Weeks of May 6 & 13th 2013

It continues to be a  very busy season for Mom with all kinds of appointments …all over the map!
Mr. Kindergarten has been at the Natropath doing food testing to learn about what kind of foods make his body sad…He has fully enjoyed the social element of being the patient” lol ….he is being very diligent and responsible and pleasant with his food restrictions and supplements too !!
Miss Gr # 3 Mr.Gr 6 are heading over to the orthodontist  this week too …eek two sets of braces are on the horizon!
So let’s see over the last two weeks…
We finished up our Dental Unit by Sarah Cooley they were working on learning about teeth and healthy eating.


Here they are last week with our wonderful dentist Dr. Santos and their sticker charts from the week before. {{and another 3 GREAT No cavity reports }}

They Egg Experiment Conclusions have been all documented !

The daily observation charts


The dissection ..



The documented conclusions

Health ! *check


Science ! *check !
We started some new Science Units on Plants. One  from Linda Kamp  over @ Teachers Pay Teachers for Miss Gr 3



They labeled their own Parts Of  A Plant sheets




And one from Rebecca Anderton for Mr. K

Plant Cycle

Cute little books..

and rain ect..

And this one ..


She has these super cute “Sprout Houses” we made for Art …..all laminated and ready waiting on the window …just need the seeds now!



Flower Fact and Opinions



Sentence Corrections

Writing his numbers from 1-100

Sorting living and non-living pictures


Math sheets from from Mr.K


Ea & Ee sorting words


English! * Check!
We worked on a mini Homophone Unit from none other than Sarah Cooley @ Teachers Pay Teachers


Miss Gr 3’s-  Perry the Pear doodle book :)



Miss. Gr 3- matching them up


Mr. K- Matching the definition to the picture


Then he wanted to go back over his Looooooonnnnnggg line and read them allllllllllllll out for us :)

Couple little rounds of “ PINGO” :)



Then we did this little Synonym Unit  by Rachelle Smith @ Teachers Pay Teachers working on some new Fancy Words other than good,sad,fun…



It has been pretty funny hearing them put these into sentences !

Writing! * check !
I was given this little treasure to try out by my friend Camille over @ Flowers in his Garden
{{HER BLOG IS AMAZING}}

Only just cracked it open… and how I love it !!
The simple short lessons are wonderful for catching those frequent spelling and punctuation errors.



THANK YOU CAMILLE !


The picture lessons are short & effective for all the little and medium Abbey kiddos to do verbally with me …love that !


Art Appreciation!! * Check !
OUR “Principal” a.k.a Daddy returned from Spain with a new adoration for Art from the museums he toured in Madrid ! He has always LOVED the Starry Night by Van Gogh



The kids had fun talking about this one from Picasso

AND lookey loo what I found over @Confessions of a Homeschooler
Worlds Famous Artists Volume 1


Here is the first booklet we will be working on.

Love this ! They will learn the style,technique,era ,  AND the artists /  names of the paintings….Confessions has two volumes so it should keep us VERY busy for a few years !