MFW 2nd Grade - Week #2

Our 2nd week of school took longer than it should have.  I can't say enough how grateful I was that we homeschool.  In the mix of everything going on, I didn't have to run Caleb around and try to get him to school on time.   A couple of family medical emergencies interjected themselves into our life.  First, two days before Johnny's birthday and in the middle of my daughter's baby shower, I tore the retina in my eye and was out of commission for four days.  Following that incident, my daughter went into labor and had a precious baby boy four weeks early.  So, we missed five days of school there as well.  Finally, we were able to wrap up week two today and we are excited to start week three tomorrow!!

Even though it took us a while to finish, we had a great time!!  We start every school morning saying the Pledge of Allegiance.  Then we go straight into bible time.

BIBLE:  This week we talked about Jesus' name and the Old Testament.   He also started his Names of Jesus poster.   Caleb is also learning how to look up scripture in his bible.

SPELLING and READING:   Caleb had another list of 12 words and worked through some spelling lessons with them, finishing the week out with a spelling test.  He still gets the 'deer in headlights' look with the spelling test.  I know it's because he doesn't want to make mistakes.  He's really doing well with it.  Nearly got a hundred!!

Book Basket Books:

Telling Time, Jules Older

Tell Me What the Time Is, Shirley Willis

Clocks and More Clocks, Pat Hutchins

Pigs on a Blanket, Amy Axelrod

Mr. Large in Charge, Jill Murphy

Task Time, Cynthia Klingel & Peg Ballard

Smiles, Robert B. Noyed & Cynthia Klingel

Teddy Bear Math, Barbara Barbieri McGrath

The Mess, Patricia Jensen

Otto the Book Bear, Katie Cleminson

The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark, Deborah Diesen

Benny and Penny in Just Pretend, Geoffrey Hayes

Zoomer's Summer Storm, Ned Young

Christopher Columbus, Carol Greene

Adam and Eve God's First People, ZonderKids

Bats and the Ballgame, Brian Lies

Don't Know Much About the Pioneers, Kenneth C. Davis

You are My Miracle, Maryann Cusimano Love

Little Quack's Bedtime, Lauren Thompson

FIVE - Scholastic Science Readers on various topics

Read-A-Loud:

Each day this week we read from our American Pioneers and Patriots book.  We read aloud the story of Pedro and Catalina, two pioneer children from Spain.  It's a story about their travels on a ship as they leave Spain.  We learned about the food they eat, the difficulties they faced with bad weather, and living life on a ship.  The story was so good that on one particular day, Caleb did not want to stop reading.  He wanted me to go ahead to the next days reading!!

HANDWRITING:  Practiced handwriting for letters C-J

HISTORY:   We talked about Christopher Columbus this week.  Caleb learned who he is, where he traveled, and some of the difficulties he went through in getting financial assistance for his travels.  He watched his first DVD for the year - Christopher Columbus.

We added Columbus to the Timeline

History Activity - Caleb had to build the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria and try to float them in water.

Yes - he left the "i" off of Maria.  But, what I've come to learn with homeschooling is that there is a time and a place to make the student correct mistakes.  In the middle of a fun activity isn't really the time to point out mistakes.  This time, it was all about having fun.  

We took the foil "boats" out to the fish pond and Caleb provided the wind to toss them around in the "sea."

SCIENCE:   This weeks activities were about Science with Air.

The beginning of his science notebook.

Activity #1:   Scoot the paper across the floor with the cardboard.  Caleb did better than I the first time.

My paper turned sideways while his sailed across the floor to the blue finish line.

Activity #2:  He learned that air takes up space inside of things.  Such as this bottle.  When you submerge it under water, the air leaves the bottle in the form of bubbles and the bottle fills with water.

MATH:  We took off like a shot this week in our Singapore Math books completing a lesson each day.

ART:  Caleb just tickles me.  He really doesn't like art very much, but some of his art lessons he actually gets excited and tries to do his best.  This was one of those lessons.

POSTCARD COLLECTION:  Caleb's postcard collection is growing.  We mailed out quite a few to children in other states and Caleb has received quite a few as well.

Adventures is My Father's World has gotten off to a great start!  Eye is better, baby has arrived, so I am encouraged that we can really dig into the year and continue the learning process.

Homeschooling is the BEST!!

Educating in Christ,

Pam