Highlights from the Week of March 2nd

  • Right Start Math Partitioning 10. Intro to the Review Chapters, AL Abacus and listen to the song Yellow is the Sun. Chapter 10 in the Life of Fred, 8:55, hundreds, tens and ones, borrowing twice and triangles, rhombus and trapezoid.
  • (3) ½ hour sessions of Prodigy math.
  • The Story of the World. Listen to the Alexander the Great. Do mapworks and play the game win the Polyponesian war.
  • In our reading instruction All about Reading, Prep board and materials. Do Lesson #5 Read The Grump and do the activity Be a Grump, reading with expression.
  • Practice cursive magic “g” Handwriting Without Tears.
  • 2 pages of Explode the Code pages 23-24.
  • 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.  
  • All about Spelling, Lesson #4
  • Read aloud Katy Duck by Alyssa Capucilli and Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps by Cynthia Rylant.
  • Read aloud The Story of the Three Brothers by JK Rowling.
  • Read aloud George and the Secret Key to the Universe by Steven and Lucy Hawking.
  • Practical life making bread.
  • Made a chameleon from the dyed paper with tissue.
  • Use Montessori world map app to practice continents and oceans.

Spelling Words:

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Highlights from the week of February 24th

  • Orientation to Right Start Math. Chapters 9 in the Life of Fred, borrowing from 100. Intro to the Review Chapters, AL Abacus and listen to the song Yellow is the Sun.
  • Journalling with the Big Life Journal and Podcast #2. Believing in Yourself.
  • Prodigy math in the am for morning meeting,
  • Reading aloud Odyssey by Gillian Cross, A Husband for Penelope.
  • In our reading instruction All about Reading, Prep board and materials. Do Lesson #3 and #4. Y that sound like I. Read “Twist and Stomp” in the What am I? primer and accompanying activities.
  • Explode the Code, Level #2, 4 pages (18-19 cr- and gr-).
  • Practice cursive magic “d” Handwriting Without Tears.
  • 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.  
  • Prepare All about Spelling, Lesson 3. Phenomes. Id phenomes on the whiteboard. Make a shaving cream bag to write letters on. Next, letters on paper.
  • Read Aloud Amelia Bedelia goes camping.
  • Read aloud Bad Kitty and the Baby. Drew a picture of Bad Kitty.
  • Asked to complete another tissue paper collage to create a patterned paper for a future project.
  • Read aloud George and the Secret Key to the Universe by Steven and Lucy Hawking.
  • Read Alone Call Dr. Amelia Bedelia.
  • In science did a Kiwicrate Ice Lab. The density of ice water and ice salt water. Does dye float? What does salt do to ice?
  • Finish the food chain art project.
Bad Kitty drawing

Highlights from the Week of February 17th

  • No school-President’s Day. Field trip to the Museum of Natural History.
  • In Komono Math 60 problems; ones and tens. Read Expressions in Beast Academy.  Chapters 8+9 in the Life of Fred. Practice +10 with Komono math.
  • SEL when to call 911; reviewed in Speech and Language.
  • Bill Nye the Science Guy, Lakes and Ponds.
  • Our history. Start the family tree project.
  • Continue the food chain art project.  
  • Reading the Odyssey by Gillian Cross, Odysseus and the Punishment of the Phaecians and Odysseus the Beggar.
  • In our reading instruction All about Reading, Orientation of Level 2. Prep board and materials. Do Lesson #1. Open and closed vowel sounds.
  • Explode the Code, Level #2, 4 pages (12-13).
  • Practice cursive magic “c” Handwriting Without Tears.
  • 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.  Read to Chloe.
  • Prepare to Start All about Spelling. Start Lesson 3. Phenomes. Id phenomes on the whiteboard.
  • Read Aloud Amelia Bedelia Teaches Class.
  • Read aloud George and the Secret Key to the Universe by Steven and Lucy Hawking.
President’s Day Decorations