Week 3 of MFW Exploring Countries and Cultures

This week we moved on to studying the United States.

I found this AWESOME video. The girls decided they want to make their own music video to go along with this. Stay tuned next week!

MK and H did a lot of geography map work this week. They studied the bodies of water in North America, labeled the 50 states, and are memorizing states and capitals. When the big girls are doing their geography work, T works on her Complete Book of Animals. It has tear out stories and comprehension worksheets for animals in the different continents. For the next 6 weeks she will be working on the North American animals.

I'm really seeing a breakthrough in T's reading. For the first time this week she was excited to read. I really love the Pathway reading program. It is so perfect for T. For each lesson there's a workbook page to do before reading, then the reading, and then another worksheet for comprehension. Each day there is a supplemental reading exercise that focuses on different things such as digraphs, or vocabulary. Everything is laid out nicely in the Teacher's Manual.

MK does the majority of her daily work on the computer, with the exception of Exploring Countries and Cultures. Her favorite subject is Spanish. She has been very excited to tell me all the Spanish she is learning. She is even more excited that she got BRACES this week!

I had quite a few books to go along with our United States unit. None of these are actual My Father's World recommendations, but they're all great books.

We continue our study of the United States next week!