Friday Flood

We rearranged our days a bit this week so I'm now schooling K in the morning and D in the afternoon during C's naptime. This helps D concentrate on his work better and not get so frustrated with C trying to get my attention! This also means I lose my 1-2 hour window of trying to get some other things accomplished. Oh well, it's this "season" of life right now. :o)

We ended our week with K doing LHTH Unit 2/Day 3 and D doing Beyond Unit 2/Day 3...

K loved getting to do the "sink/float" science activity after reading about Noah in the ark and all the rain/flood. I put her over on the unfinished side of our basement, so the carpet in the play/school room wouldn't get flooded! She tested out a few objects that would sink/float and then had fun pouring water from the pitcher into cups. :o)


She's sporting her glasses now...they're pink with sparkles on the sides! :o)
K completed Lesson #10 of 100 Easy Lessons on Friday. She is remembering her letter sounds and doing a great job carefully putting the sounds together to read words like... am, see, sat! She keeps flipping ahead in the book (like D always did) looking to see the words she'll read next. She's anxious to get to the stories & pictures!

D enjoys his math activities we're following from the guide (why I didnt' think about ordering the Beyond guide ahead last year to follow the 1A/1B plans, I'll never know! ;o). I decided to have him go back to a few pages of Singapore 1B where we left off at the end of last school year. There were a few concepts I felt he really needed to go through prior to continuing with 2A this year. He was adding 3 numbers together for Friday's work and especially liked that I had a few butterscotch chips left for him to "add" together and then eat! D writing out his spelling words on the marker board - his favorite way to write! He was supposed to dictate/write sentences as suggested in the guide, but he wanted to write the words again. He did a great job and only misspelled "when" again. He reverses the "n" and "e." He was getting discouraged earlier in the week about doing his spelling work, after he noticed the difference between List 1 words and List 2 words. I switched to List 2 because I felt would challenge him more (and I was right). I told him that first day he was a "Super-Speller" even if he has trouble with a few words. It's why we do Spelling as a part of our school day. :o) That little comment about being a Super-Speller" totally changed his entire attitude about the words. It was amazing. He sits down to write his words and tells me he's a "Super-Speller" so he can do it!