End of week 11 and some Fall fun

Jenna had some Fall fun on Sunday. She went to the Cabbage festival. She was able to ride her favorite horse and brush the pony. They had a cabbage toss, you needed to get it in the basketball net. After several attempts of getting the cabbage in the net, the guy who was in charge lifted her up to make the basket. She thanked him, but wanted to do it herself. So the guy flipped over the recycling bin for her to stand on, so she would be closer. After about a good 15 minutes, she finally made the basket. She was so proud of herself. She ended up with some prizes and was given the cabbage as an memento of the winning basket. Also there was a guy taking pictures and said she may be in the local paper. They had pumpkin and rock painting, which she had fun doing. Someone was doing some face painting, so she was able to get a witch on her cheek. Everything was free except the food. I was thankful that we got out and had fun on Sunday because for most of the week it rained and rained.



We had another good week of school.

Math - Horizon k book 2 - working on counting by 2's, even and odd numbers, math facts and working on telling time.

Reading - I love Ordinary Parents Guide To Teaching  Reading - Jenna is thriving using this. It's so easy to teach and she is enjoying it. We are at lesson 129. I do two old lessons and two new lessons a day at her request. This is the pace that is good for her now. We also have continued reading every night.

Writing - HWOT - I love this book and so does she. She has been writing alot of complete sentences, this week she wrote facts about cows and pigs. And today she wrote some sentences about the Cabbage Festival. I love that she understands aout Capitalizing at the beginning of a sentence and about the punctuation marks. Most of the time she remebers all of that without me telling her. And I will have her put words in a complete sentence first before I put my input in.

Farming - We started off the week learning about cows. Jenna drew a picture of a cow and wrote some facts down about them. We also milked a cow. Okay not a real cow, but a glove that had milk in it. She really enjoyed that. Then we took some heavy whipping cream, put it in a jar, shook it, shook it, shook it and shook it until we had butter. She also decorated a cute cow and put some glitter black spots on it.
Later in the week we learned about pigs. Jenna drew a picture and wrote some facts down about them. She also played in the mud(shaving cream mixed with brown food coloring). I laminated a pig for her to have fun with in the mud.

Fall - We didn't do much this week. We did count the Cabbage Festival sa some Fall fun. It was her idea to write about the Cabbage Festival and she drew a picture to go with. I will put that up on our Fall wall. Right now everything is off my walls because Jenna and I started Fall cleaning today.

Now that the rain is gone, we plan on getting outside and collecting leaves. We need to get some pumpkins later next week. We will be learning about pumpkins and leaves. Contnue working on our Farm unit ( I plan on posting pics of our farm wall). Fall crafting next week. And Halloween crafting in another week. I love fall!