• Sep. 17, 2007
Monday September 17, 2007
Schooltime today:
Explode the Code book 6 p. 14 and 15
Math: Princess flash cards with addition problems. I wrote all the answers on post it notes and she matched the answers to the problems. This was her first time doing math that way and it worked well once we got past the new-activity drama.
Reading: Ice is...Whee, by Carol Greene (this author has quite a few books in the early reader section at our library, and dd loves them. I think I only helped her with one word.
Handwriting: practicing the letter b.
Listening, Looking at: two books about England. England by Michael Dahl, and Look What Came from England, by Kevin Davis. We're looking at these together, getting ideas for a lapbook.
This afternoon DD will spend an hour or two listening to audio books, either Boxcar Children or Alice in Wonderland.
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• Sep. 17, 2007
English dinner/tea
This week we are studying England. We began with an English dinner/tea last night.
We had cotswold cheese with tomato slices (cotswold cheese is available at Trader Joe's. It's a double gloucester cheese with herbs. Fabulous on a sourdough bread sandwich with tomato slices), sausages, scones, crumpets, and biscuits (that's "cookies" to the Americans in the audience).
Of course we had tea to drink. We listened to the soundtrack from Pride and Prejudice (the REAL one with Colin Firth).
The kids all enjoyed the menu very much, but this is a not at all an unusual menu for us.
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• Sep. 16, 2007
First and Second Week
Phonics (Explode the Code book 6), pages 1-11.
Reading: Nutcracker book from WP LA, Library books, Ten Apples Up on Top, Go Dog Go, Young Reader's Bible, Snow Joe, I Am Sick, When I am Scared.
Science: Blast Off, Bones, Our Planet, Watch It Grow (dd read these to me, with a little help)
Writing: letters to Grammy, Grandpa, two to Sunday School teacher, 2 memory verses, extra practice on letters s, a, n, d.
Math: three lessons in Math U See, online worksheets from Math U See (doubles, +2)
Listening to: Wrong Way Wendy, How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, Me on the Map, and Boxcar Children audio books.
Children Around the World: Made a Lapbook with Name, Address, Phone Number, City, State, Country, Continent, Planet, country's leader. On the cover we added details about our culture: pets, house, music, church, games, language, clothes, food. Talked about culture, introduced and drilled continents.
