Highlights of the Week of October 7th

• Tea and Poetry; Read “A Tragedy” by Doris Web from Favorite Poems of Childhood.
• In Beast Academy we reviewed Chapter 1, Practice pages online and/or in the practice book.
• Reading aloud “A Year of Ms. Agnes” by Kirkpatrick Hill.
• Reading aloud “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by JK Rowling.
• Located Alaska on a map and looked at animals and light.
• We discussed Peru and made a Llama with a KiwiCrate.
• We started a review of the Ancient World Chapter 3-4, The Egyptians in the Old Kingdom and Writing in the Story of the World.
• We started our Sea Monkey experiment Artemia Salina. We are watching the tank but it appears we have lost the colony.
• We are starting weather and keeping track of weather for 30 days.
• Explode the Code, Level 1.5 Pages 47-49.
• Used a Kiwicrate to build a mechanical sweeper.
• In our math story in the Life of Fred Edgewood, different kinds of mistakes, rows and columns, right angles.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, we start on Level 1; Chapter 34. Ck makes one sound, made flip books to practice words.
• HWT Cursive Kickoff writing with page 13, U.
• Went on a nature walk and discussed annuals and perennials and picked up many seasonal tree nuts.
• Group movement class on Mondays from 5-6 @ Together in Movement.
• In practical life, Cecelia walks dogs and walks between 4-5 miles a week. This week she polished furniture.
• Read aloud passage from Writing with Ease for comprehension-Trumpet of the Swan-EB White.
• In social and emotional learning, we practiced greeting people.
• Read herself “Rhyming Dust Bunnies”, Short Stories “The Runt Pig” and “Fish” from her primer. “Llama, Llama and the Bully Goat”, “The Hot Bunny Cakes”, and “Pigeon goes to School”.
• Made Halloween decorations for the front door.

The Eqyptians wrote in stone,

and the Sumerians in clay.

The picture writing was cuneiform,

Eqyptians also used papyrus scrolls,

and we use paper to this day.