Week One 2015

We started a new school year Monday. C is in 4th grade and E  is in 2nd.
We are following the Ableside Online (Charlote Mason) Curriculum

We did the following during our first week:
Daily morning prayer and  Bible readings, we are learning a hymn which begins, "And now oh Father mindful of the love...
C did a bit of copywork, E worked on penmanship
Both Learned about pronouns, adjectives, and verbs using MCT Grammar. (Michael Clay Thompson from Royal Fireworks Press)
E did several pages of Explode the Code phonics book
E and I played phonemic awareness and sight word games.
C and E reviewed phonogram cards from Spell to Write and Read (SWR) (Almost daily)
C worked on multiplication facts 7-9
E worked on addition facts
Both learned the basics of using an a abacus from right start
They tidied up their room/work table
We read poetry by Walter de la Mare and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
We read two picture books in Spanish a few times throughout the week

C did some Khan academy math
We read the first two chapters of Understood Betsy
C worked on cursive writing
E read to me daily from. McGuffy primer
Both did a nature drawing from a piece of spruce E collected on a walk
Both did  spelling assessment and began working on a new spelling log for SWR
Both worked on memorizing I'm Nobody by Emily Dickinson
We did  vocab lesson from MCT and reviewed Latin roots
C began The Age of Fable AKA Bullfinches Mythology
We listened to the beginning of Pilgrims Progress
C read chapter one of Robinson Crusoe
We did a geography lesson on the use of the compass
We listened to several pieces by Brahms. C and E made up their own version of the ballet Giselle (which I videotaped) and danced to a Brahms concerto.
We listened to folk music and sang along to a new song, Little Bird
We read from Parables from Nature
 C. Began Madam How and Lady Why
They worked on finger crochet
We finished Viking Tales by Jennie Hall
We listened to several chapters of This Country of Ours by H.E. MRSHALL and several poems on the Garrison Keillor CD 2 dozen poems
We listened to Spanish Folksongs
We read about Charlemagne in Trial and Triumph
C read first 3 chapters of Minn of the Mississippi by Holling Clancy Holling
We did some math games