First Grade - 6 Week Review

We are six weeks in and I must say, so far so good!

In the last six weeks we have:
- Covered most major stories from the book of Genesis, and made 20 notebooking pages over them.

- Started the book of Exodus

- Made a rainbow on the wall with a mirror and a tub of water

- Studied wasps, cicadas, grasshoppers, ladybugs, lightening bugs, and spiders

- Added 11 pages to our science notebook

- Finished 4 chapters from Story of the World

- Added 5 pages to our history notebook

- Made Dale's name in hieroglyphs in a scroll

- Made a pyramid out of legos

- Checked out approximately 150 books from our library

- Memorized a spider poem

- Learned a new memory verse

- Adapted to a consistent weekly schedule

- Written 24 handwriting practice pages

- Finished 23 math workbook exercises and several worksheets

- Observed a huge snapping turtle, a cicada eaten alive, a spider in a jar. The snapping turtle and the spider were released. Can't say the same for the cicada.

- All those assorted things like math games, phonics workbook pages, and learning videos, and misc. workbook pages, and real-life learning that can so easily fall through the memory cracks!

Needs improvement:

- more time reading aloud / actually finishing a read aloud in a week or two

- more memory work (poems, Bible verses, etc)

- more craft time / projects

Okay, so I can think of lots of things I'd like to improve on, but as far as school goes, I'm happy with what we are accomplishing so far! Especially the fact that I have started each week with lesson plans in place, and (even if it takes an extra day or two) we have finished everything (of significance) that was planned. Yay!