Weekly Wrap-Up: Wk. 5

Math

• Finished Math in Focus Ch. 5, Review, Test over Ch 3-5
• Primary Grade Challenge Math Ch. 6 Levels 1-3
• Worked on multiplication of 2's, 3's, 4's, and 5's (up to X12)
• 3 days of Xtramath.org math facts practice

Language Foundations

• Completed 2 sections in First Language Lessons, as well as the first Dictionary Skills lesson
• Successful memorization of "The Land of Nod" (I am amazed by this. Five weeks ago he could barely hold a 5-word sentence in his head for dictation. We started the memorization of this poem as suggested in F.L.L., but I didn't really have a lot of hope for him. Somehow, he just... got it. Yay!)
• Spelling Power: Completed 3 more groups
• Latin vocab: "Est" & "Es" 
• Reading. I only require one book (this week, it was Because of Winn Dixie.) We also have a book which I read aloud to them, which was Kenny and the Dragon. Everything else was his choice. He is a book devourer. Luckily we live very close to the library.
• Writing: Paragraph study (main ideas & supporting sentences)

Searching for animal tracks on our nature walk

Social Studies

• 2 Chapters in SOTW
• Geography: India

Science/Health

• 1 Unit in Read & Understand Science
• 2 experiments from "Adventures with Atoms and Molecules"
• Nature walk & animal tracking

•  2 lessons of Harcourt Health

We captured some carbon dioxide during experiment time.

Other stuff

Testing his homemade tomato soup and croutons.

• Cooking: made homemade tomato soup w/ homemade croutons
• Music: studied note lengths
• Art: Painting w/ "silver leaf" (aluminum foil) like Fra Angelico

Artsy Friday

El LOVES Fridays because that is the day we set aside 2 hours to study art! This week, the artist he studied was Michelangelo. After learning a little about our artist of the day, we visited a very cool website that shows the Sistine Chapel in 3d. El gave the technique a shot and determined that it would have been very, very difficult to work like this every day for 4 years!

Sweet Career Move

After a week of stating that she was going to be an artist when she grows up, Em tonight has decided she might want to be an art teacher instead. "Because art teachers still get to do art every day, but they also get cupcakes every time anyone has a birthday."