Weekly Roundup - October 26

This week was an unexpected 4 day week.  We took Tuesday off so that I could meet with a realtor about listing our house.  We should have the paperwork back to her on Monday, and then we can move on to the next step in our planned move.  I have been perusing the houses available in the new area on several websites, but I haven't found much yet.  Hopefully more will come on the market soon.  Here is what we covered this week!

Bible: We have been reading about the exodus this week, starting with the twelve spies and ending with Moses' death.

Language Arts: For handwriting, we have used a mixture of their handwriting books and copywork from their Awana memory verses.  This week, Ethan worked on John 17:17 and Colossians 1:3.  Isaac studied Isaiah 9:6 and Psalm 100:4.  Isaac has continued his work in Easy Grammar.  Each day he covers a capitalization rule, a punctuation rule, and sentence combining.  This week he also covered subjects, dictionary guide words, and nouns. In Primary Language Lessons, he studied comma usage and creating a venn diagram comparing ideas from what he read.  He is memorizing the poem My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson.  He completed lesson 15 in his spelling book and is reading The Whipping Boy for literature.  Ethan has completed 4 lessons in his reading program and has read Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia, and  Little Bear's Friend this week.

Math: Isaac finished his study of English measurement today.  He has taken two tests this week and made a 100 on both of them.  Today he also reviewed for his cumulative exam he will take Monday.  Ethan has been studying shapes and spent time today playing with Mighty Minds.

History: This week in history we studied the Israelites' exodus from Egypt.  We are still working on our sticker pages, and I'd like to start a project on famine, comparing how a plant will grow with water vs. without.

Science: For science, we have been studying what makes day and night.  We read a book on Monday.

On Wednesday, we demonstrated how the earth rotates using a globe and a lamp.  We were able to see how only a portion of the earth receives sunlight at a time.  We also talked about what direction the sun seems to "rise" and "set" from.  On Thursday the boys colored a worksheet with yellow for the part of the earth receiving light and black for where it would be night.

Foreign Language: This week we continued to learn the names of animals in Latin and watched episode 7 of Salsa Spanish.

I have been reading Bunnicula aloud to the boys this week. 

We are about to leave to shop for our Operation Christmas Child box, and then meet our homeschool group this afternoon to put the boxes together and get them ready to send. 

The Curious, The Missing, and The Creative

Ethan earned his Book-It award this week for October.  His goal was to score a 90% or better on 5 book quizzes.  The books he read were:
Magic School Bus in the Haunted Museum: A Book About Sound
A Chair for My Mother
Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom
Madeline
Swimmy
He has also read Magic Tree House: Twister on Tuesday and Tut's Mummy: Lost and Found, scoring 80% on each of those quizzes.  The quizzes help me to determine what reading level he is on so that I can help him choose appropriate reading material.  The last two books listed were a little above his reading level, but they were books he wanted to read.  I'm hoping they stretched his reading ability a little, helping him to grow as a reader.

In science this week we reviewed the properties of matter, the types of energy, and the differences between matter and energy.  Isaac wanted to test water to see if it had weight.  We then determined the volume of water we poured into the bucket and the weight of the water. 

The tooth fairy visited our house this week.  She has made only 1 other visit, and that was when Isaac had 4 teeth pulled to make room for those adult teeth on the bottom to come in.  This was the first time he had a tooth loosen up and come out on its own.  He was beyond excited!

 

Friday we had a little extra time in the afternoon so I pulled out Ethan's tabletop easel.  He loves to paint!  Here is the artist at work.

 

 

Wordless Wednesday - Does water have weight?

Sights, Sounds, and Tastes of Early October

"A wise man will hear and increase learning" Proverbs 1:5
We have been busy learning and growing! In history, we have continued our study of ancient times. Last week we had a great time studying ancient Africa.

making paper bead necklaces

 Anansi the Spider and Cushion

Our African Feast - Chicken with figs and papaya fried rice (Delicious!)

 decorated hands

 

 

This week we studied the Middle Kingdom in Egypt.  We learned about Egypt invading Nubia and the Hyksos invading Egypt.  We learned that the Hyksos were one of the tribes that lived in Canaan when God told Abraham to go there.

 

In science this week, we studied sound.  We learned that sound comes from vibrations. We learned that the faster the vibrations, the higher the frequency of the waves, and the higher the pitch, or note that is produced.  We also talked about how the amplitude affects the loudness of the sound.  We experimented with rubber bands, instruments, and our voices.  We also talked about how sound travels through the air, into our ears, and to our eardrum.  The boys colored a diagram of the ear and we talked about the parts of the ear.  Here are some pictures of them experimenting with their instruments by plucking the different strings and watching the vibrations.

 

In math, Ethan is finishing up addition and subtraction and getting ready to start a unit on shapes.  Isaac is studying measurement and just made a 100 on his test over measuring in centimeters.  Ethan is currently reading Henry and Mudge and Mr. Putter and Tabby.  He has also read Magic Tree House and Magic School Bus books for fun. Isaac is reading Because of Winn-Dixie for school and The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader for fun.

 

There is great excitement in our house for next week.  We will finally get to King Tut in our study of history and the boys have been asking since July when we would get to study him!