weekly retro and planning 9/8/13 - 9/22/13
What went well
- Finished planned curricula
Areas for improvement
- Work on patience/logistics when working 2 on 1. Providing value for Lorelei too, and not just simply keeping her busy.
- Missed library trip.
- Work on addressing goofing directly and empathically versus with frustration and snapping.
Action Items
- Pick simpler poems and be more structured with memorizing and reciting.
- Plan time to go to the library.
- Parents get to bed earlier to better capitalize on good learning time.
- download some new audio books for Audrey (pinnochio?) (lord of the rings?)
- www.greathall.com, audio book called Egyptian stories, mummies and myths
- plan field trip to see some big cats for science
Schedule for the week
- Monday
- 6:45a -7:30a
- math unit 13 activity 1, 2 and 3
- spelling begin 24
- 10:30a -11:30a
- swimming lessons
- 1:30 - 3:30p nap-time
- practice spelling words
- fun reading
- notebook page
- 3p -4:30p
- Grammar lesson 8
- Composition week 3 day 1 (copy work)
- Handwriting capital V
- History chapter 2, page 14 section 1
- ask discussion questions page 7 in activity book
- do narration exercise (brief 2-5 sentence summary of chapter including several important facts)
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Tuesday
- 6:45a -7:30a
- math unit 13 activity 4 and 5
- spelling finish 24
- 8a
- drop Lorelei at Aspen Grove
- 9a
- Audrey's 1st day at Kinderheart (parents stay for opening ceremony)
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Wednesday
- 6:45a -7:30a
- math unit 14.1 and 14.2
- spelling begin 25
- Grampsy and Holly arrive in the afternoon.
- 1:30 - 3:30p nap-time
- practice spelling words
- fun reading
- notebook page
- 3:30p
- Audrey's dance lesson
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Thursday
- 6:45a -7:30a
- math unit 14.3 and 14.4
- spelling finish 25
- 8a
- Lorelei at AG, Audrey at KH
- 4:45p Lorelei's dance
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Friday
- 6:45a -7:30a
- math unit 14.5 and 14.6
- spelling begin 26
- 1:30 - 3:30p nap-time
- practice spelling words
- fun reading
- notebook page
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Saturday
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Sunday
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Monday
- 6:45a -7:30a
- math unit 14.7 and unit 14 review
- spelling finish 26
- 10:30a - 11:30a
- swimming lessons
- 1:30 - 3:30p nap-time
- practice spelling words
- fun reading
- notebook page
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Tuesday
- 6:45a -7:30a
- math unit 14 activities 1 and 2
- spelling begin 27
- 8a
- Lorelei at AG, Audrey at KH
- Grampsy and Holly leave in the afternoon.
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Wednesday
- 6:45a -7:30a
- math unit 14 activities 3 and 4
- spelling finish 27
- 8a-9:30a
- Grammar lesson 9
- Handwriting v
- Composition week 3 day 2 (narration)
- 10a Library trip
- history books
- science books
- 1:30 - 3:00p nap-time
- science
- reading: big cats
- narration page
- illustrations/coloring page
- fun reading
- notebook page
- 3:30p
- Audrey's dance lesson
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Thursday
- 6:45a -7:30a
- math unit 14 activity 5
- spelling begin 28
- 8a
- Lorelei at AG, Audrey at KH
- 4:45p Lorelei's dance
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Friday
- 6:45a -7:30a
- math unit 15.1 and 15.2
- spelling finish 28
- 1:30 - 3:30p nap-time
- practice spelling words
- fun reading
- notebook page
- 3:30 - 4:30p
- Grammar lesson 10
- Handwriting Y
- Composition week 3 day 3
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Saturday
- 8a - 11a
- Grammar lesson 11
- History chapter 2, page 18 section 2
- ask discussion questions page 7 in activity book
- do narration exercise (brief 2-5 sentence summary of chapter including several important facts)
- mapwork and coloring page
- Handwriting y
- Composition week 3 day lesson 4
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud
- Sunday
- bedtime
- Audrey: reading to us, reading Iliad to her
- Lorelei: reading aloud