Week 3

MATH
Caleb started in his math workbook this week.  The first lesson is about place value and reading 3-digit numbers.  He uses manipulatives (math blocks) along with his workbook.  He did really good and enjoyed exercises on "decimal street," where I write a number and he builds it, then says it.

 
 

LANGUAGE ARTS
We have been reviewing a few letters each week.  Caleb writes them alone, in upper and lowercase, and then in words or sentences.  We learn a tongue-twister or rhyme for each letter, that helps him remember the sound it makes.  He draws a picture that also reinforces the sound.  The book he does these exercises in is called his Main Lesson Book (MLB).  He also wrote sentences to go along with pictures of our recent trip to the ocean.  We put them together to make a book.  This week worked on reading 2 books aloud from the Real Kids Readers collection.

Here is a picture of a page in his MLB for the letter H.  The sentence is hard to read, but says "Tree houses high in a tree":

He did better writing sentences for his ocean book, as he remembered to properly space the words.  Here's a few pages:

 

SCIENCE
We're finishing up an Ocean Unit that involved reading and learning about the ocean habitat, ocean food webs, and other ocean facts.  Caleb has done some different worksheets and things that he is putting together into one big book.  He will continue to work on it and hopefully be done next week, and I will post pictures then.  This month, he has taken nature hikes several times a week where he can study and observe nature.  Last week he was introduced to the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees, and glued samples into his science MLB.  He has continued to observe our local trees, collect nature samples and witness the changing of the seasons.

 

 SOCIAL STUDIES

Last week we finished reading "A Street Through Time" which does a beautiful job illustrating changes throughout history, starting with the stone ages.  We didn't introduce new material in SS this week, but have started another book and will continue to read about the earliest people and the stone ages.

ART
He did a variety of painting and colored pencil drawings this week.  Here is a watercolor/sand absorbtion painting he did at Greenwood:

P.E.
On Mondays, our friend Janelle takes Caleb and other kids to the park to exercise and play outdoor games.  This week they played a ball game.  At Greenwood, Caleb helped build and participate in obstacle courses that involved slides, trampolines, and balance beams.