Of course, the exciting moments of the week were Monday's solar eclipse, piano with Mrs. History & Geography- Continuing our study of Ancient Egypt and other civilizations in the Fertile Crescent, the first forms of writing, mummies and pyramids, Europe's first villages, and monuments from 1500BC, like Stonehenge. Math- number patterns and working with sums and differences, including word problems Math Fluency- subtracting 0 or 1 from a number and adding or subtracting 2 from a number Science- Cells: the building blocks of life This week, we are writing about our dads. Writing- brainstorming, then writing a paragraph from our brainstorming page. Our "word winner" is: companion(this is the word we found the most often in our other readings for the last two weeks). Vocabulary- We continued our study of the words from last week. We are, also, learning to spell words that sound the same, but are spelled differently (we, wee) Spelling- Continuing our review of sounds and words with "in" and adding inflected endings (-s, -ed, -ing). We are memorizing the 24 helping verbs and gaining an understanding of what they do. Grammar- Diagramming short sentences with subjects, verbs, and helping verbs. Everyone has finished at least one chapter book.īible & Fluency- Psalm 100 (We are also trying to memorize these verses) Independent reading- We are up to 20 minutes sustained silent reading and have started logging our books. Here's an idea of what we studied or were introduced to during week 2:
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