Sonlight Week 17

We are still working our way through Sonlight Core A. J loves the chapter books but I believe her favorite Core book is Living Long Ago. She asks daily if we are going to read from it. (We won't be reading from it for a few weeks - I checked) This week, we continued our adventure with Dr. Dolittle, we read about flowers and butterflies. We started a new math book - Horizons book 2 for Kindergarten. We even started working with blends in our reading program! It was a big week.

We reviewed the characteristics of shapes - how many sides, corners and such.

I brought out the Boggle Jr. game to see how she would do. We played with the words covered. She did very well with figuring out the words and spelling them.

I want J to have more experience writing her own sentences. I gave her a clipboard and asked her to use the words from her word wall to create her own sentence. She actually wrote two! Then I had her illustrate it.

Here is her finished product. It says, "I am a dog and I like to dig. Hi it is Sunday and I am yellow." She omitted am in her second sentence but not too bad for her first time. We are still working on handwriting. I will be working on this weekly.

Our letter of the week is O.

She learned how to draw an owl.

J is working on her writing, using her word wall.

I pulled out another word sort page. J worked on og, ot, and op words. She read the cards and sorting them into their word families.

Since we were learning about plants in our Science, we planted some seeds in mini egg terrariums that Grandma and Grandpa sent us for Christmas. J was excited to finally plant the seeds.

J asked to play a game during her break time. We played Chutes and Ladders - this is a great way to review numbers to 100. If you aren't careful, you can end up going the wrong way, you have to keep your eye on the numbers. Kaleb is always in the middle of things - here he is, on my lap, spinning for me. Another full week of Sonlight, we are still moving along. Hope your week was full of discoveries.