Treetop Academy Schedule - Week 5

Another week and it looks like the spring is really here to stay. But who knows. We've been fooled before. Still, I'm leaving plenty of room in the schedule for playing outside with friends, working in the yard (me - on pulling poison ivy; Monkey - on digging up and exploring rocks), and on trips to various creeks in the area.

Here's this week's schedule:

Week of	English Reading	Math
March 10-14
Monday	Let's Read - Lesson 67 Explode the Code 2	Funny Arithmetic MindWare Logic Links Treasure Quest game
Tuesday	Let's Read - Lesson 68 Explode the Code 2	Moscow Puzzles Labyrinth game
Wednesday	Let's Read - Lesson 69 Explode the Code 2	Funny Arithmetic Moscow Puzzles Connect 4
Thursday	Let's Read - Lesson 70 Explode the Code 2	Kangaroo Yatzee! Roads, Rivers, Rails game
Friday	Let's Read - Lesson 71 Explode the Code 2	Kangaroo Board game of choice

We are finishing up the second Explode the Code workbook this week! Hooray! This will also be the last week (I think) that we're using the Let's Read book. I like it ok, but if we follow it, we'll only get to long vowels sometime this summer. And without long vowels Monkey can't begin to read all those Stage 1 Early Readers we now have about pirates, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, treasure, and such. So we'll switch to a different book next week.

Math this week is mostly going to be a combination of puzzles and games. We will do some arithmetic word problems from the Russian book that he really enjoys. The new game that I want to try with him is Labyrinth (got it at the flea market for $5 this weekend). He seems excited to play it. Oh, and our calculus-inspired math circle starts this Monday.

Yoga starts again this week! And fencing continues (he's the shorty with a fencing foil on the pic above).  And we continue with the Engineering club on Thursdays.