Another week down....

Only 7 more to go in our school year! So here's my brief weekly report...., and here's a link to samples...

Language Arts:
Fairy:
We have read the stories, and done the accompanying art/letter work up through the letter "D" (Oak Meadow). She has also done several more pages in Get Ready for the Code. I also used alphabet flash cards with her one day this week.
Elf:
He's been doing daily copywork, using a sentence from the stories I am reading. He took a spelling test from lesson 4 in ETC and got all the words right! So we moved on to lesson 5, where he's doing a mixture of beginning and ending sounds ("sh"). I've also been having him read daily, from "Green Eggs and Ham" or a level 3 Bob book, and he chose to review some level 2 Bob books as well.

Math:
Fairy:
I am working with her to make sure she can identify the numbers 1-10 easily. So, we reviewed 3 and 4 this week, and she did a number line activity from a workbook I picked up at the teacher supply store.
Elf:
More review work, with number families - I made up some supplemental worksheets for this on my computer, and then an assessment from Saxon Math 2. We are also working on telling time to 5 minutes.

History:
We are reading about Ancient China in the Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. I read a book of stories called The Butterfly's Dream. Next week I plan to make Chinese type artwork and some calligraphy with the kids.

Science:
We have been studying plants and their life cycles. We read chapter 5 in Real Science 4 Kids this week (plant life cycles), and the kids made drawings of plants at two different stages, complete with roots. We haven't been able to plant any sunflowers yet, so I am off to the nursery today to pick up potting soil and some empty six-pack plant containers, so that we can get going with planting! We also need to decide on science projects for the charter school's science fair which is in ONE month.

Other:
We had Jenny's kids over this week for a few hours, and wow, 5 kids are hard to keep up with! But, we had a lot of fun. Elf has been spending a lot of his free time building things... well, pounding nails into various pieces of wood, which he calls "contraptions". Fairy has learned to make scrambled eggs. We finally watched the 2007 version of Charlotte's Web, and it was pretty good - now we just need to finish reading the book!

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