Week Review, Sept. 19-23

Come Sit By Me

   Book of the week; Pedrito's Day by Luis Garay

-Character Study: Encouraging those around us, memory verse (Philippians 4:13) Jem copied this verse into his 'I Can Do It' book.
-Language: Pedal and Spokes, Increasing vocabulary.
-Science: Examining how gears work, learning how the inner ear works
-Practical Living: Building awareness of bike safety

Math-U-See
   Working on lesson 3 still. Doing well.

Science Wiz
   This week Jem learnt that light always travels in a straight line, yet you can bounce it off of surfaces that reflect. The angle of the light going in always equals the angle going out. Jem was very amazed by this project as show in the dark bathroom mirror.

The Reading Lesson
   No progress, still focusing on Explode the Code instead, building confidence in his alphabet sounds.

Explode the Code
   Lesson 3 completed. The page work does require a fair amount of pushing from me. But I can over hear Jem at times sounding out words ect. so I know that things are starting to 'click' for him. This is exciting!

Journal
   Jem wrote about his bike this week as part of Come Sit By Me, together we labeled the parts of a bike.

Bible
   We are reading through the Psalms for family devotions right now.

Reason for Handwriting
   Completed week 3 with no problems.

Extras
   Jem has been enjoying over and over a stories in music CD from the library, 'Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel'. It has great music and the conductor and composer picks apart all the sounds of the orchestra and explains how and why he composed the music in this style. Jem is really soaking it all in and has expressed how much he enjoyed the music.