book. We completed the book about Marie Curie last week and will begin Elements/Periodic Table when the MPH activity book is complete (it's a short book). Squeak picked this book to work in and it's a perfect fit since elements, atoms, molecules, etc. are systems too!
Crafts - Paper plate projects was the theme for our crafts. The girls even made a special award for Daddy - #1 Dad! (I have no idea why I took so many craft pictures!)
I also orally worked with Squeak on two pages of Prufrock Press's Primary Logic (for grades 2-4) until she screamed (at the top of her lungs) "MOM! STOP! THIS.IS.BORING!!!!" Oh brother!
Bible - Squeak worked in BJU Bible all week completing the Creation lessons, learning about the Table of Contents and navigating in the Bible and some topical lessons about her Savior.
Math - Squeak is still easily working through math. Even though I regret waiting to start 2a, she is whizzing right along without any problems.
English - I found a new time slot for English - right before breakfast. We used to work English in the nightly rotation but it's nicer to get it done with. The lessons are short and it works out well. Squeak is working through BJU English 1. We are 3 pages shy of completing Unit 1. Squeak is doing well and is excited to start the next Unit (there are lots of cute cartoon animals! LOL).
Science - We started working the the My Pals Are Here (MPH) "Systems" activity book. We completed the book about Marie Curie last week and will begin Elements/Periodic Table when the MPH activity book is complete (it's a short book). Squeak picked this book to work in and it's a perfect fit since elements, atoms, molecules, etc. are systems too!
Crafts - Paper plate projects was the theme for our crafts. The girls even made a special award for Daddy - #1 Dad! (I have no idea why I took so many craft pictures!)
Read Alouds - We completed Ready Freddy! #13 and started #18 and are reading Magic School Bus #20.
Other - There has been no shortage of "on their own" learning...
I also orally worked with Squeak on two pages of Prufrock Press's Primary Logic (for grades 2-4) until she screamed (at the top of her lungs) "MOM! STOP! THIS.IS.BORING!!!!" Oh brother!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Weekly Report 9/12 - 9/16
Due to some unscheduled events, school was rather skimpy this week. I plan on working 5 days next week to make up for two lost days this past week.
We worked in BJU Bible, finished a Ready Freddy! chapter book, completed three crafts from Carol's Affordable Curriculum (CAC) craft pack and worked in math. Squeak "unschooled" by working some puzzles, completing multiple pages in her Patternables book and moving up three units in her JumpStart game. We also went on our first field trip of the year to the Kid's Museum of Play on Tuesday (there are pictures in the previous blog post!). We also completed reading the book about Marie Curie's discovery of radium for Noeo Chemistry.
Here are the girls making cow puppets (the theme this week from Carol's Affordable Curriculum was "dairy"):
We worked in BJU Bible, finished a Ready Freddy! chapter book, completed three crafts from Carol's Affordable Curriculum (CAC) craft pack and worked in math. Squeak "unschooled" by working some puzzles, completing multiple pages in her Patternables book and moving up three units in her JumpStart game. We also went on our first field trip of the year to the Kid's Museum of Play on Tuesday (there are pictures in the previous blog post!). We also completed reading the book about Marie Curie's discovery of radium for Noeo Chemistry.
Here are the girls making cow puppets (the theme this week from Carol's Affordable Curriculum was "dairy"):
Squeak is once again speeding through Singapore Math:
BJU Bible Truths:
A "dairy" activity page from CAC:
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Weekly Report 9/5 - 9/9
School went well this week! Praise the Lord!
Bible - We covered the first 5 days of Creation in BJU Bible Truths. Squeak also has been painting in a "Creation Book" that I made. I took pages from our large sketch book, folded them in half and hole punched them. I used some string to tie it all together and labeled each day and what God created. Squeak paints out each day as to what she thinks it all looks like! Very cute!
Math - Math is exactly why I don't lesson plan. What I thought was going to take about a week, took less than 2 minutes. I explained what addition with re-grouping was and set up a problem and Squeak completed it rather effortlessly. We went through it again the next night (just to be sure) and she was already saying she knew what to do and was bored!
Next week, we go back into Singapore Math. I just received my backorder textbook for 2a. I regret not continuing 2a last spring because the material looks really easy. I decided to just work in the textbook and not use the workbook unless it's needed. Squeak informed me that I burned her out with workbook work in SM 1b because it was too much repetition. I just get worried about retention so I have her complete pages in the workbook. For 2a, we'll just sip through the textbook and stop and use the workbook if needed. I won't be "OCD" about completing workbook pages with this book.
Science - We are reading a book about Marie Curie and her radium discovery. Not doing much with it, just reading through it.
Phonics - Squeak is continuing with BJU English and using JumpStart and had been reading a loud to me. We are working towards our Applebee's Bookworm goal and will begin Pizza Hut BOOK IT! when the materials arrive.
Handwriting - Squeak has been working more with writing and I've been using a generic workbook for letter practice right now.
Art - Squeak has been doing A LOT of painting. I also just ordered and received the summer curriculum from Carol's Affordable Curriculum. I bought it for two students - Squeak and Packy. It's pretty much 36 fairly easy crafts to complete, 3 per week. Originally I had just Packy in mind for this but I knew Squeak would want to join in. We start next week and the theme is "dairy" so they are making cow puppets, coloring a cow page and maze then working on a sheet with stickers.
Bible - We covered the first 5 days of Creation in BJU Bible Truths. Squeak also has been painting in a "Creation Book" that I made. I took pages from our large sketch book, folded them in half and hole punched them. I used some string to tie it all together and labeled each day and what God created. Squeak paints out each day as to what she thinks it all looks like! Very cute!
Math - Math is exactly why I don't lesson plan. What I thought was going to take about a week, took less than 2 minutes. I explained what addition with re-grouping was and set up a problem and Squeak completed it rather effortlessly. We went through it again the next night (just to be sure) and she was already saying she knew what to do and was bored!
Next week, we go back into Singapore Math. I just received my backorder textbook for 2a. I regret not continuing 2a last spring because the material looks really easy. I decided to just work in the textbook and not use the workbook unless it's needed. Squeak informed me that I burned her out with workbook work in SM 1b because it was too much repetition. I just get worried about retention so I have her complete pages in the workbook. For 2a, we'll just sip through the textbook and stop and use the workbook if needed. I won't be "OCD" about completing workbook pages with this book.
Science - We are reading a book about Marie Curie and her radium discovery. Not doing much with it, just reading through it.
Phonics - Squeak is continuing with BJU English and using JumpStart and had been reading a loud to me. We are working towards our Applebee's Bookworm goal and will begin Pizza Hut BOOK IT! when the materials arrive.
Handwriting - Squeak has been working more with writing and I've been using a generic workbook for letter practice right now.
Art - Squeak has been doing A LOT of painting. I also just ordered and received the summer curriculum from Carol's Affordable Curriculum. I bought it for two students - Squeak and Packy. It's pretty much 36 fairly easy crafts to complete, 3 per week. Originally I had just Packy in mind for this but I knew Squeak would want to join in. We start next week and the theme is "dairy" so they are making cow puppets, coloring a cow page and maze then working on a sheet with stickers.
Packy is gluing
Squeak is reading
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Brag Alert!
I decided to introduction Squeak to addition re-grouping last night. Well, she picked up on it effortlessly and looked at me like "duh"....this was after I literally talked for less than 2 minutes and asked her what she thought we should do to complete the problem. I was really impressed! What a blessing she is!! Praise Jesus!
(She has done this before with multiplication and division and many other concepts...effortlessly...I can't begin to comprehend how she does what she does...)
(She has done this before with multiplication and division and many other concepts...effortlessly...I can't begin to comprehend how she does what she does...)
Sunday, September 4, 2011
First Week of School!
Our first week of school was very relaxed. We worked a lot on Bible, arts/crafts and read alouds. We also worked a bit on math, science and phonics. I haven't re-started history yet and will begin reading Pocohantas and The Strangers after we complete the Magic School Bus chapter book we are reading.
Our Singapore Math books haven't arrived yet (they were on backorder) so we've been using the Math Connects workbook from the summer. We completed our study of the Scientific Method in Noeo Chemistry and will begin Week 8 by looking at Marie Curie.
Squeak is enjoying BJU Bible Truths 1. It begins with Creation and we working our way through that.
Our schedule is Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday = school days. We didn't work on any school Friday night because my niece spent the night! They girls had a lot of fun together.
This coming week, we'll start to buckle down a little more. I also decided to work our subjects in smaller time chunks. No more 45-50 minute math marathons in one sitting! LOL! I love the "accomplished" feeling that goes with it but it just drains me!
Here are a few pictures from the week:
Squeak is using the Math Connects book as a "filler" while we wait for SM
Our Singapore Math books haven't arrived yet (they were on backorder) so we've been using the Math Connects workbook from the summer. We completed our study of the Scientific Method in Noeo Chemistry and will begin Week 8 by looking at Marie Curie.
Squeak is enjoying BJU Bible Truths 1. It begins with Creation and we working our way through that.
Our schedule is Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday = school days. We didn't work on any school Friday night because my niece spent the night! They girls had a lot of fun together.
This coming week, we'll start to buckle down a little more. I also decided to work our subjects in smaller time chunks. No more 45-50 minute math marathons in one sitting! LOL! I love the "accomplished" feeling that goes with it but it just drains me!
Here are a few pictures from the week:
Packy is working on her word puzzles
Squeak is using the Math Connects book as a "filler" while we wait for SM
Packy is working on a gluing activity
Squeak coloring in BJU Bible Truths
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