Week of September 28

School is actually going better now.  He is not complaining as much about the writing and I have seen some of the books that are coming up and know he will be challenged then.  I still plan on "after-schooling" but I do have to work around his schedule and required homework.  This week we spent a lot of our extra time making an "All About Me" book for a parent/student project for school, so it was a light after-schooling week.  I was the parent reader Friday afternoon in his class and saw some of the other books.  I am proud of the fact that his book was not as polished as some of the others and that it really was mostly his book.  I am also waiting on some books from the library.

Bible

·    Memory  - Genesis 2:8 “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden.”

·    Reading – Genesis 2, I Samuel 2  (NIV)

Math

·    How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret McNamara - I had hoped he might want to repeat this experiment, but he said no.  I will bring it up again when we are carving our pumpkins.  Hubby likes to carve fun designs and I like to roast pumpkin seeds....we did this even before S joined our family.

Reading/Writing

·    Finish DK Wild Baby Animals by Karen Wallace

·    Begin DK A Trip to the Zoo by Karen Wallace

·    Rockin’ Phonics video, Volume 1 

Literature/Poetry

·   Finished A Toad for Tuesday by Russell E. Erickson

·   Began A Bear Called Paddington by  Michael Bond (read by Daddy and I am really excited by this) 

History/Geography

·    Little Firefly: An Algonquian Legend, written and adapted by Terri Cohlene

Nature/Science

·    DK Wild Baby Animals by Karen Wallace

·    Henry and the Great Flood by Gary Richmond.  (“View from the Zoo Stories” written by a zookeeper)

Art

·   Van Gogh – Saved The Mulberry Tree as computer wallpaper and asked S if he could identify the artist and he could.  He said it had swirls like The Starry Night and that's how he knew.