Treetop Academy Schedule - Week 4

Spring is here! Neither Monkey nor I want to wait 21 more days to welcome it. Not with the nice sunny warm weather like we've been having lately. So this is our schedule for next week, the first week of spring.

Week of	English Reading	Math	Other
March 3-7
Monday	Let's Read Explode the Code 2 Intermediate phonics - S blends	5 problems - addition/subtraction to 100 without carrying over The Search for the Mystery Planet	Coding lessons at Code.org
Tuesday	Let's Read Explode the Code 2 Intermediate phonics - R blends	5 problems - addition/subtraction to 100 without carrying over Yatzee! IQ Fit
Wednesday	Let's Read Explode the Code 2 Intermediate Phonics  - L blends	5 problems - addition/subtraction to 100 without carrying over Look Both Ways: City Math Zome Tools (free build and bubbles)
Thursday	Let's Read Explode the Code 2 Phonics Tales - Sleepyhead Sloth	5 problems - addition/subtraction to 100 without carrying over Look Both Ways: City Math Zome Tools
Friday	Let's Read Explode the Code 2 Phonics Tales - Stan the Pest	5 problems - addition/subtraction to 100 without carrying over Yatzee! Look Both Ways: City Math	Coding lesson at Code.org

So pretty much things will stay as they are. We'll continue working on consonant blends, including th-, ch- and sh-. We'll use more early readers this week, primarily the ones I download from the Progressive Phonics website. 

Math - the first couple of weeks we spent a lot of time on arithmetic. Then last week we did more puzzles and stories. This week I plan on a mixture of both. There will be 5 daily arithmetic problems plus Yatzee! But the rest of the time we'll do puzzles, play with Zome Tools, and read math stories from the Look Both Ways: City Math book (another awesome thrift store find). Also, this week we will start another math circle. I co-produce it and Monkey gets to attend it. This math circle is called Inspired by Calculus and the first week's topic is Surfaces of Revolution. If you are interested in the course, follow its progress on Moebius Noodles.

At last week's Engineering club the kids were introduced to coding via Code.org. Now, Monkey's always been interested in programming, ever since I showed him Scratch when he was 4. But only now he really wants to play with it. And he's thrilled to have found Code.org because it feels like a game (and it has Angry Birds!) So he asked to work more on it during homeschool. No problem! Adding it to this week's plan.

Other things scheduled for this week are our weekly Young Engineers Club, StormFest (an annual event organized by the Museum of Natural History), and a Science Cafe about wearable robotics (again, at our highly awesome Museum of Natural History). The Science Cafe is geared toward teenagers, but given Monkey's deep interest in everything robots, I think he will really like it.

No yoga this week, but we will continue with fencing. Monkey is still super-excited and is trying very hard. The practices are long, two hours each. So he's really tired at the end. Last time he actually got to practice with a foam "sword" (and wear a REAL fencing mask - a dream come true for him). So at the end of two hours his hands were visibly shaking. But he's happy and wants to keep going. Hooray!