What We Studied
I finally planned out a week and didn’t overload us or leave a ton of activities on the table! I think we have found our groove, just in time to leave for our road trip…
Literature and Poetry
We continued reading The Hobbit. We’re almost at the end of the story. We’ll finish it at the beginning of our road trip. Arthur is loving the action sequences. I’m really enjoying the spelling curriculum that I bought from The Moffatt Girls on Teachers Pay Teachers. And Arthur has taken to doing one spelling list spread out over the course of the week.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
In Aunt Giraffe’s Green Garden by Jack Prelutsky
Math
The usual for Arthur. We did add in a Khan Academy day and worked on multiplication and division strategies. The next two units are on those topics and are pretty meaty. We will probably take it slow and stretch them out for September and part of October. I don’t want to push Arthur too fast. We need to focus on mastery before moving on.
Singapore Math Common Core Edition 3A
Social Studies
This week’s unit was about Tang and Song Dynasty China. We made some good connections to our ancient times studies and did a study of the Silk Road.
DK Timelines of Everyone
DK History
DK When on Earth
Arthur Independent Time
To allow for one-on-one time with Quentin, I have added an hour of independent work time for Arthur. Each week, he will have a mix of packet work (mostly grammar and math review), independent reading time, and special projects. Many of his projects will be aligned with our literature selections (some taken from B&R Language Arts curriculum) and history. This week, he focused on some packet work and creating LEGO creations.
Science and STEAM Coop
Photos were taken; not by me as I was teaching. Unfortunately the pictures all had pictures of other people’s kids so I can’t post them on here.
We finished our study of mammals this week at coop. I didn’t have to teach and it was lovely to just participate this week.
DK Eyewitness: Mammal
DK Animal
DK Did You Know?
Stink Fights, Earwax, and Other Marvelous Mammal Adaptations by Laura Perdew
Art/Music
Our music study was cut this week.
Quentin
I have scheduled at least four 1-hour time blocks for one-on-one time with Quentin. I bought Blossom and Root’s Early Years Volume 2 curriculum to use as our base. I love the variety of activities and some of the bigger projects included. For ELA, we covered the letters F, G and H. We covered counting and some basic addition for math. Q also demanded to do math on the computer so we completed a few unit in Khan Academy.
ELA
My “f” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
Frances Frog’s Forever Friend by Barbara deRubertis
Once Upon an Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
My “g” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
Gertie Gorilla’s Glorious Gift by Barbara deRubertis
After the Fall by Dan Santat
My “h” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
Math
Where’s the Pair? by Britta Teckentrup
Other
High Five magazine volume
Summer Song by Kevin Henkes
The Great Big Green by Peggy Gifford
Summer by Ann Herriges
Field Trip
This week our field trip was a guided tour of a working farm. We had a personal tour from the farmer herself and learned a lot about the various animals she keeps. Seriously, all of the adults were very excited to learn at the farm. The kids got to feed a baby calf, help with the mama goat, switch the irrigation hoses, and petted a ton of animals. The baby goats were so adorable!
Documentary Selection
I have carved out a one hour time block each week to watch a documentary related to our studies. We didn’t watch a documentary this week.
Misc. - Random picture books read
Be a Friend by Salina Yoon
Owls are Good at Keeping Secrets: An Unusual Alphabet by Sara O’Leary
Construction Countdown by KC Olson
Highs
We took off Friday morning for a park visit and then haircuts and bathtime. We still got our work done that day, but eased into the morning. Loved it!
Lows
Nothing. Really, it was a good week.
Next Week
Road trip!
Next up on the TBR pile:
