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Math:
This week, again, was all about subtraction. By the end of the week, I made a decision that Babe wasn't ready for the Chapter 10 test. She just wasn't confident enough in her knowledge of using subtraction to solve word problems, so I'm going to give her another week until she's solid in it.
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Reading:
Reading is pretty much the only thing we advanced in this week, and she's doing pretty good with it. Babe is starting to fully understand plural vs. possessive nouns, and the differences in verb tenses. Calvert doesn't quite go into the reason for verb tenses yet, but they introduce the idea that all verbs have different endings.
During this week's lessons, I had her write verbs down, then write each tense with them. She's good at it! I also had her use each tense in a sentence. Without going into why the sentences were different, she easily recognized that she couldn't use the same tense with different subjects. It's weird how she just..."knows"...that it doesn't sound right. For example, she knew "I jumped." was correct, but when she had to use "jumps", she knew she couldn't say "I".
She is also reading her chapter books fairly well, finishing up Junie B. and starting Mary-Kate and Ashley's Mysteries series. I have noticed, however, that when she realizes she's at the end of the story, she rushes through reading to finish the book. So we talked about how the end of the book is the resolution of the whole story, and how it's important not to miss! But she is able to fill out Story Maps well and it's so encouraging to see her love reading so much. It's awesome.
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Social Studies:
N/A
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Science:
We were able to finish up Chapter 2, learning about plants and how different plants can live in different climates. But again, the plan for the Chapter Test at the end of the week was out of the question. She will try again this coming week.
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Bubs has been blossoming this past week in all work I have given her. This week we started "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves" by Lucille Colandro. When I showed her the book, she immediately recognized the Old Lady and her jaw dropped.
The book was paired with various work from 3 Dinosaurs. Bubs worked on patterns, color-by-number, and the order of each item the main character swallowed.
I've also been reinforcing her color mixing lesson of the month, red and yellow make orange. Last week we mixed paint, this week we mixed ketchup and mustard and dyed pudding!
Bubs helped me make some vanilla pudding and I dyed half yellow and half red. Then I stacked the colors in a cup after it formed.
I told both Babe and Bubs that they couldn't eat the pudding until it was only one color! They both got to stirring. :)
Yum!
Another activity we did was based on Nadine Brun-Cosme's book "Big Wolf and Little Wolf, The Little Leaf that Wouldn't Fall". Seriously, another beyond adorable book that I just can't get enough of. I saw a Fall craft on Pinterest that I knew The Girls would enjoy, and this book from the library was the perfect companion for it. It was such a coincidence.
For the craft, I had Bubs collect a whole box of Fall leaves, and the next day I had the girls crush them all. Who doesn't like cracking dry Fall leaves in between their fingers!? Both girls had a blast, and while they were crushing leaves, I traced a Fall leaf template onto various Fall colored construction paper. When the leaves were crushed, I gave both girls a bottle of liquid glue and had them outline the leaf I traced. Then...they got to sprinkling their leaf dust onto the glue.
THESE TURNED OUT BEAUTIFUL. Both girls loved this so much that I just kept tracing the leaf because they kept asking for more! It was awesome and we all spent the whole afternoon making Fall leaves. Perfect to go into the office-classroom.
And with that (and a surprise trip to see Finding Nemo 3D), the week was over.
PHEW! Onward into Fall!
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