65 days of school so far

This week went by way too fast. We didn't get everything done that we wanted to, but that's okay. Jenna was so cute the other day in school. I was teaching her a math lesson and she said, "you are such a good teacher, mommy". That just made my day.

Well here is what we did this past week

Math - We are still working on subtraction using the number line. But being the smarty pants that she is, she likes to try it without the number line first. Same thing when it comes to adding numbers like 82 + 6, she tries doing it herself before using the number line. And most of the time she gets the answers right. We have been relaxed on learning her addition facts, we are slowly working on the 3 facts. And we are learning to count by 3's which isn't going to be an easy task. All in all, I am very pleased with the Horizon k book 2 we are using.

Reading - Ordinary Parents Guide To Teaching Reading - We finished up the lessons with controll r words, but we are going to keep reviewing more she seems to have some problems with some of the words. Most she can get, but some she just can't seem to grasp. We started compound words which she is doing great with. And as I preview some future upcoming lessons, she knows alot of upcoming words from our reading. I do try to teach the phonics rule when we stumble upon words we haven't learned, but the lessons will be good reinforcement. We also have been reading everynight as well. My goal is to have her continue reading with me and to start reading independently by the beginning of next year.

Writing - We are still working on our 1st grade Handwriting without tears book. Other than that, we didn't do much school writing. But jenna did some free time writing, she made a book. All of her sentences were complet sentences, I was so proud of her.

Fall fun - We painted pumpkins, made paper bag pumpkins, halloween picture and fall picture. Also we made some cute papertowel owls. Jenna loves to play with them, she also made a scene for them.

It was a very good week.