Teaching Time October 25th - October 29th

We had a good week of school this week. Here's what we've been up to.

Both -

We are over halfway through reading Mr. Popper's Penguins. We also read some penguin books and listened to some music by Schubert (who is mentioned in Mr. Popper's Penguins). We read lots of other books as usual including some of the dinosaur books by Jane Yolen.

In Bible, we discussed patience and read the story of Simeon and Anna who waited patiently for the coming of Christ. We memorized I Corinthians 13:4, "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant," and continued to memorize the Apostles' Creed. Our hymn of the week was "Come Thou Almighty King."

Caleb -

In Phonics, he finished the section focusing on short vowels and worked on consonant blends and double consonants. He also finished reading the first box of Bob Books and the first book of his Phonics readers. In addition to the work we do at home, he started twice a week speech therapy at the local elementary school (at 8:00; I hate mornings).

He finished capital letters in his handwriting book and began lowercase letters.

He began his first grade math book this week and worked on addition plus 0 and plus 1 and on writing the numbers 1-20. This was review for him, so we covered 2 lessons in 1 week. He took his first ever math test this morning and made a 100%. He is his father's child after all.

Alexa -

I got her this cutting workbook to keep her busy while I work with Caleb, and she LOVES it. She also did the letter "L" this week and continued to work in her handwriting book.