Here's this week's wrap up! :-)
For our World History studies, we have been listening to Story of the World Volume 2 while we travel to violin lessons and as we travel to field trips and such. We are up to Chapter 8, The Great Dynasties of China. We had some good discussions about the spread of religion as went through the chapters on India.
For our American History studies, we finished up reading about the beginning of European exploration of the "New World". We have been reading selections from This Country of Ours and America First; and we also read The Discovery of the Americas.
In Math, we finished up chapter 9 in Math U See, and JB started working in her "October Problem Solving" book. I am going to try to add more variety into our math studies as JB continues to cement all of the basic facts. She finished up week 9 in her Daily Math book.
In Language Arts we are focusing on nouns and have begun making notebook pages. We started a grammar lapbook last year, but we are reviewing with notebook pages as we read through the Ruth Heller books. This week we read Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns.
We started two new read alouds: Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos by Robert Lawson. JB is currently reading Little House on Rocky Ridge by Roger Lea McBride on her own (She loves all things "Little House").
We are going to begin to focus on some of my favorite picture book authors and this week we started reading books by Patricia Polacco. We read and enjoyed Babushka's Doll and When Lightning Comes in a Jar.
I am also excited to report that JB did an oral narration of a chapter from Fifty Famous People without one bit of hesitation!
JB has been doing a lot of writing in her free time lately. She is working on one book called Fairyland and another called Miriam Marigold. She has also taken great delight in starting a journal/diary for herself and has made several entries this week. Here is an excerpt from Fairyland.
JB also finished an art project inspired by a post at Art Projects for Kids. She really enjoyed the process of using the tissue paper to stain the paper---though some of our tissue paper didn't really bleed like it was supposed to! I'll have to see if I can find another brand for future use.
She continues to enjoy dance and violin lessons and is learning her second variation of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star on the violin.
And there you have a sampling of what we've been up to this week!
:-)