Max - Week 9

L. Arts: I learned about one of the jobs of silent E. Silent E at the end of a word is bossy and makes the Val in front of it say its name. I read so many books and I also read some more in my reader.

Math: We played our new game clumsy thief Junior to practice number bonds to make tens. I also practice some math in our math apps.

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

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 kladkakka.

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.

Practicing flash cards for reading

We pretended they were little icebergs for my penguin to 

hop along

They added a slide into the corn pit 

since the last time we were here

Grinding up the leaves to extract the pigments

Doing leaf rubbings

Climbing in the colonial challenge at Thanksgiving Point

Extracted leaf pigments

Origami penguin

Working with the stacking robot heads

I got 5 to kind of balance

More origami

Hay ride at Wilkerson Farms

Corn maze at Wilkerson Farms

On the swings

So fun!

Mom found a unicorn costume for me for Halloween!

Tractor swing at Hee Haws

Hee Haws

Decorating sugar cookies