Reading Sample Continued

A Reading Sample

Baking a Cake!

Our reading story this week was "Hedgehog Bakes a Cake" by Maryann Macdonald.  We made the same cake Hedghog makes in the story.  Yummy!

Writing a Friendly Letter

The Digestive System

 We made a model while learning about the digestive system.

Recycling

We read the "Wartville Wizard" by Don Madden and talked a lot about recycling.  

An Overview

Reading
The Beginner's Bible 
Harcourt Trophies


Writing
Jounral entries, personal narrative using five-step writing process

Spelling
Sonlight spelling
Harcourt spelling workbook

Grammar
Houghton Mifflin English book and workbook

Math
We have used Horizons Book 1, and Everyday Mathematics covering the following concepts:

• identify place value in numbers up to 1000
• read and use ordinal numbers to identify position
• identify numbers as odd or even
• add and subtract two and three digit numbers
• identify fractions
• tell time 
• use coins to model given values and make change
• use tools to measure length and temperature
• organize and display data as a chart, table, or bar graph and analyze data represented on a graph
• solve one and two step story problems using multiple strategies and present results
• use a calendar to find today's date and future dates

Science and Social Studies
Usborne Book of Knowledge
The Usborne Book of Science Activites
The Usborne Book of World Histroy
Dinosaurs Unleashed
Weather (DK)
Usborne Children's Encyclopedia
The Awesome book of Bible Facts