Our weekly home school wrap up

  It was a good week.  I thought I'd share some photos of things we are doing.  If you check my home school page, it goes over a month in review, and some of the programs we are using.  As you know, we are using The Phonics Road to Spelling and Reading.  It's a fantastic program.  I really can't say enough about it.  We just wrapped up week 14.  We review daily the last 15 or so phonograms.  This past week we did sentence structure, how one starts and ends.  Here is a picture of some of my guys sentences.  Pretty good writing, I think, for an almost six year old.  These were done by dictation, and the only thing I had to explain in detail were the punctuation marks.

   For math, we are using Singapore 1.  We finished up the first half, and will be starting the second half shortly.  Until I get the workbook, we've been reviewing basic addition and doing flashcard work.  The photo shows the Singapore workbook for 1A, Spiderman, and in the binder, some of Math Mammoth, that we also use, for extra practice.

Singapore-creating math sentences. 

    For science we are using Elemental Science.  So far, I find it a nice program for elementary.  We are doing the, Biology part right now.  That covers animals for 20 weeks, body for 10 weeks and plants for 6 weeks.  the only problem I've had is the basic spine.  So we use various animal books.  This week we learned about whales, dolphins and walrus.  We also use some Planet Earth books and stickers.  We find the habitat of the animal, and then place it in the book and also on a wall map.  This way, it also incorporates some geography.

We covered a little mapping this week, which we'll continue into next week.  I found a few nice books at the library to use as a review of the United States.  Because Galloping the Globe includes some animals that live on each continent, we can combine our science and history, when it comes to animals.  By accident, after finding the Nat Geo book, I found a Toot and Puddle series.  One of the pigs is adventurous, and travels to different countries.  They make a nice story, and we can pull a lesson or project out of the book too.

Lastly, we finally started reading some Bible stories.  I have not been able to find a children's bible that wasn't too detailed, or sided more on one religion.  So far, the one I found seems to be working.  We read one or two stories at bed time.  Also, out of all the many, many books we check out from the library, we finally read, "Ferdinand".  

Until next week...