What a great week! It's like we hit the ground running and didn't want to stop. I feel like we have been in such a great flow plus I find that I am so much more relaxed. I cannot plan each day because it never works out. I just write it down as we do it, and then over the course of the week I look at what we've done and try to make sure we've covered all the subjects evenly and we keep moving forward.
Science - We did four different experiments at 6:30 Wednesday morning! Wow! It was the first thing Hannah asked to do and I knew we hadn't done any science in a while. We did experiments that involved showing how air works such as blowing air through a straw and making a styrofoam ball float in mid air (so cool). It was a bit hard to do because it made her giggle so much. Making the ball float with the hair dryer was pretty fun as well. :) The "bellowing elephant" was a bust since it was quite startling (to both of us!). It's like when put a blade of grass between your thumbs and blow but it was so much louder!
Math - Hannah is doing addition out the wazoo! I make certain of that. :) Our text is introducing counting by 5's, so I'm counting my 5's really loud in a sing-song voice. Anything to get Hannah to retain it! Then on Friday at the library Hannah starts singing it! :-D I was so tickled! But then she wanted to pretty much perform for the rest of the patrons in the library. LOL I just smiled encouragingly. :)
Reading - We have done a lot of her phonics readers throughout the week, which has been great practice for her. Although we do need to get back to the actual reading text next week. I am pleased to say that she can read all the phonics readers from the Level 1 package. The one she's reading in the picture is "Elk Yelps!" which is considered the more advanced in the package. :) Along with the occasional read aloud from Level 1 readers, we will work from the text to prepare for Level 2!
Handwriting - I think if I had to choose a subject Hannah loathed it would be this one. When I ask her to write her spelling words or practice writing her full name, she rolls her eyes and moans and groans. Flipping through her writing notebook I've noticed a few pages where she's partially written her full name. Sheesh. I'm glad her name isn't any longer. My goodness--her middle name is only two letters! I try to make it a trade off though by telling her she can choose the next subject to work on (which is almost always Early Learner).
Geography - We just started the next section of the workbook which is different types of landforms and bodies of water. We haven't done a GeoPuzzle in a while, but I noticed that the third section in her workbook talks about different continents so I think we'll incorporate the puzzles into that.
Early Learner - Hannah has been doing the 3rd workbook which is noticeably harder than the first two. This is the subject she always picks to do first--she loves doing the mazes and separating various pictures into categories. I wonder what we're going to do when she's all done with this...?
Other pictures from the week:
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| The out-of-place bath tub in the children's library :p |
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This week was also my Grammie's birthday and
we celebrated at my house with a spaghetti dinner
and cake and ice cream. |
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| Autumn sharing her Kix with Violet |
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Hannah loves playing computer games on
the PBS kids website, especially Dinosaur Train,
Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Sid the Science Kid. |
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