For science this week Elsie, Kimball, Anna, and Adam learned about the Pampas ecosystem in South America, mainly Argentina. They learned about the animals and plants that grow there. They also finished up the unit study of the Atacama desert and learned about volcanoes and how they work and the pH scale. They learned what an acid and a base was, and using pH strips, found the pH of various kitchen solutions.
For music Elsie, Kimball, and Anna went to their piano lessons and Bows and Bridges music school. They practiced their songs on their piano and string instruments. For piano they decided on a Christmas song they wanted to play. They also had a recital where they performed at a retirement home their Suzuki piano pieces they had worked so hard a polishing.
For Math Kimball took 4 tests to catch up on tests he had fallen behind on because he had lost his test booklet. Adam worked on learning the addition facts 4+4 and 5+5. He reviewed adding 1, counting and writing to 20 and building and saying 3 digit numbers. Anna finished the chapter where she was learning to subtract by 2. She reviewed her addition facts and solving for the unknown, and she did some story problems. Elsie did chapter 12 in her MUS book. she learned about using the greatest common factor to reduce a fraction. She also reviewed long multiplication, multiplying 4 and 3 digit numbers, and did lots of story problems.
For language arts, I read some more of The Four Story Mistake to the children. I also read a story called Chucaro from the Junior Classics series about a boy who lived on out on the pampas. We learned lots about the lifestyle of the famous gaucho. Elsie wrote an article about our family trip to the West Heritage Center for our family newsletter. She also wrote her weekend story. She read the book Inside Out and Back Again, which she got from Literati. Kimball read 50 pages of Harry Potter. He also wrote an article about an event we did the previous week, and had 2 journal entries. He did a little copy work for 2 days as well. Anna learned writing is getting easier for her, and she wrote several long sentences from the books we were reading for copy work. She also started on her new Hooked on Phonics level for 1st grade. She learned about the ch, sh, and th blends and read a short story and a recipe she is really excited to try out. Adam worked really hard at writing his name over and over, trying to keep the "d" going the right direction. He also played lots of games trying to help him remember the letters and the sounds of the letters. We played BINGO, musical letters, and we read an ABC book.
For Tech Elsie and Kimball printed out patterns to build Minecraft guys. They cut them out and put them together. As a family, we also had a lot of fun at the Family Search building by the temple in St. George! We learned how to find out who our ancestors were, how we were related to famous people, what percentage we were of various nationalities, and all sorts of fun information. We spent over an hour exploring our personal history!
For PE, Adam, as well as the rest of the family had a lovely time climbing on Dixie Rock: exploring slots, catching lizards, and climbing the highest peaks. We also had a fun time at a pumpkin patch, going through another corn maze (this time Adam was the leader), and playing on the activities: slides, zip lines, trampolines, and other fun! Everyone played hard!
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Learning Log 10
For music this week Kimball, Elsie, and Anna all practiced and went to their piano lessons and to Bows and Bridges music school. Elsie finished her 100s chart. They are working on their piano and violin/cello pieces dutifully. On Sunday they picked a song and shared them with a sweet lady in our neighborhood who has been bed-bound for over a decade. It was fun to share with her! Elsie also finished her 100s chart for her Eccosaise song, and received her prize as well.
For science we learned about the Atacama Desert on the west side of South America. We learned what living things grow their and the harsh environment it is. We also learned it is a great place to star gaze and that NASA has practiced driving rovers on it because of its similar terrain to Mars. After studying what rovers do and the past couple they have built, the kids also designed one on paper, and then went to an outlet store and created our own models of our own rovers out of candy they bought. They had a budget, just as NASA does, and they each built very different models. We all studied the phases of the moon and were able to build a small model using our globe, a styrofoam ball, and a flashlight. Then they made a chart using oreos as well as wrote out a chart of the phases of the moon into their journals.
For Math Kimball did chapter 15, where he practiced reading and writing out in expanded and standard notation numbers in the billions. He reviewed mental multiplication, long addition and subtraction, and did lots of story problems. Anna started chapter 20, where she learned subtracting by 2s. She also did some story problems. Elsie did chapter 11 in her Epsilon book. She is learning how to find the greatest common factor from 2 different numbers. She also did some review on multiplying and dividing fractions. Adam did chapter 15 in his MUS primer book. He learned how to add 1 to numbers under 10 and 2+2 and 3+3. He did this using math blocks and building numbers. He also reviewed counting to 20.
For Language Arts I read some Latin American based stories to the kids from the Junior Classics series. One was Tomas Is Lost and another was Rosa-Too-Little. I also read to them from The Four Story Mistake, and from a book about writing. We learned that it is important to be concise when we write. Elsie, Kimball, and Anna practiced writing advertisements for their rovers. Adam learned to write his name, inspired by the Rosa story I read. He practiced and practiced. Adam also practiced reviewing his letters through games. We played lots of BINGO with letters. We played games with chalk outside, we built letters out of blocks, and played other games. Kimball read about 30 pages from The Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter Illustrated version), and three days of copy work, a couple journal entries, and his weekend story. Elsie read the the third book of Harry Potter, The Prisoner of Azkaban. She had the idea of starting a family newspaper and wrote an article for it. She also wrote her first chapter about dragons, once she got all her notes down that she had previously taken.
Anna read from her Hooked on Phonics books. She learned the blends eg, ell, and ck. She also learned how to read compound words. She read 3 short stories and 2 books: Pig's Backpack and Big Bad Ben by Rosemary Wells. She finished Level 2 of the Kindergarten level.
For tech, Elsie and Kimball learned how to take pictures of their characters on Minecraft and add it to their portfolio. They also learned how to turn in their assignment. Anna learned how to use the drop down menu from word to print off a picture. She learned how to select the printer to print off (black and white or colored) and how many copies to print off.
For Adam's PE, we got a family pass to the West Heritage Center and we did the corn maze. Adam walked a long way, and then played outside playing games and climbing on things.
For science we learned about the Atacama Desert on the west side of South America. We learned what living things grow their and the harsh environment it is. We also learned it is a great place to star gaze and that NASA has practiced driving rovers on it because of its similar terrain to Mars. After studying what rovers do and the past couple they have built, the kids also designed one on paper, and then went to an outlet store and created our own models of our own rovers out of candy they bought. They had a budget, just as NASA does, and they each built very different models. We all studied the phases of the moon and were able to build a small model using our globe, a styrofoam ball, and a flashlight. Then they made a chart using oreos as well as wrote out a chart of the phases of the moon into their journals.
For Math Kimball did chapter 15, where he practiced reading and writing out in expanded and standard notation numbers in the billions. He reviewed mental multiplication, long addition and subtraction, and did lots of story problems. Anna started chapter 20, where she learned subtracting by 2s. She also did some story problems. Elsie did chapter 11 in her Epsilon book. She is learning how to find the greatest common factor from 2 different numbers. She also did some review on multiplying and dividing fractions. Adam did chapter 15 in his MUS primer book. He learned how to add 1 to numbers under 10 and 2+2 and 3+3. He did this using math blocks and building numbers. He also reviewed counting to 20.
For Language Arts I read some Latin American based stories to the kids from the Junior Classics series. One was Tomas Is Lost and another was Rosa-Too-Little. I also read to them from The Four Story Mistake, and from a book about writing. We learned that it is important to be concise when we write. Elsie, Kimball, and Anna practiced writing advertisements for their rovers. Adam learned to write his name, inspired by the Rosa story I read. He practiced and practiced. Adam also practiced reviewing his letters through games. We played lots of BINGO with letters. We played games with chalk outside, we built letters out of blocks, and played other games. Kimball read about 30 pages from The Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter Illustrated version), and three days of copy work, a couple journal entries, and his weekend story. Elsie read the the third book of Harry Potter, The Prisoner of Azkaban. She had the idea of starting a family newspaper and wrote an article for it. She also wrote her first chapter about dragons, once she got all her notes down that she had previously taken.
Anna read from her Hooked on Phonics books. She learned the blends eg, ell, and ck. She also learned how to read compound words. She read 3 short stories and 2 books: Pig's Backpack and Big Bad Ben by Rosemary Wells. She finished Level 2 of the Kindergarten level.
For tech, Elsie and Kimball learned how to take pictures of their characters on Minecraft and add it to their portfolio. They also learned how to turn in their assignment. Anna learned how to use the drop down menu from word to print off a picture. She learned how to select the printer to print off (black and white or colored) and how many copies to print off.
For Adam's PE, we got a family pass to the West Heritage Center and we did the corn maze. Adam walked a long way, and then played outside playing games and climbing on things.
Learning Log #9
For music this week Elsie, Kimball, and Anna practiced their instruments and went to their lessons. Anna is polishing up her Honeybee song on the piano. Elsie is polishing up her Eccosaise on the piano and Gavotte on the violin (the last song in the book 1). Kimball is polishing French Children's Song on the piano and Perpetual Motion on the cello. He finished his practice 100xs chart for French Children's Song and got his prize!
For math Adam started on chapter 14 where he is learning to count and write to 20. He also reviewed simple addition problems using the math blocks and building and saying 3 digit numbers. Anna finished chapter 19 where she started learning about subtraction and subtracting by 2s. She also revewed solving for the unknown and spelling out and reading numbers. Kimball worked on chapter 14. He is writing numbers in place-value notation up to the millions, and learning how to say them outloud. He also reviewed his division facts. Elsie finished chapter 10 where she is learning to divide by fractions using the rule of 4s. She also reviewed long division and did multiple story problems.
For Language Arts I read to all the children stories from My Book House some fables from Latin America. I also read to them from The Four Story Mistake, and they are enjoying that as well. We learned from a book how to find the right words when we are writing to create the perfect imagery and preciseness. Anna fred from Hooked on Phonics Kindergarden Level 1 a book called Dog Bug and another one called Ted. She learned some blends like ed, en, and et, and read a couple other short stories as well. She copied a couple sentences about the Amazon Rainforest and did a little free writing. Adam finished his Hooked on Phonics Preschool books, where he learned all the letters. He started on the next set of books for kindergarten, but was having a hard time blending the letters. We played some games to help him review the letters. Kimball finished the book Cody and the Fountain of Happiness. He also wrote his weekend story, did 3 journal entries, and copied 5 sentences from different stories.
For science we learned about the Amazon Rainforest, and Elsie, Kimball and Anna drew pictures of the various animals that live in the Amazon at different tree levels. We compared and contrasted the Congo and Amazon rainforests as well. We also went on a hike for Explorer's club and found some really amazing beaver lodges and lots of beaver dams! One of the lodges we could walk right up to. It was very beautiful.
For Adam's PE, he went to his last week of gymnastics. He was so obedient and such a fast learner, he graduated quick from his gymnastics class. He went on the hike with us for Explorer's club as well.
For Tech, Elsie and Kimball built their signs on a roof in Minecraft. Elsie built a help sign out of glowing rocks and a beacon. Kimball also built a beacon and built his sign using diamonds. Anna learned how to find a drop down menu to cut art from pintrest boards from welleducatedheart.com and paste them into word.
For math Adam started on chapter 14 where he is learning to count and write to 20. He also reviewed simple addition problems using the math blocks and building and saying 3 digit numbers. Anna finished chapter 19 where she started learning about subtraction and subtracting by 2s. She also revewed solving for the unknown and spelling out and reading numbers. Kimball worked on chapter 14. He is writing numbers in place-value notation up to the millions, and learning how to say them outloud. He also reviewed his division facts. Elsie finished chapter 10 where she is learning to divide by fractions using the rule of 4s. She also reviewed long division and did multiple story problems.
For Language Arts I read to all the children stories from My Book House some fables from Latin America. I also read to them from The Four Story Mistake, and they are enjoying that as well. We learned from a book how to find the right words when we are writing to create the perfect imagery and preciseness. Anna fred from Hooked on Phonics Kindergarden Level 1 a book called Dog Bug and another one called Ted. She learned some blends like ed, en, and et, and read a couple other short stories as well. She copied a couple sentences about the Amazon Rainforest and did a little free writing. Adam finished his Hooked on Phonics Preschool books, where he learned all the letters. He started on the next set of books for kindergarten, but was having a hard time blending the letters. We played some games to help him review the letters. Kimball finished the book Cody and the Fountain of Happiness. He also wrote his weekend story, did 3 journal entries, and copied 5 sentences from different stories.
For science we learned about the Amazon Rainforest, and Elsie, Kimball and Anna drew pictures of the various animals that live in the Amazon at different tree levels. We compared and contrasted the Congo and Amazon rainforests as well. We also went on a hike for Explorer's club and found some really amazing beaver lodges and lots of beaver dams! One of the lodges we could walk right up to. It was very beautiful.
For Adam's PE, he went to his last week of gymnastics. He was so obedient and such a fast learner, he graduated quick from his gymnastics class. He went on the hike with us for Explorer's club as well.
For Tech, Elsie and Kimball built their signs on a roof in Minecraft. Elsie built a help sign out of glowing rocks and a beacon. Kimball also built a beacon and built his sign using diamonds. Anna learned how to find a drop down menu to cut art from pintrest boards from welleducatedheart.com and paste them into word.
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