Schoolwork Accomplished:
*Multiplication.com play 2-3 hours on multiplication games and a video on multiplication.
*Read outloud the list of fourth grade sight words and went over definitions of words she didn't know-which was one word-Empathy. She made up sentences for most of the words (her own doing, I didn't request it). She went and printed out lists for fifth and sixth grade sight words as well, and began keeping a notebook of the sightwords and their definitions.
*Silent reading: Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Wooden Lady by Caroline Keene (finished the book) & Harry Potter by JK Rowling.
*Leanna painted a piece of wooden doll furniture (a breakfront) that she got for Christmas.
*Later at night a multiplication quiz (to see what she'd retained). 2 X tables, about 3 minutes to complete, 0 wrong, 3X tables, 3 min. 31 sec., 2 wrong. and the 4X tables she wrote down instead of doing the online quiz-when she did them in order it took 1 minute, none wrong. Then she mixed them up and this time it took 3 minutes, with 2 wrong.
*We talked about New Year's Resolutions and made a list of personal, family/friend, and outside world resolutions. We'll work on this more tomorrow.
**the boys and I did some counting to 100 practice and each did a page of math plus Timothy worked on some letters. Timothy glued the pieces on his car (a Melissa & Doug set) and later painted it and added stickers. Justin put the PerfectCast mold into his shark/teeth molds. And later painted them.
***Note, we did some "schoolwork" over our Christmas break. Never a full schoolday though, but if you added it all up it would amount to a day or two of school. I'd like to note that Leanna did it on her own as well. Lots of reading-Nancy Drew books, she even began Harry Potter! (I'm looking forward to her reaction to that one!) We watched some MythBusters, we did the Mentos/Diet Soda experiment and I explained it plus had her watch a video which also explained the science of it. She wrote a letter to her Aunt, did some multiplication, looked up info online, plus a lot of Webkinz play which includes $ management, decisions, lots of play on Quizzies Corner which means answering questions in various subjects. She also helped her brothers on Webkinz, so she got some teaching experience in there as well! We did lots of arts and crafts-using paint, wood, stones, foam, stickers, etc. She did a little bit of sewing (made a sleeping bag for Justin's little cowboy woody). She began reading Art Fraud Detective by Anna Nilson.(it involves searching the pictures of great art for details and deciding which ones are frauds and you read info on the real painting/artist). And more that I can't think of right now.
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