Thursday, March 29, 2012

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Geography Lesson 28
*Comprehensive Curriculum-Abstract and concrete nouns, 2 on verb tenses
*Outdoor play (still finding pottery buried in the ground, whole broken dishes today!)
*Computer play-Poptropica
*We read the chapter on The Black Death in Story of the World
*We read a chapter in The Long Winter
*Silent Reading-various books she's already read.

Watched skip counting videos on you tube, like School House Rock's Counting By Fives
*Justin- 4 pages in BrainQuest.workbook, outdoor play
Timothy-4 pages in BrainQuest workbook, outdoor play
*Watched sesame street counting videos with Jacob (and a rubber duck one too) and had him count for me.  (He still has a lot of trouble keeping them in the correct order). 

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Schoolwork Accomplished:
Leanna:
*Silent Reading-Viking It and Liking It by Jon Sciezka
*DK Math Workbook-pages on adding fractions and subtracting them, and adding with mixed numbers.
*Writing Well book-one a half pages. 
*Weaving loom
*Reading and Understanding Fractions
*Wrote a letter and journaling
The boys played outside in the nice weather all afternoon. Justin did BrainQuest-8 pages on short and long vowel sounds.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Schoolwork Accomplished:
Leanna:
*cursive copywork
*DK Math workbook-converting fractions to decimals
*Review of fractions-meanings of equivalent, improper, proper, mixed.  Adding and subtracting. 
*Long Lifeskills and math discussion. 

*Justin and Timothy-outdoor play and storywriting/drawing/handwriting practice.
*Jacob-helped me make healthy muffins

We went on a surprise trip to the store-actually two grocery stores- when Daddy came home early and so we finally got groceries!!  It cut a big surprise chunk out of our afternoon though. 

Monday, March 26, 2012

Schoolwork Accomplished:

**Note: Over the weekend the older 3 kids went to a big birthday party for friends (No problems socializing or playing games) and then to stay at Grammy's and go to church. Then a stop at Jordan Park before coming home)

Leanna:
*Colored some of the ancient times paper dolls we printed out.  They'll have to be laminated.  Some will go in a lapbook, others I think I will leave out for her to play with.
*Geography lesson 27
*Short viking videoson you tube
*A page in Summer workbook seeing how many words you can make out of a set of letters.  
*Computer Play with PopTropica
*We read chapter 25 in Story of the World and discussed.  I used TMBG's Constantinople song to help cement some of the details in her mind-fun!
Timothy-traced and then wrote alphabet a few times for practice. Did 4 pages of math workbook.  Did 12 pages in BrainQuest.  (Reading)  Outdoor play. I helped him write a story on StoryBird.
*Justin did 3 pages in his math workbook and 6 pages in BrainQuest.(Reading).  Oral practice with skip counting.  I helped him write a story on StoryBird. 

Friday, March 23, 2012

Schoolwork Accomplished:
Leanna:
*Finished recipe doubling, tripling, halving
*Mythology Project interactive videos-she loves Greek Myths!
*Poptropica play (surprisingly does have educational aspects)
*Storybird for a few hours
*Outdoor play
*Star Gazing with a constellation chart-not super successful we just don't have a great view from our backyard.  But we were given a small kit with different charts and a red light that lights up in the spots where the start should be for the constellation. 
*Silent Reading-Laura Ingalls Wilder
*Created the decor for Lorelei's First Birthday Party (art)
*Watched how to draw a mermaid videos and practiced

Justin and Timothy-lots of outdoor play, and a bit of math and watched skeleton videos with Jacob.