"If I punch open the hummus, my fist would displace the same amount of hummus all over the room!" We had fun with science this week. The same girl tried to turn a spoon into a lever and catapult a Brussels sprout across the room. We added in a new science program to supplement R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey. Basically, the kids watch videos at the beginning of the unit, we read the text and do some (or none) of the experiments. This week we learned about force, gravity, and friction. We did some very simple experiments and learned that two objects of different weight will fall at the same rate of speed.
The girls sorted rocks by size, color, texture and weight.
Emily will be starting Singapore 3A soon. In the meantime we've been playing lots of math games dealing with fractions, telling time, and skip counting.
Cami's almost finished with RightStart A and will be moving on to B after that. She's learned to tell time to the hour and half hour and practiced measuring using non-standard forms of measurement like paper clips and color tiles. She's also getting pretty good at addition with answers up to 100.
Emily's up to lesson 47 in First Language Lessons 3. She's learned about predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, and direct objects, among other things. Cami's starting to join in when we say the definitions so I think this will be a breeze for her in a couple years.
Cami's up to page 110 in Phonics Pathways. Her speed has increased so much the last few weeks. She also does two pages of Explode the Code 2 every day. Here's a sample of her writing.
We learned about knights and samurai in Story of the World this week. Here are the girls' narrations.
Emily:
"Knights were mostly good at fighting. They raided monasteries and stole from churches. Then there was a new law that was called The Code of Chivalry. Knights had to take care of women, orphans, children, and their king."
Cami:
"When it was a peaceful time, the samurai in Japan would dance and paint art and make poetry. When it was wartime, they would fight."
The girls have really been into presidents lately. They love looking through and organizing their flashcards and quizzing me on the facts. It's really raised some pretty cool discussions about American history. When we learn a new president, we read about him in Time for Kids: Presidents of the United States and add a page to our presidents scrapbook.
Our memory work this week included skip counting by 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s, presidents 1-8, states and capitals, and our new poem, "A Time to Talk" by Robert Frost.
Oh yeah, and the little guy took his first steps.
Books we read this week:
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Three Samurai Cats
Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page
Sword of the Samurai
Till Year's Good End: A Calendar of Medieval Labors
The girls sorted rocks by size, color, texture and weight.
Emily will be starting Singapore 3A soon. In the meantime we've been playing lots of math games dealing with fractions, telling time, and skip counting.
Cami's almost finished with RightStart A and will be moving on to B after that. She's learned to tell time to the hour and half hour and practiced measuring using non-standard forms of measurement like paper clips and color tiles. She's also getting pretty good at addition with answers up to 100.
Emily's up to lesson 47 in First Language Lessons 3. She's learned about predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, and direct objects, among other things. Cami's starting to join in when we say the definitions so I think this will be a breeze for her in a couple years.
Cami's up to page 110 in Phonics Pathways. Her speed has increased so much the last few weeks. She also does two pages of Explode the Code 2 every day. Here's a sample of her writing.
We learned about knights and samurai in Story of the World this week. Here are the girls' narrations.
Emily:
"Knights were mostly good at fighting. They raided monasteries and stole from churches. Then there was a new law that was called The Code of Chivalry. Knights had to take care of women, orphans, children, and their king."
Cami:
"When it was a peaceful time, the samurai in Japan would dance and paint art and make poetry. When it was wartime, they would fight."
The girls have really been into presidents lately. They love looking through and organizing their flashcards and quizzing me on the facts. It's really raised some pretty cool discussions about American history. When we learn a new president, we read about him in Time for Kids: Presidents of the United States and add a page to our presidents scrapbook.
Our memory work this week included skip counting by 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s, presidents 1-8, states and capitals, and our new poem, "A Time to Talk" by Robert Frost.
Oh yeah, and the little guy took his first steps.
Books we read this week:
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Three Samurai Cats
Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page
Sword of the Samurai
Till Year's Good End: A Calendar of Medieval Labors
I'm not sure, but I might have led with the little guy. Congrats on his first steps! The girls school week looks great, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy that I found your blog through the WTM WW post. Your presidents scrapbook idea is very interesting.
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