This week was full of more sickness and surprises. Peter developed a really nasty cough, and by the end of the week was sick and stuck in bed. Elsie decided to cut her hand with a paring knife and take a trip to the Instacare to get some stitches. She stayed on Tylenol for several days. Kimball found out he had a really bad cavity at the dentist that was creating a nasty infection in his gums. We got him on some antibiotics right away. It was an eventful week, and kept me on my toes. However, we learned all we could in the time we were given.
All the kids did some reading this week. Even Elsie, who complained about how hard it was to hold a book with her cut hand. Kimball read a bunch of How Science Works, and purused through about 50 pages. He said he learned about molecules, energy, and forces. He also read outloud to me from Dinotopia several times. He studied his spelling words and did 4 pages from his handwriting. Anna read to me another chapter from her First Steps book, called To the Store. She also read a Pinkalicious story to me. She did several pages of her handwriting worksheets and wrote sweet notes to people in the family in her special phonetic way. Elsie read about 40 pages from Little Britches. She also read from a set of books about the Westward Expansion titled "Loggers. She learned the different ways the loggers would move the logs. Sometimes they built canals and used existing rivers to send them down, they loaded them onto trains, or they rolled them downhill or on top of other logs. She also wrote several books for her Calico Critters. One was about a lonely dog that found a home with some wolves. After listening to me read outloud some from Marco Polo's book, we decided to watch Aladdin. Elsie wrote down predictions of what she versus her brother thought Aladdin would use his wishes on. Peter read about 100 pages of Phantom Tollbooth. He also wrote in his journal several times and worked on writing a couple different stories. One was a continuation of a story about a wolf, and then he started a new sci-fi story. He wrote about 100 words in each.
Peter learned a lot about numbers in his Pyramid Project class. He learned about the significance of 1., and that it is a magical proportion, foundall through creation, like human faces and bodies and the Fibonacci spiral. He said arcitects use the 1.6 proportion sometimes as well. He learned about the numbers 5,6,7, and 8 from a lecture about The Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe. He worked on his math and finished chapter 27 and took the test. He started on 28, learning to convert military time to standard time. He also reviewed finding the cubic area of cylinders, cones, and pyramids. Kimball worked on chapter 24 of his math, multiplying 2 digit numbers with regrouping. He also did some story problems and reviewed some conversion facts. He worked on his math facts by playing Timez Attack. Anna learned to add by 2s. She did several pages and reviewed adding 1s and did some story problems. She also worked on her new math facts by playing Timez Attack. Elsie finished her math chapter and took a test. She learned to find the cubic feet of cubes. She also reviewed long division and conversion facts.
We had a fun time acting out the rotation and revolution of the earth around the sun. We learned what makes a day and a year. We also learned a couple more constellations to add to our star book. Kimball told me all about what he learned in his Science book. He said that molecules get farther and farther apart when you go from a solid to a liquid and then to a gas. He also learned about Newton's cradle, and that for every action there is an opposite but equal reaction. However Newton's cradle doesn't last forever because each ball takes some of the momentum, and energy is lost through the friction. Kimball also told me he thought gravity took a little bit of energy from the momentum as well. Anna said she learned a lot going to the dentist, like how important it is to brush and floss to keep plaque and cavities away. She also learned about fluoride and how it makes teeth strong. She learned that X-rays take pictures of teeth to help the dentist. Peter went to his forensic science class and they worked some more on taking fingerprints.
As I mentioned before, I read a little bit out of Marco Polo to the children and they had a great time learning the geography and cultures of the different places he had been. Peter also watched CNN 10 every evening and learned about the current events. At his classes at the library, he participated in a cahoot about current events, and his timeline class.
The kids participated in music as much as they were able. Elsie went to her piano lessons, but between piano and violin lessons was when she decided to cut her hand. She was unable to practice the violin for the rest of the week, and practiced the piano with her right hand. She did go to choir on Friday though with Kimball and sang through all 7 songs they are learning. Because of Peter's cough, he was unable to go to choir, but still went to his piano and viola lessons and practiced the first several days. Kimball and Anna also went to their lessons and practiced as well. Anna is ready to move on from the twinkle songs in violin!
We also worked on our business class. Peter joined in with us. We learned about the importance of budgeting for a business. We learned it was important to start being responsible with our personal expenditures, and we watched a couple videos as well. We made a commitment to track our own income and expenses for the following week.
Monday, January 28, 2019
Monday, January 21, 2019
Learning Log 22 - So Sick!
This week we have been so sick....with everything! We have had head colds, fevers, pink eye, an ear infection, a sinus infection, the pukes, and other unmentionables. I can't think of a time in our entire family life where we have had such a plethora of diseases floating around our home. We're creating our own cesspit. How is that for science? Hahahaha. Really, though, the science we got this week consisted of Nature videos we watched during our runs to the bathroom (pun intended). The kids learned about kangaroo rats and the history, habitat, and character of horses. Peter was feeling good and went to his Thursday classes. For his forensic class he learned about the DNA part of forensics and how it is involved with solving mysteries.
Peter worked on chapter 27 in his Math U See. He is almost done with it, where he is learning to find the volume of cones and pyramids. He did many story problems too. Kimball started a new chapter where he is multiplying two digit numbers with regrouping. It has been challenging, but he is getting it. He also did some story problems. Anna finished her chapter where she counted and wrote to 100. She worked hard and finished it. She also reviewed counting by tens and worked on her addition facts on Timez Attack. Elsie was sick all week, and wasn't able to get to her math.
Elsie did read a little from Little Britches, about 50 pages. She also started writing a story, a couple pages worth. Peter wrote a little bit from a story he had written an outline for. He also wrote in his journal several times during the week. Kimball read from a book called How Science Works. He said he read about 10 pages, and he also did about 4 pages of his handwriting worksheets. Anna finished her chapter from her reading primer and did a couple handwriting worksheets as well. We also listened to and finished the 3rd book of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, The Unexpected Guests, and started on the 4th book.
They all practiced their instruments a little and Peter, Elsie, and Kimball were able to make it to their respective piano, and cello, viola or violin lessons. Anna made it to her violin lessons.
Peter also did some history, where he went to a Timeline class where they went over 700 and 800 AD. He learned that the Huns invaded the Turks in Northern India. He also watched CNN 10 every day and learned about national and international current events and discussed them in a group. In his Geography class he learned about longitude and latitude.
We were unable to get to our tech courses this week. We do them on Friday, and by Friday, everyone had contracted something or another and wasn't feeling well. We rested all through the weekend, and although some of us are feeling under the weather beginning this week, hopefully we can end this coming week on a strong note!
Peter worked on chapter 27 in his Math U See. He is almost done with it, where he is learning to find the volume of cones and pyramids. He did many story problems too. Kimball started a new chapter where he is multiplying two digit numbers with regrouping. It has been challenging, but he is getting it. He also did some story problems. Anna finished her chapter where she counted and wrote to 100. She worked hard and finished it. She also reviewed counting by tens and worked on her addition facts on Timez Attack. Elsie was sick all week, and wasn't able to get to her math.
Elsie did read a little from Little Britches, about 50 pages. She also started writing a story, a couple pages worth. Peter wrote a little bit from a story he had written an outline for. He also wrote in his journal several times during the week. Kimball read from a book called How Science Works. He said he read about 10 pages, and he also did about 4 pages of his handwriting worksheets. Anna finished her chapter from her reading primer and did a couple handwriting worksheets as well. We also listened to and finished the 3rd book of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, The Unexpected Guests, and started on the 4th book.
They all practiced their instruments a little and Peter, Elsie, and Kimball were able to make it to their respective piano, and cello, viola or violin lessons. Anna made it to her violin lessons.
Peter also did some history, where he went to a Timeline class where they went over 700 and 800 AD. He learned that the Huns invaded the Turks in Northern India. He also watched CNN 10 every day and learned about national and international current events and discussed them in a group. In his Geography class he learned about longitude and latitude.
We were unable to get to our tech courses this week. We do them on Friday, and by Friday, everyone had contracted something or another and wasn't feeling well. We rested all through the weekend, and although some of us are feeling under the weather beginning this week, hopefully we can end this coming week on a strong note!
Monday, January 14, 2019
Post 21
Ahh, another week down. These winter months get so sluggish. Yuck. All of us are dreaming of warmer weather and a trip down to St. George! In the meantime, when the air isn't too yucky, the kids love to go over to our neighbor's homemade hockey rink and play. Thank goodness for their generosity to share! It has been getting much needed wiggles out!
For out tech courses this week, Elsie, Kimball, Anna, and I (Peter listened in some) finished chapter 2 of Starting and Growing my Business. We watched a couple videos and learned about finding unmet customer needs and competitive advantages. We thought about our business ideas and asked ourselves if they met customer needs. We thought about our passions and talents and thought of how we could use them as a competitive advantage. Peter started on his assignment in mindcraft he designed his own skin and built it in paper. He uploaded it to mindcraft. The software that he was supposed to use didn't work, so he had to find a different website.
For science we learned more constellations: orion, taurus, pleiades, and gemini. We made a page for each constellation in our star books we are putting together. We also found several of the constellations outside at night. Peter went to his forensic class as well and learned about good places to look that criminals will hide evidence. Some examples he told me were in a fence post or under chicken crap.
For math Anna worked some more on counting and writing to 100. She was armed with knowing the patterns for writing it out, and was able to do it all on her own. She also reviewed counting by 10s. Elsie learned how to find the volume of cubes this week, which was chapter 26 of her math book. She also reviewed division, and conversions (such as miles into feet and quarts into pints), and did several story problems. Peter did chapter 26 as well in his math book, where he learned how to add and subtract time, which has a base of 60. He reviewed geometric angles finding the surface area of various geometric shapes. Peter also went ot his Pyramid project class and worked out a coded message to figure out how to make cookies. Kimball took a big step in math this week as he started multiplying 2 digit numbers together. He is learning the importance of place value and precision. He also reviewed addition and subtraction with regrouping and conversion problems. The kids have had a fun time figuring out some puzzles the "school fairy" brought them. They are from a Great Minds series, and are puzzles named after great astronomers: Hubble, Kepler, Galileo, and Halley.
Peter was busy with a challenge this week to write in his journal every day for his Pyramid project. He is trying to think and act more like a scientist. He also wrote a poem. He finished reading The Magician's Nephew as well. Elsie read about 30 pages of Little Britches and several short excerpts about various world explorers such as Vasco de Gama, De Soto, and Amerigo Vespucci. She worked on her cursive and did several worksheets and started writing a story for her sister. Kimball read outloud to me from Dinotopia some more. He reads about 1 to 3 pages a day, about 4 to 5 times out of the week. He also passed off another spelling test, and started on another expert to study and spell out correctly. Anna read another chapter, The Colt, and started another called What Can I Do? out of her First Steps primer. She learned the "ay", "able", "ate", and "ope" blends. She also did some copy work to practice her handwriting, as she tried to copy some of her sister's stories.
The kids went to their string and piano lessons again this week at Bows and Bridges. Peter finished book 1 in the viola Suzuki series and started on book 2! He is learning to play Maccabees. Peter, Elsie, Kimball, and Anna all worked on practicing the challenges they were given for the week.
We also had a fun time learning a little about the state of the world when Marco Polo was making his voyage. We learned that the Vatican moved from Italy to France for about 70 years. We also learned how Spain was taken over by the Saracens, or Arabs, and then invaded by the Moors as well. We learned that Italy was a very popular place for commerce (a new word for us), but was not united at all. In fact, the major cities were often warring with each other.
For out tech courses this week, Elsie, Kimball, Anna, and I (Peter listened in some) finished chapter 2 of Starting and Growing my Business. We watched a couple videos and learned about finding unmet customer needs and competitive advantages. We thought about our business ideas and asked ourselves if they met customer needs. We thought about our passions and talents and thought of how we could use them as a competitive advantage. Peter started on his assignment in mindcraft he designed his own skin and built it in paper. He uploaded it to mindcraft. The software that he was supposed to use didn't work, so he had to find a different website.
For science we learned more constellations: orion, taurus, pleiades, and gemini. We made a page for each constellation in our star books we are putting together. We also found several of the constellations outside at night. Peter went to his forensic class as well and learned about good places to look that criminals will hide evidence. Some examples he told me were in a fence post or under chicken crap.
For math Anna worked some more on counting and writing to 100. She was armed with knowing the patterns for writing it out, and was able to do it all on her own. She also reviewed counting by 10s. Elsie learned how to find the volume of cubes this week, which was chapter 26 of her math book. She also reviewed division, and conversions (such as miles into feet and quarts into pints), and did several story problems. Peter did chapter 26 as well in his math book, where he learned how to add and subtract time, which has a base of 60. He reviewed geometric angles finding the surface area of various geometric shapes. Peter also went ot his Pyramid project class and worked out a coded message to figure out how to make cookies. Kimball took a big step in math this week as he started multiplying 2 digit numbers together. He is learning the importance of place value and precision. He also reviewed addition and subtraction with regrouping and conversion problems. The kids have had a fun time figuring out some puzzles the "school fairy" brought them. They are from a Great Minds series, and are puzzles named after great astronomers: Hubble, Kepler, Galileo, and Halley.
Peter was busy with a challenge this week to write in his journal every day for his Pyramid project. He is trying to think and act more like a scientist. He also wrote a poem. He finished reading The Magician's Nephew as well. Elsie read about 30 pages of Little Britches and several short excerpts about various world explorers such as Vasco de Gama, De Soto, and Amerigo Vespucci. She worked on her cursive and did several worksheets and started writing a story for her sister. Kimball read outloud to me from Dinotopia some more. He reads about 1 to 3 pages a day, about 4 to 5 times out of the week. He also passed off another spelling test, and started on another expert to study and spell out correctly. Anna read another chapter, The Colt, and started another called What Can I Do? out of her First Steps primer. She learned the "ay", "able", "ate", and "ope" blends. She also did some copy work to practice her handwriting, as she tried to copy some of her sister's stories.
The kids went to their string and piano lessons again this week at Bows and Bridges. Peter finished book 1 in the viola Suzuki series and started on book 2! He is learning to play Maccabees. Peter, Elsie, Kimball, and Anna all worked on practicing the challenges they were given for the week.
We also had a fun time learning a little about the state of the world when Marco Polo was making his voyage. We learned that the Vatican moved from Italy to France for about 70 years. We also learned how Spain was taken over by the Saracens, or Arabs, and then invaded by the Moors as well. We learned that Italy was a very popular place for commerce (a new word for us), but was not united at all. In fact, the major cities were often warring with each other.
Learning Log 18-20
Our first week back into school went well except that I forgot all about being accountable and turning in learning logs! Well, that's okay, we love looking back two weeks ago and figuring out what we did!? Alright, the kids have all been working really hard on their math. Anna hit a challenging chapter in her math, where she is learning to write to 100. At first she was completely overwhelmed. We spent the week taking it in chunks and looking for patterns to help her. Elsie worked on chapter 25, she is working on dividing 2 digit numbers into 5 digit numbers. She took the test as well. She did story problems and reviewed finding the area in parallelograms. She also reviewed symmetry, and finding examples. Kimball worked on chapter 21, where he learned about rounding to 10s, 100s, and 1000s, and how to estimate multiplication problems. He also reviewed his multiplication facts and addition and subtraction with regrouping. Peter finished chapter 25 and took the test, learning how to multiply "x" equations. He also reviewed some multiplication and geometry terms. He got a "Mary Poppins" on the test (practically perfect, just missing one)
For Language Arts Peter read about 100 pages in Magician's Nephew for his Pyramid Project class. He also wrote an outline for a story he plans to write. Kimball read outloud to me several times from Dinotopia, by Gurney. He reads about 15 minutes every day. He also read How Science Works to himself, about 5 pages. He also worked on studying his spelling words, and did a couple pages handwriting from his Jenny Phillips curriculum. Anna worked hard at getting back into her reading. She finished reading a chapter, The Big Wagon, out of her primer book, First Steps. We also started reviewing blends from her Delightful Reading curriculum, like the "ow", "ew", and "aw" sounds. She also was busy writing notes to her family. Elsie read Johnathan Livingston Seagull, and thought about how it applies to the characteristic, knowledge. She also worked on her cursive, and did 3 handwriting pages.
Our family started learning about constellations for science this week. We went over the big dipper and the little dipper and Auriga. We started our own little star constellation booklets on black paper. We draw the constellations with white pencils and then poke holes in the paper so we can see the constellations projected bigger. We also had a short star-gazing session and found the constellations in the sky.
For our tech courses, Peter scanned in and submitted all of his assignments he has done so far. He had to learn how to scan his drawings in, save, and upload them to canvas. The rest of us continued to work through the workbook, Starting and Growing my Business, and started chapter 2. We watched a video called "Why do People Buy?" and then talked about selling a product customers will want or need, and how to find that out. We were trying to think about customer needs.
For music, the kids started up on their music lessons at Bows and Bridges again. They had their violin, viola, or cello lesson and piano lesson also. They listened to their music and did their practicing in the prospective instruments. Peter started a new song in piano, The Happy Farmer, which he is excited about. Elsie finished book 1 in piano and started on Suzuki book 2, which she was happy about. they were all excited to be starting on new songs after their recital.
For Language Arts Peter read about 100 pages in Magician's Nephew for his Pyramid Project class. He also wrote an outline for a story he plans to write. Kimball read outloud to me several times from Dinotopia, by Gurney. He reads about 15 minutes every day. He also read How Science Works to himself, about 5 pages. He also worked on studying his spelling words, and did a couple pages handwriting from his Jenny Phillips curriculum. Anna worked hard at getting back into her reading. She finished reading a chapter, The Big Wagon, out of her primer book, First Steps. We also started reviewing blends from her Delightful Reading curriculum, like the "ow", "ew", and "aw" sounds. She also was busy writing notes to her family. Elsie read Johnathan Livingston Seagull, and thought about how it applies to the characteristic, knowledge. She also worked on her cursive, and did 3 handwriting pages.
Our family started learning about constellations for science this week. We went over the big dipper and the little dipper and Auriga. We started our own little star constellation booklets on black paper. We draw the constellations with white pencils and then poke holes in the paper so we can see the constellations projected bigger. We also had a short star-gazing session and found the constellations in the sky.
For our tech courses, Peter scanned in and submitted all of his assignments he has done so far. He had to learn how to scan his drawings in, save, and upload them to canvas. The rest of us continued to work through the workbook, Starting and Growing my Business, and started chapter 2. We watched a video called "Why do People Buy?" and then talked about selling a product customers will want or need, and how to find that out. We were trying to think about customer needs.
For music, the kids started up on their music lessons at Bows and Bridges again. They had their violin, viola, or cello lesson and piano lesson also. They listened to their music and did their practicing in the prospective instruments. Peter started a new song in piano, The Happy Farmer, which he is excited about. Elsie finished book 1 in piano and started on Suzuki book 2, which she was happy about. they were all excited to be starting on new songs after their recital.
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