Princess M - Pre-TOGGLER
This week we finished up the letter C. Since Nanny was in town, the big project was to make cookies.
We decided to make cookies shaped like the letters we had studied so far.
Unfortunately, we forgot how much snickerdoodles spread, so our cookies ended up very fat, and not looking at all like the letters they were shaped like.
But they still tasted awesome!
She made a pom pom caterpiller.
We counted and measured with our caterpillar.
We made a C caterpillar picture.
And finally, our C puppet was a black cat, just like our Oskar cat.
One thing that I have been mixing in with our Letter of the Week curriculum are the letter stories that go with IEW PAL that we are using with Princess L. She LOVES these, and they are helping her to really retain the short sounds of the vowels, and the consonants we've done so far. I work in a review of these letter stories at least once a week. She gives me the nickname for the letter (which is the memory clue to help write the letter,) then it's name, and finally it's short sound. Next week it's on to D for dinosaur!
Princess L - 1st Grade - LG
This was a busy week for Princess L. She has, officially, one lesson left of IEW PAL reading. She has been working through the discovery cards. She is currently up to pack 20. We will plan to finish them by the end of next week. She also finished up lesson 8 in Math-U-See. We moved on to lesson 9 - which is, incidentally, adding with nines. I have always loved this lesson! Every time they look at what they perceive to be big numbers and say to me, "I won't ever be able to get this." But once they learn the secret to adding nine to any number, it turns out to be easy. And they are so pleased with themselves. It is always an ego boost. That is what happened this week for Princess L with this lesson. Since Calculadder goes in a different sequence than MUS, I ended up making my own drill sheet for this one. She is also finishing up Explode the Code book 3, and we will begin book 4 next week. I like this series because she has reached a point where she can read the directions and do everything almost completely by herself.
Princess S - 5th Grade - UG
This week in TOG, we studied the ancient Americas. The focus in year one is on the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas. In year two there are other tribes that are studied. These big three tend to be the more violent ones, so we tend to go a bit light on some the details for the more tender-hearted princess of the group. She began lesson 8 in Latin, finished lesson 8 in Caesar's English, and week 13 of Fix-It Grammar. This next week has us beginning Ancient Greece, and this princess has been looking forward to D'Aulaire's Greek Myths. She has read it several times.
Princess E - 7th Grade - D
Princess E finished up module 6 in science, and lesson 12 in Latin. In The Magic Lens, she is almost to the point where she will begin the first loop. She also prepared for her level three piano exam. She said she felt pretty good about it, so we are anxiously awaiting her scores.
In another month the girls will begin to work on their songs for Festival, which is in February. My how time flies in the music world! Hearing Princess L beginning on piano reminds me of how far Princess E has come in such a relatively short time. Princess L seems to be doing the same thing that Princess E does - play by ear rather than reading the music. It comes naturally to Princess E - a gift really. Perhaps we will see Princess L with this gift as well. Princess S, while she can do some things by ear, seems to follow my footsteps of reading the music well. Praise be to God for their gifts and talents!
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