This week was a busy one, complete with J's birthday. We finished reading Ribsy by Beverly Cleary several weeks early. So we will move onto another chapter book that is on my reading list for the year. We read about lions, gazelles, and the savannah. We are in the last few lessons of our Reading Curriculum with our new curriculum waiting in the wings. We are breezing through Level One of All About Reading and will be working through Level Two. We are also just about finished our handwriting book and I am not sure where to go after that. Here's what we did this week...
Another benefit of staying with Grandma and Grandpa is that I am able to raid my teaching bins that are stored in their basement. I guess you could call this week - the week of games. I raided my bins and found all kinds of goodies that I was never able to take to my classroom overseas. This Math Mat was one of the ones to stay in 'Merica. It reviews addition and subtraction of the numbers 1 thru 10. We have been reviewing addition in math every day with flashcards and I thought this would be a fun way to review with movement. She was somewhat intimidated at first but then got into it as it progressed. She has asked to use it every day since then.
Another fun item I found was the Math Wraps. These are cool little key cards that you wrap the string around the correct answer. It takes a little coordination but she got the hang of it. She is still reviewing addition.
J is practicing money with another treasure found in the basement, a game called Spend-Earn by Rocket Minds.
J worked on keeping track of the November calendar. Each day she wrote the date and we reviewed the days of the week. This month was particularly interesting to her because she was counting down to her birthday.
Her story of the week was
We Want Some Too! She practiced it all week.
Since this is her first Thanksgiving in America, we spent the week learning about the Pilgrims and Indians. J worked on a book with pockets. Each day, J learned a new concept about the first Thanksgiving and added all of the projects to the pockets.
Lastly, some pics from last week when we were studying giraffes. We read
Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae.
Then J created a super cute art work with a dancing giraffe. This one turned out so cute that it will be framed and hung in her bedroom. I love it. Busy week coming up. Hope to see you soon.
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