A Look at the week ahead

One of the blogs I love to read is Rockin' Granola, and she recently started doing a Sneak Peek at her week, posting her plans for the week ahead.  I like it, so I thought I'd do the same ...

Here's a peek inside my plans for this week:

Theme

This week we're just getting back into a school groove and focusing on Math.  Our MAIN LESSON this week will involve both girls because we are focusing on Arithmetic Village this week.  

Here is an overview of our plans this week:

 

Monday

• First Day Back to School
• Singapore Math Unit 1, Lesson 1 all together
• Princess make snack with Momma ~ Homemade Hummus & Veggies
• Read Arithmetic Village
• Introduce materials ~ treasure chest, jewels and jewel sacks
• Both girls decorate treasure chests
• Try to finish up The Seven Year Old Wonder Book

Tuesday

• Singapore Math Unit 1, Lesson 1 Reinforcement activities
• Play Go Fish with number cards and number word cards for math practice
• Illustrate Arithmetic Village into their Math Main Lesson Books
• Practice Place Value with AV materials
• Baking ~ Millet Squares and Homemade Apple & Pear Sauce
• Finish Seven Year Old Wonder Book and start The Tale of Jolly Robin

Wednesday

• Singapore Math Unit 1, Lesson 2
• Play War for math practice
  
• Practice Place Value with AV materials
• Draw jewels for various numbers in MLB
• AV Practice Sheet
• Nature Study ~ just get out and observe this week
• Princess make soup with Momma ~ Homemade Cabbage Soup
• Handwork Group ~ start felted wool bag
• Continue reading aloud The Tale of Jolly Robin   
  

Thursday

• Field Trip ~ Scenic Cruise around Historic St. Augustine
• Continue reading aloud The Tale of Jolly Robin

 Friday 

• Singapore Math Unit 1, Lesson 3
• Practice Place Value with AV materials
  
• Draw jewels for various numbers in MLB
  
• AV Practice Sheet
• Homeschool P.E.
• Swimming Creatures Class @ Homeschool Co-Op
• Continue sewing doll clothes @ Homeschool Co-Op 

 What else?

The Hippie will choose quotes for copywork on three days and write a letter to someone on the fourth day.  She will also do a Mad Lib (for grammar practice), a Mindbender (for logic), circle parts of speech on sentences I've typed up, do a word search (for reading/spelling practice), continue reading Caddie Woodlawn and peruse the book basket.


The Princess will hear a Fairy Tale of her choosing read to her, practice writing her number words and work with number word flash cards until she can recognize each number word and write the numbers 1 to 10 in her math MLB.  


Both girls will do all applicable practice pages in their Singapore Math workbooks and will peruse the book basket at their leisure.  What's in the book basket this week?  Math and number themes, of course:

• How Much is A Million? by David M. Schwartz
• Sunny Numbers: A Florida Counting Book by Carol Crane
• Counting on the Woods a poem by George Ella Lyon
• Mother Goose Rhymes Counting Your Way Number Nursery Rhymes
• Zero is the Leaves on the Tree by Betsy Franco
• Prayers for a Better World by Sophie Piper

There you have it.  A peek at our week to come.  I hope it is fun, relaxed and productive.  We are starting back slowly, easing in.  I will be adding a little bit as we move along ... once we get going, we'll add more to the 2nd grade boxes, artist and composer study, spelling, art and more ...


Next week ~ Earth Day and Ants!!!