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Last week was our first week of school. I figured we would start right away, even though I just worked my last day that Sunday morning. We are doing My Father's World: Exploring Countries and Cultures. We are using the 1st Eddition, they came out with the 2nd this year. This is our 4th year with MFW, I'm so glad that we found it. When I first started homeschooling Violet, I needed something planned and that had a great phonics base. I never had to teach my older two to read as they started out in PS. Also, this week and next will be mostly 1/2 days at home, we have alot of stuff going on outside of home these two weeks. Bible: We are memorizing Jn. 3:16; Window on the World- read p. 8-9; colored some pages with Jn.3:16 in their language: Greek, Korean, and Spanish. Also, since Violet was recently baptized, we are going over again what baptism is for , why we are baptized and example in the Bible of others and their conversions, and briefly what our responsibilities are as a Christian. We go into more detail later on. Language Arts: practice printing letters A-E (we will start on cursive after we go over printing in another week or two); writing strands lesson #1 day one and two; 4 pages of explode the code (has about 10 pages left from last year); a lesson of spelling (again, 2 lessons left from last year) Math: we are reviewing addition and subtraction, 4 pages of singapore math Geography: this week we read through "Maps and Globes", put world map on wall, filled out world map with a compass, labled continents, equator, hemispheres, poles; made a map of her room; distance and scales. Geography vocabulary: continent, continental shelf. We also found pictures of people from different countries that we cut out of national geographic magazines and pasted onto 8x11 sheet piece of paper. The instructions were to put onto a poster board, but this way when were done, it can go into her notebook and I don't have to figure out what to do with it. She really enjoyed this. Science: we are using as our main text this year "Living World Encyclopedia". For each two page spread she will write out 3 sentences of what she learned. This week we read about "Environments". We also went on a field trip to the State Fish Hatchery only 5 miles from us, this is only the 2nd time in almost 9 years going. They just built an educational building and did major expanding, so we were actually checking it out for a field trip for our homeschool group. But anyways, she drew a picture and wrote down 3 sentences of what she learned. Art: Last year we started using "I Can Do All Things", we only got through the first part, I think it was called ABC's of drawing (I know I'm wrong with this name, but too lazy to look). Then we went to a class that Barry Stebbings was holding here locally and I went ahead and bought the DVD's for this book. The plan was to finish thru the summer, but I'm sure you all know how plans go. So we started with painting this week using the dvd's, lesson 101. I know we have more subjects to add and we really didn't get everything done for "week 1", but like I said before, these were mostly half days. Hope that whenever your starting that it is a good week........Happy Schooling!! |
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