This has been a good week for us. It feels good to be in some sort of a routine and I am actually thinking about making a schedule! {gasp} I will still pray for the Father to order our day each and every day, but I think we will do certain subjects during certain times and on certain days of the week.
Tot School/Preschool
- We have been on break from Tot School and I have been planning for a new series of Tot School posts. I am excited and a little nervous at the same time. She has been enjoying this time p.l.a.y.i.n.g! I am amazed at how good she is while I do school with the boys (she plays for hours in her room and the playroom). She and Malachi have been playing well together also and even have story-lines while they play! But, I still think she will be excited to do Tot School again.
- I have a review and giveaway coming to kick off our new Tot School series, and will give you a peek at what that is in another post.
- We wrapped up our Alphabet Fun series with the Letter O! That post includes my wrap-up thoughts on our preschool experience.
- I have almost completed my plan for kindergarten and will will kick off a new series of posts (for our Kindergarten Corner) beginning next month (when Malachi turns 5).
English/Language Arts
- Bible Reading: Proverb a day, and each boy is in another book of their choosing (Nathan is in Isaiah, Dylan is in 1 Samuel, and Jordan is reading Psalms)
- Madsen Method: We are plugging away on this and will share our update in a future post. We are half way through lesson 7 in Section 2.
- All About Spelling: Lessons 1 and 2
- Language Lessons
- Simply Grammar: we do this orally, and then the boys do a pictorial study and write a story about the picture.
- Getty-Dubay Italics ~ Nathan and Jordan both finished their book for this year. Dylan has 40 pages left.
- Read Aloud: We finished All of a Kind Family and Boyhood and Beyond and started Mara, daughter of the Nile.
Math:
- Singapore Math ~ Nathan and Dylan did a few lessons from their regular program.
- MathScore ~ an online math practice program (see my review for more on this) ~ all of the boys do this daily as a part of their morning independent work.
- Ray's Arithmetic ~ for review ~ Nathan and Dylan are doing oral lessons out of the primary book.
- Saxon's Facts First ~ an online program we are reviewing ~ the boys are having fun with this.
- Math Mammoth ~ we downloaded the complete curriculum for grades 4 and 5 (Dylan and Nathan) for review. We will probably focus on long division.
- Young Minds Number and Counting (for Eliana) (review coming soon)
- Math Tutor DVD's ~The Basic Math Word Problems Tutor DVD ~ we finished Disc One (review coming soon)
- Life of Fred ~ Jordan is on Chapter 15 (after taking a week off)
- Apologia Zoology 3: Land Animals of the 6th Day ~ Nathan and Dylan finished Chapter 6: Primarily Primates
- Apologia General Science: Jordan worked on Module 2 ~ he finished "On Your Own" 2.8 and we printed the lapbooks for the study guide.
- We read chapters 1 and 2 in Discovering Nature in Winter. We also started this week's challenge on cattails for The Outdoor Hour.
- Abram's Journey
- We will do this week's Instant Challenge, Mouse House, tomorrow and post our solution Monday morning along with a new challenge.
- The boys finished Dodge Ball and started Volley Ball this last week. They start Chess Club this week.
- We are learning to type with lessons from Christian Keyboarding (review coming soon).
- We will start Zeezok's composer series on Chopin (for review) this week. It looks like a neat study.
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