MFW 1st grade: Week 14

I'm so excited that at least for now we're back to full speed with Boo's work. She has been doing so much better and I haven't had to slow down at all the past 2 weeks. We finally finished our creation study in her Bible reader. She was able to read all the pages (some slower than others.) Day 6 in the reader was extremely long and she did start to get a little frustrated trying to read it all, but we made it through. This is the final result of her notebook picture that she has been adding to each day.

We also started learning vowel pairs this week. We learned a little song that Sis sang when she was in 1st. It really helps them with reading words with vowel pairs. "The first one does the talking, the second keeps on walking," We pretended to be vowels walking holding hands the first one said their name and the other kept quiet. I typed up the words to our song and we hung it up so that we can learn them.

 It looks like the reading really picks up next week, so I'm a little nervous! We'll see how it goes and take it one day at a time. We may have to slow down again, but that's ok.

In math we finished our building numbers up to 10 for our adding with Lego's we've been doing.

In art Boo learned to draw a monkey. We're over half way through our Usborne "I can draw Animals," book now. I've been filing all of Boos animal drawings in her 1st grade portfolio. They'll be fun for her to look through when she's older. We will probably stop using this book soon though now that she will be using her notebook for art and drawing.