Weekly Update: India and Tigers!

We had a fun tiger-filled week! The stories from India are great. I think we'll spend an extra week on India because we like it so much.

Art: Here's our white tiger, Namaste, the tiger at our local zoo, cooling off in the pond:


Literature/Geography/Science: We read many great books about and from India and tigers. I was able to finally read our first chapter book, and both of the boys listened attentively, without pictures! I've been trying to do this for a while with no success until now. The chapter book was The Magic Tree House: Tigers At Twilight. It was a fun adventure about the animals in India. Other great stories that we read were Tiger's Story, Once A Mouse, The Brahman, The Tiger, and The Jackal, A Grain Of Rice, The Stonecutter, The Ringdoves, and Hindu Stories.

Phonics: This week's focus was on the 'long o' vowel sound spelled 'oa'. The story was 'Goat and Toad'. We had fun with it and reading progress is going very well. I can't believe we have 2 more weeks left with McRuffy Kindergarten phonics! His reading is getting more advanced every week.

Math: This week we did lessons 125-130. We practiced adding and subtracting, counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's, counting pennies, nickels, and dimes.