CBS: Quinn had a lot of great insight into this weeks lesson on Abraham. I feel that my decision to do the writing for him in his CBS work has been confirmed as the right choice. Evelyn surprised me during our hike by pointing out to us how God was rewarding our work by giving us breathtaking views every so often as we trudged up the hard parts of the mountain. She did this just as I was grumbling a bit about how tired I was. Leave it to a child to humble you.
Math: Evelyn is starting multiplication. She is very excited about it. Especially since the lessons require drawing. Today I had to pry the math book away from her. She had already done five pages and was going for a sixth. Still waiting for Quinn's new book. In the meantime he still has a few lessons left in 3b. They are pretty easy, I am not complaining though!
Spelling/Dictation: List 19 introduces the there their and they're so we went over that and continued with our dictation paragraphs. Quinn has a there, their, they're chart on his "wall" so that helped him. I figure he still has to use his brain to figure out which form to use so it's ok if he has the spellings of those words in front of him for now.
Vocabulary: Only did two new words this week: inhabit and culture. Quinn did correctly apply some vocab words from last week however. He pointed out how we were floundering around on the rocky slopes of the mountain and mentioned that Lot had been abducted in our Bible study. Yay for real world application!
Science:Week 3 of science was a continuation of DNA. We read Gene Machines and did a fun chart in the body book where they each checked off what traits they have i.e.: dark hair, brown eyes etc...
History: Still on vikings. Since we have already read all the stuff on vikings that was listed we didn't do much in the way of history this week. We could have made a viking long house but opted to go for a hike and enjoy some splendid fall weather instead.
Reading: Evelyn is continuing Ramona and Her Mother along with whatever else she gets her hands on. Quinn is reading Farmer Boy. It is on his list for this year. At first he was not thrilled because it is related to the Little House on the Prairie books and is therefore a girl book. But he seems to be surviving.
Read Aloud: We are on the last few chapters of Ginger Pye. The goal is to be done by Monday.
Co-op
Sign Language: The kids learned Fall and Halloween signs.
Public Speaking: No speech was due this week but the kids had to bring in the literature selection that they will be performing for next week. Quinn will be doing Click Clack Moo.
Rockets: The kids launched their first round of rockets this week. There was much exhilaration about as each team got to fill their rocket with water, pump air into it, count down and then blast off! It turns out that Quinn was correct when he predicted that his team's rocket would win. With a time of 9.4 seconds it went higher than all the rockets launched in both classes that day.. woohoo!
Drawing: Quinn did a pastel of an antique box
Art: yes
Orchestra: yes
OTHER: No dance this week...overnight at a friend's house instead.
3 comments:
My oldest is in a rocket class in our local co-op too! He has LOVED it! They shot off their pop bottle rockets a couple weeks ago and today their wooden rockets.
Love the pics!! great week!!
The hike looks great-that is my favorite kind of school day!
It looks like you had a wonderful week-love the pictures.
Sounds like a wonderful week. I love reading how each home's week is so varied.
My daughter thinks the sign language looks like a lot of fun. And of course my son was duly impressed by the rockets.
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