We learned about different types of energy. We continued to read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz which J absolutely loves. I could without the graphic descriptions of the animals dying but she doesn't seemed phased by it. She asks to read this book all the time which has put us way ahead of our schedule. Here are a few activities we did this week.
We learned about different building blocks we needed to make our "life" house strong.
J practiced "take away" using the ten frame and some counters.
J practiced her blends with this free printable reader that I found from...sorry, I seemed to have lost the link.
J is still practicing her sight words could, should and would. She is having difficulty with these so we have been practicing them all week.
I added an alpha handwriting sheet this week. But instead of asking her to write her letters, I asked her to write words that started with each letter. She could use her word wall or dictionary to find words for each letter, if needed. We did this all week. (Kaleb is in the background....playing with letters.)
The included activity sheets are so easy for J to do that I do not even copy them. I do briefly have her go over them.
J finished her word sorts for different e-word families.
Since St. Patrick's Day is around the corner, Art Friday revolved around green crafts. J colored a scene on a paper coffee filter and then sprayed the filter with water. These were then cut out in the shapes of shamrocks.
They also made tissue paper rainbows to hang in our windows. I drew a basic outline of a rainbow on parchment paper.
Then they spread glue over the outline and added small pieces of torn tissue paper. Hope your week was sunny and warm. See you next week;)
Niki we have enjoyed following along with you guys as we do Core A! I can't believe only 12 weeks left! Do you think you will continue with Core B. It looks great! I just don't want to do it too early.. Have a great weekend and St Pat's day..
ReplyDeleteMeg, when I started Core A, I was apprehensive due to some of the readings and such. J has loved this core as well as all of the books that we have read so far. I, too, am looking into Core B. I will probably not buy it until we get to the states. But I plan to more ahead with Sonlight for now. My true wish is that Sonlight would go digital which would allow easier use overseas. What are you guys thinking? Have you had a good experience with Sonlight? Thanks for following along.
ReplyDeleteWe have had a great experience with Sonlight this year. I was a little worried for the same reasons... but Emma has fell in love with the books.. I really would like to continue with Sonlight.. I was thinking of taking a year off and doing American history and then coming back to core B... I have 3 little boys coming behind ... so I would like to be able to combine somehow...And if I wait a year to do Core B then they might be able to get more out of it... However... since I do have 3 (wild, climb the walls, burn your house down when you aren't looking) boys... I love how easy it is to use Sonlight and I don't think I would be good about tracking down books each books.. so I might just do Core B and worry about all that other stuff later.. LOL. Have you looked at Biblioplan? I think they have gone digital.. And they use some of the same books as Sonlight. They weave Biblical history together with secular history ( if thats something you are interested in) .. and they have hands on activities planned for each age group.. along with scheduled leveled readers corresponding to the time period.. I thought that was pretty cool. Thanks for chatting ..have a blessed day!
ReplyDeleteI was also thinking about doing a year of American History/State study due to the fact that we would be in the states next year and have access to the library. I will definitely look into Biblioplan. I found Winter Promise which is Sonlight like but they are only half way digital. Thanks!
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