It’s Monday of week six and I realized I completely forgot about our weekly review last week. Oh dear!
The Captain had a busy enough week, despite it being Labor Day. We continued with business as normal on Monday, with history and grammar as usual. He read The Great Pyramid as his main text for the day, so his grammar, timeline, and summary all came from that book. He did sections 3.3-3.6 from Growing with Grammar and then took two short pronoun quizzes (available online) to make sure he’d grasped it all. He did very well!
On Tuesday, we didn’t have co-op, due to the long holiday weekend preceding. Instead, Captain Science worked on a Life of Fred: Fractions chapter and the listened to the President’s speech to students. He watched it several time (4 or 5 total) to make sure he really understood what President Obama was talking about, and then he wrote several drafts of a letter. He still hasn’t done the final draft, because we realized he really needed some additional handwriting work, but that’s a project for this week.
On Wednesday, we covered the Hebrews and chapters 3.7-3.11 in Growing with Grammar, which covered capitalization and giving directions. He wrote a short paragraph giving directions on putting away the silverware from the dishwasher and he did another draft of his letter to the President, this time expanding it and adding more of his own thoughts and experiences.
Thursday is lab day, and Patchfire got back into town just in town to direct Captain Science and Eclectic girl in their final electricity unit. Next week, the children will start magnetism! She posted videos on electricity for the Captain to watch at home. He accidentally watched the videos on magnetism instead, though, so we’re going to watch the correct ones today. We came home, and the Captain did another chapter in Life of Fred: Fractions.
Friday was a fairly easy day. Officer Daddyman took the Captain on a run and talked to him about 9/11. The Captain worked on more Life of Fred: Fractions, finishing up the last chapter before the second bridge.
All in all, another good week. I’m currently looking for a handwriting curriculum, because Captain Science really needs something that will help him with size and stroke order. I’d like to get that ordered this week and start it by next week. *fingers crossed*
I can’t believe we’re already into our 6th week of homeschooling. I’m looking forward to our six week review!
Go Captain Science!
Fractions! Fractions!
… sorry, I always want to add exclamation points somewhere when it comes to Fred math. Maybe Fred!Math.
Oh, like ShamWow!?
Can your math curriculum do THIS?
Ahaha, I always do this. Maybe re: handwriting, just go to School Box and see what they’ve got? There’s also a Lakeshore Learning down from Trader Joe’s now (I’m all about combining trips).
We’re using “Conquering Cursive” right now, which is available from Rainbow Resource. It’s a spiral bound cursive workbook and Jamie (age
is really loving it.