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.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Feb. 28
Watched "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill"
Brain Quest workbook - digraphs and consonant clusters
BQ workbook - spelling words with short vowels
Read "Marley and the Runaway Pumpkin" aloud
Math Mammoth sheet on subtraction
looked at a dog food crumb and a feather under the microscope
Read 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' from "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children".
Watched "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill"
Brain Quest workbook - digraphs and consonant clusters
BQ workbook - spelling words with short vowels
Read "Marley and the Runaway Pumpkin" aloud
Math Mammoth sheet on subtraction
looked at a dog food crumb and a feather under the microscope
Read 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' from "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children".
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday Feb 26 and Sunday Feb 27:
took a nature walk, collected pinecones and brought them home to look more closely at them
watched a video on mummification
used her new microscope and looked at a fruit fly, a bee's leg and a dragonfly wing
did a puzzle on ocean creatures, identified each creature
made a mask and sword out of construction paper
read the first chapter of The Burgess Bird Book for Children
looked up the wren, listened to it's call online
read The Golden Sandal, A Cinderella Story from the Middle East
went bowling
went swimming
took a nature walk, collected pinecones and brought them home to look more closely at them
watched a video on mummification
used her new microscope and looked at a fruit fly, a bee's leg and a dragonfly wing
did a puzzle on ocean creatures, identified each creature
made a mask and sword out of construction paper
read the first chapter of The Burgess Bird Book for Children
looked up the wren, listened to it's call online
read The Golden Sandal, A Cinderella Story from the Middle East
went bowling
went swimming
Friday, February 25, 2011
Today Flora sat in her fort in the living room and wrote 6 questions she'd ask an alien if she met one. They are:
1. Who is your friend is it in (an) alien?
2. What dose (does) your pets eat?
3. Where dose your pets eat?
4. Why dose alien cats eat that?
5. When it's bedtime what dose your cats do?
6. How dose a cat stay up so late?
Her cat obsession is now documented!
1. Who is your friend is it in (an) alien?
2. What dose (does) your pets eat?
3. Where dose your pets eat?
4. Why dose alien cats eat that?
5. When it's bedtime what dose your cats do?
6. How dose a cat stay up so late?
Her cat obsession is now documented!
What we've done 2/25:
-counted in pennies and nickels
-read about warm and cool colors, looked at Tulips in Holland by Monet and A Study in Black and Grey by Whistler; drew a picture of a cat in warm colors and another in cool
- Read from 50 Famous Stories Retold "King Alfred and the Cakes"
- did a workbook page on capitalizing proper nouns
- did a workbook page on consonant blends
- read about and then colored a picture of a wren
- read chapt 1 in The Burgess Bird Book for Children
-made a Sumerian seal from air drying clay
- did 4 puzzles from Which Way USA? Texas
all before 10am! Flora woke up at 6am today and was rarin' to go.
-counted in pennies and nickels
-read about warm and cool colors, looked at Tulips in Holland by Monet and A Study in Black and Grey by Whistler; drew a picture of a cat in warm colors and another in cool
- Read from 50 Famous Stories Retold "King Alfred and the Cakes"
- did a workbook page on capitalizing proper nouns
- did a workbook page on consonant blends
- read about and then colored a picture of a wren
- read chapt 1 in The Burgess Bird Book for Children
-made a Sumerian seal from air drying clay
- did 4 puzzles from Which Way USA? Texas
all before 10am! Flora woke up at 6am today and was rarin' to go.
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