Week Six

It was nice to have a break last week, but we got right back to the grind this week. To be honest, it was an "okay" week. I had to deal with some undesirable behavior from one of my children throughout the week. So tiresome. And I was pulled in a lot of different directions this week, so my attention to school was a bit lacking. Anyway, besides all that the rest of the week went pretty well. Here is a run down of our week...

Bible

Our memory verse this week is Matthew 4:19, "Come follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." We talked a lot about how God calls us to follow him and often asks us to leave our comfort zones. As I presented this to the kids, my tenderhearted Julia got all teary eyed thinking about leaving her family right now at the age of 6. She is such a sweet girl. I assured her that God may ask her to leave her comfort zone in many ways other than leaving her family and home.

Geography

We are still exploring the country of Mexico as well as Central America. This week we learned about farming and industry in Mexico, interesting facts about the Mexican flag, and the nature and climate of Mexico. We played the North America geography game again. The kids (and me) have all but a few of the countries' locations memorized. Wednesday we had a Mexican feast... tacos and homemade empanadas for dessert. I had planned to let the kids make their own pinatas and display their painted Mexican inspired pottery, but alas we didn't have time to make the pinatas and our pottery is still not all painted. The tacos and empanadas were yummy though!!

Ready to celebrate Mexico

 

 

TACOS

She loves to be in the kitchen

Mmmmm, peach empanadas

All Smiles

 

Painting her Mexican pottery

N. Am. Geography Game

Science

We have been continuing to learn about deserts and how the animals and plants cope with the dryness. We also learned about oases.

Music

This week we learned two new songs. One from Puerto Rico called El Coqui (the frog) and the other from Jamaica called Chi Chi Bud (chi chi bird) We had a lot of fun singing and dancing to these songs.



Poetry

This week our poem was Fly Away, Fly Away by Christina Rossetti. We discussed the feeling evoked by this poem and also about alliteration and lymric poetry.

Reading

Both kids learned about figurative language through their Skill Builders books. They got a kick out of some of the idioms we talked about! 


Isaac

Here are a few things Isaac is learning this week...
*multiplication by 5
*tricks for multiplying 5 by larger numbers
*word tenses
*correct usage of most and almost
*oral reading skills


Julia

Here are a few things Julia is learning this week...
*counting and writing numbers 1 to 100 (she found this quite boring - ha!)
*correct usage of a and an
*writing compositions
*answering questions in complete sentences

Caleb

This week Caleb learned the rhyme "Baa Baa Black Sheep". He made learned to count objects to three, learned to recognize the number three, and learned about triangles. We also worked on some fine motor skills by stringing beads and playing with play dough. I got out my Dr. Jean CDs and introduced him to some fun songs. This week we sang and learned "Going on a Bear Hunt" and "Baby Bumblebee". I wish I could have videoed him doing the motions for the bear hunt song. So very cute!!

I was very distracted this week getting things ready for my husband's 40th birthday this weekend. We are having some family fun on his actual birthday which is Friday, then we are having a party for him on Saturday. So with all that going on as well as keeping up with school, it has been a VERY busy and hectic week. On top of that, I am nearing 8 months of pregnancy and have started to get very uncomfortable, tired, and dealing with a ton of Braxton Hicks contractions. All that to say, I am worn out. We may not have accomplished everything I wanted to this week, but I am very happy that we got done what we did. Better than nothing, right?!