A little of what we've done this week...

I've done a horrible job of taking pics this week of school things, but here's some of what we've done...

We've read a lot of books this week about random subjects including a science book today about seasons - why we have nighttime/daytime (God made it & designed it), how the earth spins, orbits the sun, etc.

We've also watched a few neat videos for science this week including Bill Nye (garbage) and Popular Mechanics Roller Coasters and Extreme Sports.  I love taking advantage of our library resources!

For math this week, D began learning about liquid measures and did an estimating activity today with liters of water.  He told me he really likes doing "interactive" math.  His vocabulary makes me laugh sometimes!

He wrote his first story this week after drawing 3 pictures (what happened first, second & last) - it was all about Chain-Chomp (Mario Brother's character).  I was amazed at how well he spelled all the words in his story - he asked me to spell only a few.  I saw capital letters and periods where they needed to be and only a few errors.  Guess all the copywork (with all the grumbles the past year) has paid off?! :o)

He's been reading a TON and this week it's been several of  The Cul-de-sac Kids books by Beverly Lewis.  He's really enjoyed the short mysteries.  Again, I'm thankful for the library!

K had more fun with the dry-erase crayons.  Her drawing abilities are really improving!

She was able to read a story to a dog this week and was VERY excited about it!  The library had therapy dogs for the kids to read stories to and it motivated her to practice reading an easy reader book EVERY school day the past few weeks.  She read to a really cute dog that looked similar to my parent's dog.

She's 3 pages away from finishing up her Earlybird Math book.  She's been flying through the $ unit and earlier this week we had a "store" for her to practice counting change.  She enjoyed it and would do it every day for math if I set it up. :o)

The other day I found a Tangrams workbook that was tucked on a school shelf and pulled it out for D.  He LOVED it.  Solved the first 5 puzzles after he other school work was done earlier one day this week. :o)

We've also played a lot of games including Sum Swamp, Whiz Kidz and Sum It Up.  The kids are always begging for more games!  I LOVE it!