Our Curriculum

I've started a page that lists some of the books and topics we are covering. Look at the tab bar and go to "Our Curriculum" to see some of the books and websites we use. I've listed what we did today so you can understand what we do to learn!

Today we've used JumpStart for Math and Reading Comprehension and read The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat and Can You Count to a Googol? (Robert E. Wells Science) to understand powers of 10, place value, and large numbers over a million. We also wrote each number as we turned the pages so we could see the stair-step pattern that formed as we wrote 10, 100, 1000, etc. one under the next.

We also did a few pages in Progress in Mathematics on counting by 2, 3, 5, and 10 and reviewed more than and less than and which equations help us get the answer. He did some pages in the workbook (he requested it) and looked at the teacher's manual together. 

A reading comprehension story in JumpStart 2nd grade generated questions that led us to learn how to arrange (our movies) alphabetically by the first and second letter. We worked on patterns too. He worked on making correct change (using coins to add to specific numbers) on JumpStart as well.

Well, I will add more to this later! We are off to do some reading and maybe watch a documentary or science or nature show on Netflix to see what we want to explore this week. There should be some great thunderstorms to watch this afternoon too!