Monday I've already posted about. Would say it was a total success!!!
Tuesday's run down:
- Spelling: He practiced the two words he was unsure of. We have always used the See-Say-Spell-Write method of learning spelling words. He practiced these for a bit, then I told him to practice saying the whole passage, including the punctuation. He was still unsure of the semi-colon when we stopped.
- Grammar: We worked on Lesson 1:2 A-F working on proper nouns
- Handwriting: He is doing great with his handwriting lessons. He did the letter a and practiced connecting it to the letter c.
- Vocabulary: He loved the workbook. He only had a few questions to answer but he loved doing them. Amazing how for one child a workbook is drudgery and means lots of tears and another child just finds them fascinating.
- Science: We read the first few pages in his Astronomy book and discussed what we read.
- American History: We read The Corn Grows Ripe Ch 1, The Secret of the Andes Ch 2, Exploration and Conquest P 6-7, You Wouldn't Want to be an Inca Mummy Ch 3-5, and Incas Aztecs Mayans P 19-28; we finished assembling the map of Cortez and Coronado, it took some work as we couldn't figure out how to get the little boat to move. It's still not working as well as I had hoped. for the next one I plan on glueing it to cardstock first to make it more sturdy.
Thursday's run-down:
- Spelling: He thought he was ready for his dictation, so I had him practice once more before starting. I read each line and paused for him to write. We did that for all five lines. He did great. He did write the letter "m" instead of "n" in the word can but that was more of a typo than spelling it wrong. He knew that it was an "n" but often gets these two mixed up when writing them.
- Grammar: We completed Lesson 1:3 A-F practicing his spelling words
- Handwriting: Still going good here. He worked on the letter "d" today. Then practiced connecting it to the letter "a", coping the word "dad" several times.
- Vocabulary: He breezed right through exercise two.
- American History: As I was still in pain I had my oldest DD(18) do all the reading and we skipped all the planned projects saving them for another day. DD read The Corn Grows Ripe Ch 2, The Secret of the Andes Ch 3, Exploration and Conquest P 8-11, Inca Mummy Ch 6-7, and Inca Aztecs Mayans P 29-40.
- Grammar: We did Lesson 1:4 A-E practicing punctuation in a telling/declarative sentence.
- Vocabulary: We did exercise three and he had no problems.
- Science: My DD helped out by reading the rest of Ch 1 for me.
- American History: Again my DD helped out by reading all the literature and we postponed the projects for another day. She read The Corn Grows Ripe Ch 3, The Secret of the Andes Ch 4, Exploration and Conquest P 12-14, Inca Mummy Ch 8-10, and Inca Aztecs Mayans P 40-47. JJ watched the rest of the Ice Mummy movie and really enjoyed it. He wanted to watch the Ancient Inca movie but the tape was damaged. He was disappointed but I told him I had one more to watch later on.
That was our week. Not as promising as I had hoped but most of the work got done and more importantly JJ learned alot and enjoyed every bit of it. My DD says The Secret of the Andes book is a dud. She says it's very boring.
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