Progress Report for my 7-year-old daughter

August 2005-May 2006

 

Language Arts

Reading – has read numerous books including many Nancy Drew mysteries, Franny K. Stein, Encyclopedia Brown, Cam Jansen, Magic Tree House, Ricky Ricotta series.  She has read several books of myths, folk tales, and children’s stories from other countries.  She reads well independently and enjoys reading aloud to her younger sister.  She uses dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the internet appropriately.

Writing – has written essays, letters and mini-books.  She has learned to write in cursive using the Handwriting without Tears Cursive Book.

Grammar – learned rules of punctuation for commas, periods, question marks, exclamation marks.  She also learned about types of sentences and rules of capitalization.  She studied nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, achieving complete mastery of nouns.

Spelling –  spells at the 12^th grade level.  We did not do any work in this area this year.

 

Math

This year we used ShillerMath, primarily books 2 & 3, completing up to Activity 43 of book 3.  She has learned to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers up to 4 digits using manipulatives with exchange.  She can easily add numbers (with no manipulatives) with carrying, and can subtract large numbers when borrowing is not required.  She has mastered her basic addition and subtraction facts, as well as most of the multiplication facts through 5 (plus some beyond).  She has learned Roman numerals up to and beyond  10, studied calendar concepts, learned about squares, multiples, and triangular numbers, expresses equalities and inequalities, solves word problems. She is able to count money using pennies, dimes, and nickels.  She has also learned geometry concepts of symmetry, angles, parallel lines, parallelograms, and other shapes.  She has learned about basic logic and can name groupings from solo to nonette. 

 

History

We studied history beginning with Ancient Greece using Story of the World, Volume 1.  She demonstrates comprehension and retention of the subject matter and read numerous library books related to our history topics.   We finished out the school year with a study of the beginning of Rome.

 

Science

She has worked independently in this subject this year by reading books about science (i.e. Magic School Bus) and studying nature.  She enjoys learning about astronomy and likes to identify flowers as well.

 

Bible

This year she completed a study of the book of John in Community Bible Study.  She also memorized verses in The Climber Handbook as part of our church’s Awana program.  In the evenings, she enjoyed listening to missionary stories as part of our family devotions.

 

Foreign Language

She received an introduction to Latin early this school year. 

In March she started learning Chinese and has mastered the Chinese alphabet (written and spoken), numbers, and tones.  She is quickly developing an oral vocabulary and has learned 3 songs in Chinese.  Her reading ability is equivalent to that of a young first grader in Chinese school.