Mali Weeks 1-3

L. Arts: I did the first few lessons in my new reading program. I am doing All About Reading.

I like that there are worksheets with cute pictures. I also wrote some songs and had my family

sing them for my play. I made puppets and puppet shows for the Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks,

and Red Riding Hood. 

Math: I started my math and we talked about greater than/less than. We also counted items

up to 10 and learned about using a ten frame. We played with the math cubes after we did

learning activities with them. Mom ordered more math cubes because we liked building with

them and only had 100. 

Science: We learned about cells and the history of cell theory. We watched a Bill Nye

about Cells and also a YouTube video that talked about the scientists who discovered cells.

We used our handheld microscopes to look at cells on our slides. We looked in our science

textbook at diagrams of plants and animal cells and discussed some differences between them. 

History: We learned about pyramids. We watched a few videos about the on youtube. It

was interesting that they could make them when they didn’t have very strong tools. Even

today, we don’t know for sure how they built them but there are some different ideas. 

Music: We learned some songs, including Let’s Play Music, Great Big Red Balloon, Do

Re Mi, Primary Chords and Magical Lamp. We got to practice the bells in Hickety Pickety

and Great Big Red Balloon. We made some paper balloons at home and laminated them.

We are practicing the solfege hand signs. 

Tech (Engineering): We had fun building with our new math cubes. We built little human

figures and also some other structures. They are kind of tricky to build with because they

only have one attachment nub.  Tied in with our history we learned about buildings and

watched a video about the Burj Khalifa, which is the current tallest building in the world.

We also watched a video about people basejumping off of it with their “flying squirrel suits”. 

I came up with a space game and my brothers helped me make some shrinkydink pieces

for it. My brother Leif helped me make the game board and write the rules. 

My first draft of my board game, Space Attack

Daddy Fun Time

Second draft plus rules for Space Attack

Language Arts

Cardboard puzzle I made

One of the stories I illustrated - guess which one

Another story

Another story

Goldilocks and the Three Bears puppet show

Reading worksheet

Guy I made out of math cubes

Practicing my music with Max

A bunch of guys we made out of math cubes

Practicing flash cards and earning chocolate chips and mini marshmallows

Feeding the monster

Max and I made these cardboard dinosaurs with Mom's help