2/14/11

TOG Year 4 Week 24

This past week was a busy week.  We learned about the first year of JFK's presidency and about the freedom rides.  We learned about the Bay of Pigs incident, and about the beginning of the moon flights.  But, because Nanny was with us this week, we focused only on our Tapestry studies and our individual work.  Group work was set aside for time with Nanny.  She was a big help and took the lead in doing some early spring cleaning with the big two girls in their bedrooms.  She also got me started on a weighted blanket for Princess S.  I have a plan now to hopefully have it finished by the time spring break roles around in a few weeks.


Princess E - 6th Grade - Dialectic
Latin for Children Primer A: Finish lesson 25 and begin lesson 26
Math-U-See Epsilon: After spending some time during her free week watching the DVD myself, I made a deal with Princess E, as I believe that this book is going to be a bit on the easy side for her.  I told her that after watching the video and playing with the manipulatives, she can choose which worksheet - A,B or C - she wants to do.  If she can get 100% (not 99.5%) on that sheet, then she can go straight do the review sheets for the lesson.  She must do all of those as they often contain word problems which I think are so essential.  If she doesn't get at least 85% on the test, then she has to go back and do the other two remaining worksheets. 
IEW: skipped due to Nanny's visit
Foundations 1:  Prefix FORE-
MCT Language Arts:  skipped due to Nanny's visit
Practice Island: Sentence 43-46
McCrabbs: 46-50
Science:  skipped due to Nanny's visit
TOG Yr4 Wk23: Timeline; SAPs; AQ/TQs; Reading - Onion John, A Dream of Freedom, Idiot's Guide, Jim Elliot, The Making of Modern Africa.  Read Aloud - The Story of the World, Volume 4.
 
Princess S - 4th Grade - UG
Growing With Grammar 4: Chapter 5.6 to 5.8
Math-U-See Delta: She enjoyed her week off from math and will begin Delta on Monday.
IEW, MCT Language Arts, McCrabbs and Science: same as above
TOG Yr4 Wk22: Quizlet vocab; important people; SAPs; Reading - All the People, Martin Luther King Jr, Nate Saint; The Phantom Tollbooth.  Read Aloud - same as above.

Princess L - K - LG
MFW First Grade: Lessons 45-49.
Math-U-See Alpha:  Lesson 1 - this was all review, technically, but we're working on saying the "teen" numbers correctly.  She always gets these confused with the "t" numbers - for example seventeen with seventy, so we spent a bit more time on that. Also we're trying to focus on writing the numbers a little better.  Instead of making a snowman for "8", she is working on making an "s" with a straight line.
Explode the Code:  pgs. 85-89  We haven't used this in a while but I decided to go back and finish this one and move on to the next.  Though these are quite easy for her, I think she needs the pencil practice and it is nice for her to have something that she perceives as being easy to make her feel smart.

Princess M - PreTOGger
She spent a lot of time with Nanny coloring pictures and reading books.

The girls also got to pick out a box of Valentines from Target and spent some time figuring out who to give each one.  They will give them to kids from their Sunday School classes and their Awana book groups.

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