week 2

A lot of these pictures are going to start looking the same, because I take just about the same pictures everyday.  A few of them I want to look back and see how the kids are progressing.  And also because I am a slacker and fall behind on updating this blog, I need a reminder of what exactly we did do. 

 

Week 2, we started out each day with the boys writing a little something about the date, their name and then a random sentence that I came up with.  Some mornings I let them spell words out themselves in the random sentence and some mornings I would help them spell it out.  Carson has to jump in to and thinks he can write just as good as the other boys can and has to have his picture taken and has to see his face in the camera or he pitches a fit.  We also started out with the pledge, star-spangled banner, prayer, and calendar time.  We would count the numbers in spanish as we went through what day it was in the month.  We did the weather some mornings and also let them color in what day of school it was. 

 

       

        

Andrew really enjoyed putting together 3 letter words with the phonics cards from our A2 program. 

   

The boys are obsessed with catching critters they find in the backyard.  This particular week, they caught about 50  grasshoppers and crickets then decided to put a frog in the same bug box.  Who knew that frogs at baby grasshoppers ☺

    

 

I bought this hat from the dollar spot at Target after I took Carson to the doctor and he wore it the whole day…   

  

 

We worked on simple addition for Andrew and double addition with carrying for Spencer.  We learned about place values so that it hopefully would make a little more sense.  The boys worked in a few workbooks that I had got from the Target dollar spot.

 

After our frog and grasshopper/cricket encounters, I had the kids draw in their nature journals about the animals.  I used the Usborne Draw Animals book and a page off the internet on how to draw crickets. 

 

We read about Nephi and the brass plates this week and I found a song off of LDS scripture rock that dealt with 1 Nephi 3:7.  I LOVE these songs and the kids do too because they’re fun to dance to and it helps them learn the scriptures. 

 

            

    

Andrew helped me set up the new September calendar. 

   

 

MATH

* Place values

*Skip Counting by 3’s

*Dreambox computer games

Andrew – Practice writing numbers, workbook

Spencer – Double digit addition, workbook word problems…simple addition and subtraction

*dot to dot puzzles

 

LANGUAGE ARTS

*Rain, Rain, Go Away rhyme – ‘ay’ words

*Started McGuffy Readers with both boys – Andrew…primer, Spencer…1st reader

*Read “Dinosaurs at Dark”

*Listened to “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” and others by Beatrix Potter on CD

*Played Hooked on Phonics Spanish game…Spencer dressed up like what he thought a Spanish person would dress up like and grabbed his cowboy hat, tomato stake to use as a guitar and let me know this is what Spanish people did. 

*Andrew – 3 letter word puzzles

 

And to see what the boys did that weekend, go to my family blog…