Week 6 Overview

We are moving along this school year and just completed week 6. Here are just some of the many things we learned or did this week.

Language Arts:

• Vocabulary word winner: prey (since we are studying about animals, and specifically birds, we found prey 13 times in various readings during the week). 
• Our 3rd graders FINISHED reading Beezus & Ramona by Beverly Cleary. We will watch the movie as a treat in the near future. They are so excited! They found Ramona to be very funny.
• Our sentence diagrams are getting more complex in grammar. We have now learned to identify adjectives and diagram sentences with adjectives when they are describing or modifying the subject.
• Somehow, girls writing about dads is universally better than girls writing about moms. Yes, we are writing about moms now and some main topics related to moms, so far, have been napping and eating. Surely, we do more than that? I am waiting for some girls to write that their moms do "all the things". Haha! I won't hold my breath. #daddysgirls

Bible & Other History & Geography:

• Covering the history recorded in Genesis chapters 25-50, we learned about God's people in the times of Isaac, Esau, Jacob, and Joseph. God's people were safe in Egypt during famine and during wars in Canaan.
• Story of the World is so exciting because it helps us see recorded history of the Bible and the rest of history together, unlike what many people experience in history classes. This week, we learned about the history of: the Phoenicians and the Israelites in Canaan, the founding of Carthage, how the Assyrians rebelled against the Babylonians, Ashurbanipal ruling the fierce Assyrians, the library in Nineveh, the Babylonians taking revenge out on the Assyrians, Nebuchadnezzar's rule in Babylon, early life in Crete, and the end of the Minoans. (Covering events in our timeline from 2200 BC to 500 BC).
• Map: Assyria, Samaria, Corinth, Judah, Nineveh, Carthage, Tyre, Asia Minor, Nile Delta, Gaza, Aegean Sea, and Crete

Math:

• making 8 & 9 for math fluency
• We started MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION! What?! It's true! And we are doing pretty well, too.
• Skip counting by 2s, 3s, 4s, & 5s.
• Our 6th grader is learning about the math computation involved in real world problems, like eating right, quilting, income taxes, and computer hard drives.

Science:

• Birds! Feathers, eggs, migration, nests, and more.

We hope you will check out our Usborne Quicklinks (see previous post from yesterday) to see cool videos and such about our science and history topics.

Happy Reading!