Bible: We are finally back on the memory verse train, starting up with something easy (and extremely needed around here, especially with Mom) this week from Psalm 141:
"Place a guard, oh Lord, over my mouth! Keep watch over the door of my lips! Let my heart not incline to any evil!"
Still in the Ahab-era of Israel's history (I Kings), we read this week about Elijah's interactions with Ahab, the drought from God, the widow's provision, and the big contest between God and Baal over who could start a fire (guess who won, even with a major watered-down handicap??). The boys narrated this last story to me, I typed up their own words and they used this for copywork to go in their Bible Notebook. They also drew pictures of this story for said notebook.
Science: We read What Happens to My Hamburger?, learning about digestion. The boys took notes for their science journal.
Micah learned a bit about dinosaurs - we had lots of time to play a new dinosaur board game while waiting for the allergist this past Wednesday. Actually, Micah learned a few things about allergies at the same time, as in how those nasty scratch tests work.
Math: Micah kept up in his math workbooks this week, typical 1st Grade fare of addition and subtraction practice at this point.
Christian's Miquon math was SO interesting this week! I don't recall ever learning about triangular numbers, do you? Fascinating stuff! We used the little Cusienare Rods to build triangular numbers and square numbers. Finally, all this stuff I memorized as a kid has some concrete meaning in my mind! I am so thankful to God for the gift of Math! What a divine science mathematics is...absolutely fascinating. And to think...if it weren't for homeschooling, I may have never known :)
CJ was so interested in what he was learning he taught some of it to Micah!
Oh, also, my mom mentioned that she didn't think CJ knew his times tables. He certainly did last year, but it had been a few months of little to no practice. So...he practiced filling in times table sheets each day last week, and took a test on Friday. I think we'll keep up with quizzes for him to try to beat the previous week's score (last week was under 6 minutes, unfortunately I used the oven timer and it doesn't show the seconds so we will have to upgrade to a better timer next week!)
Technology/Language Arts: The boys learned quite about PrintShop this week. To quote CJ, "If I had known about PrintShop before, I would have been doing this instead of playing video games on Saturdays!" The boys each created (several of) their own business cards, with pretend careers. CJ and Micah made a newsletter, all about a yucky car accident (ewww!) The boys made adorable banners for Ron and I, which I'll post here for you to see. Are we lucky parents, or what?
More Language Arts: We read As You Like It from Beautiful Stories of Shakespeare for Children and read a poem each day. We read how the Rhinocerous Got His Skin by Rudyard Kipling. CJ added several new words from English From the Roots Up (and Micah learned them as well) and Micah plodded forward in AlphaPhonics. Daniel is speaking more and better each day.
History: We read in --------- about The Alamo and Mexican War.
Cub Scouts/Real Life Learning: Micah practiced the Pledge of Alligence, learned how to "post colors," and learned about public safety officers such as policemen and firemen. CJ is learning about boating and came home with impressive knot-tying knowledge. Daniel and I made oatmeal cookies while the big boys were gone to scouts, and he did much of the measuring himself.
