Schoolwork Accomplished:
*played with Bach's music online (game)
*listened to radio shows for kids about George Gershwin's music. Leanna danced to them and drew a picture of a keyboard while listening.
*Leanna wrote 2 poems, on her own.
*we read half of the new poetry book I bought.
*We walked to the Postal store(it was closed) and then to K-mart.
*looong play session at the park. Leanna played several forms of tag with kids of varying ages, up to high school. I took pictures. She really liked the high school girls.
So lots of excersize this afternoon into evening.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
educational links
music website
We listened to some Gershwin on here.
Sphinx kids
Online piano This was fun for me too, you point to the notes and then play back your composition.
Instrumental Music printables
Ocean poetry
ocean resources
OCEAN worksheets
Health and nutrition printables
Let's Play Pretend Library
Lots of homeschool printables
We listened to some Gershwin on here.
Sphinx kids
Online piano This was fun for me too, you point to the notes and then play back your composition.
Instrumental Music printables
Ocean poetry
ocean resources
OCEAN worksheets
Health and nutrition printables
Let's Play Pretend Library
Lots of homeschool printables
Friday, April 23, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Schoolwork Accomplished:
*Math workbook page 20 (12 problems which took her 1 hour and 31 minutes to correctly complete.)
*Journal entry on yesterday's Earth day cleanup with Brownies. Which took about 40 minutes!!
*Outside play in Jennifer's yard with neighbors.
*Multiplication.com times tables for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. She did 4-8 twice.
*Leanna read Holly Hobby and her Mom to Jacob.
*Math workbook page 20 (12 problems which took her 1 hour and 31 minutes to correctly complete.)
*Journal entry on yesterday's Earth day cleanup with Brownies. Which took about 40 minutes!!
*Outside play in Jennifer's yard with neighbors.
*Multiplication.com times tables for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. She did 4-8 twice.
*Leanna read Holly Hobby and her Mom to Jacob.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Schoolwork Accomplished:
*counting money (her change to spend at Art Class)
*Art Class at the Baum for two hours
*running around in the backyard with brothers and neighbors & gardening
*Brownies-cleaning up a park for Earth Day
*counting money (her change to spend at Art Class)
*Art Class at the Baum for two hours
*running around in the backyard with brothers and neighbors & gardening
*Brownies-cleaning up a park for Earth Day
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Schoolwork accomplished:
*Silent reading, The Laura Ingalls Wilder biography book
*several multiplication games through multiplication.com*read some poetry (Ogden Nash, Robert Pottle, Langston Hughes) and began memorizing "A Dream Deferred." We looked up unfamiliar words like deferred and fester. We talked about what the poem means and tried reading it in different ways, with different emphasis.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--and then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
*She did a journal entry
*We read a website about Roman daily life and Roman baths.
*Then we explored a website about Roman baths ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/roman/entrance.html ) through a link on the regular website.
I found it fascinating to know that Roman baths were a lot like modern malls-with bathing.
*We later made cards for a boy in Germany who has cancer.
*She spent a bit of time outside talking to Jennifer(the neighbor behind us) and later on we ran around yelling in the rain for a few minutes (they loved that).
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Schoolwork accomplished:
*Spent all afternoon out walking and going to the park and playing with kids there (plus her brothers and Noah) and then walking around some more until supper. Lots of excersize!
*Read the Laura Ingalls Wilder biography for silent reading (and all on her own, too)
I had plans for school but they were abruptly changed by "our new landlord" so it turned into an excersize and play day.
*Spent all afternoon out walking and going to the park and playing with kids there (plus her brothers and Noah) and then walking around some more until supper. Lots of excersize!
*Read the Laura Ingalls Wilder biography for silent reading (and all on her own, too)
I had plans for school but they were abruptly changed by "our new landlord" so it turned into an excersize and play day.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Schoolwork accomplished:
Began with a journal entry on which book she liked better and why-Alice & Wonderland or Alice: Through the Looking Glass.
Then a math workbook page, multiplication practice.
Then refining her notes on Rome. Fixing her map of Italy (the boot) which she drew resembling more a Christmas stocking facing the wrong way. I'm trying an experiment and having her tell the legend of how Rome began through pictures, almost like a comic book.
We found a cool website on Rome and were exploring that for a while with me or her reading aloud. Then we found a website, You wouldn't want to be a gladiator! (based on the book) and we read through that.
We walked to Giant (excersize!), plus Leanna played outside again, as usual.
I later had Leanna re-do her journal entry and her math page (she only had one problem right)
We read another two sections on Rome from the What Your 3rd grader Needs to Know book. Justin really enjoyed this and paid more attention than Leanna, even asking questions! I was really impressed with him.
I made Brownies with Timothy and later colored with him and Jacob. At bedtime we came up with good qualities of each of the three older kids.
Began with a journal entry on which book she liked better and why-Alice & Wonderland or Alice: Through the Looking Glass.
Then a math workbook page, multiplication practice.
Then refining her notes on Rome. Fixing her map of Italy (the boot) which she drew resembling more a Christmas stocking facing the wrong way. I'm trying an experiment and having her tell the legend of how Rome began through pictures, almost like a comic book.
We found a cool website on Rome and were exploring that for a while with me or her reading aloud. Then we found a website, You wouldn't want to be a gladiator! (based on the book) and we read through that.
We walked to Giant (excersize!), plus Leanna played outside again, as usual.
I later had Leanna re-do her journal entry and her math page (she only had one problem right)
We read another two sections on Rome from the What Your 3rd grader Needs to Know book. Justin really enjoyed this and paid more attention than Leanna, even asking questions! I was really impressed with him.
I made Brownies with Timothy and later colored with him and Jacob. At bedtime we came up with good qualities of each of the three older kids.
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