M & M Adventures: Mali & Max Week 17

Language Arts

MAX: I practiced more with the -ed ending and -ing ending. I did a handwriting page. I read in the reader and read some mini books.

MALI: I started Lesson 11 in my All About Reading book. I read a new story in the reader called Jobs. I did some lessons on Reading Eggs. I practiced my flash cards.

Math

We did Dreambox lessons. We played Dragonwood. Mom won the game, but she didn’t defeat either of the dragons. We each defeated one.

MAX: I did more subtraction practice on my worksheets. I also played Math Dice.

MALI: I did some addition worksheets.

Science

In Hands On Science we learned about how the sun and the tilt of the earth makes the seasons. We also learned about how some cold-weather animals stay warm—penguins have waxy feathers (we colored our penguins and then gave them a spritz of water) and seals and polar bears have blubber. We tried sticking our hands in ice water just normally and also inside a layer of “blubber” (shortening over a latex glove). The blubber helped a lot! And we also learned about snowflakes and how the molecular structure makes them hexagonal. And tried to make 6 pointed snowflakes.

History

We learned about Ashurbanipal and the Assyrians. They were really brutal and treated the people they conquered horribly. Many cities would just surrender when they knew the Assyrians were coming so they wouldn’t have to be treated so terribly.

Music

We practiced songs and our new Christmas song. Our class this week was just kids, no parents. We walked over by ourselves because Mom had to take our sister to work. Wee learned what MI RE DO & SOL SOL DO look like when written on the staff. The word “notation” means to place the notes how they are written on the staff.

Tech (Engineering)

We had fun building with our Spielgaben manipulatives. We built towers and starbursts and also did some pixel art on the board. We also have been playing this game on the iPad that you have to make tunnels and use gravity to get a ball to a goal. It is a pretty challenging puzzle game.

Other

This was the last week of co-op for this semester. We start again near the end of January. We went to the Curiosity Museum and played outside for a while because it wasn’t too cold.