Happy Wednesday!
Started off with the students prayer and everyday blessings. Read the final chapters in Little Acts of Grace- the first communion preparation program. She is going to color her prayer chart, do the actviity about objects at Mass and color the manners chart too.
Math- meeting book, weather, date, pattern. Counting forwards and backwards. worked on pattern blocks and covering them with matching pattern blocks. Worked on basic fractions with the blocks, 1 whole, 1/2, 1/3 2/3 3/3 etc. She did good at this. Next I had her write all the doubles number sentences horizontally on the white board since we have been doing a lot vertically recently. 1+1=2, 2+2=4, etc. then we played Jeopardy- i gave her the answer and she had to tell me the number sentence for her doubles. This was hard! We will do it again tomorrow. Next, we worked on plus one math facts. We did the +1 timed test on page A.20. She got 17/25 finished with 100% accuracy in 1 minute. We did Lesson9A together and she will do the 2nd half for homework at rest time.
Next she worked on spelling, then did the literature/reading devotional story- God's Big Family and answered the critical thinking questions. Then we worked on map skills, smaller and larger area maps and then made our own map of our house, then a zoomed in map of our school area (aka- dining room).
Grammar- free writing of sentences using capitals and proper punctuation. This is a big assignment!
We will finish off the day with practicing our recorder.
Now it's 1pm and Elyse is happily (shocker) in bed for her nap. I wonder how long she will play and if she will sleep. She is quiet, so I hope a nap it will be.
Sylvie is doing her aforementioned homework. Luka is trying to write down the 10 books he read yesterday in the book journal. I'm reading a few articles and keeping him on track.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
September 18th
Happy Tuesday! Lots of laughter today already!
Usual beginning, prayers and daily kid devotion. See all pics for examples. (I update the pictures throughout the blog every other day or so, so check back a few posts for pics I may have added for previous days!)
Found chapter and verse and getting good at it! We went back to Ch. 1 in the Faith and Life and answered all the review questions from God the Father, the Trinity and this week's chapter on God the Creator. She knew them all. I think I will do these review questions like this (going back 3 or so chapters) every week just for reinforcement. We also listened/watched another YouTube video of All Things Bright and Beautiful. this is the one we watched today and like it best: AllThingsBrightandBeautifulVideo. We did the activity answers and she will do the coloring at rest time.
Math- did the meeting book, looked at birthdays, worked on patterns, I tried to make harder ones, but she is really good at it and I only stumped her once. Practiced counting forward and backward by ones and by tens to 100. She is getting better! We practiced her doubles to 20 again, and she really has gotten better due to all of our reviewing in the car and random times yesterday! She did the math facts doubles test, same one as yesterday, and got 21 out of 25 finished with 100% accuracy with only 1 minute given, whereas yesterday she got 16/25 finished with 14 accurate answers with 2 minutes given! Wahoooooo! We worked on the some, some more game with the shape tiles, adding more shapes to the "party" and writing down the addition as we went. Learned about carrying the one and she did great with that. Then we did about 8 money flashcards, again adding them up, but writing them down to "prove it". (We are headed to the post office and I will let her pay again with change, so I wanted to practice.) She is definitley better than last week!
We did the mind bender game- critical thinking skills. This was great fun and she did really well. I love leaving the subject when she wants to do more!
We also did one handwriting exercise- she took her time and did better than last week.
Next, she worked on Science- read the next chapter on wedge, screws and wheels. There was some surprising facts and made her laugh, so we will have fun reviewing it again tomorrow! She did the activity at the end of the chapter easily.
Finally, since our pizza Book-It coupons came we are writing down an official book it list towards earning a pizza. She read Fried Feathers for Thanksgiving while I typed this blog. Pictures to follow! Off to the post office to mail back Frank's guaranteed shoes for a replacement pair!
Usual beginning, prayers and daily kid devotion. See all pics for examples. (I update the pictures throughout the blog every other day or so, so check back a few posts for pics I may have added for previous days!)
Found chapter and verse and getting good at it! We went back to Ch. 1 in the Faith and Life and answered all the review questions from God the Father, the Trinity and this week's chapter on God the Creator. She knew them all. I think I will do these review questions like this (going back 3 or so chapters) every week just for reinforcement. We also listened/watched another YouTube video of All Things Bright and Beautiful. this is the one we watched today and like it best: AllThingsBrightandBeautifulVideo. We did the activity answers and she will do the coloring at rest time.
Math- did the meeting book, looked at birthdays, worked on patterns, I tried to make harder ones, but she is really good at it and I only stumped her once. Practiced counting forward and backward by ones and by tens to 100. She is getting better! We practiced her doubles to 20 again, and she really has gotten better due to all of our reviewing in the car and random times yesterday! She did the math facts doubles test, same one as yesterday, and got 21 out of 25 finished with 100% accuracy with only 1 minute given, whereas yesterday she got 16/25 finished with 14 accurate answers with 2 minutes given! Wahoooooo! We worked on the some, some more game with the shape tiles, adding more shapes to the "party" and writing down the addition as we went. Learned about carrying the one and she did great with that. Then we did about 8 money flashcards, again adding them up, but writing them down to "prove it". (We are headed to the post office and I will let her pay again with change, so I wanted to practice.) She is definitley better than last week!
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| yes, this is messy, but look how great the math is! I had only planned to do one problem with her, but it turned into many! |
We did the mind bender game- critical thinking skills. This was great fun and she did really well. I love leaving the subject when she wants to do more!
We also did one handwriting exercise- she took her time and did better than last week.
Next, she worked on Science- read the next chapter on wedge, screws and wheels. There was some surprising facts and made her laugh, so we will have fun reviewing it again tomorrow! She did the activity at the end of the chapter easily.
Finally, since our pizza Book-It coupons came we are writing down an official book it list towards earning a pizza. She read Fried Feathers for Thanksgiving while I typed this blog. Pictures to follow! Off to the post office to mail back Frank's guaranteed shoes for a replacement pair!
Monday, September 17, 2012
September 17, 2012
I love Monday morning! Started as usual with the everyday blessings reading and found the chapter and verse in the Bible too. Read chapter 3 in Faith and Life, about God the creator. The poem All Things Bright and Beautiful is the main part of the chapter, so we read it and I quickly googled it. Sure enough, up pops a children's choir video of the song on YouTube! Then we went in to Elyse's room and read the same poem that is on her wall that Grandma Mary cross-stitched for Sylvia when she was a baby! Talk about lesson reinforcement! Reading, video on the internet and looking at the craft on her wall!! I LOVE this homeschool stuff just for that reason alone!!!
Song we watched
Math- worked on patterns, I just made up some and she finished them. This is easy for her, so I tried to make them difficult. We moved on to memorizing doubles, she still needs to memorize 6+6, 7+7, 8+8, 9+9. then we reviewed the easy math facts- (sums less than 10) using the triangle number family cards from Grandma. We did the test on page A1.2 and she got 16/25 correct. didnt get to finish 6 of them and missed 2. 8+8. Did worksheet 7A together and she will do the other side at rest time. Days of the week, ordinal numbers, writing one more, one less, digital time and some math facts.
Reading from Devotional Stories for Little Folks- Not "That" Sister. Learned that "love isn't how we feel, it is a way that we act."
A new spelling list! Some of these are harder so she is more excited about them. vowel e, blends of gl and cr. I gave her 3 minutes to do that 8 questions in the workbook to challenge it a bit more. mixed up her b and d in writing crib. immediately saw it and fixed it.
We had time for about 5 min of recorder, but will do more tomorrow.
Here is some artwork from preschool.
I think the ladybug in the grass is very clever!
Song we watched
Math- worked on patterns, I just made up some and she finished them. This is easy for her, so I tried to make them difficult. We moved on to memorizing doubles, she still needs to memorize 6+6, 7+7, 8+8, 9+9. then we reviewed the easy math facts- (sums less than 10) using the triangle number family cards from Grandma. We did the test on page A1.2 and she got 16/25 correct. didnt get to finish 6 of them and missed 2. 8+8. Did worksheet 7A together and she will do the other side at rest time. Days of the week, ordinal numbers, writing one more, one less, digital time and some math facts.
Reading from Devotional Stories for Little Folks- Not "That" Sister. Learned that "love isn't how we feel, it is a way that we act."
A new spelling list! Some of these are harder so she is more excited about them. vowel e, blends of gl and cr. I gave her 3 minutes to do that 8 questions in the workbook to challenge it a bit more. mixed up her b and d in writing crib. immediately saw it and fixed it.
We had time for about 5 min of recorder, but will do more tomorrow.
Here is some artwork from preschool.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Thursday, Sept. 13
Off to a good start today. I really do love mornings, it is my new favorite time of day! It is so peaceful and enjoyable to sit with a great cup of coffee and do school with Sylvie. I LOVE that we have faith studies everyday. We have 2 days of the faith and life workbook and 2 days of 1st communion preparation each week.
Today we started with the students prayer, read our Blessings everday book for Sept 13 and Sylvie looked up the chapter and verse from Romans. She is getting better at that. We read pages 22-33 in Little Acts of Grace. Next, Sylvie wrote on the back of the Guardian Angel picture for Ellie that we will mail today in hopes she will think of her as she goes to kindergarten. (I will let Sylvie pay for the postage with cash and count the change she gets as a real-world math lesson. Tomorrow at co-op, Sylvie has to give a presentation on the martyred saint that she chose for a tombstone for the church harvest festival. She chose St. Lucy who was a nun that died for Christ after being persecuted by a man that had wanted to marry her.
Literature- Devotional Stories for Little Folks- chapter 4, Child of the Promise- a nice story about the family adopting a 3yr old girl. Vocabulary words- covenant and adoption.
Break time- applesauce and jump rope and a hair do.
Math- Lesson 6- Got out the shape pattern blocks. talked about color, named the shapes and made a pattern. Did a timed test of doubles to 5. she got 20/20 correct out of 25 available questions in 1 minute. She stopped to erase 2 answers which slowed her down. Completed worksheet 6 together, she will do worksheet 6B at rest time independently. We still need to work on counting backwards a lot! Worked on the time flashcards- I added quarter past to the stack. Worked on looking at the clock- writingboth the digital time and then the words quarter past or half past.
Geography- North American animals. Cut out pics from the NatGeo kids and glued them on her map she made last week. Read about Taylor from NYC and Taryn from Illinios.
Today we started with the students prayer, read our Blessings everday book for Sept 13 and Sylvie looked up the chapter and verse from Romans. She is getting better at that. We read pages 22-33 in Little Acts of Grace. Next, Sylvie wrote on the back of the Guardian Angel picture for Ellie that we will mail today in hopes she will think of her as she goes to kindergarten. (I will let Sylvie pay for the postage with cash and count the change she gets as a real-world math lesson. Tomorrow at co-op, Sylvie has to give a presentation on the martyred saint that she chose for a tombstone for the church harvest festival. She chose St. Lucy who was a nun that died for Christ after being persecuted by a man that had wanted to marry her.
Literature- Devotional Stories for Little Folks- chapter 4, Child of the Promise- a nice story about the family adopting a 3yr old girl. Vocabulary words- covenant and adoption.
Break time- applesauce and jump rope and a hair do.
Math- Lesson 6- Got out the shape pattern blocks. talked about color, named the shapes and made a pattern. Did a timed test of doubles to 5. she got 20/20 correct out of 25 available questions in 1 minute. She stopped to erase 2 answers which slowed her down. Completed worksheet 6 together, she will do worksheet 6B at rest time independently. We still need to work on counting backwards a lot! Worked on the time flashcards- I added quarter past to the stack. Worked on looking at the clock- writingboth the digital time and then the words quarter past or half past.
Geography- North American animals. Cut out pics from the NatGeo kids and glued them on her map she made last week. Read about Taylor from NYC and Taryn from Illinios.
Sept 11 and 12
Tuesday, Luka and Elyse skipped pre-school and came with Sylvie and me to go up to the home where the Eisenmanns were staying while visiting here on vacation. Jessie homeschools Joseph and Caleb kindergarten materials, so Luka joined them and Sylvie and I did her usual work. We did math, reading, spelling, grammar and handwriting. It was good to see the younger curriculum for Luka for whenever I bring him home. I wont get the letter book, it is way to easy. The math is perfect for what he will need.
Wednesday we only had about an hour of work time since we had milk pickup. (Every other Weds we will have an hour, but still do reading, math facts etc in the car.) In our hour at home, we did a spelling pre-test, worked on grammar by writing dictated sentences with the proper nouns. We did the science worksheet on levers and the kids also watched the Disney Imagineering video on levers and pulleys while I made lunch.
In the car on the way to get our milk and groceries-we picked up some math facts to music at the library, and counted backward from one hundred. Sylvie gave the farmer the money for the milk and helped me find what we needed at the store.
Wednesday we only had about an hour of work time since we had milk pickup. (Every other Weds we will have an hour, but still do reading, math facts etc in the car.) In our hour at home, we did a spelling pre-test, worked on grammar by writing dictated sentences with the proper nouns. We did the science worksheet on levers and the kids also watched the Disney Imagineering video on levers and pulleys while I made lunch.
In the car on the way to get our milk and groceries-we picked up some math facts to music at the library, and counted backward from one hundred. Sylvie gave the farmer the money for the milk and helped me find what we needed at the store.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Monday September 10th
Started at 9am with the student prayer/devotionals as usual. Looked up Acts 24:6 in the real bible. talked about the footnotes and how to find ch and verse in the bible, looked at the table to contents and how to find the chapters by page number quickly. I will add this to our daily routine because it is good to know.
Faith and Life- reviewed Ch 1 and did pop quiz: Who made you? Who is God? Where is God? Does God know everything? I gave her a 95% which she was not happy with but I said we don't have to be perfect! Read chapter 2 in Faith and Life about the trinity. Great chapter! Vocab- Trinity and Mystery.
Math- we did the actual lesson from Friday, so lesson 4. I learned you can't do a math lesson in the parked car very well and all we actually accomplished on Friday was the worksheet. So today we did the lesson. Adding doubles 1+1=2, 2+2+4 etc. Used tiles to see how the piles are equal and even. Also did LOTS of counting backwards and need to do more! Worked on above, below, right and left and diagonal of numbers on our big hundred chart. Used manipulative single cubes to hide numbers on the paper hundred chart to find what numbers I covered. We reviewed time; Half past, writing digital time, saying verbal time, and writing all the different ways.
10:30- some jump rope and veggies and hummus!
Sylvie chose to do Science next: Read about inclined planes and levers. Read the page on the tools from Explore and learn book. We hammered a nail into a board and pulled it out, then moved the fulcrum of the hammer closer to the nail and felt that it was easier to pull out. Also opened a can of peaches using the pull-top and talked about where was the fulcrum and lever was on the can lid. Dug in the garden with a trowel to see how that tool made it easier to dig. Finished at 11:15. This was GREAT!
Reading- read the poem Washing form the Book of Virtues on page 41. Sylvie will do more reading of Winnie the Pooh classic text for rest time. Chapters 8-10.
Spelling- super easy words for her again- up and in words. She did the worksheet and I offered her a choice to either write down all the rest of the words or a verbal quiz. she happily chose the verbal quiz and got them all right. Worked on handwriting a bit on the worksheet.
Grammar- More practice on titles of respect. Did the worksheet. Finished all work by 11:30
Recorder- After LOTS of struggling with the fingering last week, she somehow got it perfect right away today!! Go figure! Read page 8 and learned note B and can play both well! Way to go US!!
Pics to follow!
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| Reading about levers |
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| working on the can pop-top |
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| hammered in a nail and using the lever to pull it out. tried moving the fulcrum to see where it was easiest to pull it out. |
Sunday, September 9, 2012
First Field Trip! September 8, 2012
Roman Civilization Day at Roper Mountain Science Center!
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| Weapons demonstration |
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| glass plate making |
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| explaining Roman food |
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| Jesus' crown of thorns and crucifixion items |
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| waiting for the military drilling demonstration |
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| the Jersey cow that didn't want to be petted |
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| grinding corn to feed the chickens |
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| the blacksmiths making weapons (too hot out for the highschoolers to wear the costumes I guess!) |
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| girl making an oar by shaving |
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| Luka and his buddy Jacob whittling the dirt with their tools =) |
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| Elyse and her buddy Noah playing in the dirt |
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