more school activities

Monday:
Cursive
Sol fa
Spanish
Phonogram cards
math
copywork
violin
library visit
read Going to the Getty
E 30 minutes read aloud


Tuesday
Science journal regarding salt dissolving into water and flowing into the ocean/ evaporation
Math Division of decimals, money word problems, four digit numbers game
cursive
Phonics
violin
C reads to E (Troll book by D'AuLaires)
E reads to mom (1st reader by Treadwell and Free)
Sol fa
Spanish
math game -make the biggest 4 digit number dice game
Of Courage Undaunted

Friday

Friday
C: read about famous women chose Indira Gandhi and began writing a paragraph about her.
recitation: IEW CD
E. phonics finished Explode the Code vol 3
Read with me.
Read on her own 25 mins
practiced violin
Read about composer Stravinsky
Read a Kipling Poem
Folk song Let us sing Together
Geography: Boulder Dam from Halliburton's Marvels

what we are up to

Wednesday Dec 7
Copywork C and E
E: phonics
C:Spanish CD
E reading 30 minutes
violin
gardening
obstacle course outside
C: Read from inventors about steamboats
E read aloud to me Flicka, Dicka, Ricka
Math E: fractions
C: decimals
Geology- water cycle
Pilgrim's progress

Thursday Dec 8
violin
History _Henry VIII, King Edward and Queen Mary
handicrafts- embroidery
Spanish- kids immersion
Folk songs- Little Liza Jane and Peace Like a River
Literature- The Princess and the Goblin
P.E. My gym
Music/ arts appreciation- Nutcracker performance

At the beginning of the day we played store and they bought stacks of folded clothes and put them in their drawers. Next we did a reading and writing game. E made sentences with the cards then wrote them. She also did 3 pages of phonics, one reading lesson, and a game using a poem written on paper plates pictured below. She also did some drawing ( a knight and lion)

C did a few minutes of copywork, read Cinderella, some Calico Captive, caught a snail in the garden, did duolinguo Spanish and Khan academy math.

daily work

Monday DEC 5TH
E:
MATH numbers 200-300, addition within 100
Phonics explode the code book 3
nature study- drawing aloe and taking in the desert gardens
Spanish- Say Hola to Spanish at the Circus book and estrellitas review
Latin translating first Latin Lessons lesson II sentences
Violin practice
Bears of the Blue River
Handwriting
recitation IEW Poetry
Advent wreath- bible reading, hymn, prayer
Sol-Fa
Folk songs- Elizabeth Mitchel

C:
Math: adding and subtracting decimals
Spanish- Say Hola to Spanish at the Circus book and estrellitas review
Latin translating first Latin Lessons lesson II sentences
Violin practice
Bears of the Blue River
Handwriting
recitation IEW Poetry
Advent wreath- bible reading, hymn, prayer
Sol-Fa
nature study- drawing aloe and taking in the desert gardens

Tuesday:
Math C; concerting decimals to fractions and simplify. E: comparing fractions intro to mixed numbers
read aloud both girls  read
Child's history of the world
Of Courage undaunted: Lewis and Clark
Cl: Spanish game
Cl: read and narrated King Arthur book
violin
Ceasar's English: grammar review, analogies
advent wreath:bible, prayer, hymn
gregorian chant
handicrafts: sloyd envelope and using tools lesson
recitation IEW poetry
history timeline: added Queen Elizabeth 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada
 free read listened to begining of 5 little peppers and how they grew.