Weekly Update: Himalayas and Snow Leopards

Geography/Literature: This week, we sailed away from Japan and landed in Korea and went back through China on our way to India. We read a nice story from Korea called The Firekeeper's Son. Then we came to the Himalayas and climbed Mount Everest with a story called To The Top about the first men to climb it. We read a few books about the Himalayas, snow leopards, and the Sherpas. I plan on spending at least a month on India, but this will include Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka.

Art: We drew a snow leopard, adapted from the leopard from Draw Write Now. I helped him with some of it to keep it fun, and he really enjoyed making all the dots.



Phonics: We did lessons 151-155 this week. The focus was on 'long e', mostly words with 'ee'. The story was called Can A Deer Steer? We love these readers. They really reinforce the new concept while reviewing previously learned concepts and being really funny and entertaining.

Math: We did lessons 116-120. We practiced more addition and subtraction sentences, putting numbers in order from least to greatest, counting by 1's, 5's, and 10's, counting pennies, nickels, and dimes to find their cent value, introduced counting different kinds of coins together, and finished off with a new game called Addition and Subtraction Pool.