Go with the Flow

November 23, 2015.  HWT, FLL, Math, ARR
     W did half a page of HWT.  P. 37  punctuation.  He was out of sorts today so breaks happened pretty much after each subject.  Next up was FLL lesson 55.  Review of adverb and adjective.  W was able to tell me a little bit about adverbs.  We then went over the first paragraph of "The Storm" from the previous lesson and picked out the adverbs ending in ly and the adjectives.  Will set it aside so we can pick it up again later.  Last up for W was RGHTSTART Math game N40.  We had to modify it a bit since we only had one stack of place value cards.  He enjoyed the game and we played a few rounds.  W also drew today.

     E did p. 9  did another 1/2 of the page (so 1 more line and part of another line).  E also played monopoly jr by himself today (some math involved) I supervised.  Next up was FLL lesson 55.  Review of adverb and adjective.  E repeated the definitions of adjective and adverb and then recited to me what they were.  We then went over the first paragraph of "The Storm" from the previous lesson and picked out the adverbs ending in ly and the adjectives.  Will set it aside so we can pick it up again later.  E also played with shapes drawing and cutting them.  It was what he wanted to do. E also drew today.  Next for E was RGHTSTART Math game N40.  We had to modify it a bit since we only had one stack of place value cards.  He enjoyed the game and we played a couple of rounds.  Last of all was AAR reading 1/2 page. p. 150.  Evander does better reading a 1/2 page at night.

November 24, 2015. Today was one of those slow sluggish cold days.  So in honor of that I had the kids chose what they wanted to do for school today.  1) complete lessons -HWT, FLL, ARR, Math, 2) 1 reading eggs and 1 mathseed lesson, or 3) write a sentence about something like a leaf or table.  W complete an Reading Eggs lesson.  He was going to also do Mathseeds however it was not working.  I decided to have E do his work later that night.  E did his 1/2 page reading p. 150.  He is almost done with the story.  Hurrah!  Also thought I should mention that after he reads I reread to him what he just read.  That way it helps some with comprehension as his fluency is still low.  He also chose to describe something.  He described his cup.  He wrote most of the sentence and I spelled all of the words.  He wrote:  The cup is red, has colorful dots, and has my...this is when he stopped and I took over the writing and finished it with name 2x on it.  Then we went over the fact that sentence start with a capital and we found the noun, verbs, and adjectives.

 Although I had planned to do school on the 25, 26, and 27th no school was accomplished as there friend was out of public school and she came over early.  That being said on Friday November 27th some unschooling happend.  W played around with S (the friend) on skip counting.  They colored in the numbers and worked with numbers 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.  E did not want to join in instead he did what he calls animal research.  This animal research lasted 3 days.  We looked up different types of wolfs, coyotes, dogs, cats, pretty much wild animals.  He wrote the names down for example:  Wolfs--gray, black, ect. and so on.