Can't believe it's week five.

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With all the kiddos we are continuing our read alouds.

• Summer With the Moody's. We are going to finish this on Sunday and start the next book in the series. This book was picked for my 7yr. old and younger students. Although everyone listens in.
• Grandfather's Box we are slowly working through. This was picked more for the older students. Again, everyone listens in. In fact my 4yr. old prefers to listen in on this book rather than the Moody book.
• For my two youngest students I read books from Sonlight & WinterPromise pre-k packages along with lots of book from our own library. I try to read at least 15 min. a day for them.

Joshua 5th Grade:

• In English Joshua completed two lessons, he also did some outlining from Beginning Outlining. He also reviewed the Parts of Speech, Verbs, subject, predicate and simple sub/pred. He just started diagramming for the first time.
• Reading he completed 2 lessons. He read a poem this week about what is in your heart does not stay hidden but shows itself in your daily life. If you are self seeking than that what shows, if you have a servants heart than people will see that.
• Bible: I and Josh are enjoying Rod & Staff's Bible Study Program. I have to remind Josh that even though he knows the answer that he still needs to look up the verse so he can write it exactly how it's written in the Bible. He completed two lessons. He is also learning verses through church. They have Junction 5/6 every Wed. & Sun.
• Science: He only completed one lesson this week. Hopefully next week he will complete two.
• Social Studies: He is getting ready to take a test on Monday. He finished his first chapter which had 3 lessons and a review. He learned about "The North American Continent".
• Spelling: he finished 3 lessons. I need to be more consistent in this area. If we would do spelling at least 4 times a week he would have finished level 1 already.
• Writing: he is continuing to learn how to outline and he copies stories or rewrites them. I do need to make this more formal though.
• Math: Josh completed 4 lesson in R&S and 1 lesson from MUS. Math-U-See is teaching double digit multiplication. He gets confused with it, so we are taking this lesson a bit slower. R&S Math is review with double/triple digit add. & sub. He has been pretty busy in Math. He does all the problems from both Math curriculum's

We are very pleased with the Rod & Staff material. It is challenging Josh and he likes it. He is learning to have better study habits with using textbooks. He is also learning to be more independent with his school work. I am still available. This morning we went over is Bible Study and with English I explain and go over the lesson. He is more on his own with Social Studies and Science. I sit with him at least once a week to go over those two subjects.

Annette 3rd Grade:

• Math: Annette is working through Singapore 2A and Math-U-See Gamma. In MUS she is a bit confused about double digit multiplication, so we have been going over that. In Singapore she completed Exercise 11, 12, 13 and Practice 2A & 2B.
• Social Studies: Annette finished her first Chapter. It consist of four lessons and review. Monday she will take a test. She learned about her place in the community.
• Science: Annette completed Lesson 4 "Rain Brings Us Water'
• Reading: Annette did lesson 5 and 6. We also went over some from last week.
• Grammar: She completed 3 lessons from First Language Lessons 3 and 3 lessons from Climbing to Good English 4. She really enjoys her grammar lessons.
• Bible: She has been learning 5 verses from her AWANA handbook a week, plus reviewing 5 verses. We also use her Reading Lessons for Bible study.
• Spelling: She completed 2 lessons. I should probably stayed with R&S Spelling since she could easily do this on her own, but I didn't. Again like with Josh, if I would do spelling every school day she would be done with level 1. Praying to be more consistent.

Annette, seems to really do well with textbooks. And it has shown me areas which we need to work on. When she gets an answer wrong, I show her or tell her that she needs to go back to the text and find the correct answer.

Caleb 2nd Grade:

• Reading: He is more than half way through The Reading Lesson. He also reads a few pages from his Abeka Reader a day (still need to do that today) Hopefully he will be done by Jan. so we can start him with R&S Reading. Most likely I'll start him were he left off last year using Year 1.
• Math: He is on Exercise 16. He completes about 3 lessons a week but it's too easy for him right now. I should have him complete 5, that way he will be more challenged. He reviews his add. & sub. which he know pretty well. Addition he knows by heart ;) sub. he is good at but can improve.
• Science: he did one lesson. He learned about Weeds & Wildflowers. If I had more time I would draw the lessons out. For example his first lesson was on  the Seasons. It would have been nice if I would have gave him coloring pgs. or played a few games, but I didn't . He is fine with the way we are doing it so I should just leave it at that.
• Social Studies:  I read him his lesson on Hill Country and I need to go back and reread it again so we can do the crossword puzzle.
• Grammar: He did three lessons from Climbing to Good English. He likes that book, thank goodness.
• Writing: His Writing With Ease from The Well Trained Mind is finally here. We will start next week.
• Explode the Code: Caleb does about 9 or more pages a week. I should probably drop it, since it's extra work, but I like that it gives him more reading practice.

Caleb is doing very well. I need to make sure that he stays on task. I'm trying to teach him to pick up his own book (ETC or CTGE) and start those on his own. Or maybe practice reading his reading book before I sit with him.

Brent 1st Grade:

Because everything is tied into My Father's World curriculum there is not much to really report. He does about four lessons a week and they consist of Bible, Phonics, Reading, Writing & Science. He also does a lesson in Math-U-See Alpha and about three pgs. a day in his Explode the Cod Book 2 & 2 1/2.

Ethan Kindergarten:

I have added some sight words to his school. He is learning his letter sounds. Can sound out 'at'. He can count to 10 and we will continue to learn to count up to 20. He does a lesson in his MUS Primer workbook and really likes it. He does a section a week in his Before the Code book A. He does a few pages in his R&S workbook.

Lance Pre-k:

He likes to do school. We don't really do much, maybe a page in his R&S pre-k book. He is learning how to control when he cuts. I bought him a Kumon workbook that has him practice cutting. The pages are nice and colorful.

The kiddos are also working on cleaning the kitchen without me having to tell them. They do a great job, but I have to remind them. Another area they are working on his not asking me the same thing over and over. For instance if we are having dessert, they will ask 'when' we are having it. They all only ask once, but that is six times for me. I have told them that if we get dessert I'll serve it to them at the proper time and they don't have to ask me.

That's our week. It's been busy but good. I can hear. My ears popped yesterday.

Blessings,

Linda<><

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