12 th week done

Today we went and bought some pumpkins (4 little and 2 big). We will be using the little pumpkins for school next week.

 I also was busy yesterday, the fall and farm wall is all done. On the Farm wall, I have the saying Down On The Farm and posted all of Jenna's work. And on the Fall wall, I have the saying Fall -tastic,  a tree with falling leaves, pumpkins and Jenna's fall work so far.

We had a good week of school.

Math - Horizon k book 2 - Jenna finally seems to understand which numbers are odds and which are evens. She also learned more about telling time, she was introduced to the half past the hour. And started learning about halves. And she started subtraction, which she really enjoyed. There was also some review of previous learned material. We try to do 4 days of Horizon and one day of just review. We will be starting lesson 108 next week. I really love this math program and so does Jenna.

Reading - OPGTR - Another good week, she is improving daily. We both love OPGTR and it is so easy to use. She is on lesson 154, which is the  R controlled words. We finished up the silent letters in the previous lessons. She has also been reading daily, I try to find her stories with somewhat of a challenge, but not too much of a challenge.

Handwriting - Handwriting without tears - We only did this a couple of times this week. But on the days that we didn't, she was writing about her farm animals.

Writing- We have been working on complete sentences, capitalization and punctuation. She really seems to understand to Capitalize at the beginning of a sentence and what punctuation to use. I am also impressed how she seems to understand how to form a complete sentence in her writing (school and fun time). We will be beginning Writing with Ease, no later than January. She is so ready.

Farm unit-  Jenna wrote facts about sheep and horses this week. She decorated 2 sheeps, one with oatmeal and the other with cotton balls.

Fall unit- We made carmeled apples. Grandpa brought Jenna a fall leaf. First she did some leaf rubbings, then she waxed pressed her leaf (grandpa told her how to do this and she wrote down the directions), and put it in a little book.

Next week we will be learning about pumpkins, exploring the gourds that we picked up (science and math), start some Halloween fun and more leaf fun.