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.