On A Roll...

Two days does make it 'on a roll', doesn't it?

CKW started out this morning with his DEAR reading and journal entry, then he 'retold' his independent reading to me while I was getting breakfast together.  I've been noticing people who follow The Well Trained Mind talking about "narration" and I wonder if this is the same as what his public school (and therefore, us) have been calling a 'retell'...  Off to investigate after this post!

In language arts (LA), we read Chapter 6 in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and then discussed the plot, characters, vocabulary, etc as per the LIT and Novel Ideas unit study plans we have been following.  This was a great book to start with, as both of us are enjoying it immensely.  We will be done in no time, unfortunately, but I'm already looking into which read aloud study unit to purchase next.  I'm thinking that The Wind in the Willows, along with a pond study (we have a pond afterall), would be right up our alley!

During social science (SS), we continued with our study of ancient history.  We had started out with The Story of the World, but have since backtracked a bit (!) using the Intellego K-2 World History Volume 1:  In The Beginning unit study.  Today we learned about prehistoric humans, hominid types and the effects of the Ice Age on human evolution and migration.  Next up:  The Stone Age.  We also opened up the Intellego K-2 Maps unit, and finished up the introductory first chapter.  CKW had great fun creating a map of our house, along with a treasure map of his bedroom.  I found the treasure right away, as his map was quite detailed, but wasn't too thrilled to grab my 'prize' of a wet, chewed up doggie rawhide out from underneath the top left corner of his bedroom rug.

After this, CKW did the Odd and Even Numbers lesson in Teaching Textbooks 3, and then watched the BrainPop Jr movie, and completed the quiz, on the same topic.  We went a bit overboard on the LA and SS stuff today, so no time for keyboarding or science, but whatever...  it's summertime, CKW was off to library program, we had fun and we'll get to that stuff some other time.