Weekly Report, Week of August 25th

This week flew by. I have quickly learned that all of the activites, books, crafts and outings I plan each week are not getting done. Don't get me wrong, all of the important areas like math, reading, and writing get done on a daily basis. It's when the 3 R's are combined with breaks, playing outdoors, snacks, lunch, the occasional outing, and "behavior management", there isn't much time left for things like making a Japanese Hinu doll or doing our science experiments. Luckily, with no set school hours, we can squeeze in an extra story before dinner or save our science experiments for when daddy is home on the weekends. I'd love to have time every day to dedicate to hands-on activites, because this is what D thrives on. In the upcoming weeks I will try to tailor our schedule to accomodate this goal by planning ONE crafty thing per day and lessening my overall expectations of what can realistically be accomplished. That being said, when I look at what we've done this week, I see that we are covering quite a bit of material and am really pleased with D's eagerness (albeit unfocused, silly, moody, and non-compliant at times) to learn.

• Math: Singapore EB1 ~ Lessons 8, 9, 12; Power Math Unit 4
• OPG~ Lessons 32-35 (He's having trouble with the short-e sound, continually mixing it up with the short-i sound. We need to practice this more over the weekend); Reading Bob Books
• ETC~ Lesson 5
• Handwriting~ Ww, Xx, Zz
• Religion~ Lesson 3-Adam & Eve; Mirror craft, Made up a thank-you prayer to God, copywork, and drew a self-portrait
• Literature~ Winnie-The-Pooh stories (1) In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Story Begins (2) In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One; Aesop's For Children (selected tales)
• Geography~ Japan- Read: The Crane's Gratitude, How the Sea Became Salty, and Momotaro; Mapped out Japan on our large world map and on the globe; watched the video "Big Bird in Japan"
• Science~ Read more about the weather and seasons; will do experiments this weekend about air pressure and/or the rotation of the sun
• Extracurricular~Spent the day at the Children's Museum of NH followed by a picnic at the park. Hopefully I'll have some pictures to post soon.