Winter Promise Week 14

We are in week 14 of Winter Promise and still moving along. This week our focus animal was the cheetah. We also started a new chapter book - Poppy by Avi. J discovered the joy to listening to a book on CD while traveling this week. J started subtraction and learning about quarters. She went to her first Christmas parade and first picture with Santa (not sure it went well).

J worked with her fraction circles to practice fractions. So far she has learned about halves, thirds, and fourths.

She is in her final lessons of All About Reading level 1. J is excited that soon she will be opening her new reading books. Here she is working with compound words, breaking them up to make them easier to read.

She started a new Explode the Code book 3 this week as well. We are working through this series and have been since last year.

She read her story of the week - Cat Traps. She reads it every day for fluency practice.

We discussed singular and plural nouns. Then she went through the story, found all of the singular nouns and wrote them on a chart. She made them plural by adding s.

J is working on her notebook page for cheetahs for her animal notebook.

One new activity I added was an Elf on the Shelf journal. J has loves the antics of Jingle, our elf from the North Pole, and the journal allows her to write what he has done and draw a picture. We finished the week with a picture with Santa (sort of), seeing the Christmas decorations at the mall, buying the kids' first ornament for the tree, and taking J Christmas shopping for her family. What a nice ending. Hope your week wasn't too stressful. Enjoy the season.