What a week!

So Monday was teacher planning day and my husbands colonoscopy so no school.  Tuesday was E's birthday so school consisted of learning to eat out and how to act.  Grocery shopping for cake mix and learning about trans fat (nutrition) and did a little math.  Play outside.  Tomorrow starts school back.

Wednesday 3/25/15.  We started the day with W reading AAR.  He did well still needs some work on blends then W went on to handwriting, worked on words with the sh, and t in them.  E did reading AAR when he did the work he did well.  He still has to sound out every word but he can do it and read the work.  His brother W sounds out the words also but E is faster at it, still looking for ways to make reading not such a hassle. Last up for W was math.  We reviewed even/odd counting, vertices and diagonals, and some addition with 5, then we learned 2 5's secret and worked on geoboard.  E's turn for math.  Same thing as for W.  E is very good with patterns.  Next up for E was handwriting words that had q, r, and s.  Tiger Rock was tonight.

Thursday 3/26/15.  Today W started again.  He chose to do AAS first and almost has i and o mastered.  Next he did Math.  W did very good.  Today was review and worksheet.  He used the abacus some on the worksheet and used other problems to help with others like 5+6=11 so 4+6=10 and 5+7=12 and 6+5=11.  I was proud.  He was getting the concepts and using critical thinking skills.  Now it is E's turn.  E chose to do AAR first.  Still working on sounds th, ch, and sh almost has sh mastered.  Still working on the green cards did a set of 10 today non mastered but getting there with sounding them out.  I read the last 10 green cards that were introduced.  I figured a good way to get him there.  We proceeded with the lesson today was double consonants at the end, ff, ll, and ss.  Did good.  I then read a scholastic book call Dinosuars level 2 reader.  I read it to him.  He seemed to enjoy the book and he listened nicely. Next on the list was handwriting.  He chose to do the words that began with y and z.  W is up again.  Now onto AAR. W mastered 2 words (sun and hat). I read the last 10 green cards that were introduced.  I figured a good way to get him there.  We proceeded with the lesson today was double consonants at the end, ff, ll, and ss.  I then read Power Rangers Samaria Rangers Unite.  He listened to the whole book (32pages).  This is his favorite book.  Next up for W was handwriting, worked on words with u and v at the beginning.  Need to work on W's spacing within a word.  Last we briefly talked about God and what I believed and some of what he believed.  I figured now is the time as a lot of sickness and deaths are occurring around us.  Next up E.  We worked on the sounds for i, o, and y.  Little more work and they will be mastered.  Last we worked on Math.  E did well with counting backwards and even numbers, still needs work on odd numbers backwards and comes before game (same as W) [game is what comes before 7 answer is 5].  Then came the worksheet.  E used the abacus on all except for duplicates like 6+5 and 5+6.  I think he was starting to see the difference in 6+5 and 7+5 and 6+4, ect.  just needs a little more practice.  E wrote about 1/3 to 1/2 of the answers the others he had me write the answers after he figured out the equation and told me what to write down.  Last we briefly talked about God and what I believed and some of what he believed.  I figured now is the time as a lot of sickness and deaths are occurring around us.  I also informed both boys that they could ask daddy and me any question that they had and we would answer to the best of our ability.  Today overall was a very good and successful day, especially with E.

Friday 3/27/15.  E did two lessons of Reading Eggs, while W did handwriting (w,x,y,z words) and one lesson of reading eggs. E did handwriting with no complaints (t,u,v,w,x words) m&m's helped.  W did AAR and mastered a word.  E then did AAR and read the words on the game portion pretty well.  Good Friday.