Week in Review #3-2014-2015

We are only in the 3rd week of school and I am already getting behind on my update for my Week in Review. We have been having an extremely busy start to this new school year.

We are in studying Biblical, Jewish, and Ancient Israel history

Scripture Memory Verse:

We are still reviewing some scriptures from last year.  

 Bible 

We are doing our biblical studies different this year. We did start the New Testament this week and will work our way through it.

We also started:

A Child’s Bible Lessons from the Torah by Seymour Rossel

Artscroll a Childs Introduction to the Siddur.

The Word-Wise Adventures of Yisrael and Meir Going Global Book One: The Thirty-one Mitzvos

Read out Louds

We are reading, " Christian Heroes: Then & Now Lillian Trasher They Greatest wonder in Egypt by Janet & Geoff Benge

For Poetry we are reading, “To Be a Free People the Saga of Israel by Michael Bar-Zohar. This is a book of poems, songs, newspaper articles, and quotes from Israel.

Physical and Health Education

Little Man is still doing karate twice a week. Right now our weekly PE class is on hold.

Therapy and Appointments

Bug had physical therapy this week. Horse therapy got cancelled as it is too hot for man or beast to be working so hard.

For food therapy she at rice and beans and she wasn't impressed with them at all. She also tried a red bell pepper with not much love for it etiher.

 History and Geography

Our first history book we are going through is, “Introduction to Jewish History from Abraham to the Sages” by Seymour Rossel. 

We are reading, "Let's Explore Israel".

Not much else was done this week as it has been a crazy start of the new school year.

Language Arts and Math

Bug is reviewing nouns and pronouns. A lot of review still going on for her.

Little Man is also working on nouns, sentence structures, capitalization, and punctuation. 

Science

Bug's entomology box went to the Kansas State Fair and she got a purple ribbon and advances to intermediate in 4-H entomology. Which means she can now have 2 boxes and up to 300 insects. Her box now she is only allowed 150 insects.

We are learning the terminology for botany this week and working on the new notebooks.

We also separated Legos for an activity to understand taxonomy.

Hebrew, Art, and Misc... Studies

Little Man is doing Hebrew at the synagogue and working on vocabulary with Daddy.

Bug is working on her verses in Hebrew for her upcoming Bat Mitzvah. She is now starting to sing it. We only have 8 weeks left before her big day.

Art has not started at this time also.