We just had a huge math week. Learning to carry a ten while adding can be a confusing concept and Allboy is comfortable after doing a couple of page this week. I am really proud of him. Grandbaby Supreme is working on number recognition to 20 and is practicing counting. It is funny how when he counts something he tends to forget where he starts or ends so I have taught him to follow left to right and top to bottom like when reading. He is also continuing review of his letters. So far he learned F, B, M, K, T, R, P and S. We love Get Ready for the Code, and The Letter People. His writing is getting better, but still is shaky.
We said goodbye to the Native Americans in our History studies, and started the Explorers and Discovers. This week we are learning all about the Vikings and Leif Ericksson. Today we read all about Eric the Red, Leif's father. Tomorrow we build a Viking ship and recreate the map of the Vikings voyages between Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland (New Foundland).
Science is all about the Earth's crust this week. We learned about the Water Cycle, the Air and Atmosphere, and of course the weather. We are reading Magic School bus inside the Earth and inside a volcano. Our hands on activity for the week is making an Earth Pizza.
Our read aloud was My Father's Dragon, a really cute book about a boy being very clever and rescuing a dragon. There are 3 in the series so I see another trip to the library within the next day or so. We also have an audio copy of Bunnicula, but the audio's aren't going as well as I thought they would. We don't spend a ton of time in the car, and the one time we went anywhere long enough the CD player in the car decided to screw up.
Co-op is going great. I don't like being out of the house on Monday mornings but the kids are getting a lot out of the classes. Today G-Baby Supreme learned about Space, the Earth, and the Planets. They did a space craft, made a revolving earth around the sun, read a book about earth, and played a game of Alien and Astronaut somewhat like Duck Duck Goose. Allboys class was about maps and they went over the compass rose and worked on map symbols and puzzles.
Memorization is my largest surprise. I am amazed at how much kids this age can remember. Allboy has about 7 poems memorized and a bunch of facts. G-baby Supreme is memorizing different rhymes.
The Grinmaster is doing well in traditional school. I am concerned because I figured out why they needed the 21 glue sticks. They are not allowed to bring school books out of the class so they are recreating them in notebooks. They get printouts and glue them into the notebooks for test reviews. His grades are fine but I am getting a bit concerned that he isn't really doing much in Language Arts. So far they seem to read 30 minutes a night, but I am not too sure what they are doing in class. When I ask Grinmaster he says they read, and they finished the time capsule. Science is his most productive subject and in Math he is working on decimals and fractions. History is about Western expansion in US History 2.
Overall everything is going okay. Allboy is continuing to have whining problems and we are working on character connections. This week is talking gently to each other. They like to speak meanly and it is unacceptable. There is a definite difference when you are home with a child all the time. Their behavior problems get old fast. I can see where I fail as a mother and the areas we have to work on. But I am blessed that our boys are loving, smart human beings.
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