Caleb did Lesson 8 and took his test. The lesson taught Caleb how to solve for the unknown. He often used his math blocks to help him solve these problems. The lesson reinforced the basic addition facts he knows, while also providing a foundation for subtraction.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Caleb finished his review of the letters of the alphabet, where he drew a picture and wrote words for each letter while also exploring the sounds it makes. He started working with his Word Families book. For each lesson he learns a letter combination, like AD, and we read a story that is filled with AD words. He draws a picture and the AD words in his Main Lesson Book. We play different games to make it fun, like seeing how quickly he can pick out the AD words while listening to the story. The picture he drew was of the dog in the story that took a pad of paper and the sheets of paper ripped off. He wrote the AD words on each piece of paper. For AG, he drew bags that were mentioned in the AG story, and wrote AG words on each bag.
Caleb discovered Elephant & Piggie books, by Mo Willems. He thinks they are hilarious, and practiced reading them aloud often. He loved embellishing the funny parts and making his little brother laugh. "Language Arts is my favorite subject this week!"
SCIENCE
We had some snow fall at our house last weekend. It was a good time to observe how weather changes, how it effects nature, and what makes snowflakes. It was also an intro into learning about the three states of matter: liquid, solid, and gas. We spent time talking about examples of water freezing into solid. We learned a fun song about matter. We spent an afternoon outside burning brush, watching the fire, and talking about invisible gases.
S.S.
We've been exploring maps of the inside of our house, and this week took them outside, mapping a large area around our house. Caleb made up directions to our mailbox, pretending they were for someone who had never been there or couldn't see where it was. He left out exact details, so when we followed his directions we ended up nowhere near the mailbox. We did it again, this time saying things like, "take 3 steps East, turn North and take 10 steps" . . . etc. When we made it exactly to our destination, we found a pretty piece of wasps nest, which Caleb considered to be the prize at the end of a treasure hunt! Caleb mapped the area where we walked, drawing in all the trees and cars used as landmarks. He wrote our address at the top.
All of this work with maps is eventually going to lead us to looking at larger and larger areas: first our house and bedrooms, then our property, then the town and county, then the state, country, etc. The thoroughness is helping give Caleb a good foundation of why and how to use maps.
ART
As I mentioned earlier, the art center changes it's art on exhibit regularly. This week, there is an artist reception where the whole community is invited to view the art and meet the artists. The homeschool kids will be involved with the reception. They will all help to make the food being served, and then they will be dressed in handmade costumes while they serve it. They started costumes last week, and continued working on them this week. The different costumes include crowns, capes, and masks. They are ready and excited for this Friday, the day of the big event!
P.E.
P.E. this week included exercising outside when the weather was good. A blizzard on the Flowery Trail stopped us from attending swimming classes this week. In between rain and snow bursts there were, fortunately, a few dry afternoons to hike outside!
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