Week Review - Sept 12-16

Sadly our brick making project did not turn out. We learnt that although all may go well with mixing and baking, there is still the problem of little hands that like to ruin things. Twice Lydia snuck out to our sun baking brick and crumbled it. But it was a good experience, and Jem said he would like to try again some other time.

Jem is going to spend the weekend with his cousins in celebrating of his cousin/best friend Isaiah's Birthday! With that in mind we finished the school week this morning leaving nothing for Saturday school work.

The Reading Lesson
   We have put this aside for a while, and are focusing on learning the alphabet/letter sounds.

Explode the Code
   Jem completed lesson 2 this week.

Math
   After grasping the first concept in lesson one of Math-U-See earlier this week, Jem flew through lesson 2 which was counting to 20. I had taught him this a few months ago. We will be on to lesson 3 next week!

A Reason for Handwriting
   Jem did not finish this weeks work. The past year and a bit I have got Jem to copy letters and words so much in the way this book wants him to that I find this very repetitive and rather boring for him. I don't know if I should push him as he gets very tired of writing, and there have been some tears over homeschooling already. I decided to get him to do only half of the writing as pictured below rather then both lines. Please let me know if this is not good.

Come Sit By Me
This weeks book was Franklin is Messy. Here are the activities we did during the week;
   Sorting Things Out (Math, developing ability to sort and discriminate)
   Sir Franklin (Language, learning forms of address)
   Day by Day (Language, order of days)
   Sir Franklin's Shield (Social Studies, learning the functions of shields, creative expression. Also Bible as we talked again about the armor of God ect.)
   Tidy Time (Practical Living, being organized. As pictured I got Jem to clean and organize the fridge all by himself, he did a WONDERFUL job!)

 ^^ A Reason for Handwriting ^^

^^ 2 pages from Explode the Code ^^