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Since Monday was Columbus Day we had a lesson on who Christopher Columbus was, what he did and just learned about his voyages, ships, discoveries and the countries he came and sailed from. We had a few worksheets but mostly we read stories about him and I had the kids figure out how many years ago his first voyage was.
Yesterday was reading and writing day. M & O started out with independant reading time (1 hour) while I worked with B on his writing technique. He can write, it's just very rough looking and he gets easily frustrated. I got him a smaller dry erase board and he was writing on that a bit with much success. After reading time M & O wrote more letters to their friends in Georgia. M wrote a letter to Caleb and he had three good paragraphs in there as well as labeling the envelope properly. O wrote a letter to Ben and while she only had one paragraph, it was very well written and she also drew some pictures to accompany the letter. She also addressed the envelope (and adorned it with a billion and six stickers, too)! We did have a small lesson on the continents, as well.
Today's lessons are as follow:
Science: 3 States of Matter (including a small experiment), workbook pages
Geography: Time zones of the contiguous USA; the Northeastern States - including learning what they are, labeling a map of them and what their capitals are (I will be doing this for all of the US regions as part of our geography lessons for the United States)
Mathmatics: Fractions (1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5) Polygons and Quadrilaterals (talking about angels and geometrical shapes) Addition/Subraction/Multiplication Facts using www.mathplayground.com |
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