Week 3 Overview

This week was packed with learning and some other fun things. We loved our second piano lesson with Mrs. Dix and our VERY FIRST Friday at co-op was fantastic, as we knew it would be. See our Saturday post about that (coming soon)! Co-op was so great that it deserves its own post.

Here's some of our studies from this week:

Language Arts:

• reading aloud The Golden Goblet (chapter book)
• reading some of Brod Bagert's poetry (always a hit with kids)
• reading poems about family
• using Psalm 100 for fluency and memorization
• diagramming interrogative sentences (aka questions)
• reviewing helping verbs
• sustained silent reading for 20-30 minutes
• 15-20 minutes independent piano practice
• spelling: "changing y to i to add es" ex. penny >> pennies
• our new vocabulary words: beverage, crave, cultivate, export, tropical, aroma, brittle, cluster, equivalent, extract, bland, combine, consume, introduce, and purchase
• writing: finished our rough drafts about our dads

Bible & Other History:

• Genesis and God's design in creation, the first man and woman, sin, and Noah
• Mesopotamia, Babylon, Joseph (Bible), Hammurabi & the Babylonians, the Assyrians, & the first cities in India (Indus Vally)
• finding places on the map: Canaan, Babylon, Assur, Crete, Arabian Sea, India, Assyria and more

Math:

• memorizing doubles (1-10)
• fact fluency review (+0, - 0, +1, -1, +2, -2)
• Adding numbers into the thousands with and without regrouping
• word problems: deciding the operation (add or subtract)

Science:

• cells: the building blocks of life
• mammals' meals, how some animals move, how some animals protect themselves
• unique characteristics that God gave the giraffe and the platypus

See our previous post about Usborne Quicklinks in Science and look for future posts for these interesting links to videos and websites about history or science.

Happy Learning!