Summer Home School Week 1

While we read some books and did a few math works sheets every couple of days in Europe, our summer home school for the kids started in earnest last week.  I don't know if I will manage to update on it regularly here, but a glimpse at the first week will show you what we're working on.

Here's what Ella did last week:

1) Subtraction, addition, multiplication tables and fractions
2) Spelling - daily words with special attention to -ry and -ake words and any words misspelled the previous day
3) Daily reading 20 to 40 minutes
4) Root words, contractions and use of a dictionary
5) Daily Google search (including the questions Who was Elvis Presley and Who was Frida Kahlo which opened the door to the week's music and art exploration)

And Emilia:

1) Sounding out three letter words
2) Counting
3) Reading leveled books
4) Tracing in a dry erase book

And Rex whose work is with his ABA therapist:

1) Receptive ID of upper and lower case letters
2) Letter sounds
3) Tracing in a dry erase book (which he enjoys and does surprisingly well)

I feel quite good about what we accomplished in week 1 academically as well as the fact that the girls continue with their neurological re-organization.