Aug 30, 2011

Catching up on my blogging of the school work. We've been working on lapbooks again. The girls are really responding to those. Serena has started lapbooks for the states she has been learning about. Aleah has been working on numbers/letters/colors.

So an update for today. Serena finished her Alabama lapbook. Gotta work on gluing neatly! It's a little messy due to that, but she did a great job. She can recall most of the facts she learned as well. The lapbook also covered parts that her workbook did not so she learned extra things.

Aleah has completed 2 lapbooks since I last blogged. She did the number 1 and today she did a lapbook on colors.

I won't go into detail here on the blog, because I really need to get everything written down in the lesson plan books and grade books, but things are going great!

Yesterday, Monday Aug. 29, 11, was an off day due to the fact that Serena had a midday eye appointment. She will be getting reading glasses, a very low prescription, to help her with smaller font. But we worked on Sunday afternoon to make up for missing yesterday.

August 24, 2011

Day 3 of lapbooks. Today Serena finished up her lapbook on Mammals. She did really well and we'll certainly refer back to it for refreshing her on the subject.  Aleah has completed 3 lapbooks. She did letters Z and K and the number 8.  We'll also continue to use her books as well. The girls loved this addition to school. 

Aleah's Lapbooks

Serena's Lapbook

Week of 8.23 - 8.26

This week we are working on lapbooks. Serena is working on one about mammals as a follow up to her lessons for the last 3 weeks. Aleah is doing smaller lapbooks on various letters and numbers.
This method of learning is going really well. The girls are enjoying the entire process! I'll be posting photos of the finished products at the end of the week!
I am thinking of doing 3 weeks of lessons followed by a week of lapbooking to review the three weeks main studies!

Aug 16, 2011 - Aug 18, 2011

Ok, I'm combining three days work into this blog because time simply got away from me and I didn't get to blog the girls school work.
For the last 3 school days (16, 17, & 18) this is what the girls have done.

Serena
16th
Spelling: at family, ad family all family, an family
Reading Skills: Using clues for story numbering. Color Words. Using Clues to deduce a pictures answers. Making a Poem. Rhyme and Riddles using clues to find the answer. Reading a story and answering the question about the story.
Math: addition, adding tens and ones,

17th
Spelling: Short i sounds, Word Search for short i words,
Animal Science : Kangaroo, Lion, Panda, Tiger, Koala, Birds
Math: Subraction,
Time, Money, and Fractions : Nickel (counting by 5's)

18th
Spelling: Short O sounds, Crossword with Short O words
Animal Science: Eagle, Flamingo, Hummingbird
Math: Subtraction (Finished Subtraction Review Section)
Time, Money, and Fractions: Dime and Quarter (counting by 10's and 25's), Fractions of a Set,

Aleah (On the 17th she had a free day) She hasn't been in the school frame of mind this week, and since she is really just in prep for starting next year I have let her choose how much work. Some days it's a lot, some days not so much.
16th
Colors : Pink
Sorting by Color : Red, Yellow, and Green. This consisted of coloring the images correctly. Cutting and pasting according to the directions.
Letters and Sounds : Yy
Reading Readiness : Same and Different
18th
What starts with Xx and Yy
Matching Lowercase Letters
Matching Upper and Lowercase to each other.

Serena did very well once again with her work. It did take some coaxing on some days to get her in the frame of mind to do her work, but it wasn't a huge task. Doing Science and Social Studies after she does the things she dislikes the most gives her something to look forward to.

Aug 15, 2011

Serena
Spelling
Reading Skills
**Did a lot of these two subjects today. She did very well with her reading skills. Spelling she did well, but really does not like it!

Aleah
Colors : Black & Brown
Patterns: with Movement, Sounds, Matching patterns with objects, shapes, and Ladder Patterns
Pre-Writing
Letter C objects
Social Studies : Over and Under

Aug 12, 2011

The girls had a dental appointment today, so today was an off day.

August 11, 2011

Today we began the day with letting Serena read a book aloud. She read "Are You My Mother?" by Dr. Seuss.

Caterpillars in love while fishes jump
By Serena Powell

Then we had art. This is Serena's drawing in the photo. She wanted to give the original to her daddy, so I'm documenting it here.  She gave it a title and everything.

Aleah is working on her 3rd or 4th drawing now! Here are 3 of her drawings.

Strawberry Shortcake : I'm Glad I love my Friends so  Much!
By Aleah

Strawberry Shortcake : I'm glad I love my friends so much

By Aleah 

I'm Glad I love all my Flower Friends
By Aleah

I'm Glad I love my Bird Friends
By Aleah
Apparently Aleah has "love" on the brain today! 

Then we had lunch.

Serena

Math : Fractions

Telling Time

Short e review

Crossword using short e words

Spent a lot of time on Fractions since this was the most needed area.

Aleah

Pre-Writing

Letter : Xx

Matching Capital Letters