"Ee" practice

Teach the name of the letter "Ee" (the capital and lowercase forms) and practice writing them both. Teach the short sound "e" as in "bet". Spend as many days as needed until you feel the child has mastered this letter.

Look for visual or auditory opportunities during the day to reinforce the concepts (ie... "we're eating eggs, "Ee" says "e" for eggs" and "can you point to any big "Ee's" or little "Ee's" in this storybook?")

Draw "Ee's" in sand, with finger paints, make them out of play dough. etc. Color pictures of animals or other objects that begin with the short sound of "Ee". Save your child's work to assemble as a book when the alphabet is finished.

Learning the Alphabet

Our favorite resource for learning the alphabet has been Sing Read and Write. The songs on the dvd's are so cute and they come with pages to color as you listen. Play them during the day and in the car on trips and they'll pick up the alphabet in no time.Another one of our favorites for learning the alphabet is Muffin Match, a game included in Happy Phonics. In this set, you have to cut out and laminate the games yourself but the kids love this one. You could also make your own version of a capital/lowercase matching game.There are lots of ways to proceed, but usually as soon as the child can say the alphabet and recognize the upper and lowercase letters, it's time to learn the sounds. You could also teach the sound first and the name of the letter after so the sound/symbol association is stronger and more automatic. Some also think it's a good idea to learn how to write the letter at the same time the sound is learned. If the child is old enough, I think it is a great idea. Whatever your preference or order, just spend lots of time helping the child gain a good solid foundation of the alphabet that includes the names of the letters in order, their sounds, and how to write them.

More resources:

alphabet mazes
alphabet connect the dots
online alphabet games
abc order game
starfall abc's

"Aa" practice

Teach the name of the letter "Aa" (the capital and lowercase forms) and practice writing them both. Teach the short sound "a" as in "cat". Spend as many days as needed until you feel the child has mastered this letter.

Look for visual or auditory opportunities during the day to reinforce the concepts (ie... "we're eating apples, "Aa" says "a" for apples" and "can you point to any big "Aa's" or little "Aa's" in this storybook?")

Draw "Aa's" in sand, with finger paints, make them out of play dough. etc. Color pictures of animals or other objects that begin with the short sound of "Aa". Save your child's work to assemble as a book when the alphabet is finished.

"ee" practice

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"ck" practice

"ar" practice

Story of the World- Ancient Times Matching Worksheet #3

Answer Key for #3:
1c 2d 3g 4f 5i 6l 7b 8h 9e 10a 11k 12j

Story of the World- Ancient Times Matching Worksheet #2

Answer Key for #2:
1f 2i 3e 4a 5j 6k 7b 8c 9g 10d 11h

Story of the World- Ancient Times Matching Worksheet #1

Answer Key for #1:
1d 2a 3b 4l 5f 6j 7n 8g 9i 10h 11c 12m 13e 14k

It's About Time for an Update

When I decided to do weekly progress reports... ya, that was a little over-ambitious for me, considering the current state of affairs at our house. I'm modifying that goal to MONTHLY reports. Here's our report for May:

Math

K: lesson 74 (Fraction of a Set)
J: lesson 121
I: lesson 36

Spelling

K: Spelling Workout C, page 46 (Y as a vowel- money, every, eye, shy)
J: Spelling Workout B, page 65 (Y as a vowel- only, by, why, many)
I: Spelling Workout A, page 87 (Long Vowel i)

Handwriting

K: page 40 of HWT's Cursive Success, (Tow Truck Connections)
J: page 65 (letter m)
I: page 52 (practicing sentence spacing)

Grammar

K: page 180 (Synonyms)
J: page 37 (finding nouns)

Reading

K: Wind in the Willows page 118, finished Fablehaven I, II, and III, finished Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Book of Mormon Alma 38, Bible Deuteronomy 27
J: Blueberries for Sal, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Book of Mormon 2nd Nephi 1, Book of Mormon Stories chapter 36 (Hagoth)
I: still passing off beginner readers, mastered phonograms "th", "ch", "sh"

Science

The kids have been helping with the garden but we haven't been doing the journal entries or plant drawings. I need to remember this.

History

We're still catching up on making sure we have all the activities done for lessons 1-17 before we move on. Need to work harder on this.