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| September 4-6 |
Tuesday, September 4 was our first day of school.
On the first day of school, the boys always get School Cones.
We also went to the library for one of our twice monthly trips. This picture of our stacks of books was taken while we were waiting for Steven to pick us up. Katie couldn't wait to begin reading.
math journals
This week Quentin is working on number patterns and skip counting by various amounts. I gave James a few assessment problems to do to see where I can pick up this year with his math. I worked with addition and subtraction problems with Alex and Sam is continuing with Videotext Algebra.
reading, writing grammar and spelling
James is learning cursive writing this year. Instead of buying a handwriting curriculum, I just bought a write-on/wipe off booklet from Wal-mart that he can use and then reference while he writes in his journals.
We worked identifying nouns, verbs and adverbs in sentences.
Alex put vocabulary words into sentences.
Sam is beginning Excavating English.
We worked identifying nouns, verbs and adverbs in sentences.
Alex put vocabulary words into sentences.
Sam is beginning Excavating English.
history and geography
Revolutions and New Nations (1820-1900)
We have been going through world history in a bit of a whirlwind, as we are trying to wrap up last year's studies and begin our new year of history and geography. I vaguely sketched out the continents on a two page spread in a timeline book. Then the boys and I went through their history text and picked out the details and applied them to the map. They colored the area and wrote beside it the dates and what happened.
We have been going through world history in a bit of a whirlwind, as we are trying to wrap up last year's studies and begin our new year of history and geography. I vaguely sketched out the continents on a two page spread in a timeline book. Then the boys and I went through their history text and picked out the details and applied them to the map. They colored the area and wrote beside it the dates and what happened.
science
The Erupting Lava Bottle is something I have been wanting to do all summer, but never got around to it. After the boys had been doing a fair amount of table and notebook work, we decided we needed a bit of a hands-on break, so we did this fun experiment It combines the effects of two very familiar experiments- that oil and water don't mix and the effect of baking soda and acid, to make a beautiful display as the colored water gets pulled through the oil. giving them a quick lesson in density.
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