Week 5: Homeschool overview

This week as a family we are learning more about the overseas voyages of early American settlers with the book A Lion to Guard Us. We continue our art appreciation study of Carot's work by narrating a picture each art day. We also made watercolor fall leave paintings. We are reading Rush Revere's Pilgrim book still and finished listening to Where the Red Fern Grows. Tears were shed by most :)

Caden has been enjoying the Minecraft programming on his Kano computer. He is learning about Jamestown in his American History co-op class and doing a presentation next week on Henry Knox. He is working on spelling and English word roots in Language Arts, and reading Esperanza Rising for his Literature co-op class. He is also continuing to practice paragraph summaries and using assigned words in those summaries in his co-op writing class. He also does copy work, dictation and word studies each week. This week the word he studied was Service. In math he is reading Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe and enjoying all he is learning about using math in creation. We are waiting for new work books to arrive for him. He in enjoying his piano lessons and practices each day. He's working on sight reading the most.

Tessa is almost finished reading The Secret Garden and loves it! She is going to build fairy gardens with her Liberty Girls group one weekend soon and looks forward to that. She is doing area and volume in math and moving along through her work books quickly. Each day she does copy work from Ann of Green Gables and studies her spelling list. She also does dictation and word study weekly. She is continuing to work her doggie daycare business with two clients and makes $50 a month, which she mostly saves. Piano lessons are terrific and she is excelling and passing off her songs quickly.

Davin works on his Little Bits projects often, and his friends love to come over after school hours and build things with him. Their favorite things involve flashing lights and beeps :) Davin is very quick to pick up things on the piano and is practicing hard to read music as well as play and memorize as quickly as he can :) He is writing summaries for his co-op writing class as well. In math, he is adding and subtracting 6+ digit numbers and regrouping.

Koen is enjoying his piano lessons and loves to sit and practice. He likes his black note songs and is doing great at singing his notes while he plays and remembering where his hands should be. He is reading Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit series and loves doing that with mom. He draws every time he gets a chance and is working hard to write his numbers so they touch the tops and bottoms of his lines.