We had another great week with Core A! Samuel memorized his Bible verse for the letter E – Even a child is known by his actions, by whether his conduct is pure and right – Proverbs 20:11. He is doing a great job saying all his verses from A to E. I even tried to confuse him the other day and made him say them out of order and he still remembered them all. He gets very excited each time he adds a new verse!
In history we’ve been learning about Vikings. We had briefly talked about Vikings last year when we talked about Leif Erickson, and Samuel was excited to spend more time on them this year. His favorite project was making a Viking ship!
We finished reading My Father’s Dragon and Samuel and I were both a little sad that it was over. Samuel was so excited that Elmer and the Dragon finally got off the island! I need to get to the library and get the sequels soon.
In math, Samuel’s been learning order (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc) and also learning how to draw pictures depicting addition and subtraction problems. We had fun making a train and practicing with his stuffed animals. I made up stories for him like “The train stopped and 3 passengers got on. They sat in the 2nd, 4th, and 5th seats.” Then at the next stop different passengers would get off. He had to draw pictures to show what happened and let me know how many passengers were left.
We also worked on counting with pennies and our hundred chart.
In science we learned about rivers and how they flow to the ocean, mountains, and deserts. Samuel especially liked looking up the highest mountain peak on each continent and marking them on the markable map.
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Sounds like a great week. I knew instantly as I was reading that you were using Saxon Math 1. We have done some of those activities.
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