week 5 review

(week 5: June 13-17, 2011)

Monday through Thursday were regular days, including our library hour on Tuesday. On Friday, we had an art day - we made Father's Day cards for Dad and Grandpa, and while Birdie was taking her nap, the older girls painted. Posy's attention span at art projects lasts substantially longer than Sunny's.

Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 130:18-19. "Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. And if a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come."

Handwriting: capital letters T, V, W, and X.

Math: even/odd numbers and skip counting. These are on the skills checklist from the state.
M - we played a board game called Pop-n-Hop (I had this as a kid and it was called Trouble then). If the number on the dice was even, we went forward. If it was odd, we went backward. We didn't actually finish the game, we just kind of quit after awhile. But the girls remembered which numbers were even and which were odd!
T - we reviewed even/odd with reading a book from the library which explained the concept of grouping by twos rather than just memorizing which numbers are even or odd. Quite frankly, it wasn't anything that had ever really occurred to me, so I was happy to read it for my own knowledge base!
W - skip counting by 5s and 10s, and we read the even/odd library book again as well as a "more than, less than" book. We also discussed telling time, and how skip counting by 5s figures in to reading the clock.
Th - more skip counting practice and we read the library books again. The concepts are being reinforced for Posy with the repetition even though I think her comprehension level is lower than Sunny's.

Literature: We finished all the Greek myths I could find at the library and moved on to Aesop's Fables. We have an old collection book from when AC was a kid, and I'm reading 5 at a time with Sunny. She's also picking up the book and reading through it on her own.

Science: The tomatoes are starting to turn red! We also picked three more cucumbers. (I had no idea that non-store cucumbers actually have tiny spines on them, making them feel prickly.) We read a couple of books from the library about how plants grow. AC and Sunny also made oobleck, which was one of the more interesting things I've ever seen. Weird properties! AC was excited because it was the first experiment they've tried from a Scholastic science kit/book (with about 25 experiments in it) that actually worked.