I am going to do something a little different this week. Since I did not do weekly updates of our last two weeks before our Christmas vacation, I have decided to give a sneak preview of the week to come. Tomorrow is our first day back after our break, and I’m excited to get back …
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By Daddy K: The ingenuity of youth is endlessly amazing. Our eldest daughter, K, came up with a few Math concepts on her own that simply blew me away. I was so amazed that I had to make my first addition to the Blog. The first concept was chronologically second, but is the easier concept …
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Last night K finished reading an adapted version of Peter Pan. We started it a few weeks ago, and read roughly half of it taking turns reading aloud. I would read a chapter, she should read part of a chapter, and then she would finish the chapter silently before bed. After about chapter 5 or …
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With the recent holidays I have been very busy, so I’m now going to get caught up with a double weekly report. (We did not have school the week of Thanksgiving.) First of all, I don’t think I mentioned the report cards in my last post. For our first term K received E’s (excellent) in …
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H is still loving the Math U See program. Today she finished up Lesson 8, and tomorrow we will slow down and start learning some beginning place value. We will learn about what is called Decimal Street, and will begin the process by making a lapbook of Decimal Street. I hope to take pictures throughout …
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We had a really good week this week. I’m very pleased with the progress we have made. First of all, we finally were able to get the Math U See blocks and student text for H. The day it arrived in the mail, she did 12 pages! She is in the Primer book and it …
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These were taken at a field trip we attended in early October. They got to feed and hold lots of baby animals and K milked a cow. H decided she just liked to look at the cow.
My youngest just had her first spelling test ever, and she got them all right! The words were the, is, cat, hat, and sat. She also read another book today, and did it all by herself without any help from me, other than looking up at me after every sentence for confirmation. I’m so proud …
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We had another great week of school. K got 100% on her spelling test, which included words such as scalp, throw, help, and calf.She also worked on telling time some more, with more emphasis on the concept of after and till. We only have another week or so of this chapter, but we’re taking it …
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