Week 2 and the 100th day of school

Jenna finished up her second week of school and she is already ahead of what I had planned for her. She also celebrated the 100th day of school on Friday. After she finished up her school work, we had some fun with 100. We gathered up some items and sorted them into piles of 100. Then we got out the balance scale and had some fun. We first made some prediction of which items would be heavier and then weighed them to see who was right. After we were done, she made a picture using 100 pieces of pasta. We also had some fun balancing on one leg while counting to 100. She counted by 5's and 10's as well.

Here's what we did this week

Math - Horizon k book 2 - She did 4 lessons this week, there was some word problems (which is new to her and she did great). I also had her reviewing her math facts, addition up to 3's and subtraction up to 2's. She reviewed money as well.

Reading - Explode the code book 3 - she completed 2 lessons. She also read everday and fluency is really improving.

Writing - Writing with ease - She is doing really good with her copy work. As of right now, I have her doing this 2 times a week, 2 lessons at a time.

Grammer - FLL1 - I like that she asks to do this. She is already on lesson 15. She knows what a noun is and memorized her first poem last week. She is exited that a new poem will be introduced next week for her to memorize. I am already seeing some improvement on her narration.

Spelling - Spelling workout B - The first day I introduced the words, she got most of them right. She did get two wrong. The first was also, she added two l's and then she got get wrong started with a c, but she realized after she spelled it, it was wrong. She does spelling a few times a week, spelling ball 1 or 2 days and workbook pages 1 day. We test on the last day of week and she got them all right again this week.

Vocabulary - Wordly wise k - We only do one lesson a month. One lesson lasts one or two weeks. She really likes this program.

Art - Artistic pursuit preschool level - She loves this as well. She does on lesson a week, but wants more. So maybe next week I will let her do two. I am also planning some art lessons from some online resources. Our thinking is to have an art show sometime.

Geography - Jenna now knows the seven continents. She has a map that I covered up the names of the continents and she tells me which is which. Then she likes to turn the map over and visually tell me were each continent is on the map. There's a place online that she plays a continent game as well. We also reviewed the difference between map and globe. Talked again about north,south,east, and west. She will learn about the countries in North America, then she will start her world travel to different countries. I am thinking of starting with China because the chinesse New Year is coming up. And at some point we will be drawing the world map, starting with blobs for the continents.

So all in all Jenna had a good week. I am very proud of her and so happy to be able to homeschool her.