Friday, January 28, 2011

Schoolwork Accomplished:

*Short letters to Deb and Laura
*Beginning Multiplication and Division workbook:  five pages (she understood the concept of division!  Yay!)
*Activities 1-7 in Section 8 of Down To Earth Geography book.
*Computer play including historical section games on American Girl website. 
*We read one chapter in Prince Caspian.


*I read Marveltown by Bruce McCall, Bad Cat Puts on His Top Hat by Tracy Lee McGuinness-Kelly, and 2 toddler books (That's Not My Truck and  That's Not My Lion) to the three boys. 
*The boys all drew pictures of donuts, wrenches, hammers, reindeer hats, and Daddy and his car for me.  Justin also inclued tracings of his hand and foot, which he wanted me to smell!
*later on I read the boys: Bad Baby Brother by Martha Weston, Piglet feels Small by Jennifer Weinberg, Cowboy Bunnies by Christine Loomis, Senses on the Farm by Shelley Rotner.  Plus the toddler books Laura Helps Pa and Animal Babies in Polar Lands. 

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Schoolwork Accomplished:

*Comprehensive Curriculum: Spelling worksheet, Reading Comprehension worksheet, Sequencing worksheet.
*Finished the corrected essay for Revision Mimi Lessons
*Outdoor play in the snow
*Multiplication 2 digit by 2 digit practice.
*Silent reading: Prince Caspian

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Schoolwork Accomplished:     

                                                                                                                                                                                           

*We read from Story of the World: Vol. I-pages 70-88 (PIctograms in China to two Anansi the spider stories from Africa.  This caught her attention as she's heard about Anansi from the Putamaya Kids music).
*Silent reading: The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island by Laura Lee Hope.
*Human body games: food pyramid, human body facts.
*Science Quizzes online: Magic School Bus-human body, archeology, marine life, animals. 
*Comprehensive Curriculum: Spelling pages:
*Read from the science section of What Your 4th Grader Needs to Know.


                                                                                                                   

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Kind of a field trip day-we had to go deliver medical papers and then went and signed up for library cards.  That sounds so simple but it was practically an all day thing.  It's about an hour walk to get there, then waiting around til you're seen, then we walked to the library (all uphill) got cards, looked around and played with the toys in the children's section, and then had to have Tom meet us to put all the library books in the van(there were so many we couldn't carry them all) then we walked to Tony's to get some (free) supper.  Then we walked home.  We didn't get home until about nine at night!  Then Leanna continued reading for about the next four hours.  She finished 11 library books in one night!
So today was lots of reading and lots of excersize! 

Monday, January 24, 2011

Schoolwork Accomplished:

*Silent reading: American Girl Felicity Books
*Outdoor play in the snow with Justin
*Multiplication.com-1 1/2 hours of play on games, then quizzes on the 6, 7, 8 times tables.  She did great!  She managed the 8s with none wrong in under three mintes! 
*She finished spelling workbook List 11. 
*She fnished coloring the pages in her health and safety book.
*We read the first lesson in Revision: Mini Lessons by Sarah Glasscock, and she corrected the first story.
*More silent reading: The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island by Laura Lee Hope.
*I read her a short version of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, from What Your Fourth Grader Needs To Know.
*I read her a short version of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift from What Your Fourth Grader Needs To Know.
*I read her a short version of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson from What Your Fourth Grader Needs To Know.
*We read a chapter in Prince Caspian.