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A Here are a few rules:
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I have to finish post the books that we read for school last week. That Amazon carousel only lets me add 10 books. So I have to make more than one if we read more. And I have to add at least 6, so this carousel also has the books that we are in the middle of reading. Before I had only posted books that we had finished. I didn't put books on that list that we were currently reading.
So, to make it clear, on this list, there are a couple books that we are currently reading in school. Bubba and I are reading the Spongebob Squarepants together, it's an early chapter book. Stinky and I are reading the Barbie book together, it's a junior chapter book. For history we are using the Story of the World, and we are reading Charlotte's Web together as a read aloud.
This week was another very successful school week. The kids loved it, I loved it and they wanted more and more work to do!
For school this week we read these books:
For our lessons this week this is what we did:
BIBLE-We read Bible stories from Moses praying for Victory to Moses Shining Face after he came down out of the tent from talking to God. There were coloring sheets for the kids to go along with 3 of these stories.
HISTORY-We read Discovery in the Cave to review discovery. They watched part of the Prince of Egypt movie, we never got to finish it. On Wednesday we added a game that went with Health for last week, it's a board game on brushing your teeth. The kids also started an Adam & Eve lapbook. Thursday we read about Adam & Even in our Bible and today we will go over Cain & Abel.
WRITING & JOURNAL-Copywork for the letters of the alphabet. We are working through the alphabet to start with. Stinky has journal topics to write each day. She has to write 3 sentences.
PHONICS-Stinky finished Hooked on Phonics Level 4 and can't wait to finish Level 5 and be done with phonics. Bubba has been working on a lapbook all week for the letter A. We have read books to go along with the lapbook also.
READING-Bubba and I finished the War of the Worlds Illustrated Classic Editions and he loved it! We also read a book together each day this week. Stinky and I read chapters in her Barbie book. Today Bubba and I are going to start a easy reader chapter book of Spongebob and Sandy. Stinky has to read a story in her Bible each morning.
LANGUAGE ARTS-We started reading Charlotte's Web this week as our read aloud. Both kids are working on a notebook as we read each chapter. Bubba is just drawing the pictures, Stinky draws a picture and writes about it. We covered English subjects this week also, and we will continue this through out the year. This week they learned what sentences were, basic punctuation, nouns, verbs and adjectives. I have a great book that helps me go through this and I can add more to it to reinforce the lesson. It's called What Your Second Grader Needs to Know.
HEALTH-Our last week of health was safety week. We read a book called Being Safe and it was a read together book. One page for the adult, one for the child. Stinky and I read it, while Bubba listened. We had Diana Dialer and Safe T. Cat coloring books that went over 911. Wednesday we covered fire safety. Thursday we went over bike safety, car safety, stranger safety and they watched a movie called Safety Awareness that we got at the library. Today we are going to read these hilarious books that I have had since I was a little kid called The Thingumajig Book of Health and Safety. I just love those Thingumajigs. We have one other book of theirs. The kids LOVE them!
MATH-Bubba learned how to count by 2s, 5s and 10s this week. We found some awesome videos on youtube to help. I wonder if I can figure out how to get them to embed in my post....let's check it out.....
We'll see if that works....Stinky is reviewing money and subtraction at the same time. Yesterday she learned how to borrow.
Well that is our week. It was another great one and we praise Jesus for that!!
Welcome Homeschool Happenings! This is your opportunity to link up with other homeschooling moms and students and tell us about YOUR week! You can post for a week in advance and tell us what your plans are, or you can post about the week before or of and tell us what is going on.
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Today ends our 3rd week of homeschooling. So far, so good! I really couldn't ask for it to be any better. I have been reading books to the kids, besides our read aloud. Either for certain subjects or with Kyle, just for fun.
I want to keep track this year of what books the kids read. I printed out a list that I can keep for them just for that purpose. But, since I am an Amazon Associate, I thought I would utilize their widgets and make a carousel widget of the books that we have read and finished so far in school.
Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane is a favorite of my kids. We have had this book for about 5 or 6 years and they ask me to read it quite a bit. There was also a few books that we have read but Amazon didn't have on their list for sale currently, so I can't post them with the pictures here. The books are listed below:
The Curious Cow by Esther K. Meeks
Plate Full of Color by Georgia Perez
We only have one chapter left in our Magic Treehouse book that we are currently reading. We will finish that either tonight or tomorrow. Kyle and I only have 2 1/2 more chapters in The War of the Worlds for young readers left to read. He is bummed that we are almost done. I have lots of other books to engage him in though.
I have the outline for next weeks school plans done and now just have the final details to do. We are going to start reading Charlotte's Web next week together. This will be fun! I think we will all enjoy reading this together.
The kids were learning about food in health and we discussed the different colors of veggies and fruits. After we went over that, I gave them a pile of magazines and they had to cut out fruits or veggies. One for each color, red, purple/blue, yellow, orange, green and white. Then they had to make a collage with the pictures that they had cut out. They had fun doing that and actually used great team work. If one found something that the other also wanted to use, they split the picture in half! They are not social retards, I don't care what anyone says!
Oh yea, that....I've been asked if I'm scared that my kids won't get social skills from not going to school. No, actually, I'm afraid of the social skills they would get from going to school. We are involved in extracurriculars enough that I am not worried they are social retards.
This is really our 3rd week, but we spent 2 weeks on the first week because we went camping. So I am going with week #2.
I finished the whole week's schedule/plans just tonight. Here is the plans:
BIBLE: We're still reading about Moses in the Bible. So this week we will read stories from when Moses went to Pharoah and asked him to let God's people go to Moses getting water out of the rock. I have a couple coloring sheets for them, but nothing big.
HISTORY: Story of the World doesn't talk about creation, which is one drawback of the book in my opinion. So I am breaking from this book this week to cover creation. For each day of creation I have a coloring sheet for them to reinforce the days.
WRITING & JOURNAL: Each day the kids are given copywork from A-Z Kind Kids Care Copywork, which I bought from Currclick.com. They will do letters E-G this week. Amanda will write 3 sentences daily in her journal on each of these questions; 1. What is most important day of creation?, 2. What is your favorite food?, 3. Describe how it would be to be an Israelite., 4. Write a poem.
LANGUAGE ARTS: This week we will be going over poetry. I got a couple of Shel Silverstein books from the library. He is such a fun kid poet. I also checked out another poem book for kids called Here's a Little Poem to read a few poems out of this week.
HEALTH: This week we are talking about the food pyramid. I use a different food pyramid than what the USDA puts out. Mine is from HonestFoodGuide.org. So we will be learning the benefits of each color of fruits and veggies. Tomorrow though we are going to read from the Bible about foods.
PHONICS: Amanda will continue to read her Hooked On Phonics books. Kyle is starting a lapbook for the letter "A". I have decided that on Fridays I will allow them to play computer games for phonics, reading and math.
READING: Amanda reads Power Builders every day from Hooked On Phonics and answers the questions. We are going to finish reading A Knight At Dawn this week. Kyle and I are still reading War of the Worlds together and Amanda and I are still reading her Barbie book together. We don't read them every day is why. But I am also going to add in extra reading to read the Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends.
MATH: Amanda is working out of a workbook I bought her for review and Kyle is going to be reviewing addition all week and learning thermometers and temperatures. Which apparently, he already knows, so this will mostly be review I
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Welcome Homeschool Happenings! This is your opportunity to link up with other homeschooling moms and students and tell us about YOUR week! You can post for a week in advance and tell us what your plans are, or you can post about the week before or of and tell us what is going on.
Here are a few rules:
Please only link up the post that you write for the week, using a permalink. DO NOT link up your whole blog page or a general post, they will be deleted.
Understand that this is a family adventure and we do not want any inappropriate language or photos.
Please use the banner above in your post if you'd like and link it back to this. I am going to read each and every post and comment on every link! This linky will be open until Sunday at midnight. Please join up before then!
Last week I was so busy that I didn't get to link up to my own blog hop! lol This week I am going to.
Our first week of school was great. Well, it was pretty easy. We had a last minute camping trip that got planned with some friends, so we only schooled Monday and Tuesday. So this week, we are finishing up from last week. But all of that is cool with me, because we started so early. As I've said on my blog already, I had school planned to start the 13th, and the kids wanted to start early. So we did. It doesn't really mess anything up for me.
Plus, I have a 4 hour job to do tomorrow. I have to be online and on the phone for a research study being conducted. It's going to be a mock trial, and I am a mock juror. I am getting paid for it also! $30/hour! I say that is some easy money making right there!
Monday went smoothly! It was so successful. Amanda now being in 2nd grade is able to a lot of work on her own. I can help Kyle more on his subjects this way.
My hubby and I talked last night and decided that since Kyle did so well in Kindergarten math and he's moved onto 1st grade math, that we are going to brush up his skills a little, do some reviewing, and then put the kids in the same level. There is not much that really changes in those grades of math, just review, review, review. A few new things are added to learn. So the subjects Amanda knows well in math, she will skip while I work with Kyle and she is doing her own reviewing. Then I am going to review some things like, money, clocks and such for her and teach Kyle at the same time. After a few of those lessons, we'll be all on the same page.
The only difference then in subjects and grades between the 2 kids is phonics/language arts/reading. All of the other subjects they do together. So will I actually have 2 kids in 2nd grade by the end of the year and start them both in 3rd next year? We will see......
. I just love those Thingumajigs. We have one other book of theirs. The kids LOVE them!
