Week 3- A Week In Review

This week has just gone by so fast. Its Friday and, I realized I havent blogged all week. One of our biggest pieces of news is: WE ARE MOVING BACK TO CONNECTICUT IN JANUARY!!! We are all so homesick, its just time to go home. My very good friend Brenda will be taking over Canton Area Homeschoolers more and more as we get closer to the date and I will be helping her set up outside activites through the rest of the year. I will still be helping my extra students long distance as well.

Nacho's week... His online charter school has had many many computer issues. The foreign language courses are down and reset, so no Japanese this week. I did get my first chance to see his progress yesterday and apartently, he is not doing as well as he thought. I have made a few calls today and, starting next week, he will have an English tutor and a general tutor coming to the house once a week each to help him.

Lola is in San Fransisco this week!! I put my baby on a plane all by herself yesterday and she arrived safely in California. So far she has swan in the Pacific Ocean, sightsaw from Twin Peaks, gone shopping, cooked dinner and slept. She will be home on the 8th.
As far as school wise, the same online charter school that is messing with Nacho, has lost her major math test and she will need to retake the test when she gets home. She and I are both annoyed, as she has already taken this test, stressed over this test and now she has to take it again. Her French is also gone, as it is the same course site. She has been keeping up with her French using Primsleur's French CDs and some workbook pages I printed for her last school year.

Coco just amazes me more and more each week. We do have an issue with the homeschooling office at the BOE, as they rejected her notification. I didnt get her an assesment (and more then likely wont be this year either) I have called the office and the man in charge is on vacation until next week... another battle for another time.
Heres what shes been doing this week:
In her Daily Drills book, she has moved from daily language arts excerises to daily math excersises... lets just say, she was not excited lol
In spelling, she put her words in ABC order on Monday and put the same words in sentences on Tuesday. On Wednesday, she corrected her sentences. Today was her test and she got 100%
cloud quest flax still trim door clung loft pulp grape pose
*Best Spelling Sentence of the Week Award*
I have four cheeks on my body.
In Social Studies, we learned about Burkes and Willis, who were Australian explorers from the 1800s. We read a page from www.enchantedlearning.com and completed a worksheet from the same site. We had a hard time finding a book about them at the library, but our Usborne book had a short story. We also wrote out their info cards and posted them on the timeline, as well as marking their voyage on the great wall map.
In Language Arts, we worked with sentence parts. We worked in the Scholastic Success Grammar book, the Comprehensive Curriculum book and on our Laidlaw Language Arts 4 book.
In Math, we started reviewing subtraction. I printed all the pages from www.theteacherscorner.net.
In Science, we are working with using Scientific Models. We used worksheets from www.teachervision.fen.com and www.instructorweb.com and we did a science expierement using eggs and vinegar that will be posted in a later blog entry.

Fifi has been less enthusiastic about school so, in true homeschooling mom style, I snuck it in via games, tv and storybooks.
In spelling, we used week 4 of 100 words your 1st grader should know. We wrote them in ABC order, wrote them 3 times each and made up oral sentences with the words. We also did the three workbook pages that correlate with the words.
In Social Studies, we are finishing up our Scholastic Success Maps book and for our final project we made a map of our neighborhood showing streets, directionals and keys for parks, buildings and wooded areas.
In Language Arts, we worked with making complete sentences. We used our Scholastic Success Grammar book and pages from www.teacherspayteachers.com We also spent alot of time writing out sentences to help her with her penmanship.
In Phonics we worked on tongue twisters, and words with the "an" and "at" sounds.
In Math, we have given up on working with money. She is just not getting it at this point. We have moved the lessons around to work with addition and subtraction. We also played with counting by 1s, 2s and 5s with our Scholastic Success Math workbook, and Disneys 1st grade Math. We also spent some time over the weekend and Thursday working with plotting coordinates and graph art. Both girls love it!

On Thursday we went to our first day at the Stark County Fair and saw all kinds of farming animals. We will be going back on Sunday for a full day. Be sure to come back Monday to see the pictures!!