Blessed Dragons Academy: weekly wrap up

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Weekly Wrap up-Eric

Eric loves his new game. Word fish. He tries to play it every week.

Since his reading has really taken off he has been reading French Fairy Tales. This Week was Puss in Boots and The Fairies.

Math is Eric favorite subject. He is doing division this year with Math-U-See.

He also played milk cap math this week, an idea I got from another blog.

And dominoes

History we are continuing with Colonial Life.

Eric read some of Cranky Colonials

And we completed the first pocket in our Colonial Life history pocket

Of course Eric's is red.

We stenciled paper mache boxes on Friday.

Erics has animals and Hearts.

In Geography we visited S.Korea.

And wrapped it all in a cool lapbook.

Science is Chemistry. Eric did a few lessons and enjoyed his Atomic Chef comic

And read some of his Reallt Rotten Experiments book.

He also played a little Learn Science

And the Periodic Table Game

And Totally Gross, which is requested weekly now.

Eric enjoyed his first Baba Yage book so much he finished it quickly

And wanted to read The Little Wizard

Eric is LOVING his Spanish workbook. Just a few pages a week isnt enough for him.

He loves when I assign the shapes. It is a really cool logic game. Theres a pic on the card and some weird shapes. He has to make the shapes look like the pic on the card all in the square area. I am always finding him playing through out day and evening just for fun.

He had some Lego time this week too.

And playdough time. Eric loves his play dough.

He did a few wordsearches

He got to enjoy some of his Jack Keane

And Sims as well

And of course has his daily handwriting

The week went pretty well for Eric. He is really looking forward to next week. FUN WEEK. Stress free. Relaxing. Playing games and just chillin. We have some mommy and son snuggle time planned while we watch A bugs life and NEMO.

Weekly Wrap up

This week my oldest completed a lot. He read 2 books for his free reading. This is where he gets to choose what he wants to read. He just has to read a minimum of 1 chapter a day. But he usually reads more. He choose Cat Magic, a boo we found at the library. He finished this book so quickly this week he read another.

Sir Lancelot, Where are you? From the Dragon Slayers Academy series. Its is a bit a below his reading level but he enjoys the stories.

For Math he did Pre Algebra. Math-u-See. (One of his favorite subjects)

He also played milk cap math. A fun homemade game I found on a blog.

And he played a little dominoes this week too.

History this week we continued with Colonial Life.

John made a rope bed.

And stenciled a paper mache box

He read some in Cranky Colonials

And worked on our first pocket for our History pockets

We also Notebook any papers or art that is left.

We continued with Expedition Earth. (The boys LOVE this)

They learnd about South Korea this week.

John turned all his S.Korea lessons into a lap book.

For Science we are studing Chemistry. John did a few lessons in his Elements curriulum and of course enjoyed his Atomic Chef Comic.

He played the Periodic Table Game

And of course Totally Gross the game.

Read a little in Chemical Chaos

And played Learn Science

John has been reading French Fairy Tales for a few weeks now. This week was Puss in Boots and the Fairies.

And to go with his History study he is reading The Witch of Black bird pond. He should finish next week if he stays on track.

And he put in some time with My Word Coach.

For Religious Studies hes reading To Ride a Silver BroomStick. I think he only has 1 chapter left.

He is using a Learn Spanish curriculum from the local library.

And a Learn Latin from the local Library. When hes done with this Latin he will start latina Chistiana 2. (He completed 1 last year)

Life Skills this week as always consists of helping with dinner, helping with his laundry, stuff like that but for fun he likes to play Sims 3. It teaches he time management, he has to get a job, maintain a house, etc.