Week 2 wrap up

Wow we are done with our second week of school! We had a great week as you will see through the rest of the post! George loved all the new curriculum choices I picked which I was so happy to see. It is taking us between 2.5-3hrs to complete all the work I have planned which is not bad at all! Sometimes it takes more if I chose to do games and other activities for that day. George did express to me this year that he does not like writing so I try to space out the big writing assignments with other more hands on things which he  likes.  So here's some of the photos of our week!

 

 

 

First up is what the daily bins looked like on Monday. Friday looks so slim because some of the books from earlier in the week we would use again later. So once we used them they moved further down to the next day we needed them. These bins help a lot! I do need to keep the teacher manuals on my desk or else it all would never fit though.

 

I told you all about the new magnetic dry erase board I had ordered well here it is. This is where we do our spelling and reading since they use those magnetic tiles you see at the top. Right now its just a-z. As we get further in the lessons we add other tiles.

Here's what my lesson plan book looked like! Lots of stuff going on! But we got it all done.

The Math-U-See program comes with a dvd to watch before you start the lesson so this is George sitting down to watch it.

This is the guy on the dvd teaching the lesson on place value. We do a lot of pausing to work a long with the dvd. George thought it was a lot of fun because you build with these really cool blocks.

Here he is building a number. The green ones are the units or ones place, the blue are the tens and the red are the 100's. George picked up on this pretty quick.

Here he is at the magnetic board working on spelling. I was saying the sound of some letters and he had to find the letters. This week he mastered all 26 sounds.

I got these water marbles that we decided to grow. You put them in water and they grow to 200x their original size.

You can see them through the cups. One had less water than the other. We  where curious if that would effect how much they grew. It did not. Now we are seeing if leaving them out of the water for the weekend effects their size as well.

This was Georges story this week and his drawing.

We had a visitor this week! Thumper came hoping around and wanted to see what was going on in the school room.

Here was what the water marbles looked like when they where out of the water. They bounce and squish if you push hard enough. They are pretty neat! George liked them a lot.

To break up writing assignments I gave him a piece of scratch paper and he drew a house, a castle me and him some clouds and wrote mom I love you..... Such a sweet kid!!!!

We had to move the daily bins because a certain bunny was eating our books! So Robert and I threw this shelf together real quick and have solved the problem.

To track his progress in reading and spelling we have this charts. Each time he completes a level he gets to add a sticker.

Here he is working in one of the books.

This was in the reading book. Matching rhyming words. Goofy smile!

End of the week progress!!!! All 26 letter sounds, level 1 of spelling and level 1 and 2 of reading.

All and all a great week for George this week he had all 5 daily tickets and 3 bonus tickets. Instead of turning them in he decided to save them. He has his eye on a bigger prize. So proud of him for saving them! He's Also done good with listening as I read out loud to him. He does get fidgety so I bring out the kentic sand and that helps a lot. He still pays tons of attention but its just enough to keep him still. He's learning lots already and looks forward to school each day. He loves showing daddy everything he does. I hope your enjoying all of our posts and are following along on the journey. Check back on Wednesday for another post all about another subject we are teaching!