We even went to the park on Friday. I didn't have my camera, but I doubt I would have gotten any great pics anyway. It was packed there and Abby was all over the place. Plus, my chest still hurts from the costochondritis. The cough I had is gone, but the pain is still present. Every time I start to feel better, I sneeze and the stabbing pain comes back. Not fun at all.
Math
Abby's worksheets included topics such as: choosing operation for story problems, money problems, picture graphs, bar graphs and tally tables.
Reading
Abby continued with the workpages in 100 Words Kids Need To Read By First Grade. Also, LOL that I just realized the book says BY first grade and not IN first grade. Oh well. These pages included: comprehension, rhyming words, matching, past/present tense and this/that actions.
We played Erudition too!
Abby loved it. She did really well with the words. There are 4 different color card "levels". The blue cards are upper/lower case and beginning sounds. Green cards are beginning level sight words, yellow cards are intermediate level sight words. The red cards are the advanced level sight words.
Abby started with the green cards on the first round and got almost all of them right. On the next round, she did the yellow level and did very well. Probably about 75% accuracy. The red ones are still pretty hard for her though.
The only thing about this game I don't care for is it's hard to play along. Dave and I already know all of the words. So, it's kind of boring to play. However, I read somewhere that a parent used Trivial Pursuit cards for their turn. Good idea!
I also remembered that I had made Paint Chip Phonics cards. The last time I got them out, Abby was not interested. This time she loved them. Even Kitty and Rosie had a turn using them.
Science
Since last Monday was Valentine's Day, we learned about the cardiovascular system. First she watched the Heart & Blood videos at A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling. We then did Lesson Plan 1 from the Texas Heart Institute (.pdf link) This was an introduction to the cardiovascular system and discussed the heart, lungs, arteries and veins. Abby did this worksheet:
I also printed The Mighty Pump worksheet and a Heart Vocabulary page from Slim Goodbody. After reviewing the parts of the cardiovascular system and the parts of the heart, I printed a handwriting practice worksheet:
This was from Amazing Handwriting Worksheet Maker. She started out doing really well, but she doesn't have patience to sit for very long.
I forgot where I found the following activity:
On Friday, we went to a homeschooling event at the library. It was called How Things Work. There were tables filled with electric items to take apart, charts, books and posters on how things are made and also several activities for making things. We both enjoyed this.
That pretty much sums up the week. I didn't start exercising, but at least I ate well. HA...not really. We ate out 5 times this week. That's insane. Burger King twice, Taco Bell, Chick-Fil-A and Sam's pizza on Sunday. We'd better try to eat at home some this coming week or I'll be broke and fat. LOL!
Today, I'm calling the dentist for Abby. When I went to brush her teeth yesterday morning, I saw a tooth growing in behind her baby teeth. I did some research and this is called Shark Teeth.
(Not Abby's teeth)
Apparently the baby tooth root is not absorbing like it should and there is no room for the adult tooth. Abby's bottom tooth has been loose for quite some time and I'm worried she'll need it removed, to make room for this one coming in. Does anyone have experience with this? I remember this happening to Helene's daughter at I'm Living Proof that God Has a Sense of Humor. Luckily, their dentist told them to wait it out and her baby teeth fell out and everything was fine! I hope that's what the dentist tells me...
12 comments:
So sorry about your pain! I hope that it gets better for you.
I love the paint chip phonics.
Kerri
I never noticed that about the book title either! Let's go back to the park when the local district is not off school. Crowd control, you know.
I like how colorful her math is-that is one thing I am kind of concerned about MUS for next year...
Oh dear- I think that lady in the coloring page looks like she has a bacterial lung infection. Or maybe she is trying out for a mucinex commercial?
LOL, Matthew thought that the muscle formula of ensure could make your muscles purple like on the commercial animation.
love the heart with the ribbons/strings;)
The teeth thing happened to Anna, but her baby teeth... thankfully.. fell out before the permanent were full sized!!
Fun week;)
I hope you start to feel better soon!
We still haven't played Erudition. We played Life yesterday - way too confusing for young children, but they loved it. We had to modify the rules quite a bit.
We have eaten out so many times over the last few days! I can feel all of the french fries and burgers moving through my veins - ha!
Good luck with the dentist! Let us know how it goes. Do you take Abby to a pediatric dentist? We used to have a pediatric dentist and I switched out of convenience and now I'm thinking of switching back.
I had a friend who had those double teeth as a child. I think he had them pulled because his were permanent.
It's great that you thought to make that game more playable for you and the hubs by using Trivial Pursuit cards. :)
L just went through the 'shark teeth' thing...his bottom center teeth were almost exactly like the picture...his permanent teeth pushed the baby teeth out though (the baby teeth were super loose) so it 'corrected' itself. He's lost the two teeth next to them as well without issue and they are all lined up correctly now, even having had double teeth trying to grow. <3
Great week! I love the heart study you did and the model.
Hope all goes well at the dentist and that you feel better soon!
I love that heart model!
One of my brothers had that problem with his teeth. I think they eventually pulled the baby teeth, but I'm not sure...
Aren't you ready for nothing but Spring weather? I am for sure!
I LOVE what you did with the model of the heart. That is a wonderful learning activity! I hope I remember when we get to anatomy.
Good luck with Abby's teeth. Hanna has had all sorts of problems with teeth--a little mouth. She's had to have several pulled and been through issues with having spacers put in too. This was all when she was in 1st and 2nd grade. She did really well! I'm sure the laughing gas helped:-).
I sure hope you are feeling 100% very, very soon!
You know, I made the paint chip game and totally forgot about it!! Thanks for the reminder.
Just read Heather's comments. She is always so funny!!
Oh, I do hope you feel better soon!
Love the paint chip phonics -- so clever!!
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