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!

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