Super Reading Week

Cricket did amazing this week. She actually read these three of the four sentence searches all by herself to me, and repeated the work for her Dad and Mimi. I was so proud of her it actually made me tear up.

From 1+1+1=1

Horizons is putting more and more addition and other more difficult work into the book, and Cricket is taking most of it in stride. She did awesome with the addition this week. 

The only thing that threw her was that in a lesson while we were working on counting by tens they threw in ten dollar bills. This was my first dislike for Horizons. They have gradually introduced pennies, nickles, and dimes, their worth, and how to write cent amounts. We have not worked on dollar amounts at all yet though and there was really no explanation of it. It was just expected that you knew it's worth and how to write it.
 

This week we began our journey into Africa with a study of Kenya. Once again we actually had a people around the world image up on our wall for Kenya. Cricket enjoys having this connection, and she was really excited about starting a new continent. To kick things off we did this continent hop from Spell Outloud. It was good exposure to all the continent names, and Cricket enjoyed the game aspect of it.

Cricket recognized saying Jambo for hello from Dora, so this clicked with her well. She did a decent job this week of copying the Kenya flag and not getting "creative". 

This week we were finally able to enjoy our newly rebuilt deck, and Cricket spent time out there observing the change in weather. She really enjoyed collecting and comparing leaves. 

We also really enjoyed just being able to open the door and observe the weather for our tracking sheet. 

This week Cricket did a string art project, and I was reminded yet again that my princess is not a fan of the messy. She enjoyed putting the yarn on paper and the final result, but she did not like pulling the paint soaked yarn out of the paper. I used tempera paint, and I wished I used a better paint because the colors didn't mix or blend as well as I would have liked them to.

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