Monday both girls did spelling, races for P.E. C did Khan academy math early math mastery challenge, Spanish, read some Marco Polo and Child's History of the World. E watched Spanish video, did phonics, reading aloud to mom.
C had tumbling class
Tuesday:
Crafts:painting and print making and made Christmas ornaments.
Math C did Khan academy Bar Graphs
Spelling: both wrote in spelling log
Phonics: E did Explode the code 1 page
Reading: we did color words with magnet letters and she read out of the journal which has sentences Poppa Martin and I wrote.
History/Geog: Emily used the Intelliglobe C read Marco Polo, I read Legends of the Saints to E.
Spanish: E sang a song in Spanish, C listened to a few lessons of Learnables.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Science Day
We tried out some science activities I've been wanting to try for a while. We made balloon rockets using a balloon taped to a straw with a string strung through it and tied tight, we also made paper rockets which we launched off the end of a straw and we made bubble prints using dish soap, water and tempera paint.
We also played a math addition game, sight word game, read about Joseph and his brothers from Genesis, did building with Mini Wedgits, raking and jumping in leaves, taking a walk, sorting and putting away laundry. C did Khan academy math and a little programming.
Regarding photo from top left:glitter magnets with rubber band bracelets, bubbles for bubble prints, a link cube flower, a straw rocket, more colored bubbles, layered candles at the craft sale, the balloon rocket.
Regarding photo from top left:glitter magnets with rubber band bracelets, bubbles for bubble prints, a link cube flower, a straw rocket, more colored bubbles, layered candles at the craft sale, the balloon rocket.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
the bug game
E played the Bag the Bugs game with her doll Kat and I. This involved turning over cards and reading the words on the cards or if the card has a bug on it you quick slam it into the mint tin we have set aside for that purpose. Kat and E also did phonogram cards and read the first 5 pages of Reading Pathways.
all of us did two Bible stories, Jacob's Ladder and Joseph sold into slavery.We sang an advent hymn. We also read three poems from Ambleside yr 3 collection.
C did a bit of Khan academy math and E watched one K academy video on telling time.
They heard part of Charles and Mary Lambs Tales from Shakespeare Much ado about Nothing.
C Listened to some of Nesbit's Magic City. Both watched a video about lions and other predators in South Africa. E did Spanish with her doll covering the words as I said them.
all of us did two Bible stories, Jacob's Ladder and Joseph sold into slavery.We sang an advent hymn. We also read three poems from Ambleside yr 3 collection.
C did a bit of Khan academy math and E watched one K academy video on telling time.
They heard part of Charles and Mary Lambs Tales from Shakespeare Much ado about Nothing.
C Listened to some of Nesbit's Magic City. Both watched a video about lions and other predators in South Africa. E did Spanish with her doll covering the words as I said them.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Tuesday.
We are off to a slow start with school work today. E did read three or four McGuffy lessons from the beginning of the book. I also read to her an entire book of bible stories. I read some Burgess Bird book about redwing the blackbird and some Old Man Coyote to both girls. They played in the backyard with buckets and pulleys and sand and flowers. C did khan academy math and started a new Java script program (she drew a rectangle which she filled in blue). They watched some calico Spanish videos from Kidsimmersion on Youtube. I read two Aesop's Fables and C re-told the Cat and the Mice. They listened to part of the Horse and His Boy by C.S> Lewis on CD and worked on making rubber band bracelets. C read a zoobooks magazine about camels.we read 2 chapters of Paddle to the Sea (geography) and talked about the great lakes. We played a game with link cubes in which I make a 3d structure and they copy it. I make them more and more complex. E easily copied all of them C made a mirror image of the most complex one. Is this because she is a lefty? I did another short math exercise. I set out cards with even numbers on them in no particular order and asked what they had in common. E figured it out first.
I read some more Marco Polo. E counted the books of the Bible. We did a quick game with the sight word blocks. I made a few sentences with them and Emily red them. Claire read some Child's history of the world. E shot corks and pom poms fro our catapult and discovered that the corks go further.
E went through about 1/3 of her phonogram flash cards. She needs to work on oy, oi, ew, or, oo, ew, ay.
We are off to a slow start with school work today. E did read three or four McGuffy lessons from the beginning of the book. I also read to her an entire book of bible stories. I read some Burgess Bird book about redwing the blackbird and some Old Man Coyote to both girls. They played in the backyard with buckets and pulleys and sand and flowers. C did khan academy math and started a new Java script program (she drew a rectangle which she filled in blue). They watched some calico Spanish videos from Kidsimmersion on Youtube. I read two Aesop's Fables and C re-told the Cat and the Mice. They listened to part of the Horse and His Boy by C.S> Lewis on CD and worked on making rubber band bracelets. C read a zoobooks magazine about camels.we read 2 chapters of Paddle to the Sea (geography) and talked about the great lakes. We played a game with link cubes in which I make a 3d structure and they copy it. I make them more and more complex. E easily copied all of them C made a mirror image of the most complex one. Is this because she is a lefty? I did another short math exercise. I set out cards with even numbers on them in no particular order and asked what they had in common. E figured it out first.
I read some more Marco Polo. E counted the books of the Bible. We did a quick game with the sight word blocks. I made a few sentences with them and Emily red them. Claire read some Child's history of the world. E shot corks and pom poms fro our catapult and discovered that the corks go further.
E went through about 1/3 of her phonogram flash cards. She needs to work on oy, oi, ew, or, oo, ew, ay.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Back to work Monday
Last week we focused of completing handy-crafts for the CM Kids Handy-craft sale and then on getting over various sicknesses. Now we are back in business. C and I read a chapter of Marco Polo and she re-told the main vents to me. C did Khan academy math as well as a couple pages of Singapore Math. She did Spanish and practiced piano. She did copy work and a little bit of drawing.
E did five pages of Reading pathways, and copywork. All together we did advent prayers and bible readings around the advent wreath and E worked on memorizing her part for the Creche liturgy. We also sang O Come, O Come Emmanuel. Together we read A.A. Milne poems form Now we are six.
E did five pages of Reading pathways, and copywork. All together we did advent prayers and bible readings around the advent wreath and E worked on memorizing her part for the Creche liturgy. We also sang O Come, O Come Emmanuel. Together we read A.A. Milne poems form Now we are six.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
School Today
We enjoyed a week of vacation and some stargazing in Arizona. At breakfast we read From a Child's History of the World about Martin Luther, King Charles V, and the quarrel between the Catholics and Protestants and church split. We also read about Henry VIII and his splitting away from Rome so he could divorce his wife.
We did Advent prayers around the wreath and the first verse of O Come, O Come Emmanuel.
C did about an hour of Khan academy Math and is now up to grade 4 with addition and subtraction through 1000. She also made progress with fractions and area and perimeter and a few other things.
C did a tiny bit more of the "Hour of Code" on Khan academy also. This is conceptually a bit tricky for an 8 yo I see why they recommend starting at age 10. C and E also observed me make a picture of the sun using Java script on Khan Academy.
Yesterday was a day off but we had an impromptu Spanish lesson and did decorating of advent wreath and made some Christmas presents and worked on tidying their room. We also did science by mixing various interesting ingredients to make bath bombs.
Emily worked on tiding the play area in the attic this morning. She also did an activity with magnets. we have a set of 16 3/4" ceramic magnets and she was experimenting with them one thing we did was wrap a couple into a ball of aluminum foil and moved it around with the stack of magnets that was left. It could make it spin around and them drew near to stick onto the stack.
The girls are currently experiencing the long awaited rain outside and enjoying their mostly unused rain boots.
They were cold when they came in and wanted a bath and to use a bath bomb we made yesterday. They had fun watching it fizz and them Emily read sight words which I wrote on craft foam shapes.
Both girls did copy work and Spanish. C's new Spanish book and CD's (Learnables Spanish Basic Structures 2) arrived the other day and she tried it out for the first time. She got through page 13!
I reviewed the first 2 lessons of Learnables book 1 with Emily. She pointed to all the pictures I talked about with ease. E and I did Khan academy and seemed to enjoy it, She sat on my lap did the mouse at first but she switched to doing it herself about halfway through.
We read several Bible stories and added ornaments to the Jesse tree in the girls room. They made the ornaments out of salt dough a couple years ago.
E read lessons 5, 9 and 10 of the McGuffey's Primer aloud to me while sitting on my lap. She read the first two very fluently.
At afternoon tea we read a couple Spanish poems and I translated them. I also read some A.A. Milne poems and two chapters of Paddle to the sea we looked at the map and saw where Lake Huron is located. I read two Aesops fables: The Lion and the Goat which E retold and the Fox and the Goat which C retold.
C spent time reading Farmer's Boy, practicing piano, talking to her Nanna, reading Nancy Drew and Flower Fairies of the Trees by Cicely Mary Barker.
It was a full day!
We did Advent prayers around the wreath and the first verse of O Come, O Come Emmanuel.
C did about an hour of Khan academy Math and is now up to grade 4 with addition and subtraction through 1000. She also made progress with fractions and area and perimeter and a few other things.
C did a tiny bit more of the "Hour of Code" on Khan academy also. This is conceptually a bit tricky for an 8 yo I see why they recommend starting at age 10. C and E also observed me make a picture of the sun using Java script on Khan Academy.
Yesterday was a day off but we had an impromptu Spanish lesson and did decorating of advent wreath and made some Christmas presents and worked on tidying their room. We also did science by mixing various interesting ingredients to make bath bombs.
Emily worked on tiding the play area in the attic this morning. She also did an activity with magnets. we have a set of 16 3/4" ceramic magnets and she was experimenting with them one thing we did was wrap a couple into a ball of aluminum foil and moved it around with the stack of magnets that was left. It could make it spin around and them drew near to stick onto the stack.
The girls are currently experiencing the long awaited rain outside and enjoying their mostly unused rain boots.
They were cold when they came in and wanted a bath and to use a bath bomb we made yesterday. They had fun watching it fizz and them Emily read sight words which I wrote on craft foam shapes.
Both girls did copy work and Spanish. C's new Spanish book and CD's (Learnables Spanish Basic Structures 2) arrived the other day and she tried it out for the first time. She got through page 13!
I reviewed the first 2 lessons of Learnables book 1 with Emily. She pointed to all the pictures I talked about with ease. E and I did Khan academy and seemed to enjoy it, She sat on my lap did the mouse at first but she switched to doing it herself about halfway through.
We read several Bible stories and added ornaments to the Jesse tree in the girls room. They made the ornaments out of salt dough a couple years ago.
E read lessons 5, 9 and 10 of the McGuffey's Primer aloud to me while sitting on my lap. She read the first two very fluently.
At afternoon tea we read a couple Spanish poems and I translated them. I also read some A.A. Milne poems and two chapters of Paddle to the sea we looked at the map and saw where Lake Huron is located. I read two Aesops fables: The Lion and the Goat which E retold and the Fox and the Goat which C retold.
C spent time reading Farmer's Boy, practicing piano, talking to her Nanna, reading Nancy Drew and Flower Fairies of the Trees by Cicely Mary Barker.
It was a full day!
Thursday, November 20, 2014
In School Today we:
Read a chapter of Paddle to the Sea
did sight word games
balance games with new dome cones
Khan academy Math
Spanish CD and poem
read poems by A.A. Milne
worked on memorizing Furry Bear by A.A Milne
did measuring with link cubes
did estimation
read two Aesop's Fables and retold one
read some of Marco Polo's Travels
Word game: I write sight words or a poem or rhyme we've been working on on the white board and say a work to my child, she gets to find it and erase it. We did words from the dolch sight word list then words from Jam on Toast poem by Gareth Owen and then from "there was an old woman who lived in a shoe."
Word game from yesterday:
I printed out words from Hop on pop onto card stock and cut them out and folded the cards in 1/4. I put them in a pop corn bowl and we took turns taking out a word and reading it. I added in a bunch of extra cards that say "pop" each time someone pulls out "pop" they get to throw it up in the air and shout "POP!" You keep the words you are able to read and put back any you can't read.
Spanish game:
We have the Learnables curriculum but my 6 yo doesn't like listening to the CD that goes with it. Today I looked at the pictures in the book with her and named the items out of order. She had to search for them and cover each of them with a link cube as I called it out. We got through several pages this way and she said she was interested in learning something new so I said words on the new page and covered them as I said them.
Read a chapter of Paddle to the Sea
did sight word games
balance games with new dome cones
Khan academy Math
Spanish CD and poem
read poems by A.A. Milne
worked on memorizing Furry Bear by A.A Milne
did measuring with link cubes
did estimation
read two Aesop's Fables and retold one
read some of Marco Polo's Travels
Word game: I write sight words or a poem or rhyme we've been working on on the white board and say a work to my child, she gets to find it and erase it. We did words from the dolch sight word list then words from Jam on Toast poem by Gareth Owen and then from "there was an old woman who lived in a shoe."
Word game from yesterday:
I printed out words from Hop on pop onto card stock and cut them out and folded the cards in 1/4. I put them in a pop corn bowl and we took turns taking out a word and reading it. I added in a bunch of extra cards that say "pop" each time someone pulls out "pop" they get to throw it up in the air and shout "POP!" You keep the words you are able to read and put back any you can't read.
Spanish game:
We have the Learnables curriculum but my 6 yo doesn't like listening to the CD that goes with it. Today I looked at the pictures in the book with her and named the items out of order. She had to search for them and cover each of them with a link cube as I called it out. We got through several pages this way and she said she was interested in learning something new so I said words on the new page and covered them as I said them.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Drawing (Especially for you Nonna Beth)
We Started some drawing lessons based on Mona Brookes book Drawing with Children in September 2012 I really like her "warm ups" especially the abstract design warm up in which someone calls out shapes and types of line and everyone makes an abstract image using the elements I also like the beginning exercises on p 44. There is a grid with a design to copy and a space below for copying. I made a bunch of my own for my girls. I think these two things gave them a good foundation. Then we moved on to representational drawing. We drew lions, hippos, horses, flowers, airplanes.
Abstract warm ups
Warm up grid
Other drawings we did step by step
Abstract warm ups
Warm up grid
Other drawings we did step by step
Nature Study
Nature Study Samples
Each week we try to take time to observe something from nature and paint it.
These are our efforts from today.
I'm interested in reading anf trying some of the things from here: http://www.cminthebluegrass.com/nature-study-workshop.html#.VAZs8WOGdrs
Each week we try to take time to observe something from nature and paint it.
These are our efforts from today.
I'm interested in reading anf trying some of the things from here: http://www.cminthebluegrass.com/nature-study-workshop.html#.VAZs8WOGdrs
Thursday, August 14, 2014
First Day Party
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| word family decorations |
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| First day game |
Monday, August 4, 2014
We are going to be learning more Spanish songs and Rhymes this year.
Here are some resources:
http://www.123teachme.com/learn_spanish/los_elefantes_canciones_infantiles
Calico Spanish/kids immersion
rockalengua
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=537&c=71 This only has midi so you have to figure out how the lyrics fit with the tune.
Here are some resources:
http://www.123teachme.com/learn_spanish/los_elefantes_canciones_infantiles
Calico Spanish/kids immersion
rockalengua
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=537&c=71 This only has midi so you have to figure out how the lyrics fit with the tune.
resources for keeping children engaged during church.
I've been struggling with My eldest (8yrs) during church and thought I'd try to find some things for her to do during church. She likes to read the Bible or biographies of the saints but she gets mad when her reading is interrupted. This is what I found:
The Children's Word Bulletin
North American Saints
listening pages
UPDATE 11/20/14
I printed the things mentioned above and put them in a binder. My daughter likes coloring the icons and maps while listening to the sermons.We also worked out a code which means for her to stop what she is doing and attend. I tap her gently and then I make a sign for her to stand or kneel or hand her a service book and point out where we are. This is working very well lately. We've had much fewer disruptions.
The Children's Word Bulletin
North American Saints
listening pages
UPDATE 11/20/14
I printed the things mentioned above and put them in a binder. My daughter likes coloring the icons and maps while listening to the sermons.We also worked out a code which means for her to stop what she is doing and attend. I tap her gently and then I make a sign for her to stand or kneel or hand her a service book and point out where we are. This is working very well lately. We've had much fewer disruptions.
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