Weeks 11 & 12

Some of our accomplishments this week:

Reading & Writing

• Finished Sign of the Beaver
• Started The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Evelyn read Meet George Washington, My America: Our Strange New Land
• Quinn read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The 39 Clues # 7, Hardy Boys: The Secret Panel (again)
• Leah completed a couple of pages in Get Ready for the Code Book A
• Read several Thanksgiving themed books to Leah
• Evelyn did a few pages in Megawords

Math

• Quinn completed several lessons in 5b
• Evelyn did several review exercises in Singapore Intensive Practice 1b and completed two lessons in 2b
• Leah did some fun sorting exercises in Singapore Earlybird 1a and worked on her abacus games

History

• Read Chapter 10 in The Story of the US
• Placed several of our timeline figures in our timeline book
• Located and colored/added Brazil to our gian wall map as having been acquired by Portugal
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Art

Both Quinn and Evelyn did a few of the Mark Kistler Virtual Art Academoy lessons. Of course Evelyn always doodles half the day anyway



Evelyn's fish



Evelyn's Balloons

Quinn's "Alien Blob"

Finger painting

Field Trips

Our history studies coincided perfectly with Thanksgiving AND with our free passes to Plimouth Plantation. We took friends and had fun.

 

We also made a trip to the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. We saw the planetarium show Ice Worlds. Quinn also practiced landing the space shuttle. He gets better every time we go.



Week 10

This week was plagued with illness and rain. Also several trips to the chiropractor for whiplash from my accident last week. Despite all that we managed to get some school work done. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I had bad laryngitis. I get it every year coupled with a chest cold. I was unable to speak at all for those three days. It was extremely frustrating. Needless to say, I didn't do any reading aloud this week!

Reading

For those who are wondering, my daughter spends a 

great deal of time on her head. Particularly when reading or listening to 

someone read. She can always give a summary of what we were

reading about and in fact seems to be able to pay attention

better if she is allowed to be on her head. Therefore we just let her be.

• Evelyn finished Skippack School.
• Quinn continued with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
• My husband read a few chapters of The Sign of the Beaver for me.
• During the past two trips to the library Leah, has been determined to check out the books from the Warrior series. In fact she knows where they are kept and immediately goes to the shelf, takes off all the books in the series,  (THERE ARE DOZENS OF THEM) and stacks them up. Evelyn and I decided to check out some more age appropriate books on cats and she has been happily poring over these and listening to us read them to her. She still tries to check out the warrior books every time we go but the librarian knows by now and just tucks them away quietly for us as she is checking us out.

Writing 

We started working on Unit III last week. We outlined The Boy Who Cried Wolf (From IEW SWI A). Both kids decided to do major modifications to their stories. Which of course Mr. Pudewa encourages! I did not require all six dress ups however. I don't think either of my kids are ready for that yet. Evelyn is still required an 'ly' and a who/which clause in each paragraph. Quinn is up to four requirements: 'ly' who/which, quality adjective and strong verb. Quinn also added the word 'said' to his list of banned words and found some decent substitutions for his story. I think they are both pretty imaginative and fun for a first UNIT III attempt. Not that I am biased or anything. (Just to let you know, a 'chocodore', which my daughter writes about in her story, is what we call our Chocolate Labrador.) You have to click on them twice to read them. Once to open in a new window and a second time to enlarge or magnify the image...

Math

• Evelyn did the first lesson in her new book Singapore 2b.
• Quinn finished 5A.
• Leah had fun counting and sorting and making a picture graph. 

Baggins loves to do school work with Quinn

Memory

• The kids reviewed their memory work a few times this week but did not add anything new. The latest things they are working on are The Yak, The Ingenious Little Old Man and Psalm 8.

Bible

• We are into Acts chapter 6. We are also listening to John Macarthur's talks on the chapters as we study them. We missed CBS this week though due to no voice!
  

ART

• Last week I decided to order Mark Kistler's Online Art Academy from the Homeschool Buyer's Co-op. It was reduced to a great price for a three year subscription. I think it is still available too if anyone is interested here is the link.It has three different levels of classes. My kids love him. He is very funny and chatty. So this week we did the first several lessons as it was a great thing to do with no voice. Below are some of my kids' pictures though they did lots more of them. they couldn't get enough.
• Quinn also does a technical art program called Complete-A-Sketch. It is perfect for him as he likes to use "tools" when he draws and doesn't always desire to be creative on paper.

Quinn's koala

Evelyn's cubes

Evelyn's first koala

Evelyn's second koala

Quinn's sphere

 

 

That's pretty much it folks! It was a light week and even as I sit here I am still hacking up a lung! Blah!  I look forward to seeing everyone's weekly reports. They are always inspiring!

Wordless Wednesday - November 3, 2010