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Well, the kids and I survived the first week back to school after our long break. I was surprised, by Wednesday we were falling into our routine. Here is a weekly recap: Garrett, the 8th grader! Histoyry: He covered ch 4 from the SOTW4, The Unification of Italy. He said that studying this chapter was easy since we just returned from Italy and he has seen the statue of Garibaldi (several times) and has been to the Victor Emmuanel monument in Rome-otherwise known as the tomb of the unknown solider. Geography included a map page over Italy-labeling the states of Italy. He also outlined chapter 4, making sure to recap the highlights of the chapter. Next week, we will begin a month long study over The Civil War. Grammar this week was a review over verb tense-past, present and future . Writing-writing a plot to a movie. He chose a science fiction movie-kinda reminded me of the Terminator with more graphics, bigger guns and more robots trying to take over the world. He has a strange yet vivd imagination. Math-(pre-algebra) finding the LCM and the GCF. He also had a lesson over Similar Polygons. Spelling and vocabulary-continued his study over Latin and Greek words. (logo-greek, verbum-latin,nomen-latin, and video-latin) Science-he completed 2 experiments this week.. His first one was to understand how sound waves are different. First, he had to listen as I clanked together two spoons. Then, he had to put his ear in a sink full of water while I clanked the spoons together again. He had to observe the different sounds the spoons made in and out of the water. His second experiment for the week, covered the study of mixing cornstarch and water together and finding out the results. First, he added cornstartch
Then he added water:
He realized it was almost impossible to stir.
Well, he wanted to know what would happen if he added more cornstarch.
He realized he couldn't stir. So, he let the "solution" sit for a few moments and observed.
He concluded the solution gets watery if left alone but turns to solid if kneaded.
Jaguar checking things out. As you can see, they had way too much fun with this experiment. Both agreed this "solution" felt like playdough. Art Appreciation-studied various masterpieces by Paul Gauguin. Music appreciation-studied and listened to pieces by Ravel. Music practice-practiced his electric guitar for 5 hours this week. He is learning how to play the song, Iron Man. I know it isn't classical music but I thought I would let him play the song of his choice until we resume music lessons again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aundrea's weekly review: grade 4 Math: she reviewed her double digit multiplication and started on triple digit multiplication. She also reviewed her basic multiplication facts. Grammar: verbs and how to find the verbs in a sentence (take out the prep. phrase). Studied the State of Being verbs. Daily Grams: review over cap., proper and common nouns, sentence combining and finding the subject and verbs in a sentence. spelling and phonics: words that have the ch and sh sounds. writing: writing a paragraph over her favorite season. She chose Spring as her favorite season. Science: how flowers reproduce. Learned the female and male parts to a flower. Also, learned how bees help flowers reproduce. She also colored and labeled parts of a flower and bee. History: no history this week. Next week, we will begin our unit study over The Civil War. Music practice: practiced her violin and piano for 6 hours this week. Art appreciation: read and discussed pages 4-11 from How Artists See Work. Music Appreciation: studied and listened to pieces by Ravel. Here is Aundrea being silly...don't ask..... but what ever she is doing, it sure makes school fun! I love my job!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Leo, the soon to be 1st grader! Math: reviewed Kindergarden concepts...adding and subtraction to and from 20, counting to 100 by 1, 5, 10. Also, counted to 2,000 by 100's. Reviewed time concepts by telling time; ex. 10:15. Phonics: short a words. He is also reading more and more each day. This week, we worked on words that have the short a sounds such as cat, mat, fat. He also read the following sentences: The fat cat sat on the mat. I am a cat. See the rat sat on the mat. Pat the fat cat. Science and Social Studies: We are studying the continents. He already knows the continents and can identify and point to on a map. So, for a couple of weeks, we will focus our time studying different animals from each continent. This week, we started with animals from Africa. Writing: we are incorporating his writing with his SS and Science. For every animal he studies for that particular day, he will write the animals name. This week, he wrote Jaguar (because this is also his cat's name, he had to write this more than once), he also wrote Elephant, and Lion. Below is a picture of Leo coloring a picture of a Jaguar. As you can see, he had help from his cat named Jaguar
Art appreciation: We are using the Draw, Write Now books for his Art. This week's lesson was learning how to draw a hen. We also had our weekly trip to the library where the kids, as usual, wanted to check out all the books in the library. I'm glad they love to read!! Sure warms my heart!!
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