Geography/Art: We colored and cut out the Hawaiian Islands and glued them onto the Pacific Ocean, painted with watercolors. We read these library books about Hawaii: Hawaii The Aloha State, Hawaii Rookie-Read-About-Geography, All Around The Islands, and Island Below The Star.
Painting the ocean blue:
Cutting out the islands:
The islands glued onto the ocean:
Phonics/Reading/Writing: We completed lessons 26-35. The readers are still all review, so we are going quickly, doing 2-3 lessons per day. We read the readers Sat and A Can. They were really easy to read, but still fun because they are humorous, and Haridas loves silly, funny stories. Even though the reading is review, McRuffy includes so much critical thinking and really makes him listen carefully and comprehend instead of rushing into finding the answer. The handwriting is a lot for him because it is mostly lower case and he much prefers capital letters. I'm not pushing him because he is only 5 and I want to keep school fun and enjoyable. Simple spelling tests started with lesson 30, and although he wasn't thrilled about the idea, he ended up doing it perfectly as long as I let him write in all capitals. His spelling words were: the, is, cat, hat, and sat.
Math: We did lessons 20-25. Haridas now really likes math because the lessons are short and move onto playing with the manipulatives. He also likes how it changes everyday, but still reviews the same from before, so it doesn't get boring at all! We also started playing the Number Raceway game this week, which we will surely be playing more of because it was a lot of fun.
Pre-algebra practice by representing patterns with letters (like ABAB, ABC, ABCC, ABBA, etc.)
Putting the mixed-up number cards in numerical order:
Picking a number card (1-20) and counting that many counter bears (they started huddling into hearts):
Matching colored centimeter squares with the designs:
The Number Raceway game has been helpful for identifying numbers and their names. Although he can count beyond to 100 pretty well by himself, when shown a number card as asked what number it is, he would mix up 13 and 30, 14 and 40, etc. The Number Raceway game has fixed this mix up pretty well while having fun racing around the track. I'm happy about this because my attempts to explain that 13 is 10+3 and 30 is 3 10's or 3 X 10 were way over his head. But playing the game helped him get familiar with 13-20 and their symbols.
Looks like learning is fun at your house!! :)
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