School Week 6 2012/2013

This week A10 finished the book The Twenty One Balloons, and started her next Co op book, Surviving the Applewhites.  

I added a couple of things to her schedule, grammar and paragraph writing. She will be doing language lessons 1 day a week, grammar another day and paragraph writing on the third day. On the fourth day she'll be working on Editor in Chief.  I'm using Remedia Publications' Writing Paragraphs and Understanding Paragraphs ebooks.   She is really enjoying this and it is already helping her with her writing skills!!  I also purchased the Outlining ebooks from Remedia and we'll be working on them as soon as she is done with the paragraph book.

Now that she is in 5th grade, I need to start working on her writing skills.  I have 4 years to get her ready for high school writing.  This is where it starts! I downloaded a lecture from The Well Trained Mind about how to get the student ready for the high school years.  I will be following what Susan W Bauer said on the lecture. 

As far as X8, he is really coming along! Phonics is going great and he is getting more comfortable with reading and writing.  It's great to have that one on one time with him in the mornings while A10 is doing her independent reading.  It is really helping him!  We'll see how far he gets this year! As for math, he is having no problems at ALL!  He is really enjoying multiplication.  let's hope it stays taht way for the rest of the school year!!