Learning Notes: Week Four

Another great week. I know there will be times I say otherwise but as for now it is going well. This week:

Math:

Addition

Counting backwards

Sets

Introduction to Money/counting money

Began subtraction

Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading

Lessons 38 to 40

We are finished all of the short vowel sounds. She is reading so well.
I love this method and this book.

History:

Hieroglyphics and cuneiform. Made name plate and pendants with cuneiform lettering.

Mapwork: Egypt and Sumer. Colored in the Nile River and labeled map.

Science:

Bird Migration

Picture of Sandhill Cranes

Learned of Autumn Equinox

Made African Harvest Drum

Reading:

Seeker of Knowledge (The man who deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphics)

The Incredibles, a movie story book

Dot's Pot

The Busy Little Squirrel

By The Light of A Harvest Moon

Honk! Honk!

The Flight of the Snow Geese

Luck

Black Sky River

Poetry:

Fall

Signs

Mushrooms

Blackberry Picking

Words

A Cold October Night

Late Fall

Fall's End (began to memorize this one)

Copywork:

Began a copy book.

Athena is a girl.

She has green eyes.

She has a dog.

It is a Golden Retriever.

Music:

Listened to Josh Groban on the way to Regina.

On our trip we were lucky enough to come across a migrating flock of Snow Geese. We drove onto a grid and were able to hear their sounds and get a few pictures as they were taking off and landing.

And as luck would have it, on our way back on Sunday she spotted some Sandhill Cranes!! Again, I turned into a farmer's field and we could hear their sounds and see them fly. The pictures are not great but I'll share them here anyway.