Happy Fri-yay! We made it through another week! Fires are 100% contained nearest us, and the bigger ones are starting to be contained. Last night it rained cats and dogs while the loudest, longest thunder and lightning storm I have ever witnessed rolled through from 8pm to 4am!! Yay for rain!! Boo for not much sleep!
One kiddo spent last night at grandma's, so I declared it a no school day and send the other two to play Minecraft while I sip hot tea and pretend to be productive writing to-do lists, ha ha.
This week we studied Charpter 2 of Story of the World, learning about European monarchs, Mary Queen of Scots, and a little about Scottish life during the time. We made marker designs of Tartan cloth and talked about how they represented clans but what patterns were woven into their fabric based on what dye material was available to them.
In our math lesson from Beast Academy we talked about placement values and practiced writing ones and ten column numbers. Good review for older two, and Avery is keeping up by doing one or two worksheets to their 4 or 5.
Emmet grades his own papers, he gave himself 99% after missing one question. Michael asks for a smiley face on his if he got it right.
For free writing Avery drew an ice cream cone and I helped hims spell it out. He is slowly learning his letters.
Michael wrote about his favorite things.
Emmet wrote a poem inspired by knock knock jokes from Dogman and about his favorite thing, which he read to me but now all I can make out is "fart hat", which might be what it was. Free writing and boys, oh boy!
For language this week we talked about how to say how old you are in Spanish and sign language. Emmet expressed interest in learning Chinese last year, last week told me no he wants to do Japanese, and this week is super happy we are doing sign language. So whatever, we will learn what we decide each week I suppose, but sticking with Spanish and sign language for sure. It seems to help reinforce as they sign and say it in Spanish.
CLAY!! Emmet begged me to buy clay first week of school and I was hesitant because it is a bit messy and we cant kiln dry. It is air dry, but crumbles really bad. It has kept them quiet and happy while I read out loud though, so we bought some playdough for the next few weeks hoping it lasts longer.
Avery doing a Spanish worksheet on numbers.
Our games this week were Popcorn Sight Words, and Avery did some spelling puzzles while older two did Splat multiplication.
Our white board lessons.
Michael does research quite often for Minecraft builds. He gets all his books out, finds pages that give examples for what he wants to build, then gets to work. He started using the word "research" for what he does on his own and I am formulating a plan to create a research project I design for him to follow using his books. Then re-applying the idea to another school topic. The things we have learned from Minecraft astound me somedays.
Second journal of the week was to write how old you are in Spanish and English.
Thursday was co-op day and we opted for the beach! No smoke and despite the fog it was a good sweater weather temperature and quite a nice day! Emmet body surfed in the ocean, getting 100% wet and sandy and everyone had a great time!
Our science lesson book and Avery's reading lesson books are still shipping, so we will hopefully, fingers crossed, start those next week! We also have been doing 20 minute reading blocks. Michael read six 20 minute blocks this week, and Emmet read four. We also listened to Mossflower by Brian Jacques on tape, and two Wings of Fire books by Tui T. Sutherland. We also read a few chapters in our current read aloud book.
Hoping for lots of rain this week and no more natural disasters! We can make it through 2020, I know we can!!!
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