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!!!








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.
 


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!




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.


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! =)

Monday, October 1, 2012

Sc Farm Day

She liked the chicken until it started to squak!



The puppy was the hilight! Poor puppy!

What fun we had today at the SC Farm Day! The kids got to hold/pet all kinds of animals, from the cows to chickens and even a bearded dragon!  Here are the best pics! 
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: 


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!