Learning Log 39

Music
Peter, Elsie, Kimball, and Anna all went to their piano and string lessons at Bows and Bridges.  They also practiced their songs at home.  On Saturday they participated in a recital.  They performed duets they have been working on and played in quartets.  They all did a great job!


Language Arts
Peter read the 3rd book in Percy Jackson series. Peter entered a long journal entry catching up on all our adventures.
Elsie wrote 3 times in her journal about her experiences watching our chickens hatch.  She also did three pages of cursive handwriting.  She read the 4th & 5th (which is the last) book of Percy Jackson, started Kane Chronicles. 
Kimball read 30 pages out of How the Body Works.  He read and learned about the lungs and how they pump oxygen and also about other organs.  He memorized another stanza from Godfrey Gordon Gustof Gore, and copied another stanza of the poem into his notebook.  He also did some copywork from King Arthur and wrote a note to his friend and wrote a list of what he likes to do.
Anna read 1 1/2 chapters from Days Go By, about 7 pages.  She also did some copywork and wrote down a riddle and a scripture.  She also wrote a note to her grandpa and grandma.
We all had a fun time participating in Poetry and Tea.  Everyone shared a poem they liked and got a little money if it was memorized.  We had Hibiscus tea and ate chocolate chip cookies and worked on manners as well.

Math
Peter started chapter 9 and learned more about the Cartesian Coordinate system.  He studied slope intercept formulas and how to simplify the equations to find similar slopes.  He also plotted out right triangles and found parallel slopes.
Elsie started and finished chapter 6 and took the test.  She learned about the Rule of Four and how to apply it when adding fractions with different denominators.  She reviewed multiplying multiple digits.
Kimball finished chapter 6 and took the test, learning how to divide by 9s.  He reviewed subtraction with regrouping.
Anna finished chapter 14 and took the test, which she got 100% on.  She started on chapter 15, learning what numbers add to 10.  She reviewed other math facts she has learned as well.

Science
We all watched our eggs in the incubator hatch all week.  It was fascinating.  We learned abut pipping and how a chick absorbs the yolk after it has pipped in its egg and then hatches within 24 hours.  We saw them hatch and got to hold them a few hours later.  14 of the 23 eggs hatched.  We took the rest of the eggs and dissected them.  4 of the unhatched eggs didn't even look fertilized.  1 looked fertilized, but all we could see was a dot.  2 of the eggs died within the first few days, but we couldn't see any bird formation.  The last 2 died within hours from hatching.  The yolk was halfway or mostly absorbed.  That part was kind of sad.

Tech
Peter finished his Minecraft assignments and finished up the course.  He wrote a story about his adventures in Minecraft and took pictures in Minecraft to illustrate it.  The other kids watched him as he learned and did this.  Elsie built a rollercoaster in Minecraft. 

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Language Arts
Kimball finished the Just So Stories, so he read The Cat Who Walks by Himself, and finished how The Beginning of the Armadillos.  He copies 4 sentences from King Arthur and another stanza from Godfrey Gordon Gustof Gore. He also did "just fun" writing, and wrote some sentences. Peter read the 1st and 2nd books in the Percy Jackson series. He wrote a poem to me (his mom) for Mother's Day.  Elsie read the 2nd and 3rd books from the Percy Jackson Series.  Elsie wrote a note to her mom for Mother's Day.  She also did several pages of her cursive handwriting practice sheets.  Anna read 1 1/2 chapters from Days Go By.  She also copied a couple sentences from the magazine about bees we are going through. 

Math
Kimball finished chapter 5 and took the test, and started on chapter 6.  In chapter 5 he learned what parallel and perpendicular lines are.  In chapter 6 he learned how to divide by 9s.  He also reviewed subtraction with regrouping, and other division math facts he has learned so far. 
Peter finished chapter 8 for math, about the cartisian coordinate system, and finding the slope and intercept from an equation.  He reviewed solving for the unknown from equations.  He also took the test.  Elsie finished chapter 5 and took the test.  She also found her math test book, which had been lost, so she took several tests to catch up to where she was.  Anna worked on chapter 14 for math.  She reviewed previous math problems she had been working on, and worked on her addition facts that are 1 number away from doubles (7+8).  We also did some "bee" math together.  Anna learned how to draw a hexagon; Peter, Elsie, and Kimball learned how to find the area of a hexagon; and Peter did a large story problem and figured out how many and at what cost it would be to tile a certain area using hexagon tiles.  We learned new terms such as regular polygons and apothem.  Anna learned what a perimeter and area were.

Music
Kimball, Peter, Elsie, and Anna practiced their songs on the cello, viola, or violin, as well as the piano.  They also went to Bows and Bridges for their lessons.  They are working on songs for the recital in a couple weeks. 

Science
We went to the Rock and Gem show and signed up to be apart of our local Rock and Gem Club!  We had a great time looking at rocks, and the kids bought some quarts crystals which are in the shape of hexagons!  We learned what blue calcite is and watched how gems are shaped and manually formed.  Kimball bought a couple opals because they are his birthstone, and all the kids had fun collecting rocks from vendors who gave sweet donations.  It was a lot of fun!

History
We learned about some great men in Greek history.  We learned about the battle of Marathon and Pheidipedes' death, Pisistratus the Tyrant (and how he really wasn't much of a tyrant at all), and Lycurgus and Draco.  We also learned that Sir Edmund Hillary was a bee keeper, which is why he had the time to climb Mt Everest.  We learned about other famous people in history and how they contributed to "bee knowledge" or had bee hobbies,  such as Hippocrates, Thomas Jefferson, and Maria Von Trapp. 

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Kimball read two Just So Stories: How the Rhinocerous Got its Skin and How the Leopard Got its Spots.  He also copied sentences from King Arthur and a stanza from Godfrey Gordon Gustof Gore.  Elsie read the book Percy Jackson Lightening Thief (375 pages).  She wrote 
Anna read 2 chapters in her Days Go By book:  We Want a Dog and Just One Dog.  In the chapters, the 2 brothers learned how to compromise.  She wrote sweet letters to her parents and she wrote about how bees and wasps are different.  Peter typed up his science results, hyposthesis and conclusion for science.  He finished reading Treasure Island for his reading and read a couple Norse Myths. 
As a family, for math we learned how many bees it takes to make a 16 ounce jar of honey.  It takes 1,165.  It takes 1 bee to make 1/12 of a teaspoon.  For Math Kimball finished chapter 3, learning to divide by 10s, and finished chapter 4 as well, where he learned to divide by 9s.  He also started chapter 5 a little, where he is learning about parallel and perpendicular lines.  He also reviewed long addition and other division facts.  Elsie finished chapter 4 and did most of chapter 5.  She learned how to add fractions with different denominators by finding the common factor.  She also reviewed rounding and basic addition and subtraction with fractions.  Peter finished chapter 7 and started chapter 8 about slope intercept equations and graphing.  He reviewed solving for the unknown in some algebra equations. Anna finished a chapter in math, 13, and started on chapter 14. 
For music, all the kids went to their Bows and Bridges lessons for piano and their string instrument.   They also did their practicing every day.  Peter, Kimball, and Elsie had their quintet practice at our home and then had their final homeschool choir concert on Friday.  It was a great concert, and they all played their instruments well and sang beautifully!
For science, we learned more about bees, and we made our own beeswax chap-stick.  We filled out a ven diagram about bees and wasps.  We learned how countries have used bees in warfare and how they use beeswax today.  We also learned how to prune grapes and perennials and raspeberries, and how to thin peas as they worked at their grandma's garden. 
For Tech Peter did his next assignment in Minecraft where he had to get some ideas for a story.  He wrote about his main character and where his setting is going to be, as to what timeframe.  Elsie and Anna filled out most of the online work to sell there things at our local Gardener's Market.  They just need to finish some of their products so they can take a picture of them to sell.  Kimball realized that the Gardener's Market would not be a good place to sell his products he wants to sell.  We discussed that we need to sell to the correct market consumers are located.