October 31, 2011

Lego-Man

• Watch "Division 2" at Khan Academy & do all exercises
• Go to Fun Brain and do 10 problems
• Complete pgs. 50-51 math pages
• Write each "u" word twice and read out loud to me
• Retype your story from yesterday's spelling book
• Complete writing page 87
• Practice the piano
• Go to www.8notes.com and work for 20 minutes
• Read Crispin: The Cross of Lead for 20 minutes
• Read pages 309-328 and answer all "on your own" questions
• Read Proverbs 31 and share one verse with me
• Type up your "Key Passage" for your approach paper for The White Heron. Email it to me.

Conductor

• Watch "Why Lattice Multiplication" at Khan Acadmy & do all exercises
• Complete pg. 38 "Order of Operations" page - see me for help
• Go to Fun Brain and do 10 problems
• Write each "u" word twice and read out loud to me
• Complete writing page 87
• Complete Spelling pages 25-27
• Practice the piano
• Read Shiloh for 20 minutes
• Work on AWANA verses
• Read Proverbs 31

Happy

• Practice the piano
• Work on AWANA verse
• Read Livingstone Mouse by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole

Day #48/175 Days

October 28, 2011

Conductor

• Watch Lattice Multiplication on Khan Academy & do all exercises
• Complete page 37 "Mileage Chart" & page 38 "Order of Operations" 
• Go to Fun Brain and complete 10 problems.
• Complete "t words" handwriting worksheet - write each word twice and say out loud to me
• Complete writing pages 85-86
• Complete pages 23-24 in Spelling book
• Practice piano
• Read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for 20 minutes (finished book)
• Work on AWANA verse
• Read Proverbs 28

Lego-Man

• Watch "Division 1" on Khan Academy & do all exercises
• Go to Fun Brain and complete 10 problems.
• Complete "t words" handwriting worksheet - write each word twice and say out loud to me
• Complete writing pages 85-86
• Complete pages 20-22 in spelling book
• Practice piano
• Work at www.8notes.com for 20 minutes
• Read Crispin: The Cross of Lead for 20 minutes
• Read all of Module #9 in biology & answer all on your own questions
• Read Proverbs 28 & share one verse with me
• Continue working on your approach paper for The White Heron - email me what you do

Happy

• Complete match page 30
• Practice piano
• Complete writing worksheet
• Work on AWANA verse

Happy with Mr. H & Miss H

•  Work on "B" worksheets
• Complete Pumpkin Pattern pages
• Complete Jack-O-Lantern craft 
• Read Harvey's Hideout by Russell Hoban

Day #47/175 Days

October 27, 2011 - Science Co-Op

This is our last day of co-op. Many of the other students will be going one more week to do all the dissections. I let Lego-Man decide if he wanted to do those or not, but he decided against it. Considering we did 90% of the other experiments, I'm calling it good.

The high school students completed experiments for Modules #7 & #8.

The CGC kids completed pages on birds.

Sadly, I'm entering this so late I have no other details of the day.


Day #46/175 Days

October 26, 2011

Conductor

• Watch "Multiplication 8" at Khan Academy and do all exercises
• Complete page 37 - "Mileage Chart" for math
• Write each 's' words twice and say it out loud to me
• Review writing pages 81-82 & note errors. Complete pages 83-84.
• Practice the piano
• Read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for 20 minutes
• Work on AWANA verses
• Read Proverbs 26

Lego-Man

• Watch "Why Lattice Multiplication Works" at Khan Academy & do all exercises
• Go to Fun Brain and do 10 problems
• Complete math pages 47-49
• Write each 's' words twice and say it out loud to me
• Complete spelling book pages 15-17
• Complete writing pages 83-84
• Practice the piano
• Work on www.8notes.com
• Read Crispin: The Cross of Lead for 20 minutes
• Read all of Module #8 and answer all on your own questions
• Read Proverbs 26 and share one verse with me
• Continue working on your approach paper for "The White Heron" - complete the summary section

Happy 

• Complete math page 30
• Practice piano
• Complete 'q' section on handwriting sheet
• Complete Grammar Day 8
• Play "The Reading Game" (skunk cards 1 & 2) - TOS Crew item
• AWANA verses

The afternoon was spent doing an activity via Tanglewood 4H camp. Our 4H group coordinated them coming and to help allay the cost of the instructors, we opened it up to other homeschoolers. The younger group (ended up being about K-3) did an activity on fall. The older group (4th grade and up) did a team building exercise. I flitted between all the groups. There were four - two younger and two older - and my boys were all split up in to three of them. Some photos of the afternoon....

One of the older groups. They had to go through these squares like a maze. They had to figure out the path and help each other through. Similar to an electronic Simon Says game.

This poor bunny was confused and needed to call....

...the help line to figure out what it should do in the fall.

The younger group was completely enthralled with the whole thing.

The other older group working through their "maze." That's Lego-Man hopping through.

Almost done!

The youngers headed into the wooded area to check out what they could find for fall items. 

Then using packing tape around their wrists - sticky side out - they made fall bracelets. These were a hit!

We plan to do more classes. Tanglewood is a great program.

Day #45/175 Days

October 25, 2011 - Art Class

Today was our second monthly art class. The children worked at glazing all the pieces they had made before. Karen also had a fun recycling project for them. She took them outside one-by-one to use a lot of fun packing materials to create costumes and whatever their imaginations could come up with.

Lego-Man glazing his plate.

Happy's projects

Conductor glazing his plate.

Happy showing off his new bubble wrap coat and arm guards.

Lego-Man ended up with a sword and Conductor a shield.

 And yes, Happy even wore his outfit to piano lessons. 

Day #44/175 Days

October 24, 2011

Conductor

• Watch "Multiplication 7" at Khan Academy & do all exercises
• Complete pgs. 27-28 "Subtracting in Columns"
• Write each 's' word twice and say out lout to me
• Fix writing pages 79-80 and complete writing pages 81-82
• Complete pages 21-22 in spelling book. Write out each spelling word twice.
• Practice the piano
• Read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for 20 minutes
• Work on AWANA verses
• Read Proverbs 24

Lego-Man

• Watch "Lattice Multiplication" at Khan Academy and do all exercises
• Practice at Fun Brain - orders of operation
• Complete pg.  46 in Math Mammoth
• Write each 's' word twice and say out lout to me
• Complete pgs 13-14 in spelling book
• Complete writing pages 81-82
• Practice the piano
• Work at www.8notes.com
• Read Crispin: Cross of Lead for 20 minutes
• Read all of Module #7 in biology and answer all on your own questions
• Read Proverbs 24 and share with me one verse
• Continue working on your approach paper for The White Heron - complete the "Key Passage" section and email me what you've done

Happy (plus Miss H & Mr. H)

Today I had the two children I used to babysit. Miss H is now four and Mr. H is almost three. We did school together at the table.

• Working on learning "am, an, as, at, ax"
• Practiced writing those words (Happy was the only one who could do this well.)
• Used phonogram flashcards to go through the first 26 letters
• Worked on 'A' lapbook/notebook elements
• Color an alligator picture. Cut & paste to a different paper.
• Color an apple. Cut & paste to a different paper.
• Complete 'Aa' activity and add to notebook.
• Create 'Aa' art book and add to notebook.
• Complete 'Aa' writing page

Day #43/175 Days

October 21, 2011

Today was another "Life Skills" day. I gave the boys a choice...either do schoolwork or help with chores around the house. We worked outside making hay bags for the sheep out of old grain bags, cleaning out stalls, feeding them, and just doing some more general maintenance.

We also worked inside. Aside from the outside work I also had a lot of baking to do so the boys helped with that as well as did some inside chores (dusting, vacuuming, cleaning the bathroom, cleaning bedrooms, etc.).

In the afternoon we headed to church. Our 4-H Achievement night was tonight and we were able to secure our church's gym to use this year. Our club did all the set-up and clean-up. It was a fun night and we learned about more opportunities for the kids to participate in via 4-H.

Our club was also suppose to take care of the entertainment. However, due to illness a few had to back up so it ended up just being Conductor. I brought in our electric piano and he played one piece he had done for lessons last year. He was adorable.

Day #42/175 Days

October 20, 2011 - Science Co-Op

The kids have been doing very well with the science co-op. Today the high school students covered experiments in Module #6: .

Experiment 6.1 (Module #6)

Cell Structure I

Experiment 6.2 (Module #6)

Cell Structure II


The CGC class that I teach worked on learning about fish. I really like the way CGC works and it's been going well. We finished early.

The boys & I worked on chores around the house in the afternoon. 

October 19, 2011 - Field Trip

Every year in the fall one of our favorite museums hosts a couple of fun learning days for kids. We've never been able to go due to scheduling. We didn't make the one in September, but we did manage to make the one this month. It was their Earth Science Day.

There were lots of kids and vendors who were more than happy to explain what it was they were doing. Unfortunately, my camera battery died half-way through our visit and I didn't have my extra with me.

This gentleman explained how granite was split - with old-fashioned tools and then with newer ones. Then explained the unintended damage this did to the men's health. Yes, it was easier, but it ended up killing a lot of men too early due to all the dust they inhaled.

Porous pavement. I have to explain why I took the photo. I am married to an engineer. Every once in a while he makes me go on "engineering field trips" in which we drive around looking at retaining walls and such. A few years ago he made me go look at porous pavement. It was already on the road and it was raining. We had to drive over it. Yeah, it's exciting at times. ;-) Basically the water goes through the pavement rather than running off.  

Happy is using a solar powered fan. I think. The light is in my eyes so I can't tell.....

Poland Springs was there defending explaining why they changed their water bottles. The vials full of pellets in front (she's touching one on the right) shows how much plastic is used to make each type of bottle. 

We went outside and the same gentleman we first talked to showed the kids how granite used to be split. And yes, just before it split open my camera died. Trust me when I say it was really cool!

The boys had a great day and while it was busy we still had fun. 

Day #40/175 Days

October 18, 2011

Conductor

• Watch "Multiplication 6" at Khan Academy & do all exercises
• Redo pages 25-26 for math
• Write each 's' word twice and say out loud to me
• Review writing pages from yesterday and note errors. Complete writing pages 79-80
• Complete spelling pages 20-21
• Practice piano
• Read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for 20 minutes
• Work on AWANA verses
• Read Proverbs 18

Lego-Man

• Watch "Multiplication 8" at Khan Academy and do all exercises
• See me on pg. 38 and work on together. Do 10 problems at Fun Brain. Fix & review pgs. 42-43
• Write each 's' word twice and say out loud to me
• See me to do your spelling test
• Complete writing pages 79-80
• Practice the piano
• Work on www.8notes.com
• Read Crispin: The Cross of Lead for 20 minutes
• Read pgs. 179-190 in your biology book and complete all on your own questions
• Read Proverbs 18 and share one verse with me
• Begin work on your approach paper for The White Heron

Happy

• Complete math page 29
• Practice the piano
• Complete handwriting page 'c' section (Quote of the day....this is the first page Happy chose to work on. Just after he started working on it, he said, "My hand's not in a writing mood."
• Complete Grammar Day 7
• Work on All About Spelling  - completed Step 2. Still working to master the sounds of five phonograms
• Keyboard Town Pals - Lesson 1 (TOS Crew item)
• AWANA verses

Piano lessons for all.

Day #39/175 Days

October 17, 2011

Lego-Man

• Watch "Multiplication 7" on Khan Academy and do all exercises
• Redo pg. 38 "Order of Operations" (this has thrown him for a loop some)
• Go to Fun Brain and do 10 problems in the "Operation Order Algebra Game"
• Complete math worksheets pgs. 42-43
• Write each 'r' word twice and say out loud to me
• Fix errors on writing pages 75-76 and complete pages 77-78
• Practice piano
• Work on www.8notes.com
• Read Crispin: The Cross of Lead for 20 minutes
• Read pages 167-178 in Biology and do all on your own questions
• Read Proverbs 17 and share one verse with me
• Literature: Read pages 5-6 & 19-32 in Excellence in Literature book. Read The White Heron and the bio of Sarah Orne Jewett (TOS Crew product)

Conductor

• Watch "Multiplication 5" at Khan Academy and do all exercises
• Math worksheets: Fix pgs. 23-26 
• Write each 'r' word twice and say out loud to me
• Complete writing pages 77-78
• Spelling: Reread story on pg. 13, fix pg. 18, and complete pgs. 20-21
• Practice piano
• Read Huckleberry Finn for 20 minutes
• Work on AWANA verses
• Read Proverbs 17

Happy

• Complete Math page 28
• Practice the piano
• Handwriting worksheet - 'a'
• Day 6 in Grammar
• All About Spelling lesson
• AWANA verses

Day #38/175 Days

October 13, 2011 - Science Co-Op

Today was another Science Co-Op.

The high school students work on the experiments for Module #5:

Experiment 5.1 (Module #5)

Osmosis and Diffusion

Experiment 5.2 (Module #5)

The Fragility of an Enzyme

Both of the experiments take quite a bit of time, so while the kids waited they watched the videos Indescribable and How Great is Our God both done by Louie Giglio. Both videos can be viewed online at YouTube.

Indescribable - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, & Part 5
How Great is Our God - full version

The Considering God's Creation kiddos work on insects and spiders. We finished prior to break so we joined the older kids upstairs and watched the How Great is Our God video.


Day #37/175 Days

October 12, 2011

Conductor

• Watch "Multiplication 4" at Khan Academy & do all exercises
• Complete pgs. 23-26 "Subtraction Strategies and Terminology"
• Write out each 'q' words twice and say it out loud to me
• Complete writing pages 75-76
• Retype your baseball story and fix all errors
• Complete pgs. 16-18 in Spelling
• Practice piano
• Work on AWANA verses
• Read Proverbs 12
• Read Huckleberry Finn for 20 minutes

Lego-Man

• Watch "Multiplication 6" at Khan Academy and do all exercises
• Fix errors on pg. 38
• Complete math worksheets pg. 40-41 "Graphs"
• Write out each 'q' words twice and say it out loud to me
• Write one sentence for each Spelling word - one sentence per word.
• Complete writing pages 75-76
• Retype your "Fall" story and add clip art. Fix typos. Email to me.
• Practice piano
• Work on www.8notes.com
• Read pgs. 150-161 in biology book and answer all on your own questions
• Read Proverbs 12 and share with me one verse you like
• Read Crisipin: The Cross of Lead for 20  minutes

Day #36/175 Days

October 11, 2011

Conductor

• Watch "Multiplication 3" at Khan Academy and do all exercises
• Fix errors on pgs 18-22 "Adding in Columns" 
• Write each 'p' word twice and say out loud to me
• Fix writing pages 71-72 and completely pgs. 73-74
• Complete pg 13 in Spelling book
• Practice piano
• Work on AWANA verses
• Read Proverbs 11
• Read Robin Hood for 20 minutes (finished book)

Lego-Man

• Watch "Multiplication 5" at Khan Academy & do all exercises
• Complete pgs. 38-39 in Math "Order of Operations"
• Write each 'p' word twice and say out loud to me
• Write out each spelling word on pg. 4 five times. 
• Fix writing pages 71-72 and completely pgs. 73-74
• Use this prompt "Tell me what your favorite season is and why" - at least 10 sentences.
• Practice the piano
• Work on www.8note.com
• Read pages 139-149 in Biology book and answer all questions
• Read Proverbs 11 and share one verse with me
• Read Crispin: The Cross of Lead for 20 minutes

Piano lessons for all.

Day #35/175 Days

October 10, 2011

Lego-Man

• Watch "Multiplication 4" at Khan Academy and do all exercises
• Fix pg. 36 and complete pg. 37 "Mileage Chart" 
• Write each 'o' word twice and say out loud to me
• Spelling: Write a story based on page 11's prompts. Add clip art for illustration. Email to me. Complete pg. 12
• Writing: Fix errors on pgs. 69-70 and complete pgs. 71-72
• Practice piano
• Work on www.8notes.com
• Read pages 129-138 in Biology and do all "on your own" questions
• Read Proverbs 10
• Read Crispin: Cross of Lead for 20 minutes

Conductor

• Watch "Multiplication 2" at Khan Academy and do all exercises
• Redo pgs. 18 & 19 of Math (I have a rule - they have to write their name on their paper. It's too hard to sort as often their handwriting is similar. If they forget, they have to redo the work. It usually only takes forgetting once or twice.) Complete pgs. 20-22
• Redo Grammar page (name forgotten again....)
• Writing: Write out each 'n' word twice (name forgotten again...) and write each 'o' word twice and say out loud to me
• Easy Writing - fix errors as noted on pages 69-70 and complete pgs 71-72
• Type up story from Spelling book and add clip art. Complete page 12.
• Practice the piano and flashcards
• Work on AWANA verses
• Read Proverbs 10
• Read Robin Hood for 20 minutes

Day #34/175 Days

October 7, 2011

Today was a "Life Skills" day. We had a lot of work that needed to be done on the farm so the boys helped do lots of outside chores. The biggest thing we needed to do was put up fencing for the sheep that will be arriving tomorrow. Toss in to that mix a number of other stressful things and it was a FULL day with too much running around and frustration - mostly on my part.

The boys helped with....

• fencing
• weed whacking around the fencing
• trimming brush around fencing
• cleaning out animals
• hauling brush

We did have a 4H meeting today as well.

Day #33/175 Days

October 6, 2011 - Science Co-Op

Today was our Science day. We spend the morning at a co-op.

Lego-Man was upstairs with the high schoolers. This week they covered the experiments in Module #4:

Experiment 4.1 (Module #4)

Class Basidiomycetes

Experiment 4.2 (Module #4)

Yeast and the Fermentation Process

Experiment 4.3 (Module #4)

Molds and Mildews

Experiment 4.4 (Module #4)

Imperfect Fungi


Conductor & Happy were downstairs with me in the Considering God's Creation class. Today we covered Lessons 8 & 9 - Clouds and the Speed of Light, Wind, and Sound.


It was a nice day at co-op so after break all the younger kids headed outside to fly the kites we had made two weeks earlier.

After co-op the boys & I headed north to meet our new flock of sheep. I needed to gather information on them and wanted to do that without the stress of unloading and getting them settled in their new home. They are arriving on Saturday.

The ewes were all out in the pasture and didn't come near us. We had a dog with us and they didn't know us. I was able to snap a few photos all the same with my telephoto lens.

Only the sheared ones are mine. The ones with more fleece are a different breed. We are getting Navajo-Churro sheep which is an endangered breed. We'll be adding this in to our course work and each boy wants to train a lamb for the fair this year.




Day #32/175 Days

October 5, 2011

Lego-Man

• Watch "Multiplication 3" at Khan Academy and do all exercises
• Finish pg. 32 and complete pgs. 34-36 in Math Mammoth "Borrowing Over Zero Tens" (we are working through a math review)
• Handwriting - write each word twice and say them to me - 'n' words
• Complete pgs. 10-11 in Spell & Write book
• Complete Easy Writing pages 69 & 70
• Practice the piano & work at www.8notes.com
• Correct pg. 23 in Grammar and complete pg. 27 "Objects of the Preposition"
• Read pgs 114-124 in Biology & answer all "On Your Own Questions"
• Read Proverbs 5 and share one verse with me
• Read Crisipin: Cross of Lead for 20 minutes

Conductor

• Watch "Basic Multiplication" at Khan Academy and do all exercises
• Complete pgs. 18 & 19 "Adding in Columns" at Math Mammoth
• Grammar - complete pg. 27 "Objects of the Preposition"
• Handwriting - write each word twice and say them to me - 'n' words
• Complete Easy Writing pages 69 & 70
• Correct pg. 5 and fix & finish pg. 7 in Spelling book - complete pgs. 9-11
• Practice piano & work on flashcards
• Work on AWANA verses
• Read Proverbs 5
• Read Robin Hood for 20 minutes

Happy 

• Complete math pages 24-27
• Practice piano
• AWANA verses

Day #31/175 days

October 4, 2011

Conductor

• Watch "Subtracting Decimals (Old)" at Khan Academy & do all exercises
• Correct and redo pgs. 15-17 "Ordinal Numbers & Roman Numbers" from Math Mammoth (Roman Numbers stumped him.)
• Grammar - correct pg. 21 and complete p. 23 "Prepositional Phrases"
• Spelling - complete pgs. 5-8
• Write 'm' words twice and say each to me (he does an excellent job with his handwriting)
• Complete pg. 67 in Easy Writing
• Correct 20A & 20B in Wordly Wise and complete 20C & 20D
• Practice the piano
• Work on AWANA verses
• Read Proverbs 4
• Read "Robin Hood" for 20 minutes

Lego-Man

• Watch "Multiplication 2: The Multiplication Tables" at Khan Academy & do all exercises
• Correct pgs. 27 & 29 in Math Mammoth and complete pgs. 31-33 "Addition/Subtraction Connection"
• Write 'm' words twice and say each to me
• Complete pgs. 8-9 in Spell & Write book
• Complete pg. 67 in Easy Writing
• Practice piano
• Go to www.8notes.com and work on "Tests & Games - "Interval Trainer" & "Note Trainer"
• Grammar - complete pg. 23 "Prepositional Phrases"
• Read pgs. 99-113 in Biology and answer all "On Your Own" questions
• Read Proverbs 4 and share one verse with me
• Read Crisipin: The Cross of Lead for 20 minutes

Happy

• Complete pgs. 22-23 in Math Mammoth
• Practice the piano
• AWANA verses

Piano lessons day

Day #30/175 days

October 3, 2011 Co-Op Day

My sister came up today so we could do our mini-co-op together. I started out the day with a look at the President's. We studies James Madison & James Monroe today. However, I started the day with a couple of fun YouTube videos.

We then began looking at James Madison. We watched a short biography video of him on YouTube (my favorite video place for school these days). The boys worked on coloring pages of James Madison (I'm using ones from this site for each President) while I read from the Scholastic: Encyclopedia of the Presidents & Their Times. Then they created their notebook pages for him. We did similar work for James Monroe. We watched this video and did all the same types of work for him as well.

In our state study we covered Georgia. My sister took lead on this one. She has been making up bookmarks for the kids for each state. They had an informational sheet and coloring page to work on while she read out loud from Georgia: Facts & Symbols by Emily McAuliffe. The boys completed notebooking pages and a Georgia mapping skills sheet. They also labeled a blank map with key points. Finally they worked through a reading comprehension set together.

Day #29/175 Days