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Weekly Wrap-up


It's Friday and another week has passed by.

We moved along in school. In Math we started addition with regrouping and Zach seems to catch on nicely. We also played some math games, namely Go Fish 1 and Go Fish 2, which idea I got from Dr. Mike Math.The kids really like it.

In English we covered compound nouns and singular and plural. I started read-alouds again with Zach. We started with The Trumpet of the Swan. Zach enjoyed the first chapter I think.

We also covered geography,  Handwriting and Bible.

We had a field trip yesterday to St Marie among the Hurons where we learned about some of the first settlers here in Canada.







Some of our regular subjects got skipped this week as I declared a no-school day today. Joho and I did make cookies today though.

I finally started rehearsing for a variety show coming up in October. We decided on which chapter of Charlotte's Web Zach is going to recite, since he knows most of the chapters by heart. I am also having both of them sing a song from Steve Green's Hide Them in Your Heart. I think I've got a lot of work to do as they do not seem to be able to stand still for 2 seconds. I think I am going to have to put something in Zach's hands to keep them down. . .

Also Zach started listening to The Little House on the Prairie as part of his nightly reading.

And that is it for our short week.

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Rebecca said…
What an awesome field trip! Can't wait to hear how you memorize Charlotte's Web!
September 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM
The Chemist said…
Thanks for the link to the Dr. Mike Math site. I've found several things that I can use.

Jamie
September 24, 2010 at 12:50 PM
Ellen said…
What a great week! Loved the cookie-baking day. :-)
September 24, 2010 at 1:06 PM
Phyllis said…
Wow, a wonderful field trip! Cool photos!
September 24, 2010 at 1:30 PM
Amy said…
Oooh, that math link looks great! Good luck getting busy hands still... I'm working on the same situation for a wedding my boy is reciting scripture in next week. :)
September 24, 2010 at 7:43 PM
Edwena said…
What a great week!!! We too are going to read Trumpet of the Swan this year.
September 24, 2010 at 9:33 PM
Samantha said…
The field trip that you took looks really good. I adore living history. It sounds like you had a good week. Sometimes you just have to take some time off and make cookies!

Samantha
September 29, 2010 at 10:21 AM
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