1 August - 5 August 2011

McKenzie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
Letter Printing
Beginning letter sounds
Letter blends

Math:
Number Printing
Counting
Number words
Graphing

Charlie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
Beginning and Ending Sounds
Spelling
Short and Long vowel sounds
Hard and Soft consonant sounds
Read two books to McKenzie(listed below in Science)

Math:
Counting by 1, 2, 5, 10
100 chart
Place value
Less/Greater than (with the alligator mouth)
Addition

Both Girls are working on:
Science:
Seasons
-4 seasons
-what causes the season changes
-differences between seasons
-Book "What is a season?"
-Book "Why do leaves change colors?"
Senses
-5 senses
-using our senses for each season
-purposes for our senses

Social Studies:
All About Me booklets

Evaluations:
Charlie:
letter recognition
letter sounds
frequent words (most call these sight words, but we do NOT teach sight words, as the frequent words become sight words with reading experience!)
writing accuracy (letters, upper and lower, and numbers)
number recognition 1-100
counting by 1, 2, 5, 10

McKenzie:

letter recognition

letter sounds

writing accuracy (letters, upper and lower, and numbers)

number recognition 1-20

counting by 1, 2, 5, 10

These evaluations will go in their testing file, and they will be re-tested/evaluated periodically throughout the year.  There will be more things added to the test and they will outgrow some items.  To "outgrow" items, they must have it perfected, 100% correct, 3 times in a row.

There is our week in a nutshell!  The girls are flying through their worksheets, which means we will get more hands-on learning time, and may have to break out so things at higher levels.  Never hurts to keep progressing.  We may be through the "beginner" stuff really early, but we are use to making up our own curriculum, and filling in as needed.  It should be interesting to see what experiments and projects we get ourselves into.  We will be doing another rocket launch in a few weeks, so keep an eye out for that!!

I will be scanning all of their worksheets and uploading photos of our whiteboard activities (the ones I remembered to take photos of), and updating this post over the weekend.