Silver Creek Academy Home School: MFW 1st Grade

BIBLE: As I mentioned in week #16's blog post, the Story of Joseph was long. So, in actuality it carried over from week #16 to week #17. After we finished Joseph's story we moved right along into the story of Moses.

We added two more pieces to our timeline. This week was Egypt and Moses. Yes, I still help him color. He actually cracks me up. On these little bitty pictures we both have to color. He colors a spot, then I color a spot, then he colors a spot, then I color a spot until it's full. Silly guy. We then stack the timeline pieces together until we have enough of them to run through the laminator.

I am amazed at the amount of reading that Caleb has to do now in his bible reader. The stories are no longer 1 or 2 pages. One day this week he had to read 4 pages:

While he is still encouraged to illustrate in his bible notebook, MFW has added the concept of a summary sentence. After Caleb read's the bible story to me, he is to come up with a one sentence summary of what the story was about. He is to then write that sentence in his bible notebook. We had about two weeks or so where mom/teacher came up with the sentence, but now I am to help Caleb come up with his own sentence and write it. This is a little tough for him. It's stretching him and the idea is that he should sound out the words and write them himself. I haven't pushed him to do that yet, but I will soon.

Here are a few of his workbook pages from this week. Sometimes he has to complete the sentences...

Sometimes he has to put the words in the right order to form a proper sentence.......with new reading rules and words to sound out at the bottom of the page.

Sometimes they want him to read sentences and illustrate a picture to go with it. On the days when he really doesn't want to draw, we go on-line and find some pictures to go with his sentences.

Reading rules: /aw/ as it is spelled "au" in the word 'daughter' and "o" as in the word 'soft'.

Bible verse for the week: "Do not say, 'I'll pay you back for this wrong!' Wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you. Proverbs 20:22"

Bible Activity: We had a bible activity this week and it was to create the family tree for the 12 sons of Israel, including Abraham & Sarah; their son Isaac & Rebekah; their sons Esau & Jacob and Rachel and Leah. Sadly, I have misplaced the page we wrote all this on and I can't take a picture. After we did that family tree then we were to create Caleb's family tree. Unfortunately, mommy doesn't know all of daddy's ancestors, so his side of the tree isn't complete. We really need to go back and talk to him about those people.

MATH: Math this week touched on fractions. Nothing too complicated, but just introducing the concept.

I still pull worksheets from another workbook that I have to keep some of the other things he's been learning fresh in his mind.

SCIENCE: Our science lessons have returned and this week we "Experimented with Water." We put water in a variety of containers with different shapes. The idea was to see that the same amount of water can go into many different containers.

We even looked at this bottle of water and saw that the water was level with the counter. When we leaned the bottle against mommy's recipe box, the bottle was tilted, but the water still remained level with the counter top.