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