Thursday, May 30, 2013

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Storybird-Wrote book part one
*Writing-Success W/ Writing book
*Storybird- Read a bunch of story's!
*Silent reading
*What your 6th grader needs to know

Justin:
*We watched some kid music videos online.  
*We talked about what an insect is.  We did a couple worksheets identifying them.  He created his own insect and drew a picture of it-taking into consideration what it eats, how it's body parts help it get food, how it's body parts help it survive and where it lives.  He also drew it's lifecycle.  We watched a bunch of online videos about insects (and one on sharks).  We looked up fun facts about insects.  We came up with our own list, typed into a pdf file of six fun facts. 
*Outdoor Play

Timothy:
*We watched kid music videos online.
*Timothy listened to some of the insect discussion but not all.  He's not as interested and he helped keep  Lorelei occupied.  He only watched one of the videos, but participated in our facts discussion at the end.  
*Lego play
*Outdoor Play

Jacob:

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*What Your 6th Grader Needs to Know: Music-Beethoven, Schubert;The Romantic Period;
 *Planning for accomplishing school; other types of life planning
*Geography-today's, tomorrow's, and Friday's questions
*Life of Fred
*Who Wants Pizza book
*Wrote down some random facts
*Silent reading-Harry Potter and the  Order Of The Phoenix and finished a Dear America book(A Library book)The Journal Of Wong Ming-Chung***A Chinese Miner

Justin:
*Looked at our cave booklets we made yesterday and reviewed cave habitats
* Created a salamander habitat from a shoebox, used natural materials from the backyard and some improvised man-made materials (plastic leaves, construction paper, paper towel tubes, etc...)
*Nature hunt from a list
*We made our own clay and they made salamanders with it.  We baked it. And painted them. 
*We did the coke and mentos experiment

Timothy:
*Math workbook
* Looked at our cave booklets we made yesterday and reviewed cave habitats
* Created a salamander habitat from a shoebox, used natural materials from the backyard and some improvised man-made materials (plastic leaves, construction paper, paper towel tubes, etc...)
*We made our own clay and they made salamanders with it.  We baked it. And painted them.
 *We did the coke and mentos experiment
Jacob:
*We made our own clay and they made salamanders with it.  We baked it. And painted them. 
*We did the coke and mentos experiment

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
* cadettes meeting
*Tons of cleaning-I cleaned the bathroom/Mom's/D's Room
*Silent reading
*Life Of Fred
*Different Foods report I did on my own
*Who Wants Pizza?book
*6th Grader book-Revelation In The Art, Rousseau,and Romanticism In literature
*Read some poems
*Art-Sketchbook
* Today's Geography questions
*Sometimes watched/listend to M and D make jam
*Lots of Pinteresting on Bullying/Bullys
*Memorized The Tyger by William Blake
*We looked up and discussed the meaning of The Tyger. 

Justin:
*Started tracing the outlines of organs for a human body t-shirt
*Dino digging game on kindle (I wouldn't count it as school every time he plays, but it does increase his knowledge of different Dino types and it's pretty neat to see the way the bones come together to form a body and then what it looks like with skin).
*We read Barnum's Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World by Tracey Fern
*Long/short sounds game
*Cave habitats booklet colored assembled

Timothy:
*Dino digging game (see above)
*Long/short sounds game
*Cave habitats booklet colored assembled

Jacob:
*Dino digging game

Friday, May 24, 2013

Field Trip Day!!

we went to Mayfair's Discovery Day.

This was an Arts field trip.  We got lots of excersize, saws tons of handcrafted stuff, and Leanna and Justin painted and did a Pablo Picasso craft.  Jacob got his picture drawn at a booth ($10.00).  We walked to McDonalds afterwards to wait for Daddy to pick us up and Leanna and Justin both made purchases there. 

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Silent Reading-Homeschool Liberation League
*Finished student activites for Simple schooling Fire!
*a poem (Kane Chronicles)
*Journal entry
*Journaling


Justin:
*We read The Popcorn book by Tomie de Paola
*We finished the first chapter of Little Britches by Ralph Moody (after recapping the first half yet again!)
*Math Workbook-3 pages
*glued flat stanleys onto a US Map to show where our stanleys have traveled.

Timothy:
*We read The Popcorn book by Tomie de Paola
 *We finished the first chapter of Little Britches by Ralph Moody (after recapping the first half yet again!)
*He drew a Flat Timmy picture
*Timothy started a new math workbook
Jacob:
We read The Popcorn book by Tomie de Paola
*We finished the first chapter of Little Britches by Ralph Moody (after recapping the first half yet again!)