March 2
Brain Quest consonant clusters
Read aloud: "Purple Pickle Juice"
Read about Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors in Story of the World
Read an overview of the human body in R.E.A.L Science Odyssey
March 3
Read "As You Like It" from Beautful Stories from Shakespeare for Children
SOTW mapwork on the route the Israelites took
Which Way USA? Texas
Math Mammoth subtraction
Brain Quest plural nouns
March 4
Math Mammoth - adding double digit numbers
Read aloud 'Fox All Week"
Art - drew animals from a 'learn to draw' book
Read about cells in "My First Human Body Encyclopedia"
Which Way USA? Texas
"The Little Man in the Map": AR, LA, OK, TX
I've been sick with an ear infection so studies have been a little lighter than usual.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
February 2011 (23 days)
History: Read biographies of Cleopatra, King Tut, Nefertiti. Added them to a timeline
Learned about cuneiform, hieroglyphs, Mesopotamia, mummies, pyramids
Made a model of a pyramid.
Learned about Sargon and Akkadia.
Discussed military dictatorship
Watched video online about mummification
Learned about Abraham and the Jewish people
Science: Discussed living vs. non-living
Animal cells vs. plant cells
Made bubble gum
Watched video on animal intelligence
Studied and egg with a magnifying glass and identified the chalaza, yolk, white, blastocyst and holes in the shell
Watched video on wild parrots in the U.S.
Nature study included: wren, robin, grackle, pinecones
Geography: Identifying Egypt and Sumer, the Tigris and Euphrates, the ancient city of Kish, on a map.
Worked on "Which Way USA?" Texas
Started memorizing the Midwest states with "The Little Man in the Map"
Math: review of January's concepts
Telling time on the hour and half hour
Properties of shapes; triangles, rectangles, squares and quadrilaterals, including vertices
Measuring in inches and centimeters.
Counting with pennies and nickels.
Subtraction
Reading and Language Arts: Continued to work on reading proficiency by reading aloud and being read to daily. (See book list.)
Nouns; including common and proper. Capital letters on proper nouns. Consonant blends and clusters, digraphs, spelling short vowel words. Handwriting practice from "Handwriting Without Tears".
Latin: Learned the words for; mother, father, sister, brother, girl, boy, man, woman, chair, table, pencil, book.
Art: Recognizing and copying lines. Painting with acrylics and water colors; drawing with crayons, pencils and oil pastels. Made a paper version of the Rosetta stone, made a Sumerian seal from clay. Learned about warm and cool colors in Monet's "Tulips in Holland" and drew with warm and cool colors. Made masks and swords from construction paper.
History: Read biographies of Cleopatra, King Tut, Nefertiti. Added them to a timeline
Learned about cuneiform, hieroglyphs, Mesopotamia, mummies, pyramids
Made a model of a pyramid.
Learned about Sargon and Akkadia.
Discussed military dictatorship
Watched video online about mummification
Learned about Abraham and the Jewish people
Science: Discussed living vs. non-living
Animal cells vs. plant cells
Made bubble gum
Watched video on animal intelligence
Studied and egg with a magnifying glass and identified the chalaza, yolk, white, blastocyst and holes in the shell
Watched video on wild parrots in the U.S.
Nature study included: wren, robin, grackle, pinecones
Geography: Identifying Egypt and Sumer, the Tigris and Euphrates, the ancient city of Kish, on a map.
Worked on "Which Way USA?" Texas
Started memorizing the Midwest states with "The Little Man in the Map"
Math: review of January's concepts
Telling time on the hour and half hour
Properties of shapes; triangles, rectangles, squares and quadrilaterals, including vertices
Measuring in inches and centimeters.
Counting with pennies and nickels.
Subtraction
Reading and Language Arts: Continued to work on reading proficiency by reading aloud and being read to daily. (See book list.)
Nouns; including common and proper. Capital letters on proper nouns. Consonant blends and clusters, digraphs, spelling short vowel words. Handwriting practice from "Handwriting Without Tears".
Latin: Learned the words for; mother, father, sister, brother, girl, boy, man, woman, chair, table, pencil, book.
Art: Recognizing and copying lines. Painting with acrylics and water colors; drawing with crayons, pencils and oil pastels. Made a paper version of the Rosetta stone, made a Sumerian seal from clay. Learned about warm and cool colors in Monet's "Tulips in Holland" and drew with warm and cool colors. Made masks and swords from construction paper.
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