Learning Log 32

For science this week we learned about electromagnetic waves and the things that encompasses.  We watched a YouTube video about wireless radiation, and we also watched a YouTube video put on by Mark Rober discussing why the sky is blue.  We learned a lot about solar wave lengths from him.  We also started a new unit study that incorporates solar radiation as well and we learned that molecules move faster the warmer they are.  We did an experiment and we learned about equilibrium as well.
Elsie, Kimball and Anna all practiced their musical instruments (both piano and their string instrument) every week day.  They are all polishing off songs and starting on new ones.  We are working on getting lessons going via online.
Adam, along with other family members, went on about a 3 mile hike along the mountains.  We also got his bike tuned and he rode his bike a lot outside as well.
Elsie learned on Zoom how to change the background and how to show people in the meeting pictures and videos by sharing her screen.  She also played on regular Minecraft and found a shipwreck and she is working on defending her house.  Kimball learned how to share a screen on zoom.  He learned how to convert a phone picture into a file on the computer.  Anna played some games on the computer, which helped her mouse skills.  She also learned about zoom by watching her siblings.
For math Elsie redid chapter 25 where she practiced changing mixed numbers into improper fractions and then multiplying, dividing, adding, and subtracting.  She also looked over her story problems.  Kimball did chapter 30 of his math book, Delta.  He learned more about roman numerals and took the test.  He did lots of story problems and review such as long division, conversion problems, , finding the average, finding the area, and creating fractions.  Anna practiced reviewing her addition and subtraction facts and telling time.  She also practiced counting by 3s.  She learned what a parallelogram was, practiced subracting 2 from numbers, practiced subtracting from 11 and 12, and reviewed fact families, counting strategies, and how to tell apart coins.  Adam learned about the shape octagon.  He practiced adding and subtracting by 2s.  He worked really hard at filling out a calendar he has with all of the months.  He counted and wrote from 1 to 30 or 31 over several times.  He is getting good at learning how many days each month has. 
For language arts Elsie practiced spelling words that followed the open syllable vowel sound.  She also read several poems and then wrote her own about nature.  She corrected it and typed it up.  She went over what an idiom is and other spelling rules.  She read 2 chapters of The Little Princess and she added three more chapters to her dragon story.  Kimball read a short story about George Washington (about 32 pages).  He also read some from his reader  (16 pages) and answered questions from it.  He practiced spelling words, finished memorizing a poem, and went over spelling rules.  He practiced writing about himself using transitional words and did some phonogram review.  He had a fun time sharing his poem for "Poetry and a Picnic".  Anna learned about the "or" and "oo" blend and practiced reading and writing them.  She practiced memorizing a poem called "Singing-Time" and shared it in our "Poetry and a Picnic".  She learned about the soft c and g sounds and practiced reading words with them.  She also worked on spelling out some of her spelling words.  She read a couple stories from her reader.  One was about cleaning.  She also read started reading a graphic novel called The City of Ember. Adam reread the mini book Mom and Dad.  He reviewed the vowels and learned more about the alphabet.  He practiced reading 3 letter words and learned about the "ck" blend.  He also practiced sounding out words to spell them and practiced spelling some words.