The end of our 6th week

Jenna and I had another good week and are looking forward to all the fun we have planned for fall. I am so glad that I have two years to do Kindergarten, when it comes to Social studies and Science. I would never be able to fit all I would like to do in one year, before starting classical education(4 year cycle in History and Science) as I plan to do starting in first grade. When it comes to reading, grammar, writing, spelling, vocabulary and math, she will advance to first grade in all of these subjects by the time we start our second year of Kindergarten (some may start sooner like grammar and writing).

Here is what we have done this week

Lots of playing (because that's all part of being a kid), mostly inside because of the weather. We played Bank, Hotel, kerplunk, I Spy, Tic tac toe, you draw I draw, Soccer and much more.

Reading - OPGTR - finished consonant blends, working on Digraphs, working on ng,sh,ch and th sounds, she is moving through this part fast. We were given some old reading books, so she has been using them as well.

Spelling - working on some words that she uses in her everyday writing and spells wrong, like went, are, want, dear and from. She mastered are and went, but we didn't work daily on these this week so we will work on them some days next week.

Writing - HWOT - We are at the end of the k book and will be starting the 1st grade book soon. Her writing is really improving and she is writing on line paper. She wrote a bunch of Thank you's this week for Community and she wrote to her new pen pal.

Vocabulary - Wordly Wise k - She loves this new program and so do I. But I do admit that we will be tweaking this to the way we want to use it. Right now it's not scheduled in, but will be scheduled more later in this month.

Math - Horizon K - We have mastered counting by 5's, addition facts up to the 2's, she now knows her penny's, dimes and nickels (quarters are next even though they aren't introduced in her math book until later), and some other review. We will be done with the first Horizon K book by the end of the month.

Social Studies - We started Community this week, I already posted about it here http://myblogbysusan.blogspot.com/2010/09/fun-week-so-far.html. We had fun and will continue this next week.

Art - Jenna drew me some pretty flowers in a vase and a fall picture of a tree and falling leaves.

In her free time this week, she has been busy drawing up inventions and writing stories.

Here is a sneak peek to what we will be up to in Fall, learning about Farms (lots of books, field trip and fun projects), investigating the Fall season, apples, leaves and much more. Poetry writing and fun with Nursery Rhymes coming soon.