Here's an idea of what we studied or were introduced to during week 2:
Independent reading- We are up to 20 minutes sustained silent reading and have started logging our books. Everyone has finished at least one chapter book.
Bible & Fluency- Psalm 100 (We are also trying to memorize these verses)
Grammar- Diagramming short sentences with subjects, verbs, and helping verbs. We are memorizing the 24 helping verbs and gaining an understanding of what they do.
Spelling- Continuing our review of sounds and words with "in" and adding inflected endings (-s, -ed, -ing). We are, also, learning to spell words that sound the same, but are spelled differently (we, wee)
Vocabulary- We continued our study of the words from last week. Our "word winner" is: companion (this is the word we found the most often in our other readings for the last two weeks).
Writing- brainstorming, then writing a paragraph from our brainstorming page. This week, we are writing about our dads.
Science- Cells: the building blocks of life
Math Fluency- subtracting 0 or 1 from a number and adding or subtracting 2 from a number
Math- number patterns and working with sums and differences, including word problems
History & Geography- Continuing our study of Ancient Egypt and other civilizations in the Fertile Crescent, the first forms of writing, mummies and pyramids, Europe's first villages, and monuments from 1500BC, like Stonehenge.
Of course, the exciting moments of the week were Monday's solar eclipse, piano with Mrs. Dix, our first library trip, and Friday's back to co-op pool party! It's been another great week! Look for a follow-up post on Saturday: A week in photos.
THIS WEEK'S Usborne Quicklinks (access under classroom links on this blog, to the right):
Book: 12,000 Years of World History
Pages: 16-19, 22-23, 26-29
Suggestion: Go to pages 22-23, choose website 6: How the pyramids might have been made
OR go to pages 28-29, choose website 2: Virtual tour of Stonehenge
You can enjoy the Usborne Quicklinks at home this weekend.
Happy reading!
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