What an exciting evening we had last night! After watching Autumn the mama giraffe a lot all day, we thought she would have the baby soon! Sure enough, about 11pm I woke Sylvia up and Luka woke up after that because he was coughing a bit. We watched the entire labor and birth, about 2 hours of internet live webcam time. The baby is so cute, but we still dont know what it is or how big etc.
Faith and Life- did the fill in the blank activities on 2 pages.
Math- lesson 29. filling in the missing addends. Did the timed test 4.2 and got it all done in just 58 seconds, got one wrong.
Spelling- we did the test with 100%. Plan to just move on ahead with more words tomorrow.
Maps- did the next page
Grammar- Who, what, when, where, why and how questions.
Music- practiced our recorder and doing much better!!!
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Monday, Oct 22
We are tired today from our trip, but plugging along fine. Started with Faith and Life- read ch 9 and also finished some of the workbook pages from last week.
Math- we actually got ahead in math last week by 1 lesson. Today we did the timed test 4.0, plus 2's. she got 21/25 finished w. 100% accuracy in 1 min 5 sec. Timed test 4.2, plus 1, plus 2, plus 0 and doubles, got 21/25 with 100% accuracy, this is good because there were mixed facts. The lesson for today was counting dimes and pennies, and we already know that so we skipped it and just worked on harder money. Also did timed test 5.1, doubles plus 1. worked on clocks and time, still half past, quarter til and quarter after.Did lesson 28 worksheet together. will do the second half for homework.
Spelling- We did our new spelling list and she wanted to do both activity pages
Grammar- we did page 14, using question marks.
Critical Thinking- she did 3 pages in the Mind Benders workbook.
Literature- Read the next story in the devotional stories.
We watched the giraffe cam on and off all morning too! We think the baby is coming soon, the zookeepers cleaned out her barn today!
Math- we actually got ahead in math last week by 1 lesson. Today we did the timed test 4.0, plus 2's. she got 21/25 finished w. 100% accuracy in 1 min 5 sec. Timed test 4.2, plus 1, plus 2, plus 0 and doubles, got 21/25 with 100% accuracy, this is good because there were mixed facts. The lesson for today was counting dimes and pennies, and we already know that so we skipped it and just worked on harder money. Also did timed test 5.1, doubles plus 1. worked on clocks and time, still half past, quarter til and quarter after.Did lesson 28 worksheet together. will do the second half for homework.
Spelling- We did our new spelling list and she wanted to do both activity pages
Grammar- we did page 14, using question marks.
Critical Thinking- she did 3 pages in the Mind Benders workbook.
Literature- Read the next story in the devotional stories.
We watched the giraffe cam on and off all morning too! We think the baby is coming soon, the zookeepers cleaned out her barn today!
Monday and Tues, October 15-17
Monday and Tuesday we got a lot done as we usually do. See planner for details. Wednesday was going to be a schoolday, but then the car wouldn't start since I left the radio running in it all night and killed the battery. Since noone went to preschool, we just packed up the car and left early for KY after Frank got home to jump the van. Even though we had full days of fun in KY with Renee, Dave and Gracie, we still accomplished our week of lessons including a very long and detailed lesson on how to read a highway/state map.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Monday, October 15
I didnt get a chance to do the blog last week, I'll give a quick update. Wednesday was milk pickup day and I also went to the eye doctor. In between, we had a full math lesson and reading too. Thursday we did our spelling test, 100%, worked on geography and our map for South America. We got all the pictures for animals of South America cut out and pasted on our page. We also looked at our book for the 3 children of S.A that we will read this week. Did a full math lesson and the next devotional story. We also reviewed the pages she missed from last weeks religious ed class since the tree people were at our house and she didnt get to go. Friday was a sick day, so we didnt have any actual lessons. Saturday was Roper Mountain Insect day, and I will make another blog about that with pics soon! Still 5 official school days count for this week since we went to Roper Mountain.
Today-
Opening prayers- we both officially know the entire student prayer by heart after 6 weeks of saying it. Sylvie learned it as of last week actually. We are now working on the St. Michael prayer and the act of contrition as well. We looked through the 2012 missal and talked about how we use it, what dates are important etc. We read Ch 8 of Faith and Life-the 10 commandments and reviewed the commandments for children.
Math- Did lesson 22. All about story problems. She is very bored with this and it is too easy. She was totally annoyed that we did 5 problems togther on the white board, and then she had to do 3 more in her workbook. Did fact test of plus 2, She got 15/25 on the plus 2 facts, but it is new and we didnt do them since last Thurs. We worked on time and money.
We took a snack break, then learned about Sugar Gliders because we met a lady at Roper Mountain who had one in her scarf. We learned about the word disaueding and drawbacks. We did some reasearch and found this information on Sugar Gliders-
Sugar Gliders . they sure are cute, but after reading about them, we don't think we would want one as a pet!
Spelling- sounds ending in er, er, y as EE. did page 1 of the lesson.
Grammar- worked on Before and After concept.
Map Skills- did page 9, understanding a map key
Did 1 handwriting lesson.
I didnt get a chance to do the blog last week, I'll give a quick update. Wednesday was milk pickup day and I also went to the eye doctor. In between, we had a full math lesson and reading too. Thursday we did our spelling test, 100%, worked on geography and our map for South America. We got all the pictures for animals of South America cut out and pasted on our page. We also looked at our book for the 3 children of S.A that we will read this week. Did a full math lesson and the next devotional story. We also reviewed the pages she missed from last weeks religious ed class since the tree people were at our house and she didnt get to go. Friday was a sick day, so we didnt have any actual lessons. Saturday was Roper Mountain Insect day, and I will make another blog about that with pics soon! Still 5 official school days count for this week since we went to Roper Mountain.
Today-
Opening prayers- we both officially know the entire student prayer by heart after 6 weeks of saying it. Sylvie learned it as of last week actually. We are now working on the St. Michael prayer and the act of contrition as well. We looked through the 2012 missal and talked about how we use it, what dates are important etc. We read Ch 8 of Faith and Life-the 10 commandments and reviewed the commandments for children.
Math- Did lesson 22. All about story problems. She is very bored with this and it is too easy. She was totally annoyed that we did 5 problems togther on the white board, and then she had to do 3 more in her workbook. Did fact test of plus 2, She got 15/25 on the plus 2 facts, but it is new and we didnt do them since last Thurs. We worked on time and money.
We took a snack break, then learned about Sugar Gliders because we met a lady at Roper Mountain who had one in her scarf. We learned about the word disaueding and drawbacks. We did some reasearch and found this information on Sugar Gliders-
Sugar Gliders . they sure are cute, but after reading about them, we don't think we would want one as a pet!
Spelling- sounds ending in er, er, y as EE. did page 1 of the lesson.
Grammar- worked on Before and After concept.
Map Skills- did page 9, understanding a map key
Did 1 handwriting lesson.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Tuesday October 9
Tuesday October 9
Faith and Life- activities from chapter 7. Lots of writing answers and she is not a huge fan of writing. she will color the pictures of Noah/Ark, Abraham/Isaac and David/Goliath for homework.
Math- meeting book, counting by 2s forward and backward, even and odd. Still need practice on this. Written assessment for Lesson 20. Got 100% in about 5min time. Oral Assessment #3. 100%. Did lesson 20. more patterns. Did fact test, got 100% in 49 seconds!
Literature- Read the poem Beautiful from the Book of Virtues.
Beautiful faces are they that wear
The light of a pleasant spirit there
Beautiful hands are they that do
Deeds that are noble, good and true
Beautiful feet are they that go
Swiftly to lighten another's woe.
Maps- did map page 8, understanding symbols
Spelling- 2nd page of the lesson
Handwriting- worked on the letter c
Recorder- same as yesterday. In looking ahead, things are getting difficult. Not sure how to proceed since I am not very good at this!!!
Faith and Life- activities from chapter 7. Lots of writing answers and she is not a huge fan of writing. she will color the pictures of Noah/Ark, Abraham/Isaac and David/Goliath for homework.
Math- meeting book, counting by 2s forward and backward, even and odd. Still need practice on this. Written assessment for Lesson 20. Got 100% in about 5min time. Oral Assessment #3. 100%. Did lesson 20. more patterns. Did fact test, got 100% in 49 seconds!
Literature- Read the poem Beautiful from the Book of Virtues.
Beautiful faces are they that wear
The light of a pleasant spirit there
Beautiful hands are they that do
Deeds that are noble, good and true
Beautiful feet are they that go
Swiftly to lighten another's woe.
Maps- did map page 8, understanding symbols
Spelling- 2nd page of the lesson
Handwriting- worked on the letter c
Recorder- same as yesterday. In looking ahead, things are getting difficult. Not sure how to proceed since I am not very good at this!!!
Monday, October 8, 2012
Monday October 8th
Monday October 8th.
Faith and Life- we somehow got a chapter ahead. Learned about Noah, Abraham, Isaac and David. Said the act of contrition, and prayer to St. Michael.
Math- we are on lesson 19. Meeting book, counted up and down in the hundreds and wrote them out as well. Counted by 2's to 20 forward and backward, then did the odd numbers too. Wrote down the odd numbers on the whiteboard and noticed the pattern. We did lesson 19 and worked on fractions using the pattern shapes. She is really good at this and it is fun for her. Did timed test lesson 3.2, plus ones, doubles and plus 0. Got 24/25 correct in 52 seconds with all the answers completed. did worksheet 19A together.
Literature- Read Jesus Comes to Us in the devotional stories book. A good one to re-read later.
Spelling- Lesson 6. Blends of th, st and all words. Did pg 12.
Handwriting- worked on K's. these need a lot of work!
Grammar- Vowels and consonants and using A or An with them. She did this by sound and could tell the difference. If she wasnt sure, she read the rule to double check her answer.
Recorder- Still working on the page with notes A and B and quarter, half or whole notes.
Faith and Life- we somehow got a chapter ahead. Learned about Noah, Abraham, Isaac and David. Said the act of contrition, and prayer to St. Michael.
Math- we are on lesson 19. Meeting book, counted up and down in the hundreds and wrote them out as well. Counted by 2's to 20 forward and backward, then did the odd numbers too. Wrote down the odd numbers on the whiteboard and noticed the pattern. We did lesson 19 and worked on fractions using the pattern shapes. She is really good at this and it is fun for her. Did timed test lesson 3.2, plus ones, doubles and plus 0. Got 24/25 correct in 52 seconds with all the answers completed. did worksheet 19A together.
Literature- Read Jesus Comes to Us in the devotional stories book. A good one to re-read later.
Spelling- Lesson 6. Blends of th, st and all words. Did pg 12.
Handwriting- worked on K's. these need a lot of work!
Grammar- Vowels and consonants and using A or An with them. She did this by sound and could tell the difference. If she wasnt sure, she read the rule to double check her answer.
Recorder- Still working on the page with notes A and B and quarter, half or whole notes.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Thursday, October 4th
Thursday.
Started our day by going to the bank with a ton of cash to change to 100s to pay the tree men that our at our house taking down trees as we speak. The teller lady was very impressed at how Sylvie counted all the cash out into 100s. She talked us into coming back on Monday to sign up for a free kid account.
Got home and watched the tree guys for a while, it is amazing how the guy climbs all the way up this huge tree. It is very distracting while we are trying to work and not run to the window each time a huge branch falls and booms on the ground! Practicing the virtue of temperance!
Faith and Life- We read about St. Sylvia! we played Jeopardy with our Mass vocabulary words and she did GREAT! our words are: sanctuary lamp, examination of conscience, original sin, sacrament, sacrafice, "house of bread", Amen, martyr, tabernacle, Bible, genuflect, Mary, chalice, alleluia, angel, Our Father, monstrance, grace, prayer.
Math- meeting strip. Lesson 18. more work on even and odds to 20, counting up and down. Still need practice on this! Also counted up from 103 to 122 while writing down the numbers. Reviewed geometric shapes: hexagon, triangle, square, circle, parallelogram and trapezoid. Worked on fractions with the shape blocks 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4, and 1/6 seeing how they fit together on the shape pattern. Practiced doubles, timed test on 0, doulbes, and plus 1. Got 100% and 25/25 done in 55 seconds!
Spelling Test- 100% on test 5
Literature- Read Happiness in a Shoelace. She has also finished the entire hardcover book of Winnie the Pooh. Has read all of the Ramona books and is working on the rest of the Beverly Cleary series during rest time too! Pics of our tree work to follow later on!
Started our day by going to the bank with a ton of cash to change to 100s to pay the tree men that our at our house taking down trees as we speak. The teller lady was very impressed at how Sylvie counted all the cash out into 100s. She talked us into coming back on Monday to sign up for a free kid account.
Got home and watched the tree guys for a while, it is amazing how the guy climbs all the way up this huge tree. It is very distracting while we are trying to work and not run to the window each time a huge branch falls and booms on the ground! Practicing the virtue of temperance!
Faith and Life- We read about St. Sylvia! we played Jeopardy with our Mass vocabulary words and she did GREAT! our words are: sanctuary lamp, examination of conscience, original sin, sacrament, sacrafice, "house of bread", Amen, martyr, tabernacle, Bible, genuflect, Mary, chalice, alleluia, angel, Our Father, monstrance, grace, prayer.
Math- meeting strip. Lesson 18. more work on even and odds to 20, counting up and down. Still need practice on this! Also counted up from 103 to 122 while writing down the numbers. Reviewed geometric shapes: hexagon, triangle, square, circle, parallelogram and trapezoid. Worked on fractions with the shape blocks 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4, and 1/6 seeing how they fit together on the shape pattern. Practiced doubles, timed test on 0, doulbes, and plus 1. Got 100% and 25/25 done in 55 seconds!
Spelling Test- 100% on test 5
Literature- Read Happiness in a Shoelace. She has also finished the entire hardcover book of Winnie the Pooh. Has read all of the Ramona books and is working on the rest of the Beverly Cleary series during rest time too! Pics of our tree work to follow later on!
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Wednesday, October 3rd
Wednesday.
Today we combined Faith and Life, first communion prep and and geography. We looked up some saints of North America- Our Lady of Guadalupe from Mexico, Bl. Kateri Takekati of US, and St. Anne of Beaupre of Canada. Read about them and put them on our map. We reviewed all about North America and wrote the names of the N.A. children we read about on our map too. We used the blow up globe from the NatGeo Kids magazine and wrote some of our places on there too. We also reviewed Sylvie's religious ed book chapters from last week and looked ahead to what she will learn for this week. Read about Simeon's prophecy for Jesus and Mary in the temple from Luke 2. Reviewed our mass vocabulary flashcards.
Math- did the meeting book exercises, then learned odd and even numbers. counted by 2 forward and backwards with even and odd numbers. Chose numbers and stacked tiles to prove even and odd numbers. Did the fact test 2.2 plus 1, doubles and plus 0. Did great and got 100% accuracy in 55 seconds! Did worksheet 17 together and will do the second page for homework. Worked on time and money flashcards too.
Did 2 mindbender games. They are getting harder! Worked on recorder last.
Today we combined Faith and Life, first communion prep and and geography. We looked up some saints of North America- Our Lady of Guadalupe from Mexico, Bl. Kateri Takekati of US, and St. Anne of Beaupre of Canada. Read about them and put them on our map. We reviewed all about North America and wrote the names of the N.A. children we read about on our map too. We used the blow up globe from the NatGeo Kids magazine and wrote some of our places on there too. We also reviewed Sylvie's religious ed book chapters from last week and looked ahead to what she will learn for this week. Read about Simeon's prophecy for Jesus and Mary in the temple from Luke 2. Reviewed our mass vocabulary flashcards.
Math- did the meeting book exercises, then learned odd and even numbers. counted by 2 forward and backwards with even and odd numbers. Chose numbers and stacked tiles to prove even and odd numbers. Did the fact test 2.2 plus 1, doubles and plus 0. Did great and got 100% accuracy in 55 seconds! Did worksheet 17 together and will do the second page for homework. Worked on time and money flashcards too.
Did 2 mindbender games. They are getting harder! Worked on recorder last.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Tuesday, October 2.
Tuesday again. The rain seems to be stopping, but the preschool wont play outside because it has rained soooo much. Maybe we will go run around McDonalds playland today? Havent done that in a loong time and the kids (Luka) were asking about it.
Beginning prayers, then on to Faith and Life. Reviewed Ch 5, and finished the activity, then also read ch 6 on Baptism since baby Jude Hyland is going to be baptised this weekend! Did the activity on ch 6 also which was fill in the blanks about baptism and Adam and Eve.
Math- meeting book activities. Reviewed clocks, not so great today on one hour from now and one hour ago. Will have to do more tomorrow. Filled in our favorite day of the week chart from everyones responses from yesterday and asked comparison questions about it. Did plus 0 math facts test and got 100% in 38 seconds! whoohoo! Did worksheet 16 A together. Worked on time and money flashcards.
Spelling- worked on the next page of the lesson, how want sound like WONT with an o, but is spelled WANT. verbal quiz on some of the other words.
Grammar- reviewed phrases and complete sentences. Did page 10.
Literature- Read Cecelia Eating Blackberries and answered critical thinking questions. These are SUCH great stories!!
Geography- worked on our map of North America. Added landmarks- Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls and the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. We watched short clips online about each place and a 7 min video of the story of Juan Diego that was review for Sylvie since it is one of her favorite stories. Check it out here:
Our Lady of Guadalupe 7 minute video. Watch til the end for the info of scientific study on the tilma!
It is also true that in the immediate years following this apparition, nearly the entire country of Mexico was converted. Also, when Hillary Clinton came to the shrine on some government lets-make-nice-with-the-Catholics visit a few years ago, she had the bishop showing her around and giving her a tour. She asked him "Who painted that?" in reference to the tilma/cloak. He looked at her with amazement and hopefully not much disdain and simply said "God." I mean, I am not buddist, but if i was a high ranking official visiting a buddist temple, I would have done my homework to look at least informed of the basic facts of the place. Seeing the miracle of the tilma is the entire reason people go to the shrine, and she didn't know that main fact of how the tilma came to be? Wow. Anyway off my political horse, I am annoyed the government is currently impeding the right to vote absentee by our oversees soldiers. Needed to vent. Done! =)
Beginning prayers, then on to Faith and Life. Reviewed Ch 5, and finished the activity, then also read ch 6 on Baptism since baby Jude Hyland is going to be baptised this weekend! Did the activity on ch 6 also which was fill in the blanks about baptism and Adam and Eve.
Math- meeting book activities. Reviewed clocks, not so great today on one hour from now and one hour ago. Will have to do more tomorrow. Filled in our favorite day of the week chart from everyones responses from yesterday and asked comparison questions about it. Did plus 0 math facts test and got 100% in 38 seconds! whoohoo! Did worksheet 16 A together. Worked on time and money flashcards.
Spelling- worked on the next page of the lesson, how want sound like WONT with an o, but is spelled WANT. verbal quiz on some of the other words.
Grammar- reviewed phrases and complete sentences. Did page 10.
Literature- Read Cecelia Eating Blackberries and answered critical thinking questions. These are SUCH great stories!!
Geography- worked on our map of North America. Added landmarks- Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls and the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. We watched short clips online about each place and a 7 min video of the story of Juan Diego that was review for Sylvie since it is one of her favorite stories. Check it out here:
Our Lady of Guadalupe 7 minute video. Watch til the end for the info of scientific study on the tilma!
It is also true that in the immediate years following this apparition, nearly the entire country of Mexico was converted. Also, when Hillary Clinton came to the shrine on some government lets-make-nice-with-the-Catholics visit a few years ago, she had the bishop showing her around and giving her a tour. She asked him "Who painted that?" in reference to the tilma/cloak. He looked at her with amazement and hopefully not much disdain and simply said "God." I mean, I am not buddist, but if i was a high ranking official visiting a buddist temple, I would have done my homework to look at least informed of the basic facts of the place. Seeing the miracle of the tilma is the entire reason people go to the shrine, and she didn't know that main fact of how the tilma came to be? Wow. Anyway off my political horse, I am annoyed the government is currently impeding the right to vote absentee by our oversees soldiers. Needed to vent. Done! =)
Monday, October 1, 2012
Sc Farm Day
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| She liked the chicken until it started to squak! |
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| The puppy was the hilight! Poor puppy! |
Monday, October 1.
Welcome to October! From now on I am not going to type in our general intro because we always do the same thing: student's prayer, everyday blessings, and looking up the chapter and verse that goes along with it.
Today we reviewed ch 5 on Angels, and Adam and Eve and did the worksheet in the actvitity book. Reviewed all the questions from all the other chapters too. Reviewed our Mass flashcards.
Math- worked on Lesson 15. New meeting book page for October! Sylvie marked this day as COLD, the first time she has written cold in so far. Counted forward and backward. Did written assesment #2. Scored 100% in about 5 min time. We texted a bunch of people to find out their favorite day of the week so we can fillin our favorite day chart tomorrow! Did Fact quiz sheet 2.2 which is doubles and plus 1's. Got 100% accuracy and 24/25 in 1 min! I think this is great since she spend 3 seconds on the last fact and should have done it and also that it is Monday and we hadnt reviewed much over the weekend! We did worksheet 15 A together and she will do the 15B for homework. Also worked on money and time flashcards. Worked on counting by 10s for dimes and quarter past and quarter 'til.
Spelling- new spelling list this week. Blends of Sh and Nt words. She took her time and did excellent handwriting on the activity page.
Grammar- Worked on sentence parts. We connected the sentence parts to make a whole sentence.
Reading/Literature- Book of Virtues- read the 10 commandments and read the 10 commandments for children. They are:
Here are some pics of the art/schoolwork that has come home from preschool recently!
Welcome to October! From now on I am not going to type in our general intro because we always do the same thing: student's prayer, everyday blessings, and looking up the chapter and verse that goes along with it.
Today we reviewed ch 5 on Angels, and Adam and Eve and did the worksheet in the actvitity book. Reviewed all the questions from all the other chapters too. Reviewed our Mass flashcards.
Math- worked on Lesson 15. New meeting book page for October! Sylvie marked this day as COLD, the first time she has written cold in so far. Counted forward and backward. Did written assesment #2. Scored 100% in about 5 min time. We texted a bunch of people to find out their favorite day of the week so we can fillin our favorite day chart tomorrow! Did Fact quiz sheet 2.2 which is doubles and plus 1's. Got 100% accuracy and 24/25 in 1 min! I think this is great since she spend 3 seconds on the last fact and should have done it and also that it is Monday and we hadnt reviewed much over the weekend! We did worksheet 15 A together and she will do the 15B for homework. Also worked on money and time flashcards. Worked on counting by 10s for dimes and quarter past and quarter 'til.
Spelling- new spelling list this week. Blends of Sh and Nt words. She took her time and did excellent handwriting on the activity page.
Grammar- Worked on sentence parts. We connected the sentence parts to make a whole sentence.
Reading/Literature- Book of Virtues- read the 10 commandments and read the 10 commandments for children. They are:
1.
Make
me important in your life
2.
Use
my name in nice ways
3.
Make
Sunday a special day
4.
Obey
your parents
5.
Be
kind to others
6.
Take
only what belongs to you
7.
Tell
the truth
8.
Be
happy with what you have
(The kids don't need the one on adultery, but not sure why they couldn't make up a kid one about the graven images. oh well.)
Here are some pics of the art/schoolwork that has come home from preschool recently!
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