Phonics: We did lesson 81-85 this week. We are both really enjoying McRuffy. The focus was on the letter 'k' and workds ending in 'ck'. The new sight words were 'black', 'yellow', and 'orange'. The reader was once again funny and entertaining. The slider makes word drilling more fun as well. Govinda really likes the game Wiggle Worm, I think because there is no way to loose.
Math: We did lessons 51-55. The focus this week was on the numbers 40-50 and place value. Govinda's understanding of tens and ones is a lot better now compared to our attempt at MathUSee Primer a few months ago.
Literature/Science/Geography: We really liked Miss Rumphias. It gave us many great topics of discussion inspired by FIAR. It tied in perfectly with our introduction to geography and apple study of seeds and Johnny Appleseed. Miss Rumphias throws flower seeds everywhere to make the world a more beautiful place, so we did the same with pumpkin seeds in the empty lots in our neighborhood. Govinda was inspired to draw and paint lots of pictures to put all over the walls in our house to make it more beautiful. We also re-read the Magic School Bus Plants Seeds and Gets Planted. We found all the places Miss Rumphias went on the world map.
History: We read more Thanksgiving stories. I was happy to find a beautiful picture book about Squanto, from his perspective, called Squanto's journey: the story of the first Thanksgiving by Bruchac, Joseph.
Here's the rest of the many library books we got about Thanksgiving:
Mousekin's Thanksgiving by Miller, Edna
An Outlaw Thanksgiving by Emily Arnold McCully
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott
Thanksgiving in the White House by Gary Hines
Pilgrims of Plymouth by Susan E. Goodman
1621: a new look at Thanksgiving by Grace, Catherine O'Neill
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Devlin, Wende
Cranberries by Jaspersohn, William
Squanto's journey: the story of the first Thanksgiving by Bruchac, Joseph
Thanksgiving with me by Willey, Margaret
The Thanksgiving door by Atwell, Debby.
The Thanksgiving story by Dalgliesh, Alice
Squanto and the first Thanksgiving by Kessel, Joyce K
The Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving by McGovern, Ann
Daily life in the Pilgrim colony, 1636 by Erickson, Paul
Harvest song by Hirschi, Ron
Thanks for Thanksgiving by Markes, Julie
Thanksgiving is for giving thanks by Sutherland, Margaret
This first Thanksgiving Day : a counting story by Melmed, Laura Krauss
Happy Thanksgiving! : things to make and do by Conaway, Judith
Molly's pilgrim by Cohen, Barbara
The night before Thanksgiving by Wing, Natasha
Thanksgiving by Fabian-Baber
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