HAPPY FALL!
This is my favorite season of the year. The crunchy, colorful leaves; clear, cool blue skies after the morning fog lifts; anticipation of all the family holidays; yummy soups and stews; apples and pears....
It has been a good week. I wrote yesterday about some of what we've been up to, and here's a little more.
Language Arts
Cyrus worked mainly in Intermediate Language Lessons this week. He also worked on spelling, using a printable resource I downloaded from Scholastic's Teacher Express (they have great dollar deals on e-books a few times a year). He worked a little more on the book he is writing, and he's thinking about doing a NaNoWriMo challenge in November. He started reading The Magician's Nephew for fun. Oh, and he's reading a book of Shel Silverstein's poetry.
Cassia worked on memorizing more phonogram sounds from All About Spelling this week - we are getting ready to wrap up this part. She read to me from a Nora Gaydos book, and did a couple of lessons in Primary Language Lessons. I read a couple more chapters from All of a Kind Family to her. She is really enjoying this book, so I am glad I have the sequels on hand. It was one of my favorite series when I was a kid. We also read another story or two from Tatterhood & Other Tales, which Cyrus is enjoying too!
We read another chapter from The Wind in the Willows, and listened to a bit more of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in the car. We're debating which audio book(s) to listen to on our upcoming Disneyland trip.
Math
Teaching Textbooks again this week, in addition to Sum Swamp (an addition/subtraction board game). Both kids had chapter tests and scored 100%. Cyrus said he does notice it is getting more challenging, but he is still doing very well. TT3 is helping Cassia finally memorize the months of the year, since it asks a lot of "what month comes before/after x".
History
Cassia and I are reading from The Birchbark House. She is anxious for the American Girl books to come in at the library - I have discovered that this may be the best way to get her interested in history! We're starting with a few books on Kaya, and then we'll go to whichever strikes her fancy next (I am thinking it will be Kirsten, the pioneer one).
Cyrus is reading The Sign of the Beaver. When he finishes it, he plans to watch the film to see what differences there are.
Science
We read from The Story Book of Science, starting a section on trees. To complement that, we looked at pictures in this gorgeous book...
We also spent some time outside with the telescope this week, star-gazing. I checked out from the library the book Once Upon a Starry Night: A Book of Constellations for further gazing pleasure and education.
Other
Cyrus is teaching himself artistic techniques using Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. And he's teaching himself computer animation through a series of online tutorials for a program called "Blender".
Cassia decided she wanted to learn more about cooking, so she learned how to make turkey-3-bean-chili from scratch this week, even chopping onions up with our huge chef's knife!
Today we get to spend the afternoon celebrating autumn with friends. I had better give Cyrus his spelling test so we can get going!
ETA: Cyrus got 100% on his first spelling test!
It has been a good week. I wrote yesterday about some of what we've been up to, and here's a little more.
Language Arts
Cyrus worked mainly in Intermediate Language Lessons this week. He also worked on spelling, using a printable resource I downloaded from Scholastic's Teacher Express (they have great dollar deals on e-books a few times a year). He worked a little more on the book he is writing, and he's thinking about doing a NaNoWriMo challenge in November. He started reading The Magician's Nephew for fun. Oh, and he's reading a book of Shel Silverstein's poetry.
Cassia worked on memorizing more phonogram sounds from All About Spelling this week - we are getting ready to wrap up this part. She read to me from a Nora Gaydos book, and did a couple of lessons in Primary Language Lessons. I read a couple more chapters from All of a Kind Family to her. She is really enjoying this book, so I am glad I have the sequels on hand. It was one of my favorite series when I was a kid. We also read another story or two from Tatterhood & Other Tales, which Cyrus is enjoying too!
We read another chapter from The Wind in the Willows, and listened to a bit more of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in the car. We're debating which audio book(s) to listen to on our upcoming Disneyland trip.
Math
Teaching Textbooks again this week, in addition to Sum Swamp (an addition/subtraction board game). Both kids had chapter tests and scored 100%. Cyrus said he does notice it is getting more challenging, but he is still doing very well. TT3 is helping Cassia finally memorize the months of the year, since it asks a lot of "what month comes before/after x".
History
Cassia and I are reading from The Birchbark House. She is anxious for the American Girl books to come in at the library - I have discovered that this may be the best way to get her interested in history! We're starting with a few books on Kaya, and then we'll go to whichever strikes her fancy next (I am thinking it will be Kirsten, the pioneer one).
Cyrus is reading The Sign of the Beaver. When he finishes it, he plans to watch the film to see what differences there are.
Science
We read from The Story Book of Science, starting a section on trees. To complement that, we looked at pictures in this gorgeous book...
We also spent some time outside with the telescope this week, star-gazing. I checked out from the library the book Once Upon a Starry Night: A Book of Constellations for further gazing pleasure and education.
Other
Cyrus is teaching himself artistic techniques using Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. And he's teaching himself computer animation through a series of online tutorials for a program called "Blender".
Cassia decided she wanted to learn more about cooking, so she learned how to make turkey-3-bean-chili from scratch this week, even chopping onions up with our huge chef's knife!
Today we get to spend the afternoon celebrating autumn with friends. I had better give Cyrus his spelling test so we can get going!
ETA: Cyrus got 100% on his first spelling test!
Sounds like a productive week. Happy weekend.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous list of books. I want to come read at your house. :-)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great week! My DD is reading All of a Kind Family right now. I didn't even know it was part of a series.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a wonderful week. I haven't heard of All of a Kind Family. Looking forward to checking it out.
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