Geography/Literature/Science: This week we learned about the Ganges River and the legend of how it came to Earth. We spent the rest of the week reading the many Indian story books. Many of them have great moral lessons. Panchatantra and Jataka Tales are fun and entertaining, but also teach important lessons. We also reviewed the water cycle and how rivers and fresh water are so important to us.
Phonics: We did lessons 166-170. The focus was on the 'long a' sound spelled 'ay'. The story was Kay and The Ray Gun. This one is our favorite story now. It was so great to see him excited and laughing about the story, while self motivated to keep reading faster and more fluent. We love McRuffy readers! He took to reading 'ay' very quickly. We also reviewed punctuation, periods and question marks.
Math: This week we did lessons 131-135. We practiced finding out if a number is odd or even. We learned about reading addition problems vertically as the same as horizontally. We played with tangrams. We reviewed how to read and understand graphs. We reviewed moving up and down the 10's number line. We reviewed reading and writing time to the hour. We learned about reversing numbers in addition has the same sum, and writing equations like 3+4=4+3. We also played the Elephant Truck game, which is a fun game that reviews counting by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's.
Next week is our last week of McRuffy Reading! I'm thoroughly impressed with this curriculum and have ordered the 1st grade program to start soon. I plan on taking a few weeks in March to review all of the readers and phonics concepts and put a little extra time into mastering letter writing. Then, our 1st grade journey will begin! I'm so thankful that Govinda is loving learning to read. I'm especially thankful for my wonderful husband and family members who help and support our homeschool journey. Thanks!
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