Our Week in Review

 This is our first week participating in this linky party.  I'm so excited to see how much we accomplish each week!  Sometimes you feel like you get nothing done until you lay it all out.  


Monday
Each week in our math curriculum is a planned puzzle day.  This one was for a pentomino activity.  They are given an outline and asked to use the pentomino's to fill in the empty space. The book explained that this one is the most challenging of the puzzles and may take longer than class time allows to complete it.  Yea, they finished in five minutes.  Either the book was exaggerating a bit or my kids are geniuses.  Ha!  Maybe not, but they were proud of themselves just the same.  :)

 

Please excuse the quality of this picture.  My camera battery died and all I had was my cell phone.  Parker also read Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel.  I had forgotten about that book.  It was really cute.  Later that day I found Parker with his toy construction equipment acting out the story.  LOVE when that happens!

Tuesday

I was feeling a bit under the weather, so we did our regularly scheduled school work and read lots of books.  No super exciting homeschool activities that day.

Wednesday

Brynn finished reading The Wizard of Oz, so we watched the movie on Netflix.  Then she made a Venn Diagram comparing the two.  Parker continued to work on the seasons and painted a mural of four trees with leaves in each of the four seasons. We also read one of my favorites, Ferdinand the Bull.   The kids really loved it!  Brynn learned about the science of wheels.  She read this book then we did an activity where she had to find anything in the school room to make her own wheels.  She used lids from our supply stash and a pencil, then rolled it on the hardwood floor, tile and carpet to see which place it worked best.  Parker decided they need to make themselves into wheels, so they curled into balls and rolled all over the house.  Fun! 

Thursday

My favorite day this week.  Daddy worked from home and joined in for a few of the subjects. We learned about snowflakes, how they are formed and the different shapes they take on as they fall from the sky.  The kids were fascinated at how a snowflake begins as a speck of almost anything.  Daddy showed them how to make cutout snowflakes and we had just happened to have a bit of a snowfall the night before so they brought some inside to observe.  Brynn also began learning about the lever. She was asked to make a lever out of household items and demonstrate how it would be used to help move something heavy.  She did a great job with blocks, tinker toys and some other small items.  Very cool stuff.  

Friday

We usually take this day to do a little reading, take spelling tests and finish up anything that needs to be completed.  Just a relaxing day.  Then we had to take Parker to the doctor for yet another diagnosis of bronchitis.  :(

I think we all really enjoyed this week.  Next week we will be learning about Mexico, clouds and pulleys.  Sounds like a complete mish mash of stuff.  Hopefully they will enjoy it!