Jan 26-30

This week I did not do a very good job of keeping track of what we did. I will use my planner to remember which subjects we did.

MONDAY

He did:
Reading
Spelling
Typing
Primary Language Lessons
First Language Lessons
Math
PE
Piano Practice
History

TUESDAY

Typing
Math
Piano Practice
History

WEDNESDAY

Science

THURSDAY

Math
Typing Practice
First Language Lessons
Reading
History

FRIDAY

Spelling
Primary Language Lessons
Math
Reading

Some things we learned about throughout the week: In math, he finished up lesson 12. I've made the new rule that he has to do 2 pages of MUS first, then he can spend the rest of the 45 minutes on whichever math he wants (He chooses between Life of Fred, Challenging Word Problems, the pattern block book, Xtra Math, or the wrap ups.) I did this because he was wanting to spend ALL his math time on Life of Fred. Lesson twelve was the 3 times tables. He got a 95% on his lesson 12 math test; he only missed one problem. He started lesson 13, which is learning how to skip count by 6.

History: We are still learning about some of the explorers of the new world. We learned about Ponce de Leon exploring Florida and looking for the fountain of youth. We learned about Balboa and how he was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the isthmus of Panama. We learned about De Soto being the first European to see the Mississippi river. We learned about the Spanish establishing St. Augustine. We also learned about Henry Hudson and how he explored the Hudson river, then later the Hudson Bay. We learned about the Dutch establishing New Netherlands, then selling it to the English, who named it New York. We added lots of dates to our timeline and looked at all these places on our globe.

Spelling: We added three new tiles to our board: "ou, ar, and er". We didn't really use these at all for this week's lesson, but we did learn their sounds. This week's lesson was about making "VCE" words plural.

Grammar: We're still working on common nouns and proper nouns. We've also added pronouns to our list of nouns we're learning.