Week 5 August 4 - 8th

Mondays are going to be a very full day of school. (It looks like Tuesdays will too). I would love to hear any input on what you have younger school age children doing while their older sibling is still schooling. Poor Turtle Toes is done and bored and I haven't put alot of thought into what to have him do. Honey has suggested some computer games (educational) and I will try to get those set up. Any other ideas?

MONDAY:

Both Boys



Bible Study for All Ages

Memory Work - verses and history today

Math U See

Spanish

History Read Aloud - TOG


Turtle Toes

FIAR - Three Names

Draw Write Now

Phonics


Turkey Lips

SWR - new word list

Writing - started going over how to write a newspaper article. The unit assignment for TOG is writing articles for a newspaper.

Grammar - Rod and Staff


TUESDAY:


Same a above except we did Lesson 2 of RS4Kids http://www.gravitaspublications.com/products/



This weeks lesson was on atoms forming molecules. We used marshmallows and toothpicks to make molecules and we also used a set we bought from Rainbow Resource.

We also did our recorder lesson. This is still a big hit and Turkey Lips is ready each time to keep plowing ahead but Turtle Toes needs to learn it at a slower pace.


For TOG Turkey Lips is now doing his literature reading on his own. His book this week was a children's version of Gulliver's Travels. He enjoyed this and then did his literature worksheet.


WEDNESDAY
Just the basics today because we have co-op at 12:00.
-Bible Study for All Ages

-Memory Verses

-History Songs

-Math U See

- SWR

-TOG writing assignment

- Spanish

ok so that may be a little bit more than just the basics :) The school day went quickly though.



Our co-op is 4 families and we are all using Tapestry of Grace. All of the the kids are Lower Grammar right now and then we have a class of preschool and K'ers that are doing Five in a Row. This week I taught the TOG class. I made poster board size map of the 13 Colonies and put velcro on the pieces so that we could use it like a puzzle. Then the kids labled a map of the 13 colonies. Our TOG history reading this week was on Benjamin Franklin so we did a mini lapbook on him.





Here are some of the resources we used:


http://www.benfranklin300.org/curriculum_lower.htm


http://www.awb.com/catalog/images/covers/95671.jpg


http://www.benfranklin300.org/imagebank_17_detail.htm


http://thinkexist.com/quotation/it-couldn-t-be-done-somebody-said-that-it-couldn/365632.html



THURSDAY

We did all of our regular assignments except for Math U See for Turkey Lips because I was on the phone and was trying make up time. For science today we worked on our body study. It has been working well doing Chemistry one day and then the body unit on the other day. I like the variety and I think the kids do too.



Our project for the week that went along with our TOG studies was to make music with glasses with water in them. Franklin invented the armonica from seeing someone place musical glasses. While we couldn't play a real armonica we were able to play the wine glasses.




Can you see the ripples in the water in this last picture? Turkey Lips thought this was awesome. He was saying "you can see the sound waves!" Now they want to set up the glasses to show at our Unit Celebration with our co-op.

Turkey Lips finished up two paragraphs on Benjamin Franklin that will be put in a newspaper that is we are doing for the whole unit.

Summary of the week:
We are starting to get into the swing of the school year. Our day is longer than it was last year but that is to be expected with Turkey Lips getting older and now Turtle Toes doing Kindergarten. Turkey Lips is excited about American History and has enjoyed reading the books and listening to American history selections from Your Story Hour CDs.

Turtle Toes is enjoying Five in A Row. He also likes having more school work and asks if he has more to do :) I know that will change but it is fun to see it!

We had a good week. God is showing me how important it is to rely on Him for the strength to get through the day but also to organize my priorities. I was struggling with the flow of the school day and this week I have brought it before Him each morning and He has been faithful to show me better ways of organizing my day. I am thankful that He cares about the little things!

Have a great day!