Books, Books and More Books - Weekly Report

This week started off slow. Sophie was still not totally herself on Monday but I went ahead and did our normal Daily work. I had a little more resistance than normal but we made it through. There was some crying because for some reason Sophie couldn't remember how to add and subtract. We have been doing multiplication and division for a few weeks and then we hit the end of book review and she had completely forgotten how to add multiple numbers together or how to borrow in order to subtract. I think she was just tired or not quite well because she did the work just fine she just complained a lot. But we did finish her Singapore Math 2A book and will be moving on to the 2B book. We are chugging away at math well.... most of the time.

History is always a favorite subject. We have been reading Castle Diary all week and have almost finished it. We also really loved Aliki's Medieval feast. The kids were fascinated by the different dished that they made. Sophie has been drawing pictures of the long tables covered in the fancy dishes.

We are really enjoying this part of our history studies. I don't want to rush through it so we may not move on to the next chapters of SOTW yet. We have a whole bunch of books about castles and this time period. I can't say we have done any real projects related to our castle study but the kids don't seem to mind. Reading books is fine by them.

We haven't read through all of these yet and I actually took this picture before we went to the Library on Thursday. I returned the ones we had already read and got a handful more so they aren't all pictured here. My kids of course love the Ms. Frizzle's adventures, Medieval Castle. Each of the kids has poured over this book.

Along with Castle books we have also been reading a bunch of books about Deserts. We have found that most of these books seem to talk about the same animals and plants.
We have really enjoyed some of the videos on Deserts that I found at the library. Jeff Corwin videos are their new favorites. But they also really enjoyed the Reading Rainbow episode I found Alejandro's Gift.

We have been reading a few books about photography as well.
Again, we haven't read all of these yet but plan to before the end of the month.

Ian is doing great with Explode the Code. He finished the Get Ready for the Code primer this week and is excited to start the next one. He is also happily doing a bit of math each day and is working through his Earlybird math book each day.

Sophie's language lessons this week went pretty well. On monday we did a bit of dictation and she fought it but did it alright. The words that she didn't spell correctly I wrote down. At her next language lesson she was to write a sentence using those words. She asked to do this since she didn't like me telling her what to write. She wrote the sentences without a fight. We may try this again.

Along with our school work we also had a lot of play time. The kids have had the Knex out everyday. They are getting very creative with them.


There was also a bit of outside time each day.

So life here isn't all books but they certainly play a prominent role!