Thursday, March 15, 2012

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:

*Put together math journal (Yay!)
*Fraction mini-office booklet cut out and pasted into math journal.  Fixed colored fraction sheet from yesterday.  Cut out fraction strips.
*Math worksheet on comparing fractions.   She says she finally understood how to do this easily!
*Pizza Science Kit-yeast rising, taking notes and observing, using the crust as your pallet and the toppings as your paint, reading about history of pizza.

Pizza is thought to have evolved from early Egyptian flat bread. In ancient Pompeii, Italy, coarse bread dough was brushed with olive oil and baked.
Naples, Italy, is considered the birthplace of the modern pizza, although its date of origin is unknown. Pizza was brought to the United States by Italian immigrants and made popular by soldiers returning from Italy after World War II (1939-45).
Sources: Garrison, Webb. How It Started, pp. 40-41; Herbst, Sharon T. The New Food Lover's Companion: Comprehensive Definitions of Over 4000 Food, Wine, and Culinary Terms, p. 354.

It's this gas that also makes the bread dough rise--yeast eats starch and gives off carbon dioxide, expanding the gluten and yummifying the dough.  We watched a short video on the science of pizza-specific heat.
*finished Dr. Suess Copywork
*We went through a list of 25 analogies.
*Finished copying words in cursive
* started a science skills worksheet set on comparing and contrasting. 


Timothy-we did part of a math page on adding or subtracting.  Outdoor play.  Leanna did some math from an old math journal/workbook of hers with Timothy.
Justin-We did a math page on money and ordering together.  Outdoor play.  Making words out of scrabble Cheese Its again.

Wednesday, March, 2012

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Fractions notebooking pages, worksheet on different ways to show the same fraction, colored fraction pieces for further use, 3 pages of Keeping skills sharp review. 
*Another chapter in Read and Understand fiction & answered questions
*Silent Reading-Nancy Drew again
*Worked on her fairy guide-she added more, I gave her corrections and instructions to add more and revise, she did  a new improved illustrated guide to our backyard fairies.  She also made a list of things to do for Lorelei's party. 
*outdoor play again and some organizing work in her room. 

*Justin-I did some time telling, drawing pictures, and outdoor play.
*Timothy-outdoor play, poptropica, oral practice with words. 

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Outdoor play-beautiful outside again!
*Read infographic on putting The Long Winter Into Perspective
*Pioneer Life vocabulary worksheet
*Venn diagram on pioneer times vs. modern times
*Drawings and colored in her shells of the World book.  Coloring in Roger Burrows Images 4: the ultimate coloring experience. 
*helped make laundry soap
*made a schedule for school in her journal.
*Worked on a guide to our backyard fairies.  
*Using words correctly: doesn't don't worksheet
*division.com
*We read three chapters in The Long Winter

Monday, March 12, 2012

Schoolwork Accomplished:

*Afternoon of outdoor play (GYM)
*We walked to the bank and store
*I read to Timothy and Jacob
*Timothy colored some of the Dr. Seuss flip book materials (Cat, Rat, Hat, etc.)
*Leanna did lots of silent reading as well
Not a banner day for school but I was up by five AM to get Jacob to surgery, and couldn't sleep before that.  We got home around 11, but then walked to the bank/store and I was too exhausted to do anything.