Week 7 (10/10-10/14)

Our fall is flying by! As eager as we all were to start school, we get easily distracted by other outdoor learning opportunities. My plan book is always so lofty just as I remember when I taught in the public schools. I like having this space to reflect on what we actually accomplished over the week.

Scripture:

1. Boys - Honesty: I speak truthful words and act truthfully.
2. Girls - Tell your neighbor the truth because we belong to each other. Ephesians 4:25

Reading:

1. C&C - Read Chapters 1-3 in Piper Reed Gets a Job by Kimberly Willis Holt.
2. Madelyn - Read Chapters 5-7 of Eddie, Incorporated by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

Social Studies: Madelyn worked on interview questions for our entrepreneur friends, Ms. Veronica (dance studio owner) and Mr. Brian (the homebuilder). We also volunteered at the food bank this week.

Math:

1. C&C - Completed Sprints! Also completed Unit 1, Week 5 (Addition and Subtraction w/o Renaming) of Singapore Math 2A.
2. Madelyn - Completed Sprints! Also completed Unit 1, Week 4 (Order of Operations) of Singapore Math.
   

Writing:

1. C&C - Completed Week 4 of Writing with Ease. The good thing about having purchased the workbook version of this program is it's exposing us to great texts, thereby giving us many book recommendations.
2. Madelyn - Completed Lessons 148 through 157 in Primary Language Lessons. She should finish next week.

Science: We studied potential and kinetic energy this week. We used the slide and origami frogs as examples.

Potential energy=top of slide

Kinetic energy = moving down the slide

Potential energy = preparing to leap

Art: The girls started taking stamping classes with their Great-Grandmother. It's a great art lesson and a good multi-generational learning experience.

Preschool: The boys completed Week 5 of their PreK Sonlight program. They learned to print capital D, P, and B using Handwriting without Tears. They continue to work from Essential Math and Developing the Early Learner.