October 5, 2011

What we did today:

Reading Selections:

Aesop's Fable- "The Mice and the Weasels"

"October," by George Cooper

"Hunter's Song," by Sir Walter Scott

Just So Stories- "The Elephant's Child," by Rudyard Kipling

Copywork and Phonics:

Kahmylia- page 1 in Copywork Notebook

Brisa- a page in McGuffey Reader Copywork Notebook

Alpha Phonics- Lesson 36

A page apiece in their Phonics Workbooks

Reading Practice:

Brisa- "Little Tuppens," from Harriette Taylor Treadwell's Primer

Kahmylia- "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," from Harriette Taylor Treadwell's First Reader

Narrations:

Kahmylia- "The Mice and the Weasels," an Aesop Fable

Brisa- "Hunter's Song," by Sir Walter Scott

Spanish:

Despicable Me, movie in Spanish

Math:

Kahmylia- math workbook page introducing telling time on the quarter hour

Brisa- math workbook page introducing tens and ones places

Maze worksheets for both.

Music:

Brisa had a piano lesson. She gets really frustrated because her hand posture does not come naturally. I cut the lesson short before she could get too frustrated.

History:

We finally worked on our timelines today! It was very fun to finally put some pages in our timeline. We added dates for Julius Caesar conquering Britain, the birth of Wolfgang Mozart and Alexander the Great.