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This week, we're hitting colonization in North America and the Revolutionary War. We'll go over the basics and then concentrate on the unheard stories of women and people of color during this time.
For language arts, we'll review the last few weeks and also learn about prepositions, conjunctions and interjections. Woot!
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
This week's learnings & haps (Unit 1, Week 5) Language Arts
Language Arts
Adverbs
Helping Verbs!
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Adverbs
Helping Verbs!
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
This week's learnings & haps (Unit 1, Week 4)
We have one hs group outing this week and that is a class on orienteering at Cornell Cooperative Extension. I'm offering it to all three kids but we'll see if picky eldest gets into it.
The academics:
Reading
We've not being doing as well with my outline for reading, but both the girls are voracious readers and they read for pleasure several times every day. I wanted to do weekly read-alouds for each so they could work on presentation, enunciation and projecting their voices but we simply have let that part of each week's assignments slide. I'm ok with that, to be honest. It's something we can do if/when we have the time. The plan was to use the short stories from the Core Knowledge books because they are cannon classics. But, again, no major issues if those don't happen each week. The kids should get their scripts for Hansel and Gretel this week, so we can start working on their lines for that production.
Spelling & Vocabulary
Just the regular workbook pages. Nothing exciting, just rudimentary stuff.
Math
Char: Fact Families. We'll do workbook pages and play some online games:
Online game
Online game with multiplication and division
Emma: Large number addition & subtraction; Estimation.
Explanation of Calculation vs. Estimation done like PC vs Mac:
Language Arts
Review Subject and Predicate:
Verbs!
And direct objects!
No great video for this. We'll just go over it in the books. :) This page has a pretty good basic definition and lots of examples.
Writing
This week we'll talk about adding details to our personal narratives. We'll work on editing and adding to the narratives the girls wrote about their trips to Disney, as well as complete their pages in the workbooks on this topic.
Social Studies
Ancient Eastern Woodland Peoples
We'll use the Build Our Nation textbook for a brief overview of the Native Americans of the East. This site has a lot of great info to look through and enjoy.
Women's dance of the Tuscarora Nation
Our Tuesday visit to the library will include picking up some books on a Native Nation of the girls choice so we can learn more.
Science
Fish!
We've got text books to read and we'll watch some episodes of The Blue Planet and get some books from the library. The girls will each pick a specific kind of fish that interests them and do a small report, to be presented to the family Friday night.
Art & Music
We'll watch and listen to some music of the Eastern Woodland People. We'll also be doing some crafting for the harvest season, like leaf preserving, paper bag tree making, and working on our Samain season altars. We'll also make our first batch of Amish Friendship bread.
Health & Phys Ed
Uh, we'll play outside? And continue doing morning yoga and afternoon dancing-while-cooking. Read more "This week's learnings & haps (Unit 1, Week 4)..."
The academics:
Reading
We've not being doing as well with my outline for reading, but both the girls are voracious readers and they read for pleasure several times every day. I wanted to do weekly read-alouds for each so they could work on presentation, enunciation and projecting their voices but we simply have let that part of each week's assignments slide. I'm ok with that, to be honest. It's something we can do if/when we have the time. The plan was to use the short stories from the Core Knowledge books because they are cannon classics. But, again, no major issues if those don't happen each week. The kids should get their scripts for Hansel and Gretel this week, so we can start working on their lines for that production.
Spelling & Vocabulary
Just the regular workbook pages. Nothing exciting, just rudimentary stuff.
Math
Char: Fact Families. We'll do workbook pages and play some online games:
Online game
Online game with multiplication and division
Emma: Large number addition & subtraction; Estimation.
Explanation of Calculation vs. Estimation done like PC vs Mac:
Language Arts
Review Subject and Predicate:
Verbs!
And direct objects!
No great video for this. We'll just go over it in the books. :) This page has a pretty good basic definition and lots of examples.
Writing
This week we'll talk about adding details to our personal narratives. We'll work on editing and adding to the narratives the girls wrote about their trips to Disney, as well as complete their pages in the workbooks on this topic.
Social Studies
Ancient Eastern Woodland Peoples
We'll use the Build Our Nation textbook for a brief overview of the Native Americans of the East. This site has a lot of great info to look through and enjoy.
Women's dance of the Tuscarora Nation
Our Tuesday visit to the library will include picking up some books on a Native Nation of the girls choice so we can learn more.
Science
Fish!
We've got text books to read and we'll watch some episodes of The Blue Planet and get some books from the library. The girls will each pick a specific kind of fish that interests them and do a small report, to be presented to the family Friday night.
Art & Music
We'll watch and listen to some music of the Eastern Woodland People. We'll also be doing some crafting for the harvest season, like leaf preserving, paper bag tree making, and working on our Samain season altars. We'll also make our first batch of Amish Friendship bread.
Health & Phys Ed
Uh, we'll play outside? And continue doing morning yoga and afternoon dancing-while-cooking. Read more "This week's learnings & haps (Unit 1, Week 4)..."
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
This week's learnings & haps
Ok, the Time Life series on The Maya (narrated by Sam Waterston!) was a bust but everything else is going pretty well this week.
Emma had 2 baby teeth pulled yesterday and then Rob took the kids to their auditions for Hansel and Gretel. They said it went well.
The girls really enjoyed last week's lessons on flower reproduction so we continued a bit with that today. We had picked up some wilted flowers from the lovely florist at the grocery store yesterday. Today, we dissected carnations, roses and gerber daisies. We identified the parts and talked about the reproductive process again. The girls used colored pencils and pastels to draw what they saw. We used the last of the white roses and carnations to play with color----we put them in small vases with water and food coloring. We already have some newly blue and pink flowers. I'll try and get pics up soon.
I attended Parents Orientation for Keystone today. It was about an hour long and generally informative. They have these online parent meetings every month and it looks like they will be generally useful things.
The kids are all cleaning their rooms. They leave for Disney on Sunday and I've got company coming so we'll need their rooms clean and ready. I'll save sheet changing and bed making for Sunday night, but the rest needs to be done by Friday. We have a very busy Sunday and their flight it at O'dark thirty Sunday morning.
Wow, this has been a rather boring blog. Yeah, sorry. Read more "This week's learnings & haps..."
Emma had 2 baby teeth pulled yesterday and then Rob took the kids to their auditions for Hansel and Gretel. They said it went well.
The girls really enjoyed last week's lessons on flower reproduction so we continued a bit with that today. We had picked up some wilted flowers from the lovely florist at the grocery store yesterday. Today, we dissected carnations, roses and gerber daisies. We identified the parts and talked about the reproductive process again. The girls used colored pencils and pastels to draw what they saw. We used the last of the white roses and carnations to play with color----we put them in small vases with water and food coloring. We already have some newly blue and pink flowers. I'll try and get pics up soon.
I attended Parents Orientation for Keystone today. It was about an hour long and generally informative. They have these online parent meetings every month and it looks like they will be generally useful things.
The kids are all cleaning their rooms. They leave for Disney on Sunday and I've got company coming so we'll need their rooms clean and ready. I'll save sheet changing and bed making for Sunday night, but the rest needs to be done by Friday. We have a very busy Sunday and their flight it at O'dark thirty Sunday morning.
Wow, this has been a rather boring blog. Yeah, sorry. Read more "This week's learnings & haps..."
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Social Studies Lesson Plans & Resources
Migration to Ancient America
Ancient America on KidsPast
Ancient Predators in Beringia video from Nat Geo
Wiki Beringia page
Texts:
What Your 3rd Grader... pages 120-122
Build Our Nation text book page 36
American Indian (Nat Geo text) pages 29-33
Week 2: The Maya, Aztecs and Incas
What Your 5th Grader... pages 107-116
Build Our Nation pages 40-43 and 48-51
Scholastic's lesson plans on Ancient America
Videos from NeoK12 Read more "Social Studies Lesson Plans & Resources..."
Ancient America on KidsPast
Ancient Predators in Beringia video from Nat Geo
Wiki Beringia page
Texts:
What Your 3rd Grader... pages 120-122
Build Our Nation text book page 36
American Indian (Nat Geo text) pages 29-33
Week 2: The Maya, Aztecs and Incas
What Your 5th Grader... pages 107-116
Build Our Nation pages 40-43 and 48-51
Scholastic's lesson plans on Ancient America
Videos from NeoK12 Read more "Social Studies Lesson Plans & Resources..."
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Japan!
I've got some kids obsessed with Anime and Japanamation and, well, all things Japanese. And I was thinking of putting together some lessons on Japanese cooking and culture and language, as sort of an educational Before to some video game playing parties for the teen/pre-teen set.
And then I found Cooking With Dog. Omg, new fav show.
Bento box episode:
More bento goodness at LJ.
And then my friend Forte turned me on to the Cookbook over at Kids Web Japan.
Anyone else have great resources for some mini lessons on Japan and Japanese culture and cooking? Read more "Japan!..."
And then I found Cooking With Dog. Omg, new fav show.
Bento box episode:
More bento goodness at LJ.
And then my friend Forte turned me on to the Cookbook over at Kids Web Japan.
Anyone else have great resources for some mini lessons on Japan and Japanese culture and cooking? Read more "Japan!..."
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