Days off mean more school!

Zeru and I took 2 days off of work which meant major school time!

It was awesome and fun!

It was of course not without plenty of lessons on the history of flight, different air planes, and more lessons on the four forces in flight (Lift, Weight, Drag, and Thrust)

We have been using word flashcards (5-8 each week) and Zeru writes them each day, we read them

together, and we do review throughout the week of both the new and old words.

Here Zeru has been building sentences with his flash cards from previous weeks.

We have added "s" and "ing" so he can form more complex sentences with words he already knows.

We have been practicing reading sentences of words he already knows.

Here he is writing this week's words. ዛፍ is Amharic for "tree" if you were wondering. We try to add one or two Amharic words each week. (And I actually spelled it wrong on his flash card! Oops!)

Before you criticize his terrible handwriting, look again... He is right handed, but for whatever reason (he claims he does not want to get his right hand dirty) he uses his LEFT hand to write on the chalk board! I let him. He seems comfortable doing it, though his penmanship is a bit lacking.

And of course we pulled out our road to reading for some fun! It is really great when he can now read the whole sentence on the "useful words" cards (The other sets have pictures). Here he proudly holds up his card he has just read.

Road signs! Reading is fun.

Here are several of our "road signs" we use and the flash cards we use with them! Print them, cut them, and have fun on your next driving adventure! We use these with our Road to Reading mat! Zeru loves them! We also have more coming soon, such as "useful words" (like "a" "what" etc.) which feature the word in a sentence to be read to the student with the word highlighted which they are to drive to.

Color lessons: FREE DOWNLOADS

Lessons we have used to learn COLOR words. They work, at least for Zeru. I hope they work for you too!

Open, Save and Print these pages and activates to learn COLOR words.

Road signs with flash cards. We use these on our Road to Reading mat, but you can use them anywhere! Place the road sign around and "drive" (or fly, hunt, adventure) to the road sign of the card you select from a pile!

Do this as a team or take turns, or even as a play alone activity.

There are also 3 separate worksheets. Begin with the easiest (color word to color) match worksheet.
From there to the word to color word worksheet, then the word to color worksheet.


Using in combination, your little reader will have color words perfected in no time!

 

 

Learning to fly

Zeru and I have been studying Air Pressure from a lesson I remember from 8th grade. We have discussed this before, but never in relation to an airplane's wing.

We have also begun discussing are density. I used an example of bunnies in a box. The box is a set amount of space and the bunnies are the air molecules.

He also spent the evening building a runway and place with his Lego's!

Counting by 2s and 5s, and using soccer scores, dice, and truck wheels for math problems.

Zeru's newest interest: he wants to learn Spanish 9although he wants to travel to Brazil- which he understands speaks Portuguese- not Spanish)

Dream Big!

We have been so busy with life and learning that there has been little time for much else!

Lately as the Shop business picks up we take time to go play soccer a few times a week.
And of course on the weekends.

Educationally what has been working:

Weekly spelling lists (5 English, 2 Amharic word) practice spelling and reading every week, with
weekly quizzes and reviews.

Zeru has been doing great with this!

Our biggest struggle is boredom! Basic addition and subtraction is no longer worth Zeru's time. He lets me know it with frantic fits! But go and score a goal, and he will quickly announce the score and how many more till he wins! He has addition and subtraction down, he just hates worksheets!

One of our fun new projects is measuring maps. How many inches between locations and what direction to travel. This teaches geography, math, numbers, and direction (NSEW).

I have boldly declared to my dear son whose interest is to become a pilot and fly in Brazil that he has a choice: college or flight school. He made the choice! Big and fun developments coming soon!

More lesson plans to come!