May 31, 2012

Lego-Man

• Read Psalm 35 and write out one verse
• Math: do rows 8-9 on pg. 204 and rows 8-9 on pg. 99, IXL Math
• Complete pg. 13 in handwriting book
• Complete Day #36 in Sequential Spelling
• Read and complete pages 93-94 in Vocabulary book
• Read and complete pages 163-172 in Grammar book
• Practice the piano
• Complete Grammar pg. 67
• Read pages 329-249 in George Washington's World
• Read Chapters 13-14 in The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way
• Work on Educational Fair projects: Creative Writing, history of Minecraft, and photos

Pilot

• Math: Redo #12 & 13 on pg. 97, complete rows 1-2 on pg. 98 and #8-9 on pg. 99, work on IXL math
• Complete pg. 11 in handwriting book
• Redo Grammar pg. 63 
• Complete Day #33 in Sequential Spelling
• Read chapters 5-6 in Guardians of Ga'Hoole
• Read pages 196-211 in The World of Capt. John Smith
• Practice the piano
• Work on airplane lapbook
• Work on Educational Fair projects: photos, building, and history of airplanes

Happy

• Complete math worksheets
• Practice piano
• Complete handwriting page
• Starfall
• Reading Eggs
• IXL Math

Day #160/175 Days

May 30, 2012

All

• Practice piano
• Read aloud - 5 chapters - A Nest for Celeste
• Began working on Educational Fair projects
• Worked on 4-H paperwork
• Watched two episodes of Drive Thru History
• Watched a webinar about Astronomy 
• Cooking Class

Class was fun today. We began by listing what our favorite fast food meal would be. Then our chef put it together for us! Or rather, all the fat included in the meal on a hamburger roll. Here was Happy's:

It is a salad and chips from Subway. 

The meal we made today were burgers. We mixed bison burger and turkey burger together (mainly to help extend the bison burger since it's a bit pricey). The burger was put on an Ezekiel bread English Muffin (yum!). We also made sweet potato French fries and also had watermelon. There were various toppings as well that could be added. This was one of our favorite meals we've made to date.

Day #159/175 Days

May 29, 2012

Pilot

• Math: Complete rows 1-3 on pg. 96 and #8-9 & 12-13 in pg. 97 and work on IXL Math for 15 minutes
• Complete page 10 in handwriting book
• Review Grammar pg 62 and complete page 63
• Complete Day #32 of Sequential Spelling
• Read Chapters 3-4 in Guardians of Ga'Hoole
• Read pages 182-195 in The World of Capt. John Smith
• Practice the piano
• Work on airplane lapbook

Lego-Man

• Math: Complete rows 4-7 on pg. 204 and #12-16 on pg. 205; complete rows 4-7 on pg. 206 and #11-13 & 16 on pg. 207; and work on IXL Math
• Complete pg. 12 in handwriting book
• Complete Day #35 in Sequential Spelling
• Read and complete pgs. 91-93 in Vocabulary book
• Read and complete pgs. 135-144 in Grammar book
• Practice the piano
• Read pages 312-328 in George Washington's World
• Read chapters 11-12 in The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way
• Read pgs 1-24 in Lightening Lit book and answer comprehension questions

Happy

• Complete both sides of math worksheets
• Practice the piano
• Complete handwriting pages
• Complete Day 1 in Grammar
• Complete pages 4-6 in Explode the Code
• Starfall
• IXL Math

Piano Lessons for all.

Day #158/175 Days

May 23, 2012

Today was a shortened day.

We had piano lessons (20-30 mins each).

Then we had our second cooking class. While the boys aren't enjoying having to actually eat the food (with the exception of my youngest), they are having a good time during the actual prep and cooking. The classes run two hours.

Day #157/175 Days

May 22, 2012

Today was a "real life" / unschooling day.

• We began our day at the Social Security Administration. I needed to replace Social Security cards that were misplaced years ago. 
• While we were driving we listened to one of our favorite audio dramas - Jonathan Park.
• I took a bike ride with my two youngest boys.'

• We visited my sister and watched How Big is Our God video.
• The boys then microwaved Ivory soap and ended up with this:

• We also microwaved grapes, but did not dry them first. It didn't flash as much as the video linked shows.
• The boys also made film rockets and had a lot of fun setting them off. This was to make sure we could  recreate it all when we got together with our 4H club to do this.

Day #156/175 Days

May 21, 2012

Our 4H club is working on ballistics. Today we decided to do the fun and messy Diet Coke and Mentos experiement....with a twist. However, we decided to test all kinds of soda and both mint and fruit Mentos. We then graphed the results. We found that generic Cola actually worked way better than Diet Coke. Thankfully we had a brave teen in our club who was willing to do some of the experiment as well as a Dad who had the day off. That left the moms to take photos and help with the graphing.

  

Day #155/175 Days

May 17, 2012

Lego-Man

• Math: Lesson 96 - complete rows 4-7 on pg. 200 and #16-17 on pg. 201; Lesson 97 - complete rows 1-5 on pg. 202 and complete #11-13 on pg. 203; CapJaxMathFax for 15 minutes; and IXL Math for 15 minutes
• Complete Lesson 3 in handwriting book
• Complete Day #34 in Sequential Spelling
• Read and complete pgs. 89-91 in Vocabulary book
• Read and complete pgs. 131-135 in Grammar book
• Practice the piano
• Complete Grammar pg. 61
• Read Psalm 33 and write out one verse
• Read pgs. 300-311 in George Washington's World
• Read Chapters 9-10 in The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way

Happy

• Complete math worksheet
• Practice the piano
• Complete handwriting page
• Head of the Class
• Starfall
• Reading Eggs
• Go Go Kabongo
• CapJaxMathFax 
• IXL Math
• Explode the Code Book 1 - pretest and pages 1-3

Pilot

• Math: Lesson 94 - complete rows 1-4 on pg. 94 and #8-11 on pg. 95; CapJaxMathFax; and IXL Math
• Complete page 9 in handwriting book
• Read chapters 1-2 in Guardians of Ga'Hoole
• Read pgs. 170-181 in The World of Capt. John Smith
• Complete Easy Grammar pg. 61
• Read Psalm 34 and write out one verse
• Practice the piano
• Redo Lesson #32 in Sequential Spelling
• Work on airplane lapbook

Day #154/175 Days

May 16, 2012

Lego-Man

• Math: Complete #12-16 on pg. 193; Complete #11-15 on pg. 194 (and fix errors); Lesson 94 - complete rows 1-3 on pg. 196 and #8-13 on pg. 197; Lesson 95 - complete rows 5-7 on pg. 198 and #8-15 on pg. 199; work on CapJaxMathFax for 15 minutes; and work on IXL Math for 15 minutes
• Complete Lesson 2 in handwriting book
• Complete Day #33 in Sequential Spelling
• Read and complete pg. 85 in Vocabulary book
• Read and complete pg. 127-131 in Grammar book
• Practice piano
• Read Psalm 32 and write out one verse
• Complete Grammar pg. 61
• Read pgs. 286-299 in George Washington's World
• Read Chapters 7-8 in The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way

Happy

• Complete both sides of your math worksheet
• Practice the piano
• Complete handwriting pages
• Head of the Class
• Starfall
• Reading Eggs
• Go Go Kabongo
• CapJaxMathFax 
• IXL Math

Pilot

• Math: Fix errors on Lesson 40; Lesson 42 complete rows 3-5 on pg 92 and #8-12 on pg. 93; CapJaxMathFax for 15 minutes; and IXL Math for 15 minutes
• Complete Day 1 handwriting page
• Finish reading My Side of the Mountain
• Read pages 156-169 in The World of Capt. John Smith
• Review errors on Grammar pg. 57 and complete pg. 59
• Read Psalm 33 and write out one verse
• Practice the piano
• Complete Day #31 of Sequential Spelling
• Work on airplane lapbook

This afternoon we started our new cooking class. This is a new community program. We are participating with another family. Each week we are meeting to learn about nutrition and how to cook healthy meals. The class is being taught by a local chef and a local personal trainer/nutritionist. 

Each class has the children preparing the food and then we all sit down to eat it together before we leave. We also take home groceries in order to recreate the meals. It's a free program as well. I like that the kids are doing the work. The rule (for my very picky older boys) is that they have to try all the food. They may not like it, but they do have to taste it.


Day #153/175 Days

May 15, 2012

Lego-Man

• Math: Lesson 92 - complete rows 1-3 on pg. 192 and complete rows 5-7 on pg. 194. Work on CapJaxMathFax for 15 mins, and IXL Math for 15 mins.
• Complete page 9 in handwriting book
• Complete Day #32 in Sequential Spelling
• Read and complete pages 80-84 in Vocabulary book
• Read and complete pages 125-126 in Grammar book
• Practice piano
• Read Psalm 31 and write out one verse
• Complete Grammar page 59
• Read pages 272-285 in George Washington's World
• Science: Read Chapters 5-6 in The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way

Pilot

• Math: In Lesson 40 - redo row #6 on pg. 88 and do row #7; In Lesson 41 - complete rows 1-3 on pg. 90 and #8-12 on pg. 91; Work on CapJaxMathFax for 15 mins; and work on IXL Math for 15 mins.
• Complete handwriting page
• Read pages 130-149 in My Side of the Mountain
• Read pages 143-155 in The World of Captain John Smith
• Complete Grammar pg. 57
• Read Psalm 32 and write out one verse
• Practice piano
• Complete Day #30 in Sequential Spelling

Happy

• Do both sides of math worksheet
• Complete handwriting pages
• Work on CapJaxMathFax for 10 minutes
• Work on IXL math for 10 minutes
• Head of the Class
• Starfall
• Reading Eggs
• Go Go Kabongo

Day #152/175 Days

May 14, 2012

We had our weekly 4-H meeting today (2 hours).  We decided to focus on ballistics this year. Today we made our own safety glasses out of clear 2-liter soda bottles. 

The kids are really looking forward to the next step...making catapults out of mousetraps!



Day #151/175 Days

May 10, 2012

We spent a fun time at our church this morning. We had a rep from the Geographic Alliance come out with a very large map of the United States. Ms. Lahti used to be a local teacher and did very well with the kids. 

I had my "extra" kids today (Miss H & Mr. H) and they joined right in. We had children ranging in age from three all the way up to sixteen. It was a great hands on learning experience.

Day #150/175 Days

May 8, 2012

Together

•  Math Drill
• Dive Into Your Imagination 
• Practice Piano
• Read aloud - 2 chapters in A Nest for Celeste
• CapJaxMathFax - on their own - each for 15 minutes
• IXL Math - on their own - each for 15 minutes
• Outside time

Day #149/175 Days

May 7, 2012

Our 4-H group has set up some pottery classes at a local store. It's a pretty small studio so when all of us show up, we pretty  much fill the space! The neat thing is it's located in the old county jail building. The studio  is located in the garage space where the police cars would pull in to bring prisoners to the jail. This was a fantastic late spring day, so the garage door was open which made it feel a bit more open and airy in there.

Anyway.....

This class was one of two where the kids were making mugs. Today they created them. They will be fired and then we'll go back and paint and glaze them and they'll have one more firing.

My boys really enjoy these classes. As a bonus, it helps the boys with their Arts & Crafts Project Record for their 4-H program.

Day #148/175 Days

May 2, 2012

We had a fantastic time today at one of our favorite places to go - the Waterville Opera House.

Every year they put on four "educational" shows for school aged children and the admission is extremely affordable ($3/a child). All we have seen have been extremely well done.

Today we saw an adaptation of the book Skippyjon Jones. I wasn't familiar with book so neither were any of my boys. I made my sixteen year old come with us. What I loved about the play though, was 1) it was made into a musical and 2) they threw in some jokes that only the adults in the audience would get. I exchanged many a glance and a laugh with my oldest as we caught things that the other boys missed.

It was definitely an enjoy outing. We look forward to each play. 

Day #147/175 Days