Week #7 In Review

I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but this school year is just zipping along. I'm truly amazed that we have finished seven weeks of homeschooling. What did we accomplish in week #7? Here's the rundown:

LANGUAGE ARTS: We did SWR quite differently this week. I gave the Section G words to Grace in an oral pre-test, then we just focused on the missed words during the week--with a final test on Friday. As much as I love the methodology of SWR, it has become a huge burden on us timewise. After much contemplation, next week we'll be making a change in our spelling curriculum. We spent Friday afternoon at our local homeschool bookstore pouring over all the other spelling choices that are in workbook format. You know...easy pick-up-and-go type programs. I narrowed down the choices & had Grace look over them. And the winner is...{insert drum roll here}...Spelling Workout. The parts of SWR that I will continue using are the phonogram cards & spelling rules. Those are like spelling gold!

FLL is moving along nicely now that we've fast-forwarded to the second half of the book. Our lessons this week focused on the state of being verbs. I've still got the chant stuck in my brain:

am [clap]
is [clap]
are, was, were [clap]
be [clap]
being [clap]
been [clap clap]

CHARACTER: Since manners are so important, we continued this week with house rule #6--show respect to others by using good manners. Here are a couple of good reads we picked up at the library:

And since we're on the subject of good manners, we finished thank-you notes from Grace's birthday & mailed them out at the beginning of the week. Here is the young author in action...searching for just the right words, then putting pen(cil) to paper.


READING: Grace's reading confidence, fluency, accuracy, speed, etc. is increasing every week!!! This week she continued reading Junie B. Jones to herself and read the first three chapters of M&M and the Halloween Monster aloud to me. We finished our read-aloud of Bridge to Terabithia, and one of Grace's copywork passages was from the book:


MATH: We have made it through Lesson #20 in Horizons 2. For Grace, math is best done as our first subject...lying on the kitchen floor...in her gown. :)



SPANISH: We did our fourth lesson from the Elementary Spanish video program, and Grace completed the activity sheet. We also played Spanish Bingo--including Emma. Lots of fun!

HISTORY & SCIENCE: We read the first half of Ch. 4 in SOTW1...Ancient Egyptian Mummies. We didn't finish the second half of the chapter, because we got so "wrapped up" in our studies. (Man, do I love a bad pun!) To continue with a Halloween theme, in life science we started learning about bats. Of course, you can't study bats without reading Stellaluna.

Throw in co-op and our continuing composer/artist studies from Ambleside Online, mix well, and that's a wrap. (Sorry...couldn't resist one more mummy pun.) Thanks for stopping by. No scrapbook pages to share this week, but be sure to read the post below about Digital Scrappin'.