In our letter of the week studies we finished up the letter G. G is for gumball.
Gumball size sort
Letter matching with wooden letter magnets
Letter G bracelet
Fall puzzle
Leaf magnet page (part of our fall week activities)
Gumball coloring page
Gumball magnet page
Uppercase/Lowercase g sorting
Gumball cut and paste
We ended the week with a snack of grapes while watching Curious George (It was the closest thing we could come up with that had a G in it. All our movies on our DVR got erased when our satellite box got messed up.)
Aiden is doing really well with sounding out words on his word ladders and reading his sight words. He gets so excited when he recognizes the word.
I threw in a shape puzzle just for fun and to mix things up this week.
Word ladder
Working on his fall ABC puzzle
number writing practice
Evelyn has been continuing division with remainders in math and we just introduced the 6 Multiplication family as well. She even got to show off her division skills to Grandma while they were visiting. In Language Arts we learned how to make nouns possessive. She is still reading Charlotte's Web and working on various lapbook activities. She reviewed everything she's learned so far in history and took a test on that, which she did very well on. In science we're studying the ocean. We learned that the ocean is salty and why it is getting saltier. We did an experiment to see that even though the water evaporates, the salt does not.
We added four tablespoons of salt to one cup of water and mixed until it was all dissolved.
We let the water boil out of the pot.
Once the water had evaporated, we measured the salt that was left and it was still four tablespoons.
Jacob has been dividing with decimals as the divisor. He has also been learning how to multiply and divide by powers of ten. In Language Arts he's been learning the writing process. We've been getting ready to begin a research project. He's chosen the Pyramids of Giza as his topic. This will tie in nicely to history, because once we're done studying Asia, we're going to begin the study of Africa, and that's where the pyramids are located. We've been studying China in history. We even read about some famous missionaries to China. We learned the differences between a free country and a communist country. Jacob thought it was sad that our country has more communist qualities than free ones. He's a smart guy. We're studying natural resources in science, specifically rocks. Our trip up to the mountains this past weekend fit in perfectly because he collected some different rocks.
In other news, fall is just starting to settle in here. You can see a few of the leaves starting to change on some trees. I can't wait to see what it will look like in a few weeks. The weather is also getting cooler. Tomorrow is only a high of 63. It hasn't been that cold in a LONG time. I think this time of year is really going to be enjoyable here.
Last weekend Matt's parents stayed with us. It was so great to see familiar faces and we are so grateful they took the time out of their busy schedules, and thought we were important enough to visit, even if only for a couple days. The kids sure took advantage of getting spoiled, playing with Grandma and Poppo, and playing Candyland.
That's pretty much what our life looked like this past week. We would love to hear what you're up to. Hope you enjoy this beautiful fall weekend!!
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