Work Samples!

This is a photo laden post. I decided to post some samples of the boys' work. These are from our second week of school for 2009-2010. I thought it would be neat to see how they progress. I love to see samples from other homeschoolers. Plus it's a way to see examples from different curricula.
Gavin's Horizons 1 math workbook

Brandon's Horizons 3 math workbook

Gavin's word problems from Singapore Challenging Word Problems, book 1

Granted, I have to read the problems for him but he has to figure out how to do the problem and find the answer.

Brandon's word problems from Singapore Challenging Word Problems, book 2

Sample from Brandon's Growing with Grammar, grade 3

Gavin's phonics, Explode the Code, book 2

He had to spell these words on his own.

sample from Brandon's phonics, Explode the Code, book 6

He doesn't seem to really need the phonics as he's reading at a higher level than what we're doing. It's a good review though and reinforces spelling.

Sample of map work from Story of the World 2 activity book
I always review areas we've previously covered to help them see the big picture.

This is a sample of Brandon's copy work. I make up our copy work pages using excerpts from whatever we'll be reading that week. I made the lines too far apart for Brandon so his handwriting is a little awkward. I've made a note to decrease the space on the next set of pages. Gavin will not be doing copy work until he turns 6.

This is a sample of our guided narrations. Brandon writes his own narrations and Gavin dictates his narrations to me. I also create our narration pages to coincide with whatever we're covering that week.

This is a sample of Gavin's from our lab about blood. We're using R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey - Life.

Gavin is 5 and Brandon is 7. We started kindergarten when they would have started attending a traditional brick and mortar school. We've already started our "next" school year. Based solely on what level math we're doing, this puts Brandon in 3rd grade and Gavin in 1st.

Weekly Report Jun 15-19, 2009

Brandon:
Horizons 3 - lessons 15-19 and a test (There's a test every 10 lessons)
Singapore CWP - pages 69-76
ETC 6 - pages 113-121 (We finished up book 6 this week so he took the post test also.)
GWG - lessons 1.9-1.11
Spectrum Reading 3 - pages 26-29 (He's doing this 2x per week.)

Gavin:
Horizons 1 - lessons 11-15
Singapore CWP 1 - pages 9-14
ETC 2 - pages 10-18
I was worried that Gavin might not be ready to do blends but he's just cruising along! It's amazing how much spelling he picks up with us just doing Explode the Code right now.

Both:
History - SOTW 2
- read Beowulf from Favorite Medieval Tales
- Beowulf coloring page
- Brandon did some copy work
- finished up The Celts: See Through History
- started chapter 3
- another coloring page
- both did a narration exercise about Augustine
- read about monasteries in Medieval Life: DK Eyewitness
- made a medieval letter illumination
- completed map work from chapter 3
- read about monasteries from the Encyclopedia of World History and What Were Castles For?
- added Augustine to our timeline book

Science:
This week, we discussed the respiratory system and the digestive system.
- completed a lab about breathing rate and how it's affected by various activities
- did a little experiment exploring how much air you can hold in your lungs
- also made a "breathing model" found in the book Science and Your Body
- read Why Do People Eat? by Kate Needham
- read What Happens to a Hamburger? by Paul Showers
- also completed the fun activity at the end of that book about how digestive fluids affect food
- read about the respiratory system and digestive system in the following books:
What's Inside You
Body by Richard Walker
Tell Me about the Human Body

We also finished up The Sword in the Tree and Gulliver's Travels.