I am not giving up on sharing Weekly Wrap-up post, however, mine are more like couple-of-monthly wrap ups. Below will give you a peek at what I captured from about late October – December 2013.
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We wrapped up our Australia Continent Box and each child plowed through their Continent Box Challenge. We took an afternoon all together one day to do lots of Australia work and finish up the challenges. Ladybug colored about every Australian animal we had, and then some! See all of our Australia ideas here on our Pinterest board!
One of the favorites during a continent study is opening any Little Passports packages we have from that continent. I save them all to open when we study the continent. We had one package saved for Australia!
We are still using our Picture Smart Bible, although we have gone way too slowly in my opinion. The boys both LOVE this and so do I, I just always seem to forget about it since it is an extra for us. I only use this with the boys, not Ladybug.
See our Homeschool Curriculum Choices for this year!
Krash finished up all of the lowercase letters and most of the uppercase from Logic of English’s Cursive Handwriting program. We both love the program and would definitely recommend it!
We are continuing to use All About Spelling 2 and three All About Reading 2 in place of Calvert’s spelling and phonics components.
When reading either from the All About Reading book or the fluency sheets, he is usually moving somehow! Here he was doing mushroom work {pommel horse trainer} while reading. He would read a page and do some circles, then read more and circle more.
We continue to love Singapore’s Math in Focus that Calvert offers now. He recently learned multiplication and we enjoyed many hands on activities to help him. Below he was using our cookies to work…
Many of our Spielgaben pieces came into action during this unit. They were VERY helpful to him.
Math in Focus has lots of word problems, which I normally hate but LOVE now. He is forced to THINK, deeply. He can solve much higher level problems than P could at this age.
We have other supplemental math items too, he enjoyed the Multiplication Wrap Up as he was learning to multiply.
Playing with the Base Ten Blocks has become a favorite too.
We are using Calvert’s science and finished up learning about seeds and plants. This experiment was about how roots always grow down.
He has also been learning about landforms and the earth. Below he was making a model of how an island forms in water.
A mini model of the Earth…
Krash is a builder, and loves to follow directions and complete big projects. Ladybug wanted me to make her this huge dinosaur in the manual for Zoobs, I kindly said, “not right now.” K chimed in and offered to make it for her!
Pac was upstairs, and K decided to be funny and leave the dino working at P’s desk.
I don’t get many photos of PacMan, since 6th grade isn’t always a photo-worthy as the younger grades!
He made it through his poetry book {not very enthusiastically}, One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children. He is now enjoying a fiction novel again, Esperanza Rising. He GREATLY prefers novels.
We have been referring to our Big Book of History Timeline during our history lessons recently. It is a neat resource to have and get out to compare.
6th grade science overwhelms me. I honestly just don’t enjoy it, but he does. I love history and could read it all day long with him, he prefers the science. Below he was completing one of his experiments involving baking soda, vinegar and a flame. I found this online that explains what we did.
That’s certainly not everything we did, but a glimpse of what my camera captured over the final months of 2013! To see more weekly wrap-ups, visit…
