Thursday, December 16, 2010

Schoolwork Accomplished:

*2 Comprehensive Curriculum worksheets on summarizing and main points
*Helped Justin with math
*made a school worksheet for Justin to do
*Lifeskills/visiting-cleaning and visiting with Grammy, Jay, and Harry tonight.
*made cards and gifts for Aunt Claire and bookmark for Mommy
Silent reading: The Horse and the Blue Grass Country by Bradley Smith

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Schoolwork Accomplished:

*Comprehensive Curriculum worksheets on multiplication
*Silent reading: Anne of Green Gables (we haven't finished yet but she's started reading from the beginning on her own) and the Bible.
*Craft projects-birthday gifts for Aunt Claire and other drawings and projects
*Journal questions on Anne of Green Gables
*Geography Standard 6-Places and Regions-all 13 activities

**Today was our 69th day of school. (I'm keeping track because I want to make sure I can take vacation time before Christmas)  That leaves about nine spare days, plus I can always use weekends to catch up if needed. 

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Schoolwork Accomplished:

*Online research and notes taken on NorthEastern Region of the U.S
*Phone call to Pop-Pop to ask about NE Region (because of his old job)
*Bonus facts written down about Oregon (I don't know why, she just did)
*.Silent reading-Super Fudge by Judy Blume
*Finished Geography Standard 5 lesson

For Further research:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/04/groceries.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/04/g912/usregions.html
http://www.sfsocialstudies.com/g4/na/u2/index.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/4552/
http://library.thinkquest.org/4552/      for all five regions

Monday, December 13, 2010

Schoolwork Accomplished:


*Geography
*Lifeskills: room cleaning/organizing, brownie-baking, helping with her brothers
*Silent reading: Bobbsey Twins, A to Z Mysteries At the Zoo
*Read Anne of Green Gables

Friday, December 10, 2010

Schoolwork Accomplished:

*BrainQuest Workbook: Pg. 125-jounalism, the five Ws, Pg. 126-127 Narrowing a topic and how to research
*Online research on gardening
*Took notes on gardening
*Created her own worksheet for teaching Timothy
*Sat down and did worksheet with Timothy (alphabet, recognizing patterns, copying whole words, recognizing sounds)
*Webkinz play
*Read two chapters of Anne of Green Gables