week 14

Another week that flew by way too fast. Jenna made Halloween cards, Jackalatern magnets and shrinky dink pumpkins to give out as gifts. We also did some Halloween crafting for our house. It seems like Tuesdays have been our big crafting day each week. She went to her first Halloween party this past week. She was so excited and had alot of fun. Halloween is tomorrow and she can't wait. Pumpkins are now turned into Jackalanterns. She made her's into a vampire.

This is what we did this week in school

Math- Horizon k book 2 - We are up to lesson 118. She is working on counting by 3's which isn't easy for her, so we will make sure to keep reviewing this, lots of subtraction(which she loves alost) and addition. Tens and ones place value. She was introduced to quarters which she already knows what they are worth. But we still struggle some when finding the total amount when quarters and dimes or nickels are mixed in. All in all she is doing very well.

Reading - Ordinary parents guide to teaching reading - She is on lesson 195, but we are going to review some of the previous lessons as well. We started reading some of the advanced progressive phonic books and reading books that we have on hand. I was looking at some of the future lessons and realize that she is already reading some of those words as well, so it will make doing some of those lessons easier for us. She is doing so well, I never expected to be this far along in the phonic lessons. When we started school the end of July she was just reading some cvc words, and now she is reading way beyond that. We are going to have a big celebration when we finish all her phonic lessons.

Spelling- We formally stopped doing spelling, but she still learns how to spell new words through her everyday and school writing. We will be using Ordinary parents guide to teaching reading and spelling rules come the first of the year. This will be our spelling program that we will be using. I don't want her just memorizing a list of words each week. I want her to know the spelling rules as well.

Writing - I did a writing assesment this past week. I had her print all the capital and lower case on lined paper. She did very well, she formed all her letters the right way and for the most part they were very neat. She also did some pages from her handwriting without tears 1st grade book. Pen pals have been neglected, so she will get back to writing them next month. I plan on her writing alot more next week.

A new month will be starting next week. We plan on learning about pumpkins, owls and continue with our fall projects.