Silver Moon Learning

Feb. 2, 2009

What's up with school this week.

History ~ George Washington. Well, they say all the presidents, but we'll do them in order. The first George Dubya it is.  Today we talked about how we know his profile picture so well and why, then made profile drawings of each other. Can you hear the laughter with that one? One kid staring at the wall with a flashlight aimed as his/her noggin, another kid with a paper on the wall trying to trace the profile shadow. another giggly kid holding the flashlight. Some of the profile tracings had so much giggling involved they caused more bouts of giggling. Tomorrow we'll learn more about his life before the presidency. Justice ~Math is adding and subtracting mixed fractions, pretty sure I pulled the pages from www.math-drills.com. I pulled some writing from the free Scott Foresman stuff,  Just the wirting pages in the grade 6 section, their grammar isn't thick enough to warrent pulling him off Daily Grams for it. Today he worked on qualities of a personal narrative, then wrote his own about meeting Bionicles on a previously boring stroll through a swamp. We did that page orally until it came time to create his own personal narrative though. Too bloody much writing if I expect him to actually like original writing. He's reading a book about a kidnapped orangutan. Joy ~ She started Spelling Wisdom today. So far, one really easy lesson in, she's giving it two thumbs up. I think we're really going to enjoy spelling this way. Very untraditional and kid paced. (I am SO ordering the next level up for Justice this fall.)  In First Language Lessons she made some silly sentences with subjects, state of being verbs and some fun adjectives. Then I read The Camel's Nose to her. Afterwords she gave the best story narration she's ever done. I nearly fell out of my chair! Included the important detials, in order, didn't back up, just needed nudges at the very beginning. She's come a long way this year. Honor ~ He raced through his list of twenty words in Phonics Pathways, nearly always saying the word before I can say "Now put the sounds together."  A few counting pages later he raced off to the backyard. He's so proud of his accomplishments lately. Stinkin' adorable. Grace ~ She also did her lesson in Phonics Pathways, blending L with the vowels. She asked for it just before nap and was kinda off balance, but did pretty good in spite of being tired. Her workpages had patterns on them today, she was pretty confused as to what they were asking at first, but had started puttiing it all into place by the end. Faith ~ Can't leave the baby out! She's over her fear of the step to the backyard. Did I mention there's concrete at the bottom?    We used to have to make sure she had long pants and leather baby shoes on before she'd tolerate being put on the grass at all. Now she barrels across the backyard barefoot, lol.

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