Review, review, review....

This week was a review week for us.  It was nice to have an "easier" week this week, partly because Daddy had to work nights and had a training, and partly because I think the kids will benefit from a slow transition back into school.  Besides that, my birthday is this week and Savannah's is next week, so the kids were excited to celebrate!

In Math we were reviewing two digit addition/subtraction with and w/out regrouping and introducing three digit addition/subtraction. The kids have already worked on three digit addition and subtraction, but we haven't addressed it yet this year during 'lecture' though it was included in our warm ups.

In Grammar/Writing we reviewed contractions, differences between statements and questions, pronouns, subject/predicate, punctuation, and the parts of a sentence. For our writing assignment the kids will do the age old peanut butter and jelly 'how to' activity.  I'll try to post pictures of that activity. They will also do another 'how-to' paper of their choosing.

For Reading this week, we spent some time reviewing sentence compounding: compound subjects and predicates. We also worked on vowel sound combinations, like (oo, ee, oe, ea...) The kids are getting pretty adept at remember the rules for reading/sounding out vowels.  We also continued practicing bump reading.

This week we also did our first oral group story, where the kids took turns telling a story a few sentences at a time. They created some pretty integrated and surprising combinations.

We didn't start much new in Science, but rather finished up our relatively intense Ocean section from the last few weeks. Reading our books to each other, coloring or painting posters about Ocean pollution and similar activities that serve to reinforce what the kids learned.  We also started our new section in Science, Birds. Asher and Savannah did a close observation of Grandma's Parakeets, noting different characteristics about the birds, what they eat, how they fly, climb, and a variety of other things.

Last week the kids finished up the workbooks that we use for warm-ups. This is quite a feat since their workbooks were about 300 pages long.  I bought a new workbook to finish out the year that I think the kids will be able to enjoy, but since this is a review week, we spent our warm-up times telling stories, reviewing story elements, and working on group building and fun. It was a great week. :)