Weekly Report 10/13 - 10/17: Spain

Week 7

Spain

Galloping the Globe

This week we studied Spain. The children loved watching the video we got from the library. We loved The Story of Ferdinand and the children were obsessed with bull fighting all week! See the picture Miriam drew below (I really need to buy new markers, ours our getting dried out!)

Reading

Miriam did lessons 54 and 55 in The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading and lesson 6 in Explode the Code 2. She sounded out her first six letter word today! (shrimp)

Math

Hooray for Rightstart Math!! We are having so much fun! Miriam says it's the best math ever-and math was already her favorite subject. This program is exceeding my expectations so far! We breezed through the first 7 lessons on the first day. She can already see the quantities without counting so she just needed to learn the Rightstart way of showing numbers with her hands, the sticks, and on the abacus. Rebekah even joined in. She was able to show all the numbers and could even use the abacus all the way to 10 without counting each bead! WOW!! I am going to have to buy 2 more abacus since Rebekah and Michael wanted in on the fun.

(yes we usually do school in our jammies!)
Miriam also completed lessons 3 - 6 in Singapore Earlybird 2B. She was begging to do pages everyday; she loves addition and subtraction.

Bible

This week we continued to talk about the Israelites wandering in the desert on the way to the Promised Land.

Miriam has memorized Psalm 23: 1-4

Art

We looked at pictures from Pablo Picasso's Blue Period and also at his Cubism paintings.

These are the girls' "cubist" self portraits. Miriam on the left, Rebekah on the right.

These are the pictures the girls did after looking at Picasso's blue period paintings. Miriam's is in shades of yellow for happiness. Rebekah's is in shades of red because red is her favorite color, she wanted to be sure that I knew she was not mad or angry since she was painting red.