Feb. 3, 2007
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Hello Things are going pretty good. Reading~ Still working on long vowel sounds. checked out "hop on pop" and "theres a wocket in my pocket" from the library and have been reading them. Serna has read a few pages of hop on pop to me. We also read a book about buddha today, that will count in the religon catergory for hsing, but it was me reading to her. it was a mini biography, very interesting and right on her level. She didnt want to read little house in the big woods today but thats ok , hopefully we can get back to that tommorow. I have decided that it is just to descriptive in some parts and i am just skipping over that to get to the stories. Math~Did additon sticks, have a colored popsicle sticks ,had her give me different amounts, say 2 green ones and 3 red ones, how many does that make? Kyle loves to get in on hsing and was showing her how no matter how you arrange them its always 5. talked about halfs, cutting things in half as an example, sandwichs ,advocados, etc. Geography~ australia, we found out which parts are desert and which parts are moutainous and what lives in each, ie; kolas inthe moutains and kangaroos in the desert. Science~continued studying marsupials and animalks that are unique to australia. looked up the platypus :) thats always fun to learn about. Social studies~ a strange unplanned lesson, i was watching the movie "water" it is set in india in the 1930s, the story of a girl who is 8 years old when she is widowed and is sent to live in an ashram. not a movie for 4 year olds but it was totally in Indian so i had to read the captions and Serena couldnt understand what was being said. I was able to tell her lots of things about the movie while leaving out all the inapproprite stuff. It turned put to be a great way to talk about a different culture and there traditions and how people work to change things they think are unfair . |
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