The kids watched Mark Rober's science class online this week while he answered the question: What would happen if every single toilet flushed in the world at the same time? He learned that everything would back-flow, and the sewer water would come out of our sinks and toilets and other plumbing. This is because of the pressure that would build-up. We also planted our garden. The kids all picked a plot and picked their seeds and took responsibility. They learned about seed spacing and depth and good watering practices. Elsie and Anna chose to create flower gardens, mixed with some herbs. Elsie also planted strawberries. She learned about stolons - special stems that run horizontally and take root. Kimball and Adam picked watermelon (they decided to plant red and yellow types), zucchini (because of the yummy desserts of course!) and sugar pie pumpkins. They learned about different pumpkin varieties, and decided that instead of growing a giant pumpkin, they would rather have pumpkins for pumpkin pie.
Elsie finished the book A Little Princess. She went over some spelling rules and practiced her spelling, and she learned what qualities make a good book to empower her to judge for herself. She also worked more on her stories. She is excited to share when she is done. Kimball read a book called The Astronaut Handbook. He learned about space and what it takes to prepare to go into space. Kimball learned about a new spelling rule of when to use c, k or ck at the end of a word. He studied different homophones: sea and see, and knew and new. He read about 10 pages from his reader, he wrote four sentences about a couple fine art picture we studied together, answered questions after reading a nonfiction excerpt, studied the "ear" and "alk" blends, and studied past present, and future tenses. He also studied his new spelling list of words. Anna spent the week reviewing what she has learned so far in language arts. We worked on letter blends, the soft c and g, and the silent e. She also had an assessment at the end of the week. She read board books to her youngest brother, and several pictures books to herself. She is also reading 2 pages from a Book of Mormon reader every day. Adam practiced sight words and phonics cards, he sounded out 3 letter words, sounded out and spelled 3 letter words, learned to hear the long and short vowels in words, and read a mini book, Is It a Cat two times. He listened to the poem The Valley of Grump and more of the story Bobby and the Big Road.
For math Anna learned to count by fours and practiced that. she reviewed telling time and her addition facts. She also practiced subtracting from 13 and played a couple games to reinforce, and she practiced measuring paper snakes and finding the differences in their lengths to prepare her for harder story problems. Adam learned how to subtract 20s and did lots of practice problems. He also practiced counting forward and backwards by 2s, played a game subtracting twos, did a number word search, and learned about his first fact family: 8, 6, and 2. We reviewed patterns and discussed the calendar. Kimball finished chapter 1 in Epsilon, and took the test. He also started on chapter 2 where he is learning about the basics of fractions. Elsie did chapter 26, where she is learning to solve for the unknown using addition, subtraction, and division. She reviewed converting weights, lengths and volumes and also subtracting and adding and multiplying fractions and mixed numbers.
Kimball worked hard at memorizing Rigadoon on the cello. He also practiced bass clef note reading. On the piano he is working on his hundreds chart for Long Long Ago and continuing to learn Chant Arab. Elsie worked on a waltz on the violin and started learning a folk song. She is working on putting both hands together on Happy Farmer and finishing Come Follow Me hymn. Anna worked on polishing Allegro, she learned another line to I am a Child of God, and she learned a folk song we had a fun time singing to on her violin. She also learned to play the entire Lightly Row song, with both hands together. She will get a 100 chart for it next week so she can polish it off.
For exercise, Adam played hard on our bounce house for a couple days. He also went on walks and played outside with his siblings.
For their string instrument lessons, they are sharing files back and forth with their teacher through emails and on google drive. I will take videos of their playing, and then load them up to google drive for their teacher to review. For Tech, Kimball learned how to move the files of him playing from my phone to the computer. Elsie learned how to copy and past files to different places. Anna, Elsie, and Kimball all learned how to get into google drive, find their file, and watch their videos from their teacher. Finding a technical way to solve the problem of not having physical lessons has been educational as well.
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