Our Fourth Six Weeks
(March 4-April 12, 2013):
During our two weeks off our
family took vacation toNewMexico to enjoy snow sports. It was a 21hr one way road trip with family.
The girls experienced snow shoeing for the first time and went sledding.
Bible Study: Marin read aloud daily
form ZonderKidz “The Beginner’s Bible” and she completed all of the Old
Testament (276 pages). She also memorized all of the books of the New Testament
and earned $3 from Awanas for doing so. Having her read aloud from the bible
has been effective in helping her understand the bible stories more thoroughly.
Calendar: In her
Calendar note book Marin continued to make daily notations on a calendar and
practiced writing the date in the correct form, April 1, 2013 and with numbers
04/01/2013. She continued to track the number of days of school numerically and
with tally marks. She updated a weather
chart daily and we compared the most and least days of certain types of weather
over the last four months. We talked about St. Patrick’s Day and April Fool’s
Day. She pulled a prank on her Granny and Pops and had a blast thinking of
lighthearted gags. We also observed Easter and completed fun activities to help
reiterate the importance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Grab Bag: This
concept worked so well we continued to use it these six weeks replacing three
of the review topics with new items. These included:
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Skip count by 10s (eliminated)
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Skip count by 5s to 100 (eliminated
because she does this when counting her tally marks)
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Count to 100 (eliminated)
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Learn to tell time (NEW)
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Learn about Money (NEW)
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Learn to Tie your Shoe (NEW)
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Say and write your phone number
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Say the months of the year
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Say and write your address
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Say the pledge of Allegiance
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Skip count by 2s to 100
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Say the days of the weeks
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Is _____________ a common noun or a proper noun?
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What is a noun?
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Family relations quiz. For example (Your
mother’s mother is your? ________)
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Write the letters of the alphabet (Upper and
lowercase)
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Sing the vowel song
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Write your numbers 0-20
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Name the five senses
Reading: Completed
lessons 80 through 102 of “The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading.” Covering
adding S to the ends of words, reviewing long-vowel words, common spellings for
the long A sound, vowel pairs and common spellings for the long E sound. Our
read aloud selections were “Farmer Boy” (finished from previous six weeks) as
well as “The Hundred Dresses.” Marin read her first chapter book “The Box Car
Children” aloud to me during reading time. She also read many easy reader
selections including “The Frog and Toad Treasury.”
First Language
Lessons: We completed Lessons 37 through 48 in “First Language Lessons.” We
focused on identifying nouns and drilling family relations. The book covered
mailing addresses, days of the week and months of the year, but this was
already familiar information for Marin. She memorized “The Months” a Mother
Goose Rhyme. We learned what a pronoun was and have begun a list of pronouns
that we are working to memorize.
Math: We are
currently working in the Math.U.See Alpha book. We completed lessons 7, 8 and
9. We spent two weeks on each lesson covering addition +2, solving for an
unknown and addition +9. I feel confident that Marin understands these concepts
well enough to move forward. We have flash cards for math fact memorization and
Marin is confident in 64 of 100 facts. We also spent a lot of time playing
Sum Swamp!
History: Finished
the Travel and Transportation section of “The Usborne book of Living Long Ago.”
While reading from this section of the book we spent a lot of time identifying
locations on the world map and globe. We also referred to the maps when reading
from scripture.
Science: Read from ”Simple Science” and “The Berenstain Bears’
Big Book of Science and Nature” but most of our “science” this session was
hands on. We visited a local honey manufacturing company to see how honey was
made. We planted a flower bed in the back yard, working together as a family.
And we created a Nature Notebook filled with leaves from the various trees in
the yard. Marin identified each leaf and labeled it appropriately.
Music: Continued
to learn the piano using “Music for Little Mozarts.” We covered identifying and
locating “C” and “D” on the keyboard spending time in review of the concepts
already covered.
