Week 1.3

I am definitely still adjusting to the demands of my new busy schedule, but I love spending all of this extra time with Wes. I don't know what the days feel like to him. For me they are flying by and I'm trying to catch my breath!

Today's recap:

Math - reviewed place value, covered expanded notation, began discussing decimals

Cursive - we worked on our b's and a's

Key boarding - Had our first session beginning with hand position and drilling f, j, d, and k


Newspaper - our review, took everything off of the story board and created our weekly newspaper the "Indie Press". We looked at a real newspaper to understand the layout, organized our stories, Picked our front page story and so forth. Wes wanted to make copies and sell them he was so excited!

For tomorrow
Math - review whole numbers, work with money math, begin by viewing Study Jams-math-decimals and percents: Compare Money Amounts and Making Change. Practice with real money and do worksheet
Cursive - C's and a, b, c combo's
Science - make final conclusions about our sundial experiment in our journal, place space game
Social Studies - Read book on Mexico and do corresponding activity book. Make pinata. Have Friday Fiesta!