Week of January 20th

This week Miss. Grade 3 worked on…
Adorning our calendar wall with her beautiful snowman
ART drawings :)

{ her art  below is all her favorite candy }

…getting used to her new adjusted school schedule &

Chore RESPONSIBILITES…..

{ the twins turned five last week and can help now so the bigger kids chores all shifted :}
She is the one who gets to take out the dog first thing in the morning now…her biggest brother was really enjoying that change…until he realized he has to take her out last thing at night :)


Independent READING: She has been begging me to read her big sisters novel Soul Surfer ..so I took pity on her recovery boredom after the flu last week and she has read through chapters 1-6.


Novel Study : These Are My People

She worked on decoding Chinese pictographs

and remembering different facts about two settings in the story.

She sneaks in to listen the the Five In A Row books too still :) …and she is handy to have there for the comprehension discussions when the little guys get stuck.

This week we discussed the Art in this beautiful book …SHE Loves Art so we talked about the shadowing / shading we tried to decide in each picture if it was grey or blue or green or black we saw in the shadows. We also talked about how wonderful I is that God has made us Winter to enjoy …as his art outside our windows.


HANDWRITING: She l.o.v.e.s her lessons from B.J.



Math: we are getting ready to switch from Bob Jones over to Math U See to teach her multiplication in their Gamma book.

This week she was working on place value with rounding tens hundreds and thousands ,standard form and expanded forms,roman numerals,least to greatest



She chose her little brothers Math File Folder game for a little brain break


Bible: Unit 2 Part Three
She was working on pages 29-32

Obeying caution signs…{she can help her big sister with her driving study book !}
English: she is working with Nouns…oh all of the many kinds of nouns…
Writing: Just journal prompts for this week



Reading: New Year in a New Land -work book pg. 79-82


This week Mr.Kindergarten worked on …..
{ It is so easy to document what he is up to with not using the computer for alllll his lessons }
In phonics….pages 193-197

Sh & Ch sound blends
File Folder game for extra practice

In his novel study book Days Go BY  pages 25-27

I am going to be moving him from half a page to a full page a day now as his printing improves with his new printing book his little hands will be able to keep up.

He loves to devour his big sisters dog books. This week he read the Bella one.

This one was 82 pages long.

He has a new printing book ! Miss Grade 3’s printing changed in leaps and bounds once she started using  book A -so I am looking forward to watching his change too.

Practice lessons 1-4

I can already see  an improvement towards the end of the week compared to the above in hi novel study at the beginning of the week.

In Math U See: lessons 19-21 he is motoring through his Primer math book

finding the missing math fact

using the manipulative
has his 10 down pat…still gets stuck on his 2’s though past 20

Has really done well grasping the hundreds place value

Doing well with adding 10’s

Used some file folder games with his manipulative to show the numbers




Another day we worked on this file folder game from Around the Kampfire

Putting them in order from least to greatest.



Graphing, tally marks, and weather worksheet from his calendar notebook





Our Five In A Row book this week is….

A nice easy read for recovering from a week of Mom being up with the next batch of sick kids every other day!
We just talked about the different seasons with it now being Winter.

We counted the hidden animals in the forest and talked about how God made all the season for us to enjoy…it is just like he painted us art allllll year long to see outside our window.

States of the week were: New Mexico and Texas. Kids found them on the globe and colored them on the map


Health was a lesson and coloring page (for art ) on Responsibility and …speaking of responsibilities …


At home… we had three birthdays last week ! The twins turned five and spent their day throwing up from the flu :(  And we are now the proud parents of a sweet sixteen year old ! )
So this week we have made some changes in the kids chores …. to pass some “zone responsibilities ” on  to our new “big enough now” boys.. here is Mr. Kindergarten’s new schedule and chore list with the updates.

He is doing really well with them ! I don’t see any of this as being a area of weakness with this little guy :) He loves to accomplish things!


He has a new Art book coming in the mail from I Can Do All Things….his book that he authored and illustrated is at the Printers!
We didn’t do school Monday recovering from the birthday party extravaganza weekend and catching up on m.a.j.o.r laundry and bleach cleaning from the flu bug…so no character studies this week or memory verses.