This was a fun week. We did extra lessons on a few days so that 'school' on Thanksgiving was making a homemade pumpkin pie with Hawaiian grown pumpkins! We had a lot of fun together as a family and we kept reminding each other what we're thankful for. I sang Bob Marley's song, "Thank You, Lord" all day. I'm especially thankful for my wonderful husband who works so hard so that I can stay at home and homeschool our kids.
Phonics: We finished lessons 96-100. The reader was fun as always, Vic's Van. The writer of McRuffy is a genius. We're looking forward to what funny story comes next, as they just keep getting better and better. The focus this week was on the letters 'v' and 'w'. The spelling words were mostly easy except for 'won'. We say it more like 'wun', but I guess some people say it in a way that rhymes with gone. After a week of reviewing it, he got it write on the final spelling test. Color words were also reviewed, and he has got them down solid.
Math: We did lessons 66-70. The focus was on counting by tens, place value with the rods and cubes, and matching them up with dimes and pennies. There was a card game to connect pictures of dimes and pennies with the numbers of cents. The last day of the week introduced counting backwards from 10 to 1 and then finished the week with a really fun, new game called Number Countdown. We really like this one and will play it more for sure. The McRuffy games for review are working well for us, it's fun to review!
Literature: We read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and several other library books. I'm not finding the motivation to do FIAR activities other than just having discussions and observations about the stories, but that is nice for us right now.
Next week, we'll be moving onto stories about Jesus, winter, snow, Christmas around the world with Galloping The Globe, and Arctic animals like reindeer and polar bears. Katy and The Big Snow will hopefully motivate me to do some FIAR geography mapping activities.
Praise God for the blessings in life!
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