As of July 1, we are officially homeschooling and responsible for reporting to the state. We’ve just wrapped up our fourth week and I’m finding it a relaxing Sunday habit to put these posts together. I also print out a copy to slip into JediBoy’s weekly folder. I enjoy reading this type of post on other blogs, and I hope to make a similar post each week.
If you’re interested, you can find my summary of the week’s learning notes behind the cut.
Math
- Math-U-See Alpha, Lesson 23 dvd segment and student pages 23A-F, Lesson 24 dvd segment and student pages 24A-F, tests 23 and 24, Unit III Test (Lessons 18-24): all correct and fast, too!
- 4 sticker sudoku (The Backyardigans Easy Sudoku Puzzles #1)
- 6 addition worksheets from a Spider-Man addition and subtraction workbook
- completed 20 Addition Puzzle Cards from a kit - these were quite easy
- did 100 addition facts flashcards and got them all right, most<3 seconds
- watched an EdVideo called “Math All Around Us: Addition and Subtraction”
- old math is new again - JediBoy enjoyed playing with my old Speak & Math; he did simple addition and subtraction problems, answered spoken word problems, and spent quite a bit of time on the “Greater Than, Less Than” game even though we’ve never addressed inequalities before!
History
- The Story of the World Volume 1: Chapter 3 (The First Writing) and review questions
- map work SP8 (Sumer and Egypt)
- checked on last week’s Nile - the grass has sprouted!
- made two cuneiform tablets from air-drying clay
- made two hieroglyphic scrolls on rice paper
- watched an EdVideo called “I Want To Know: Writing”
- listened to the Jim Weiss cd Egyptian Treasures: Mummies and Myths
- read part of the The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
Science
- Fun With Nature: Frogs, Toads and Turtles p.57-93
- did five reptile number-writing pages (he tends to write his numbers backwards) to copy and practice the numerals 1 through 10
- read related books: Frogs, From Tadpole to Frog (How Things Grow), Frog (See How They Grow), Let’s Get Turtles, a Science I Can Read Book
- sang and acted out the song “Five Green Speckled Frogs”
- colored, cut and pasted a frog life-cycle from a printed sheet onto blue construction paper
- made his own jigsaw puzzle of a picture of a frog that he drew
- completed a frog crossword puzzle
- put frog life cycle cards in the correct order
- completed his first Venn Diagram - of characteristics of Frogs and Toads
- watched the EdVideo “Magic School Bus Hops Home”
Misc.
- Handwriting Without Tears: Letters and Numbers for Me p.11 (review of “frog-jump capitals”), p.12 H, p.13 K, p.14 L, p.15 U
- watched an EdVideo “Spanish For Kids Level One”
- played board games: Sum Swamp Addition and Subtraction Game, Scrutineyes Jr., Bumparena, Monopoly Jr. Digging Dinos
- learned to play 10-20-30 solitaire
- worked in his Lego Lab at least a half hour each day
- made a home for his toy stingray
- made cornstarch-vinegar paint and painted with it
- painted with colored bubble solution - not the greatest
- painted with his feet - always fun
- did “challenge drawings” where I cut a hole in a piece of paper and then he draws on the paper, usually incorporating the hole - this time he made a balloon, a mountain, a jungle and a sand-moving machine
- spent about an hour on the computer on two different days, including watching free Brain Pop videos
- went to see a Knight at the library - amazingly cool!
- had his 3rd soccer game of the season, and had a great time playing with his friends N and N
Reading
I read most of the reading passages in our various subjects (except those noted below). I also read him the book Stripe, the Story of a Chipmunk at bedtime.
This weekend PisecoDad helpfully reshelved the books in the nursery… before I got a chance to peek and write down books that had been read at the end of the week. So again, I think this list is not complete, but I know that JediBoy read these books:
- Frogs (science)
- Frog: See How They Grow (science)
- From Tadpole to Frog (science)
- Bill and Pete
- Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile
- Bill and Pete To The Rescue
- The Berenstain Bears Fly-It! Up, Up, and Away!
- Walt Disney’s Oliver & Company (chapter book)
- The Road to El Dorado read-along
- Scooby-Doo! Look and Find
- The Empire Strikes Back Storybook
- Return of the Jedi Storybook
- Tales of King Arthur
- Stuart Little (wow!)
- The Jester Has Lost His Jingle
- Usborne King Arthur
- What’s Inside? a Castle
- Speed Machines (A Pop-Up Book With Moving Gears)
- Tough Boris
- The Zabajaba Jungle
- Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures: Imperial China
- History Dudes: Ancient Egyptians
- Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures: Medieval Castle
- Dig and Dug With Daisy Trouble With Trucks
- Arms & Armor Postcard Collection (from the Cleveland Museum of Art)
- Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace (Junior Novelization)
- Toy Story 2
- The Berenstain Bears and the Green-Eyed Monster
- The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)
- Choo Choo Charlie Saves the Carnival
- Berenstain Bears and the Bedtime Battle
- The Carrot Seed
- Doctor Dan
- Borreguita and the Coyote
- I Choose You (Pokemon Chapter Book #1)
- several late 1970’s Fantastic Four comic books
- Digging Up Dinosaurs
- The Man Who Lost his Head
- Maggie and the Emergency Room
- If I Ran the Rain Forest: All About Tropical Rain Forests
- The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers
- Boo!
- City Mouse - Country Mouse and Two More Mouse tales from Aesop
- Mouse Mess
- The Berenstain Bears and the Double Dare
- Friends in Need (The Land Before Time)
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