The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge

This week we are rowing The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge. It is based on the story of a real lighthouse along the Hudson River in New York.

Since the story takes place in NYC we will be learning about NYC today. Not too in depth, but enough that she'll know where is located in a US map and she'll be able to recognize some of the most famous images of NYC.
We'll talk about lighthouses and their purpose, and of course big bridges. We'll be starting our Home Economics curriculum. The 1st chapter deals with nutrition, lots of fruits and veggies!
I'm planning to have her do some notebooking pages with pics of different kinds of fruits and veggies and why they are good for our bodies.
This week we will start handwriting exercises once again, both upper and lowercase. I won't touch phonics till next week, and we'll be doing math as well.
This Friday will be our first COOP, which means I have to make sure I cover everything in four days.

X4 is doing really good with Letter of the Week. His sister has been a real help with that, she's been playing teacher with him. This week is the letter B , the number 2, red and the octagon.
Should be fun!!