Our First Week

We have finished our first week of school. Only 35 more to go, LOL!!! We began our week by studying Moses. Of course, I rented the movie. I know it's 18 hours long but it's still a good movie. A lot of the information in it was useful to us especially the brick making scences. We use visuals around here and C. B. DeMille gave us a good one.



We did go ahead and watch the whole movie one evening since we will be talking about the plagues, the Ten Commandments and the parting of the Red Sea.
Math is a review for the first couple of weeks: addition, subtraction, place value. Manipulative's are used regularly in this course. Mom needs them! I also ran across this website http://www.cheqsoft.com/mathsown.html it's a free down load.

Spelling gets right into the lessons. Amanda had to start her journal, dictionary skills and a spelling test. She made an 88 which is pretty good since my child spells EVERYTHING Phonetically. She will even have to learn how to spell the books of the Bible this year, she missed Leviticus. "LAVITECUS" but that's OK.

In English we are taking my cousin Nancy's advice and beginning with writing. Amanda wrote a letter to her brother and in the process had to learn the 5 parts of a letter. Heading, greeting, body, closing and signature. Next week she will have to write a letter giving instructions about something using "Time Order Words". I know this will thrill her! How do you make English fun??

Her handwriting lessons this year of course will be cursive but her book also includes US state information. I am excited about this! And if you think cursive handwriting is easy, think again, especially the way BJU wants students to form the letters. I combine cursive and printing when I write.

In Reading this year it will help her, well, with reading??? Vocabulary will have to be looked up and written down. Skill Station day that will help with phonics, recognizing settings in stories, reading maps, tall tales, main ideas and morals of stories.

The first semester will be Science. History will be after Christmas. In Science we went over the origins of the moon. Creation and Evolution. Has anyone ever heard of the "Break away theory"? Of course we had visuals in this subject also. That's key words for soccer and tennis balls. Then we proceeded to make a huge mess by making a paper mache moon.

We began today by making breakfast, Break away bread, which was part of our science lesson. Amanda helped cut the biscuits in half, dip them into melted butter and roll them into sugar and cinnamon. The picture of it looks gross but it was very good!

It was a very good week and I think Amanda enjoyed it. I'm tired and heading out to eat now. It's been rough week on Mom. I've added pictures from our week, hope you enjoy!

Oh, this picture is for Michael and Melissa...I didn't want to leave them out. Miss YA!!!