I've always prefered to do a quarter report because it give me a bigger picture but I'm going to try doing a weekly report for awhile for fun. I wasn't sure if I should call this post WR 1 since it is our first or WR 31 since it is the 31st week of our school year.
Charlotte-We did 4 days of Little Hands finishing with day 1 of week 2. Highlight of the week was doing A-A-Adam with Big Sis' joining in! Watching Charlotte and Big Sis' fly like an albatross and slither like an anaconda was hysterical. Charlotte really enjoyed making the A with cheerios and has been finding A's everywhere.
Sam- We finished Paddle-to-the-Sea last week. This week we read the first chapter of Seabird. He immediately found Greenland on the globe because it is where Leif the Lucky is growing up in our D'aulaire title that we are also reading! We started reading about Ancient Greek in SOTW and found an interesting picture of bull-jumping in our Usborne World History book. He really enjoys looking at Usborne's pictures and has spent part of every afternoon this week looking at these pictures. He has remembered far more that I expected with SOTW and was able to recognize the Hanging Garden of Babylon when he found that picture.
We did the first week of MFW 1. The phonics was review but working on the blending ladders was beneficial. I wish I had thought of doing that sooner. He would make a blend and try to think of as many words as possible that had that particular blend. It was such a confidence booster for him! We also worked on re-reading several of our 100 Easy lessons stories. Great week for reading skills.
This week in MFW 1 we also were doing science experiments with earthworms and ants. Unfortunately we killed off all the ant beds in the yard last weekend and not one ant decided to participate in our little experiment. We will retry that one in a few weeks. We had much more success with our earthworm experiment and they are participating as expected in their container! We will watch them over the weekend then let them work their magic in Sam's vegetable garden.
We attempted to make a clay pot with MFW 1 directions for salt dough but I must have added too much water because it would not hold a form. The kids did enjoy making handprints with it. Fortunately I did have some clay in a closet and we successfully made a clay pot. Sam had a lot of fun making his pot but thought that the clay pot craftmen of ancient times had a really hard job!
We have a collection of wildflowers growing in our backyard due to lack of fertilizer and mowing. We had wildflower scavenger hunts all week long. Charlotte thinks that the Fleabane Daisy is the most beautiful flower in the world and didn't want her older brother to mow the yard and destroy them! He kindly left her a section of the backyard so her flowers can continue to thrive. Her flower garden is finally starting to sprout so hopefully she will have lots of cut flowers this summer.
