First week back!

So this was our first week back from Christmas break. It was definitely nice to get back into the school room. George was happy and ready to go.  This week we did take Wednesday off along with the public schools. This week we completed a lesson in math on skip counting which George found very easy. We got through a lesson in spelling and two lessons in reading. We finished up our lesson in science on Mercury.  So here are some pictures of the week!

Christmas is over so that means new border! I put up the winter one.

Since we started skip counting by two I showed him how making groups can make a mutiplication problem. At this point in the book it was just skip counting by 2's

Every year I like to make a new police id kit. It has all his info in it, finger prints as well as a new photo of him. He likes doing this. Who wouldn't finger prints are fun!

Here's the finger prints.

In science we had some experiments to do. Here we are making craters. We put flour in a bowl and dropped marbles. Different heights and sizes.

For a fun go to activity I pulled out the pocket volcano.

We filled the chamber with baking soda and then added vinegar. Dad sat in and watched it.

Then we added baking powder and put it under water to see an under water volcano.  George liked the above ground volcano more.

At the spelling/reading board making words.  I give him a word and he writes it. This week we also added 3 constant vowel teams. Sh, Ch and Th.

Our other science activity was to make mercury. To do this we made a salt dough recipe and then used marbles and pencils to make craters. George wasn't to found of making the dough. He found it to be sticky.

Here he is using the pencil to make the craters. The dents it makes are representing what asteroids would do.

The end result.  Then leave it out to dry.

All in all it was a great week back. George also made some crafts and in his draw write now book he drew a dog. I didn't get pictures of that though. George is also up to 16 tickets then decided to save them so he got a bonus. He is wanting to save up for the glow in the dark dough I have. 

We are looking forward to next week and the rest of the year. George is loving his work. His favorite would have to be the other math book we use called Life of Fred. It is a story (technically a series) about a 5 year old math professor named Fred. It basically shows the children through the story how math is used in real life examples. Currently Fred is on a boat that sprung a leak and went ashore. George was so mad when the chapter ended as a cliff hanger. We do 2 chapters a week,

So that wraps up this week!