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.
Friday, April 10, 2020
Monday, April 6, 2020
Learning Log 33-34
For science the kids watched Mark Rober's videos. One was about how astronauts weigh themselves in space. Another was how to put your hand in water without it getting wet. They learned about surface tension and how you can put up to 40 drops of water on a penny. They learned how soap can destroy surface tension as well.
For Language Arts Elsie read a chapter from A Little Princess. She wrote 2 chapters in her dragon book and another chapter in a story about bears. Elsie read a poem called Little Feet by Edgar Guest and If by Rose Fyleman. She learned about prepositions and adverbs and learned to recognize them in sentences and stories. She started diagramming simple sentences. Kimball reread Fortunately, the Milk and he read 2 chapters of The Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborn to his younger brother. He also read about 15 pages from his reader. He worked hard on his spelling and got all caught up on his spelling words. Anna finished reading the graphic novel City of Ember. She also learned about the OU and OW blends. She read a chapter from her reader called "The Children Living on Lake Street." She practiced writing and studying her spelling words. Anna read a couple poems, learned what an acrostic poem was, and then wrote her own using her name. I started reading a story to Adam called Bobby and the Big Road. He would read the words of, to and he when I got to them. He also went over the short and long vowel sounds, sounding out 3 letter words, practiced sight words, learned to read words that end in ss, ff, and ll, and practiced sounding out 3 letter words and spelling them. He read a mini book called Is it a Dog? two times.
For Math Elsie took three tests. She took a Unit 3 test, and chapters 24 and 25. The unit test reviewed dividing fractions and mixed numbers, adding and subtracting mixed numbers, and converting weights and volumes into different measurements. Kimball finished his Delta book! He took the chapter 30 test, the unit test, and the final test. He started on Epsilon and started learning about fractions, which is finding a fraction of a number. Adam reviewed his shapes. Mostly he worked hard at filling out a year long calendar. He wrote from 1 to 30 about 8 different times. He is getting good at his counting and learning about the months of the year. Anna practiced measuring for math. She learned that 12 inches makes a foot and 3 feet make a yard. She measured long and short objects. She practiced counting by 3s, reviewed addition facts, and learned different strategies and practiced subtracting from 13.
For music Elsie passed of Long Long Ago and started on Waltz on the piano. For piano Elsie is working on putting hands together on a hymn, Come Follow Me and the first half of Happy Farmer. She is practicing every day. Kimball practiced the cello and piano every weekday. Kimball worked on polishing off the song Andantino and worked on Rigadoon on the cello. For piano he is polishing off Long Long Ago and starting on Chant Arab. Anna learned the song Allegro on her violin and practiced it. She also practiced the first line to Long Long Ago, with both hands together on the piano. She is working hard on her music, and is especially enjoying the piano.
For PE Adam played crochet and also helped his family tear down and haul off a fence. He is working hard a practicing how to make a basket in basketball as well.
For tech Anna had a 2 day trial to Artventure and she learned how to navigate the website very well. She pulled down different menus and refined searches to find certain projects she wanted. Elsie and Kimball made an artifact in Minecraft. They each took a picture and submitted their final work as well.
For Language Arts Elsie read a chapter from A Little Princess. She wrote 2 chapters in her dragon book and another chapter in a story about bears. Elsie read a poem called Little Feet by Edgar Guest and If by Rose Fyleman. She learned about prepositions and adverbs and learned to recognize them in sentences and stories. She started diagramming simple sentences. Kimball reread Fortunately, the Milk and he read 2 chapters of The Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborn to his younger brother. He also read about 15 pages from his reader. He worked hard on his spelling and got all caught up on his spelling words. Anna finished reading the graphic novel City of Ember. She also learned about the OU and OW blends. She read a chapter from her reader called "The Children Living on Lake Street." She practiced writing and studying her spelling words. Anna read a couple poems, learned what an acrostic poem was, and then wrote her own using her name. I started reading a story to Adam called Bobby and the Big Road. He would read the words of, to and he when I got to them. He also went over the short and long vowel sounds, sounding out 3 letter words, practiced sight words, learned to read words that end in ss, ff, and ll, and practiced sounding out 3 letter words and spelling them. He read a mini book called Is it a Dog? two times.
For Math Elsie took three tests. She took a Unit 3 test, and chapters 24 and 25. The unit test reviewed dividing fractions and mixed numbers, adding and subtracting mixed numbers, and converting weights and volumes into different measurements. Kimball finished his Delta book! He took the chapter 30 test, the unit test, and the final test. He started on Epsilon and started learning about fractions, which is finding a fraction of a number. Adam reviewed his shapes. Mostly he worked hard at filling out a year long calendar. He wrote from 1 to 30 about 8 different times. He is getting good at his counting and learning about the months of the year. Anna practiced measuring for math. She learned that 12 inches makes a foot and 3 feet make a yard. She measured long and short objects. She practiced counting by 3s, reviewed addition facts, and learned different strategies and practiced subtracting from 13.
For music Elsie passed of Long Long Ago and started on Waltz on the piano. For piano Elsie is working on putting hands together on a hymn, Come Follow Me and the first half of Happy Farmer. She is practicing every day. Kimball practiced the cello and piano every weekday. Kimball worked on polishing off the song Andantino and worked on Rigadoon on the cello. For piano he is polishing off Long Long Ago and starting on Chant Arab. Anna learned the song Allegro on her violin and practiced it. She also practiced the first line to Long Long Ago, with both hands together on the piano. She is working hard on her music, and is especially enjoying the piano.
For PE Adam played crochet and also helped his family tear down and haul off a fence. He is working hard a practicing how to make a basket in basketball as well.
For tech Anna had a 2 day trial to Artventure and she learned how to navigate the website very well. She pulled down different menus and refined searches to find certain projects she wanted. Elsie and Kimball made an artifact in Minecraft. They each took a picture and submitted their final work as well.
Monday, March 30, 2020
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.
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.
Monday, March 23, 2020
Learning Log 31
For tech this week all the kids, Kimball, Elsie, Anna, and Adam, had meetings/play dates on Zoom. They learned how to navigate Zoom quite well: muting sound, adding recording, using whiteboards, how to chat, and how to end a meeting.
Their science teacher (me, haha) was sick this week and couldn't muster much else besides language arts and math and music lessons, oh and cooking from scratch and keeping everyone happy. Whew. There was a lot of discussion about Covid-19 and how germs spread. We all learned how to be extra careful: to wash hands, disinfect, and use social distancing. We also learned first hand about earthquakes, aftershocks, and more about the seismograph scale.
Although all music lessons were cancelled this week, everyone of the kids practiced piano and their string instrument every day. They did great. Kimball even played the piano for a special musical number for our family worship on Sunday. Elsie is working on a new song in piano, Happy Farmer, and is polishing up a different version of Long Long Ago on the violin. Anna is polishing up Long Long Ago on the violin and starting on Lightly Row on the piano.
Although Adam's wrestling is cancelled, he still had a fun time running around the yard and playing games with everyone. Our favorite game was Refugee that we played as a family. He lasted running around for several blocks before he got caught.
Adam did 4 lessons in his language arts book. He practiced sounding out 2 and 3 letter words as well as sounding out and spelling some of them too. He also read a mini book called Mom and Dad, and we reviewed what the vowels were. Kimball took a spelling test this week and is working on a new spelling list. He read several short stories and wrote down answers to questions about them. He also worked on homophones and learning the appropriate spelling for various words and situations. He read 10 pages in The Bulletproof George Washington. Elsie also took a spelling test, learned a spelling rule about open syllables, and learned to spell words with the "ti, ci, and si" blends. She learned about possessive nouns, verbs, and state of being nouns, and practiced editing. She worked really hard and beautifully traced North America on vellum and identified all the countries. Elsie learned the three things that make a sentence and learned how to identify them also. Elsie worked on her story, and wrote about 3 chapters in her dragon story. She wrote 1 chapter in her bear story also. She read about 20 pages of The Thing about Jelly Fish, and she read the first 2 chapters in The Little Princess. She also got together with her cousins on Zoom and discussed starting a book club.
Adam also did 4 lessons in math this week. He learned about growing patterns and how to recognize them in nature as well as numbers. He reviewed less than and greater than and adding and taking away the number one. He also learned about odd and even numbers and how to recognize them. Kimball started and finished chapter 29 (except for the test). He learned about fractions and what a numerator and denominator were. He also reviewed long division, finding the area of shapes, and Arabic numerals. He did some story problems as well. Elsie redid chapter 23, where she learned how to find the reciprocal and reviewed the rule of four when dividing fractions. She also worked on chapter 24 a little bit.
Their science teacher (me, haha) was sick this week and couldn't muster much else besides language arts and math and music lessons, oh and cooking from scratch and keeping everyone happy. Whew. There was a lot of discussion about Covid-19 and how germs spread. We all learned how to be extra careful: to wash hands, disinfect, and use social distancing. We also learned first hand about earthquakes, aftershocks, and more about the seismograph scale.
Although all music lessons were cancelled this week, everyone of the kids practiced piano and their string instrument every day. They did great. Kimball even played the piano for a special musical number for our family worship on Sunday. Elsie is working on a new song in piano, Happy Farmer, and is polishing up a different version of Long Long Ago on the violin. Anna is polishing up Long Long Ago on the violin and starting on Lightly Row on the piano.
Although Adam's wrestling is cancelled, he still had a fun time running around the yard and playing games with everyone. Our favorite game was Refugee that we played as a family. He lasted running around for several blocks before he got caught.
Adam did 4 lessons in his language arts book. He practiced sounding out 2 and 3 letter words as well as sounding out and spelling some of them too. He also read a mini book called Mom and Dad, and we reviewed what the vowels were. Kimball took a spelling test this week and is working on a new spelling list. He read several short stories and wrote down answers to questions about them. He also worked on homophones and learning the appropriate spelling for various words and situations. He read 10 pages in The Bulletproof George Washington. Elsie also took a spelling test, learned a spelling rule about open syllables, and learned to spell words with the "ti, ci, and si" blends. She learned about possessive nouns, verbs, and state of being nouns, and practiced editing. She worked really hard and beautifully traced North America on vellum and identified all the countries. Elsie learned the three things that make a sentence and learned how to identify them also. Elsie worked on her story, and wrote about 3 chapters in her dragon story. She wrote 1 chapter in her bear story also. She read about 20 pages of The Thing about Jelly Fish, and she read the first 2 chapters in The Little Princess. She also got together with her cousins on Zoom and discussed starting a book club.
Adam also did 4 lessons in math this week. He learned about growing patterns and how to recognize them in nature as well as numbers. He reviewed less than and greater than and adding and taking away the number one. He also learned about odd and even numbers and how to recognize them. Kimball started and finished chapter 29 (except for the test). He learned about fractions and what a numerator and denominator were. He also reviewed long division, finding the area of shapes, and Arabic numerals. He did some story problems as well. Elsie redid chapter 23, where she learned how to find the reciprocal and reviewed the rule of four when dividing fractions. She also worked on chapter 24 a little bit.
Monday, March 16, 2020
Learning log 30
For science we learned about potential and kinetic energy. The kids all build a frog hopper out of origami as well as a catapult out of popsicle sticks and we learned how to categorize and recognize the two different types of energy. We also learned about renewable and non-renewable energy. We all played a game on conserving energy. We continued to learn about Covid-19 as well.
The kids all went to their piano lessons and string lessons and they practiced their instruments. Elsie, Kimball, Anna, and Peter participated in a little recital for the piano, and they all did a lovely job. They are working hard on new songs now.
Adam was unable to go to wrestling practice, due to Covid-19, so he played hard outside instead. He played tag, such as infected and hide-and-seek.
For language arts Anna practiced reading and spelling out words and stories with the sh, ch, th, and ee sounds. We studied paintings by Hans Dahl and read some poetry. Anna memorized a poem about the days in the months and shared it at our poetry and tea. Anna read a bunch this week as well. She is enjoying reading the picture books. She read, among others, Sullwe and Big Sister and Little Sister. Kimball read about 20 pages from a reader from The Good and The Beautiful. He also wrote in his journal several times. Kimball learned what adjectives are as well as the difference between common and proper nouns. He worked on reading fluency as well as worked on polishing off his spelling words. He practiced differentiating various homophones and studied a couple paintings and wrote some sentences about them. Elsie learned how to spell out “oor” sounds in words and other spelling rules, such as with open syllables. She read several poems from Eliza Lee Cabot Follen and studied paintings by Edmund Adler. She also studied where many countries in Europe are located. She also read the Book Daddy Long Legs and went to her book club and discussed it. Adam is learning to read and write two letter words and read short sentences. He read a very short book and practiced word sounds.
The kids all went to their piano lessons and string lessons and they practiced their instruments. Elsie, Kimball, Anna, and Peter participated in a little recital for the piano, and they all did a lovely job. They are working hard on new songs now.
Adam was unable to go to wrestling practice, due to Covid-19, so he played hard outside instead. He played tag, such as infected and hide-and-seek.
For language arts Anna practiced reading and spelling out words and stories with the sh, ch, th, and ee sounds. We studied paintings by Hans Dahl and read some poetry. Anna memorized a poem about the days in the months and shared it at our poetry and tea. Anna read a bunch this week as well. She is enjoying reading the picture books. She read, among others, Sullwe and Big Sister and Little Sister. Kimball read about 20 pages from a reader from The Good and The Beautiful. He also wrote in his journal several times. Kimball learned what adjectives are as well as the difference between common and proper nouns. He worked on reading fluency as well as worked on polishing off his spelling words. He practiced differentiating various homophones and studied a couple paintings and wrote some sentences about them. Elsie learned how to spell out “oor” sounds in words and other spelling rules, such as with open syllables. She read several poems from Eliza Lee Cabot Follen and studied paintings by Edmund Adler. She also studied where many countries in Europe are located. She also read the Book Daddy Long Legs and went to her book club and discussed it. Adam is learning to read and write two letter words and read short sentences. He read a very short book and practiced word sounds.
For math Anna learned math skills and how to read a compass, how to
find and write coordinates, and how to find things on a map. She reviewed subtraction and addition facts
and worked on counting by 3s. She
learned about angles and how shapes have the same number of angles, sides and
vertices. Kimball almost finished
chapter 28, where he is learning to read and write roman numerals. He reviewed long division, where he divided 3
digit numbers into 6 digit numbers. He
also did some story problems and found the area of various shapes. For math Elsie learned to solve for the
unknown in simple multiplication equations.
The other review she did was all done incorrectly. She is working on redoing her math. Adam worked on finishing patterns and writing
out the date. He worked on adding and
subtracting one. He worked on counting
backwards from 20.
For Tech their dad showed Anna, Kimball and Elsie how an electrical circuit works. They hooked up a light switch to a batter and
a breaker and an on off switch. She
learned how to trip a breaker and how to complete a circuit. They talked about how fires are started and
safety precautions to take
Learning Log 29
For science this week the kids learned about the Law of Conservation of Energy. We did experiments where we watched energy transfer to one item to the next. We built a pendulum and watched it swing, we dropped a smaller ball on top of a bigger ball and watched it bounce higher, and we watched some rub goldbers online. We also learned much about Covid-19 and how it is infectious.
Adam went to wrestling Tuesday and Thursday and worked hard. His goal on Thursday was to sweat, which he did. He learned new wrestling moves as well. Elsie, Kimball, and Anna all went to their piano lessons and string lessons. They practiced really hard for their String Festival they participated in. They also have an upcoming piano recital they are practicing hard for as well.
Adam went to wrestling Tuesday and Thursday and worked hard. His goal on Thursday was to sweat, which he did. He learned new wrestling moves as well. Elsie, Kimball, and Anna all went to their piano lessons and string lessons. They practiced really hard for their String Festival they participated in. They also have an upcoming piano recital they are practicing hard for as well.
For Language Arts Anna started The Good and the Beautiful, reading and
spelling out words with consonant blends and long and short vowel sounds. Anna also worked on reading and sounding out
words with the silent e and the ar blend.
She read a ton of books! She says
about 20 beginner books. She is loving
to read! Anna listened to a book online
called Story of Pilgrims for Children.
She learned a lot and discussed at our family book club as we discussed
what we learned from our various readings about the pilgrims while we ate spudnuts. Kimball started memorizing a poem called
September by Edwina Fallis. He practiced
spelling words with qu, ar, and or. He
worked on using the correct homophone such as for/four and where/wear. Kimball also worked on a set of spelling
words that break regular spelling words.
He studies several paintings and wrote some sentences about them. He read about 50 pages about the pilgrims,
called Pilgrim Stories by Margaret Pumphrey and discussed with us
at our book club. Kimball also wrote
several entries in his journal. Elsie
learned about commas in a series, and about all the rules to the silent E, when
to double the letters s,f, and l,and how to apply them to her spelling. She learned that not all books are equal, and
read an essay about what makes a good book.
Then she started on a one paragraph essay on what SHE thought made a
good book. She read about 50 pages of
Argonauts of Faith, which is about the pilgrims, and then she discussed with us
at our book club as well. Adam reviewed
his letter sounds and started reading short, 2 letter words. He also practiced his handwriting and did
lots of handwriting workpages.
For Math Anna learned about parallel, intersecting, perpendicular,
horizontal, and vertical lines. She did
lots of math fact reviews, solving for the unknown and learning extra tricks to
solve addition math facts. She practiced
counting by 2s and 10s and reviewed telling time on a face clock. We discussed fact families and reviewed some
subtraction facts as well. Kimball did
half of chapter 28, where he learned how to read and write in Roman numerals. He also did some story problems and reviewed finding
the area of a triangle. Elsie did
chapter 23, but she did everything wrong.
She was learning how to find the reciprocal of fractions and using that
to divide. She also was turning mixed numbers
into improper fractions and dividing them.
She has a lot of work to do. Adam
learned how to read a calendar and practiced continuing patterns. He learned the equals and not-equal, and
greater than and less than signs. He
practiced reading and writing out number.
For Tech Kimball
finished electrifying his town. He used
red stones and trap doors. He also took
a picture and turned it in. Elsie has spent hours trying to put electricity to her town, and she is almost done with it. Her brother helped her find herself when she got lost in a porthole, which was exciting.
Monday, March 2, 2020
Learning Log 28
For science this week we reviewed the various definitions of different types of energy and had a fun time doing experiments each type: heat, sound, electric, light, mechanical, chemical, and magnetic. Some of the examples were we tied two cups together with string and listened to how sound travels, we blew up zip lock bags using vinegar and baking soda, and we made s'mores in our oven for heat energy. We had so much fun with the experiments. We also read several chapters from The Burgess Seashore Book for Children. We learned about lobsters, seals, and clams. The kids had a fun time starting on their own dioramas of the seashore.
Elsie, Kimball and Anna also practiced the piano and went to their piano lessons. They are getting ready for a recital. Anna will be playing Cuckoo, Kimball will be playing Little Playmates, and Elsie will be playing Short Story. They also went to their violin and cello lessons and they practiced. They are getting ready for a string festival to perform a piece in front of judges.
Kimball and Adam both went with their older brother to free-style wrestling practice. They had a lot of fun learning techniques and practicing on other kids their size. On Saturday they watched their brother compete in a wrestling tournament and also watched kids their age competing as well.
For tech this week Anna learned how to navigate the Well Educated Heart App to find her online book about pilgrims. She had to navigate through several menus to find it. Elsie and Kimball worked on Minecraft. Elsie made a portal and then got lost in the portal, and now she can't find her way back to her town. She is frustrated! Kimball learned how to navigate the computer and pull up a movie on the computer.
For math Elsie took the test for chapter 21 and finished chapter 22 and took the test. Chapter 21 was adding mixed numbers with different denominators, and chapter 22 was subtracting similar mixed numbers. Kimball did chapter 25 in MUS and continued to learn extra long division and took the test. He also did chapter 26 and took the test where he learned to find the volume of a cube. He reviewed long division and converting ounces into pounds and vice versa and pints into quarts into gallons. Anna did most of chapter 27, where she learned how to subtract by 7s. She also did several story problems and reviewed other subtraction facts. Adam continued to work on counting and writing to 100.
For Language Arts we had another poetry and tea with a couple other families. The kids reviewed poems they had memorized and listened to other friends recite their poems as well. I started reading I, Juan de Pareja aloud to the kids. Anna read several chapters in Hooked on Phonics and learned all the long vowel sounds with a silent e at the end of the word. She did several pages of her
handwriting. Kimball read about 20 pages of pilgrim stories from Massachusetts. He also copied sentences out of one of his favorite books and he also wrote in his journal. Elsie wrote 5 chapters in her story she is writing. One of those chapters was the last chapter to help her work towards a goal to finish her story. She read See Saw Girl and about 80 pages of Argonauts of Faith, which is a story about the pilgrims. Adam practiced sounding out letters and reading short words. He still has a hard time recognizing a few of his letters, so he is concentrating on those last few.
Elsie, Kimball and Anna also practiced the piano and went to their piano lessons. They are getting ready for a recital. Anna will be playing Cuckoo, Kimball will be playing Little Playmates, and Elsie will be playing Short Story. They also went to their violin and cello lessons and they practiced. They are getting ready for a string festival to perform a piece in front of judges.
Kimball and Adam both went with their older brother to free-style wrestling practice. They had a lot of fun learning techniques and practicing on other kids their size. On Saturday they watched their brother compete in a wrestling tournament and also watched kids their age competing as well.
For tech this week Anna learned how to navigate the Well Educated Heart App to find her online book about pilgrims. She had to navigate through several menus to find it. Elsie and Kimball worked on Minecraft. Elsie made a portal and then got lost in the portal, and now she can't find her way back to her town. She is frustrated! Kimball learned how to navigate the computer and pull up a movie on the computer.
For math Elsie took the test for chapter 21 and finished chapter 22 and took the test. Chapter 21 was adding mixed numbers with different denominators, and chapter 22 was subtracting similar mixed numbers. Kimball did chapter 25 in MUS and continued to learn extra long division and took the test. He also did chapter 26 and took the test where he learned to find the volume of a cube. He reviewed long division and converting ounces into pounds and vice versa and pints into quarts into gallons. Anna did most of chapter 27, where she learned how to subtract by 7s. She also did several story problems and reviewed other subtraction facts. Adam continued to work on counting and writing to 100.
For Language Arts we had another poetry and tea with a couple other families. The kids reviewed poems they had memorized and listened to other friends recite their poems as well. I started reading I, Juan de Pareja aloud to the kids. Anna read several chapters in Hooked on Phonics and learned all the long vowel sounds with a silent e at the end of the word. She did several pages of her
handwriting. Kimball read about 20 pages of pilgrim stories from Massachusetts. He also copied sentences out of one of his favorite books and he also wrote in his journal. Elsie wrote 5 chapters in her story she is writing. One of those chapters was the last chapter to help her work towards a goal to finish her story. She read See Saw Girl and about 80 pages of Argonauts of Faith, which is a story about the pilgrims. Adam practiced sounding out letters and reading short words. He still has a hard time recognizing a few of his letters, so he is concentrating on those last few.
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