Week 8.1 ( Feb. 23-27 )

Just so you don't think we are only about cookie pizza this week...

Math - Finish rounding, cover Front End Estimation and move on to weights and measures

Language arts - action and linking verbs, past and present verbs

Cursive - writing words

Reading - Geronimo Stilton

Social Studies - Mayflower

Science - Trees

Week 8 ( Feb. 23-27 )

Recipe of the Week:

Cookie Pizza

Finally! A full week of school after a month of missed Mondays. Monday is an important day at Indie Teach because it's Recipe of the Week Day! I let Wes pick out whatever he wanted and he chose Cookie Pizza. He's becoming quite the chef and is handling more and more of the baking steps. I think his favorite part today was picking out the toppings for his pizza. He had all of his little goodies counted out and waiting for his pizza dough (large peanut butter cookie) to be ready. Big Brother Jens is liking this whole Monday recipe thing too. His pizza was topped with nothing but marshmallows!

Week 7 ( Feb. 17-20 )

We've got a busy week ahead:

Math - Rounding into estimation

Science - finished up bean sprout project/review. Move onto trees.

Cursive - begin writing full words and phrases

Language arts - verbs, verbs, verbs

Social Studies - Colonial times

Week 6 ( Feb. 10-13 )

Another short week this week. We seem to be having several of those in a row, but sometimes things just can't be helped. Wes and I are making the most of our time.

This week we are starting an exciting new section in our science studies. We are studying plant anatomy and how plants grow. We've read three books. One book, What's Alive? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, talked about what determines whether something is alive or not alive. Afterwards Wes spent time outside identifying 6 living and 6 non-living things. He drew pictures of them on individual cards and colored and labeled them. Then he turned this collection into a poster with one half representing the Alive and the other the Not Alive things.


Going backwards, we started the entire section by reading Oh Say Can You Seed which is part of The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library collection. It's actually full of information as well as beloved characters. Finally, today Wes read A Tree Is a Plant by Clyde Robert Bulla. This goes into detail about the life cycle of an apple tree. We also started our big Bean Sprout Project.


We have three different kinds of beans started, mung, broccoli and lentil. Wes picked the beans. We tried to pick three that looked different as seeds. Wes is keeping logs of all our our scientific data and as the week goes on, we will be learning more about these kinds of seeds in particular as well as charting and comparing their individual progress.

We are in a math transition right now. We will be starting the study of weights and measures.

I'm going to try to push on through to the end of the cursive alphabet this week and then we'll move on to writing words.

In language arts, we are beginning to study verbs. I plan to spend a fair amount of time with this part of speech and really grow Westen's understanding of verb forms.

Our Piano lesson went well today. We are learning how to approach the process better. I'm a little rusty as a music teacher.

Week 5.1

Our Three O'Clock Cheese Plate was a smash hit. After the 11 year old son stopped complaining, he filled up on the healthy treats.

Today in:

Language Arts - Activity book on Plural Nouns and a worksheet on Possessive nouns.

Cursive - The letter P

Reading - Geronimo Stilton

Math - Venn Diagrams used to find the greatest and least common factor

Keyboarding lesson

Tomorrow:

Cursive - the letter Q

Recipe Write up

Piano Lesson

Math Review

Week 5 ( Feb 2-4 )

We have a short week this week because of traveling demands, but we are making the most of our three days and will probably take some work on the plane with us. This week in

Math - We began studying Multiples, Factors, Prime and Composite numbers.
Science - We are beginning a new subject with the study of plant anatomy and we will be growing our own bean sprouts
Cursive - The letters O - Q
Language - Possessive Nouns

Recipe of the Week


Three O'Clock Cheese Plate

The perfect after school snack!