Math and Making Valentines

You will find it as no surprise that our school days last week started out the same way they always do. Grant went through his rounds of French and penny whistle lessons, spelling practice, reading, and cursive practice before jumping into his main lessons.  Last week for cursive, Grant began to learn the "lower zone letters", g,j, p and q. I also wrote out whole words for him to practice.

On Monday, Grant and I talked about prime numbers. I told him a little story involving the math gnomes called, "Sad Prime Finds His Friends".  In the story the Gnome King helps Prime to see that he does have a lot of friends just like him using the Sieve of Eratosthenes. 

To do this we chose the range 1- 50, and then looked to see which numbers were only divisible by 1 and itself. Grant copied this into his lesson book.

I also read this book:

Afterward, the girls made some drawing based on the book.

Johanna's Drawing 

Julia's Drawing 

On Tuesday, I wrote down some problems for Grant to work out on his own.  After he was done, I went through them with him and we corrected the wrong answers.  It was good to do the review and reinforce the material.  It had been a while since we had covered some of the math.  I had to help him correct quite a few on this first day of review.

I also read this book:

On Wednesday, Grant had another bunch of math problems to work out.  Once again, I left him to do it on his own, and then checked his work when he was done. He did much better, and I only had to help him correct one problem.

On Thursday, we used the morning to make Valentine cards for our family and friends.

After lunch, we went to the Warren County Homeschool Group Valentine Skate Party. The kids had a lot of fun there, and I will do a separate post for that.

Next week we will be changing things up as we move into a new lesson block.