Homeschool Weekly Wrap Up

Hi guys! Here's what we've been up to this week.

Language Arts:

My first grader learned all about the author Kevin Henkes and enjoyed a lot of his books. We worked on Character description, story summary, and compound words. 

Directed drawing of one of the characters in the story. 

Both boys also worked on a informational passage about grasshopper mice. We worked on finding the main idea in a passage and supporting details. 

Science:

This week we learned about the skeletal system and did some fun demonstrations. 

We did a demonstration on what would happen if we didn't have fluid around a brain using an egg. 

We also learned about all the ways our skeleton is important to our day to day lives. 

Islamic Studies:

This week we read about the story of Ibrahim and the call to Hajj and we also learned about Yusuf (AS)

Yusuf (AS) and the well craft and journaling.  

Preschool:

This week my preschooler worked on the letter R you can read all about that here.

 

 Books:

Here's some of the books we enjoyed this week. We also finished reading our first read aloud The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.

That's it for our week, I hope you guys had a fabulous week too.


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Hi guys! I can't believe we wrapped up week 2, here's some of what we did this week.

Science:

We are loving Apologia Anatomy and Physiology. This week we covered the cell and made an edible cell.

I drew a empty cell and I challenged the boys to draw and label as many organelles they could remember. I was super impressed how much the remembered. 

Geography:

 We finished all out intro to Canada activities you can read all about that here.

  We began learning about our first province and I'll share more once we complete all the activities. 

Language Arts:

We read A Bad Case of Strips which is a wonderful book about being yourself and not changing to impress others. We learned how to summarize a story using the Mnemonic device (SWBST), we also learned how to analyze characters in a story using evidence from the text.

My first grader loves all the vocabulary activities that come with his language arts program.

Preschool:

You can read all about our letter A activities here.

Baby Antics:

I have an 11 month old that tags along on our school day. He keeps our homeschool day interesting ;)

That's it for our homeschool week! I hope you had a fabulous week too.



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Hi guys! Welcome to our first weekly wrap up post for the new school year. Our first week of school was a lot of fun and filled with a lot of learning.

Preschool:

My preschooler worked on all things letter F and a ocean science theme you can read all about that here.

 

Islamic Studies: 

The boys and I are currently going through this book "The Greatest Stories from the Quran" and journaling through it. I put together a loose schedule and some points of discussion.

Rooted In Reading:

This year I chose Rooted in Reading for my first grader as his language arts programing. It covers writing, reading comprehension, vocabulary and grammar. The first book we read was The Invisible Boy, he loved it. We learned how to make connections in the stories we read so that we could create a picture in our heads and relate to the characters in the story. In grammar we covered complete and incomplete sentences.

Vocabulary Review.

Geography:

We learned some facts about Canada worked on some mapping activities and learned the national anthem of Canada. 

History/Science:

Intro of Anatomy and Physiology and anatomy of a cell.

Narration and Map work.

Math:

Our week was full of activities but both boys are glad to be back into the swing of things. How did your first week go?

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First Day of School 2016-2017

Hi guys! I hope you guys are having a wonderful week. I can't believe it's already August! We have officially started school and we couldn't be more excited. We spent our first day eating pancakes, taking pictures, and going over all our new curriculum.

I know some people normal would just add in a few subjects at a time but we start with a full schedule and just play it by ear. If the kids are into it we keep going and if their having a hard time I just take out things.

My eldest doesn't enjoy me taking pictures of him anymore :(. He's growing up! 

Preschool

My preschooler and I have been doing school all of July so he knew what to do. Well I worked with the older boys he kept himself busy with his letter of the week activities.

Our bookshelf for the week. 

My busy bees :). 

Islamic Studies:

We plan to journal for Islamic studies this year.

Geography:
After reading some books and learning some new facts about Canada we worked on some mapping activities.

Math:

Our first day was busy but lots of fun. I can't wait to see what the rest of the year has in store for us. Have you started school yet?

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