Schoolwork Accomplished:
*We lost electric today, so there were phone calls made, a bit of panic over losing food, and so I started reading Avi's City of Orphans since Leanna said she wasn't interested in that book at all. I read I think 15 chapters and after that Leanna went and got a flashlight and read through 90% of the book before bed. So not a lot of schoolwork done today, but we did find foods to eat (we could light the stovetop with a match since it's a gas stove but runs on electric startup. And Daddy cooked on the grill for supper) and we entertained ourselves with-gasp-no computer or tv! It was educational in the sense that they realized how much we rely on electricity. They kept saying, Oh, I'll go do such and such, and I'd say you can't, no electric!
*I did give Jacob a dot pen and he used that on another page of dental pages (Letter T for Tooth, and he did start another gluing page but he poured so much glue out the whole thing was ruined).
Friday, April 27, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Schoolwork Accomplished:
Leanna:
*Division.com and Multiplication.com to practice before testing next week.
*Silent Reading-Finished Mad Genius on a Monday by Mary Pope Osbourne.
*journaling (on the dog attack in the yard today-that really inspired her to write!!)
*Reading aloud to Lorelei
Timothy-we did starfall for a bit together.
Justin-fact families
Jacob-watched Ladybug Picnic (counting to 12), Shawn the Train (counting to 10), and John the Rabbit.
Leanna:
*Division.com and Multiplication.com to practice before testing next week.
*Silent Reading-Finished Mad Genius on a Monday by Mary Pope Osbourne.
*journaling (on the dog attack in the yard today-that really inspired her to write!!)
*Reading aloud to Lorelei
Timothy-we did starfall for a bit together.
Justin-fact families
Jacob-watched Ladybug Picnic (counting to 12), Shawn the Train (counting to 10), and John the Rabbit.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Schoolwork Accomplished:
Leanna:
*Geography-Lessons 29 and 30 (products of Nebraska and Boroughs of NY)
*More clay sculptures
*Comprehensive Curriculum pages 559(Writing)349 (editing), 62 (analagies), 60 (Classifying: Regional Forecast), 59 (classifying) 356 (Proofreading), 357 (Proofreading)
*We started reading through the section in What Your Fifth Grader Needs To Know about common phrases and sayings. I was surprised that she didn't know most of them. Good discussion though.
*We also started going over the parts of speech in the literature section-she actually enjoyed doing direct and indirect objects (whose kid is this?).
*In general we discussed how we feel we've been doing with school and the house. She wants to practice mutiplication/division more before she gets tested.
*Justin-he put together his triceratops bones and glued them to a short posterboard. I read to him about dinosaurs. We started fact families in his DK math workbook.
*Timothy-We did 3 pages in his DK math workbook and started reading a Scooby Doo book together.
*Jacob-we did more dentist pages. He drew straight, curved, and slanted lines, did a maze, and chose which picture didn't match. He also glued together a picture by matching the numbers on the pieces with the pieces on the page.
Leanna:
*Geography-Lessons 29 and 30 (products of Nebraska and Boroughs of NY)
*More clay sculptures
*Comprehensive Curriculum pages 559(Writing)349 (editing), 62 (analagies), 60 (Classifying: Regional Forecast), 59 (classifying) 356 (Proofreading), 357 (Proofreading)
*We started reading through the section in What Your Fifth Grader Needs To Know about common phrases and sayings. I was surprised that she didn't know most of them. Good discussion though.
*We also started going over the parts of speech in the literature section-she actually enjoyed doing direct and indirect objects (whose kid is this?).
*In general we discussed how we feel we've been doing with school and the house. She wants to practice mutiplication/division more before she gets tested.
*Justin-he put together his triceratops bones and glued them to a short posterboard. I read to him about dinosaurs. We started fact families in his DK math workbook.
*Timothy-We did 3 pages in his DK math workbook and started reading a Scooby Doo book together.
*Jacob-we did more dentist pages. He drew straight, curved, and slanted lines, did a maze, and chose which picture didn't match. He also glued together a picture by matching the numbers on the pieces with the pieces on the page.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Schoolwork Accomplished:
Leanna:
*Trip to the library.
*Silent reading: Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix, Nancy Drew:The Mystery At the Crystal Palace by Carolyn Keene
*Hydrometer experiment-we made our own hydrometer and recorded where it floated in water, salt water, and dish soap water.
*I had her do a slew of measurement worksheets I printed from various sites on the internet.
*Journaling
*Constructed a stone house out of clay
*Timothy-I read Recies Pieces Count to Five by Jerry Pollata to Timtohy and Jacob and Lorelei.
*Excersize-walk to the library
*Jacob-I also read him Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake by Eileen Christelow and Driving my Tractor By Jan Dobbins and David sim. I also had him do a dental themed chart where he put the teeth in either the small, medium, or big categories.
Leanna:
*Trip to the library.
*Silent reading: Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix, Nancy Drew:The Mystery At the Crystal Palace by Carolyn Keene
*Hydrometer experiment-we made our own hydrometer and recorded where it floated in water, salt water, and dish soap water.
*I had her do a slew of measurement worksheets I printed from various sites on the internet.
*Journaling
*Constructed a stone house out of clay
*Timothy-I read Recies Pieces Count to Five by Jerry Pollata to Timtohy and Jacob and Lorelei.
*Excersize-walk to the library
*Jacob-I also read him Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake by Eileen Christelow and Driving my Tractor By Jan Dobbins and David sim. I also had him do a dental themed chart where he put the teeth in either the small, medium, or big categories.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Schoolwork Accomplished:
Leanna:
*Field Trip to Forks Cleanup Day with Girl Scouts. They picked up trash and had a picnic afterwards.
*Silent Reading-Harry Potter.
*Computer play on Webkinz and Poptropica.
*Computer play with dictionary games.
*Trip to two parks in the afternoon with all the kids. So this was truly a day of gym. The boys played with a little boy at the second park, there weren't any girls for Leanna to play with.
*A visit with Grammy and an overnight stay so she/they could go to Sunday School.
Leanna:
*Field Trip to Forks Cleanup Day with Girl Scouts. They picked up trash and had a picnic afterwards.
*Silent Reading-Harry Potter.
*Computer play on Webkinz and Poptropica.
*Computer play with dictionary games.
*Trip to two parks in the afternoon with all the kids. So this was truly a day of gym. The boys played with a little boy at the second park, there weren't any girls for Leanna to play with.
*A visit with Grammy and an overnight stay so she/they could go to Sunday School.
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