Monday, October 15

I didnt get a chance to do the blog last week, I'll give a quick update. Wednesday was milk pickup day and I also went to the eye doctor.  In between, we had a full math lesson and reading too.  Thursday we did our spelling test, 100%, worked on geography and our map for South America.  We got all the pictures for animals of South America cut out and pasted on our page. We also looked at our book for the 3 children of S.A that we will read this week.   Did a full math lesson and the next devotional story. We also reviewed the pages she missed from last weeks religious ed class since the tree people were at our house and she didnt get to go.   Friday was a sick day, so we didnt have any actual lessons.  Saturday was Roper Mountain Insect day, and I will make another blog about that with pics soon! Still 5 official school days count for this week since we went to Roper Mountain. 

Today- 
Opening prayers-  we both officially know the entire student prayer by heart after 6 weeks of saying it. Sylvie learned it as of last week actually.  We are now working on the St. Michael prayer and the act of contrition as well.  We looked through the 2012 missal and talked about how we use it, what dates are important etc.  We read Ch 8 of Faith and Life-the 10 commandments and reviewed the commandments for children.

Math- Did lesson 22.  All about story problems. She is very bored with this and it is too easy.  She was totally annoyed that we did 5 problems togther on the white board, and then she had to do 3 more in her workbook.  Did fact test of plus 2, She got 15/25 on the plus 2 facts, but it is new and we didnt do them since last Thurs. We worked on time and money.  

We took a snack break, then learned about Sugar Gliders because we met a lady at Roper Mountain who had one in her scarf.  We learned about the word disaueding and drawbacks.  We did some reasearch and found this information on Sugar Gliders- 
Sugar Gliders . they sure are cute, but after reading about them, we don't think we would want one as a pet! 

Spelling- sounds ending in er, er, y as EE. did page 1 of the lesson.

Grammar- worked on Before and After concept. 

Map Skills- did page 9, understanding a map key 

Did 1 handwriting lesson.