Geography: This week we colored the map and flag of Palestine. I was disappointed that my pack of passport flag stickers didn't have Palestine, our encyclopedia had only one sentence about it on the Israel page, and it was hard to even find a children's printable map. The only information I could find was not kid friendly, so we sent prayers for the people in Gaza and the West Bank, and now we are taking a carpet ride out of the middle east to the mountains in the north. Russia is in both Asia and Europe, and will be our transition into a new continent!
Literature: We read our favorite books from the list over and over again...Seasons of the Sandstorms, Little Humpty, Mrs. Katz and Tush, Twist and Ernest, and Ernest and the Big Itch.
Language Arts: We did lessons 9-12, splitting each lesson into two days as we were transitioning from a very busy weekend with family visiting. The reader was The Bug Bus, a cute story about bugs building a bus out of a jug. The focus was on the 'short u' sound. The Bug Bus Game was a big hit. Words with the 'ed' suffix were practiced more with this reader. I was surprised how quickly he caught on. The ten spelling words were pretty easy, many three letter words, so that so many words isn't too much. We started the next lessons on the 'long a' sound spelled with 'silent e' and 'ay', but we will wait to start the reader, Ruff and Ape, next week. We introduced nouns and verbs, and practiced finding them in simple sentences.
Math: We are really liking CLE 1. We did lessons 6-10. He has ten math facts memorized now! The flashcards are actually fun for his mathy mind, and the workbook pages are fun because they change concepts often. The topics this week were writing numbers, practicing math facts, ordinal numbers, longer and shorter, over and under, more and less, counting pennies, understanding zero, and place value with counting tens and ones. This new program is working well, and I am so pleased that he has memorized all of the simple addition problems like 1+1=2, up to a sum of 5.
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