That was a fast week. I'm shocked that it is October already.
Math: Anneliese completed lessons 19 - 21 about rounding, estimating and comparing numbers. She had a light bulb moment and now understands rounding and estimating. She scored 96% on quiz 3. She read chapters 15 - 18 of Life and Fred: Apples and has finished the book. Trevor completed lessons 20 - 22 about pictographs and addition. He scored 100% on quiz 3.
Language Arts: Anneliese is still plugging away at Grammar Island and read pages 92 - 113 last week. She reviewed the eight parts of speech, learned about subjects, predicates and direct objects. She started Music of the Hemisphere for poetry study and read pages 4 - 31. I picked up a copy of Editor in Chief A1 and she completed editing the first document. She also completed step 13 in spelling and learned the 1-1-1 rule for adding vowel suffixes. Trevor completed pages 24 - 27 of Printing Power and step 4 of spelling learning strategies to spell multi-syllabic words. They both completed their literature study by reading various Aesop's Fables and narrating with words or pictures. We all watched A Bug's Life, a take-off of the fable The Ants and the Grasshopper.
Social Studies: Anneliese and Trevor both completed week 5 in their respective Daily Geography books. We worked on part 2 of lesson 3 for History Odyssey: Ancients. We read a few pages of the Usborne Encyclopedia of World History about Sumer, we did a Sumerian math project and Anneliese started a weaving project since the Sumerians were some of the first people to weave cloth.
Science:We continued on with unit 3 of Chemistry learning about atomic numbers. We tested milk to see if it is an element, it is not, and we made a flip-book of the first 1 elements, drawing all the neurons, protons, and electrons. Trevor read Simply Science: Atoms by Stewart to us. Trevor attended the Budding Scientist class at the Tacoma Nature Center and learned about some local birds.
Electives: Anneliese completed lessons 9 - 12 of Getting Started with Latin as well as completing chapter 3 of Song School Latin with Trevor. They both converse in Latin regularly and are enjoying their studies. We had relatives from Germany in town last week and the kids had a conversation in Latin with them. We read The Five Chinese Brothers and answered the questions listed in Suppose the Wolf Were an Octopus. We completed lessons 4 of Artistic Pursuits learning about how pictures tell stories. Trevor learned to ride his bike without training wheels early this week and we spent every afternoon riding bikes. :) Anneliese attended her first Girl Scout meeting of the school year.
Field Trips: No field trips this week.
. Trevor completed lessons 16 - 19 of Teaching Textbooks 3 covering subtracting 10, adding nine, subtracting nine, rounding and estimating.
. She learned about prepositions, prepositional phrases and interjections. Trevor completed pages 20 - 23 of 
covering punctuation, Uu, Ii and Ee. They both played at 
, watched a video about Ancient Mesopotamia, listened to The Mesopotamians by They Might Be Giants, made models of Sargon from 
, built a model of a ziggeraut from 
and looked up and copied definitions for cuneiform and Mes0potamia. They both completed week 4 in their 
books.
. Anneliese has decided to tag along and now both of them are singing Latin songs all day. I have to admit that the songs are catchy, I find myself singing them too. Anneliese completed lessons 5 - 8 of 
and learned farmer, I and and/both in Latin. They both completed lesson 3 of Artistic Pursuits Book 1 about observation. We read Cinderella by Marcia Brown and answered the questions from Suppose the Wolf were a Octopus.
book which completes all the capital letters. He did practice lines of the new letters he learned these weeks. He completed lessons 8 & 9 in 
. 
book. She has been continuing to practice upper and lowercase letters in cursive and is working on making her letters smaller. Anneliese completed lessons 15 & 16 in 
. Anneliese completed lessons 22 - 30 in 
and completed lessons for weeks 2 & 3.
. I decided against getting him book B and have ordered 
for him. He has been working on some worksheets I printed out the last couple days. He is having no trouble adding to quantities of 20 and the Singapore math hadn't started any adding yet. 
book. She has done multiplication with carrying and started on long division. I have ordered RightStarts Level C program for her. She doesn't mind doing the long division, but Singapore's book had no information about why long division is done that way, only to memorize the process and get the problems done. She is looking forward to working with some new manipulatives and cementing her multiplication tables before getting back to long division.
by Bulla. She also read 
, 
, 
, 
, and 
. She completed pockets 3, 4, 5 & 6 of 
. Anneliese completed 3 mini-books about Squanto and made a timeline page for Squanto. She completed a lapbook for 
and 
. 
and 
. Anneliese and Trevor attended their homeschool science class at the Tacoma Nature Center.
by Allen Say. We read 
by Allen Say, 
by Rosemary Wells and completed a Japanese culture mini-book. Last week we read 
by Wende and Harry Devlin. We also watched the movie, read 
by William Jaspersohn and completed a cranberry mini-book.
book this week. She has been continuing to practice upper and lowercase letters in cursive and is working on making her letters smaller. Anneliese completed lesson 14 in 
and 
. She completed her timeline entry about Jamestown.
and both kids watched the movie about the heart on
. 
by Allen Say. Every time I read this to the kids, I get teary at the end. Allen Say was a new author to us, but he has fast become a favorite. If you have read his books, I highly recommend them.
. He has been wanting to read all the time, he started reading our small collection of books about Biscuit the dog. He is working on memorizing his next poem in First Language Lessons and completed lessons 14 - 17 this week. 
by the D'Aulaires, 
and 
of Elizabeth's Diary and completed all the lapbook projects from the Pocahontas book at 
. Both kids attended their Budding Scientist class at the Tacoma Nature Center.
. We made mini-books about steam powered vehicles, contruction vehicles, personification, and more. We enjoyed this book, but weren't interested in doing many extras with it.
frequently. They dig it. :)
together. We spent lots of time talking about conditions in Jamestown and how hard it was to survive.
. We read 
by Evan Balkwill and completed lab 1 and 2. Unfortunately no one here likes to eat jello. :(
. We made mini-books about apple tree lifecycles, parts of an apple, apple facts, chicken taxonomy chart, and more. We had an apple tasting with 8 varieties and complied a chart about their traits and made a note of our favorite variety. We also read 
, 
and 
.
. We had a light week for history this week, next week we start some heavy stuff. Both Anneliese and Trevor watched the movie about Columbus on 
by Benjamin Zephaniah. We made cow taxonomy charts and a cattle products and uses mini-book and read 
by Julie Murray. We made butter from local cream and used some awesome molds to make it pretty and shared some with my parents. We made an apple pie, had chicken and apple salad sandwiches and apple pancakes this week. Anneliese and Trevor watched the Reading Rainbow episode of How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World.
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