Mali Week 11

L. Arts: I played Ziggy’s Treasure Hunt. We talked about how every word needs at least one vowel and identified different patterns in words, like consonant-vowel-consonant and vowel-consonant-consonant. I practiced spelling words from pictures in my Spell A Word flip book.

Math: I did some workbook pages. We are learning about counting on as a way to help add numbers. We practiced this with our math dot cards and also with our foam dice.

Science: In co-op we learned about spiders and some of the different ways they catch prey. Some spin webs, some make web mets, some hide behind trapdoors, some just hunt and pounce. We made webs out of popsicle sticks and yarn. At home we did our MEL SCIENCE kit about crystals and made three different kinds of crystals. One of the experiments was supposed to make iridescent crystals when viewed through polarizing film, but it didn’t really work even though the crystals did form the second time we tried. Our other crystals are still sitting in the cupboard while the liquid evaporates.

History: We learned about Ancient Africa. Where the Sahara desert is now used to be a place with water and plants and lots of people lived there. Fossils have been found so they know that it wasn’t always a desert. We also learned about Amanda and listened to two stories about him. One had a moral about how if we treat others badly, they will probably treat us badly in return.

Music: This week was a parents week, they come every other time. We accompanied the group singing Boom Boom Ain’t it Great to be Crazy on the autoharp. It’s tricky to play while people sing along. We also have a new song called Baby Step Leap. We take small little steps and then jump when the song says leap.

Tech (Engineering): We built a giant pile of leaves and jumped in it and buried ourselves. It was really fun. We also made monsters in co-op class. At the playground, we talked about different simple machines that show up in the playground equipment. Swings are a type of lever. There’s a drill kind of thing that is a modified inclined plane. We also watched my dad remove the flat tire and put the spare tire on the car. The lug nuts were super tight so he put the wrench on it and then had to jump on it to get more leverage. He also explained to us how the jack is a modified lever that works with a screw.

Music class

Leaf monster

Word building

My two monsters 

Snuggling in our giant leaf pile

Unicorn drawing

Another pony/unicorn drawing

Making crystals for science

Crystal solution. We had to wait for the liquid to evaporate

Sitting on Max, driving his legs

Max Week 11

L. Arts: I practiced the SH/CH/TH digraphs. Read some mini books. Spelled some words. I played Night Zookeeper.

Math: On Dreambox I used numerals to represent addition and subtraction problems. I did some workbook pages. We are learning about counting on as a way to help add numbers. We practiced this with our math dot cards and also with our foam dice.


Science: In co-op we learned about spiders and some of the different ways they catch prey. Some spin webs, some make web mets, some hide behind trapdoors, some just hunt and pounce. We made webs out of popsicle sticks and yarn. At home we did our MEL SCIENCE kit about crystals and made three different kinds of crystals. One of the experiments was supposed to make iridescent crystals when viewed through polarizing film, but it didn’t really work even though the crystals did form the second time we tried. Our other crystals are still sitting in the cupboard while the liquid evaporates.

History: We learned about Ancient Africa. Where the Sahara desert is now used to be a place with water and plants and lots of people lived there. Fossils have been found so they know that it wasn’t always a desert. We also learned about Amanda and listened to two stories about him. One had a moral about how if we treat others badly, they will probably treat us badly in return.

Music: This week was a parents week, they come every other time. We accompanied the group singing Boom Boom Ain’t it Great to be Crazy on the autoharp. It’s tricky to play while people sing along. We also have a new song called Baby Step Leap. We take small little steps and then jump when the song says leap.

Tech (Engineering): We built a giant pile of leaves and jumped in it and buried ourselves. It was really fun. We also made monsters in co-op class. At the playground, we talked about different simple machines that show up in the playground equipment. Swings are a type of lever. There’s a drill kind of thing that is a modified inclined plane. We also watched my dad remove the flat tire and put the spare tire on the car. The lug nuts were super tight so he put the wrench on it and then had to jump on it to get more leverage.

Spelling words 

Monsters

My monster

Leaves

Reading practice

Practicing addition

SCIENCE!

Stirring the crystal solution

The crystal forumula

Pouring in the liquid (dissolved) crystals

Mali WEEK 10

L. Arts: I did my Ziggy at the market game to practice phonograms. We also made some flip books for words and I practiced those. I read the book A Hat in my reader.

Math: We are doing a free trial of Dreambox to see if we like it. So far I like it okay. I did some activities with a ten frame on it. I also played Sleeping Queens with my mom. I also did some workbook pages.

Science: We read in our book Everyday Amazig about salt. We learned how it’s structure is crystal and we looked at some pink himalayan salt we have under our handheld microscopes. We also dissolved some in water and will watch as the water evaporates to see how it leaves the salt behind. It was interesting to learn that salt is made of sodium and chlorine. We watched some videos of sodium exploding in water and learned about how chlorine is a toxic gas. Both of those things are very different from salt!

History: We did not have a history lesson this week.

Music: No music class, but we did do our practicing. Our homework required us to listen to several of our different songs and identify if they had the sol-mi pattern or the mi-re-do pattern. Some had both.

Tech (Engineering): We got a neat app on our ipads called FlipAClip. You can make flip books. It’s fun.

Other: We went to the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point Gardens. It had a lot of cool scarecrows.

I got new purple shoes! I wanted shoes that tied. 

Scarecrows 

More Scarecrows

Showing Mom my paper flipbook (see pictures of the pages below)

Practicing my Make 10 addends 

Flip book pictures

Flip book pictures (2 of 2)

Playing Sleeping Queens

Practicing phonograms..Zzzzzzz

Playing one of my Ziggy games

Some pictures I drew

Working on our FlipAClip animations

Forky

Max - Week 10

L. Arts: I finished up the lessons on silent final E in my lesson book. I took the assessment for SH/CH/TH. I missed a few of the words but that’s okay because I will be practicing them over the next few lessons.

Math: We are doing a free trial of Dreambox to see if we like it. So far I like it okay. I did some activities with a ten frame on it. I also played Sleeping Queens with my mom. I also did some workbook pages.

Science: We read in our book Everyday Amazig about salt. We learned how it’s structure is crystal and we looked at some pink himalayan salt we have under our handheld microscopes. We also dissolved some in water and will watch as the water evaporates to see how it leaves the salt behind. It was interesting to learn that salt is made of sodium and chlorine. We watched some videos of sodium exploding in water and learned about how chlorine is a toxic gas. Both of those things are very different from salt!

History: We did not have a history lesson this week.

Music: No music class, but we did do our practicing. Our homework required us to listen to several of our different songs and identify if they had the sol-mi pattern or the mi-re-do pattern. Some had both.

Tech (Engineering): We got a neat app on our ipads called FlipAClip. You can make flip books. It’s fun.

Other: We went to the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point Gardens. It had a lot of cool scarecrows. 

I made this animation. It is a Krabby Patty (from Spongebob) being assembled.

Spelling words and a sentence. This letter tiles app doesn't have a period so I
put an apostrophe at the end just to show that I know there should be punctuation there. 

Circle of Sentences AND SKITTLES!

Practicing the addends that make 10

Sentences

Thanksgiving Point Gardens 

Leaves

Working on our Flip-A-Clip  

More spelling words

Mali - Week 9

L. Arts: I did my flash cards review. I read a new book called Jam (I think). It was about a girl who had a yak come to dinner who really liked eating jam.

Math: We played our game Clumsy Thief Junior to practice adding to make 10. I practice counting to 100 a few times.

Science: In Hands-On Science we learned about why leaves change color in the fall. It’s a result of changing temperature and amount of sunlight. Making leaves is a big job for a tree, and with the reduced sunlight in the winter, the payoff is less because there’s not as much light for photosynthesis. With oranges and yellows, those pigments are already there but hidden behind the green of the chlorophyll. Reds are different and are produced when the sugar in the leaves changes to pigment. We extracted pigment from different colors of leaves, colored fall pictures, and made leaf rubbings. We also read a relevant book and watched a Brain Pop video. We also watched some wild Kratts episodes about penguins and dholes, a type of wild dog.

History: We learned about Leif Erickson for Leif Erikson day. We had a special Swedish cake in celebration, even though he wasn’t Swedish. We figured it was close enough. It’s called kladdkaka.
Music: Our homework was identifying which note was higher on the staff out of a pair. We practiced our songs on the bells. We are learning to play the Scotland’s burning song.

Tech (Engineering): We did origami. We got our own sets in a co-op class. We also got some stacking robot heads that are really tricky to balance. The set came with 8 heads but balancing more than 5 seems impossible so far.

Other: we had two fun field trips this week. One was to Wilkerson Farm on Thursday and the other was to HeeHaws on Friday. We made Halloween sugar cookies with our mom.

HeeHaws

Making leaf rubbings

Extracted leaf pigments

Stacking robot heads

Reading flashcards, with candy checkpoints

Reading Jam

The activity in my book for Jam

At Wilkerson Farms

Honey stick - YUM!

I was kind of nervous about the swings at
first but they were really fun

Wilkerson Farm

I love playing with this Halloween decoration

Big slide at HeeHaws

Decorating sugar cookies with mom

Origami