A few of the books Shelby helped me read this week!I am not going to bore you with all the details of our school week but we had a nice full week.
In our Human Body study we learned all about the Eye. I think we read four or five books dealing with the eye! We learned why our eyes look red in some photo's. We also did a few neat experiments having to do with the eye.
Shelby also learned all about consonants and vowels in language arts and will have her first Spelling Test next week with our new Spell to Write and Read program. I am so glad that we are finally at the spelling lists and can move on in our phonic work. Shelby is doing very well with her cursive as well. We are switching over to writing cursive all the time. She is having some problems with her name since the Upper case "S" is a little bit of a challenge.
In Math we discussed the base 10 Triangle, Rhombus, Equilateral triangles and sets of 10. Shelby is still working on addition facts using the Abacus and number line. We played several card games this week to reinforce addition facts.
In History/Geography we discussed more about Asia. This week we learned where South Korea is and Japan. We also learned some basic facts about both and read two stories that were placed there. Shelby's reading is improving more and more each week. We now are alternating reading pages to our History Living books together.
In Theater Shelby is doing incredible. She has all of her lines memorized and is now will be a part of 6 songs. We are learning a song from the "Sound of Music" this week. I also heard that in her Public Speaking class her projection was going well.
Matthew is doing really good in his theater class as well. He was given more lines this past week since he already had his other one's memorized. I can't wait until December 8 when we get to see the finished project.
