Sonlight Week 4

Finishing Sonlight week 4, we learned many things. We finished reading My Father's Dragon early and began Elmer and the Dragon since we had time before our next book.  Here are some of the activities we accomplished this week.

We are still practicing our tallies and one way that we did was by playing a game all week. We would take turns and roll a die, marking tallies for the numbers we rolled. The sheet went to 100.

J worked on ordinal numbers, what animal is first, second, etc... This work was in addition to her work in the math book. I feel that it doesn't review these skills as much as I would like so I find ways to review them.

Our mystery letter was T so here she is working on her T page. She is laughing because of the underwear picture on the alpha pages. She thought this was hilarious.

J is practicing her reading. This is a simple word family reader from Scholastic but she is doing it.

I added a new activity for working with her sight words. She is using a large push pin for a bulletin board. J is tracing over the letters of her sight words with the push pin. This is a take on the Montessori map tracing. J also discovered that when you hold it up to the light, you can see the word - pretty cool.

More Wikki stick word practice. We will use these cards for other review.

Word family houses, these are great and we are hanging them on a wall to practice. These were found at Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten for free. She has several downloads available and we have used or will use them all.

J made a chariot from a paper cup. It is a little wobbly but cute. We read about ancient Roman times for Social Studies.

We also made a catapult - super cool. It is really to shoot marshmallows but if we had any marshmallows from 'Merica, we wouldn't be shooting them from a catapult. We chose pom poms. It shot the pom poms very high but it was difficult to aim. We were trying to knock down a tower of paper cups but we could never get it right. So we just had fun shooting pom poms everywhere. The directions for this was found at Devin Collier.

In this photo, you can see what we were aiming for and what we missed.

Lastly, we made a Roman dessert called Honey Cakes. These were gone by the next day! They were really good, the family loved them. So, we have finished another week with Sonlight.Hope your school week has gone well.