Last Weeks Lessons

We ended up skipping Monday because of running around, Wednesday because of the 4th.

Tuesday

Reading pages 80 – 97 – The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Hooked on Phonics

Multiplication – pages 9 and 10.

How many kids are in the Egypt Game so far?
What did April tell Melanie?
What does dramatically mean?

Wednesday

Research Nefertiti

Thursday

Reading pages 98 – 114 – The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Multiplication – 11 and 12

Hooked on Phonics

Who is neferbeth?
What or who is Security?
What is diplomacy?

Friday

Reading pages 115 – 131 – The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Multiplication – 13 and 14

Hooked on Phonics

Who is Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Chang
What did the three girls do Thursday afternoon?
Who is Nick?

What did the owl represent?
Why was April upset at her mother?
Toby came up with an excuse for the other boys as to why they disappeared everyday. What was it?

Friday June 29 Lessons

Reading pages 59 – 79 – The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Hooked on Phonics

Multiplication – pages 7 and 8.

What happened in the neighborhood to make the kids stop playing the Egypt game for awhile?
What did the kids make when they weren’t playing the Egypt Game?
What nationality is the new girl?
What grade is Elizabeth in?

Thursday Lesson – June 28

Reading pages 41 – 58 – The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Hooked on Phonics

Multiplication – pages 5 and 6.

Where is Melanie’s and April’s Egypt?

Look up the answers to these questions:

What are Hieroglyphics
What is a Pharoah?
Who is Set?

Wednesday Lesson – June 27

Reading pages 22 – 41 – The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Hooked on Phonics

Multiplication – pages 3 and 4.

Kind of a light day today. I had babyboy write a summary – I usually do. The first one stank 🙂 and didn’t apply to the chapter at all. So after discussing writing – and any kind of summary really, we went over who, what, when, where, why and how and how to apply it, he wrote another one which was much better. I then wrote a quick summary utilizing 4 of the above, because how didn’t really apply, and where was covered with when.

Tuesday Lesson – June 26

Changing tactics a little bit.

After some thought, and a bit of further reading last night for myself in Dragonflight, I gave my son the option of changing books today. I wanted it to seem like his idea, but last night in Dragonflight I came upon some – shall we say – racy stuff and I don’t want him to have that to deal with. It’s not that racy, but still. With the problems he has with reading, I don’t want to complicate matters.

So, he switched books.

We’re now reading The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. It’s a Newberry Honor Winner. I’m very proud of him for selecting it.

And, in keeping with my idea yesterday, I had him come up with the questions. You should have seen the look he gave me. It was priceless.
It actually resulted in him reading the section. He came up with some good questions for me:

What does A – Z mean? How is it used?
What things did the characters have in common? (This answer is actually in the introduction. Doubly impressed, here!)
What does merchandise mean?
What is the old man’s name?
Who is Dorothea?

Problem Words

sfraggled
Nefertiti

Hmm. May make him look up Nefertiti.

funbrain.com

food spreadsheet

Picked up a 4th grade multiplication and division workbook, and a 5th grade math book. He really needs to work on his multiplication.