Mali & Max Week 27

L. Arts:
We found our copy of Ella Enchanted so mom read some more aloud to us.

MALI- my language arts lesson introduced the phonograms of QU and X. We made a game board out of my review page and played. I won. I finished lesson 17. It had two new stories in my reader. One was about a fox and a box and I really like foxes.

MAX- I had a lesson about the phonogram OR. We came up with Settings for a story about a storm. I learned about the second job of silent E—making C and G day their soft sounds.

Math:
We played Sum Swamp.

MALI - I did dream box lessons about greater than and less than. I did workbook pages on subtraction in story problems.

MAX- I did some more practice with ordinal numbers and learned position birds, like next, between, over, to the left of, etc. I did quite a few pages in my workbook. I did Dreambox lessons on combining two 2-digit numbers that would make 100.

Science: 

We learned about acids and bases. We did a couple of experiments from our MEL science kits. We watched a video on acids and bases. Also one where they tested the pH of a bunch of different bottled waters. Some people claim that drinking more basic water is healthier, but there isn’t evidence to support that.

History: 

we learned about the Persian invasion of Greece, the legend of the runner to Marathon, and the Peloponnesian war. The Peloponnesian War lasted about 25 years with a bit of a break in the middle. It caused both Athens and Rome to be weaker so they were vulnerable to invasion.

Tech (Engineering):

MALI- I made some creatures out of clay and toothpicks. I also made some paper flowers with popsicle stick stems. I painted with watercolors. My mom and I made a popsicle stick picnic table for my mouse.

MAX- I worked on my FlipAClip project. Mom helped me make a pipe cleaner penguin.

Music: we didn’t have class this week because of Presidents’ Day. But we did listen to our songs and do our practice on the bells and our other homework.

Other: we had two tumbling classes this week because we had to miss last week so we did a makeup class.

We started working on a storyboard/outline for Max's story about Wally the alien that lives on Jupiter.

A poem I memorized

Some of Max's spelling words for the week

A funny panel from the Johnny Boo book mom read us one night

Building silly sentences for my reading lessons

Another review page game board (Mali) 

Brainstorm of settings for a story about a storm (Max)

Working on my watercolor as part of my language arts lesson

Mali and her big sister made this telephone booth for her toy mouse

Max's watercolor 

Playing Ziggy Goes Caving to review flashcards

Max's ch/th page and watercolor painting

Doing Reading Eggs

Doing Dreambox

Mali's watercolor painting

Practicing making skips and steps on the musical staff

Mali's mouse-sized picnic table

Max's pipe cleaner penguin

Science!

M&M Week 26

L. Arts:
MALI:I got to do a new Ziggy game this week. He is exploring in a cave and his backpack was open so all of his stuff fell out. I practiced my flash cards and read the story The Bad Rat. I did lesson 66 in Reading Eggs.

MAX: I read more of the Ricky Ricotta book I am reading. I did a lesson in my Language Arts book and read a story in the reader.

Math:

MALI: I practiced more subtraction. I did some Dreambox lessons on greater than/less than.

MAX: i learned about ordinal numbers. I did Dreambox lessons about adding two digit numbers by using jumps of 10.

Science: 

We learned about the skeletal system. We did a worksheet labeling different bones. We learned the roles of the skeleton.

History: 

We learned about Greek Mythology. We learned about the Trojan War, the myth of Eros/Cupid, Icarus and Daedalus, and the creation of man by Prometheus and Epimetheus.

Tech (Engineering): 

We built a fort in our playroom. We also did some FlipAClip animation. We decorated Valentine’s boxes and assembled our Valentines.

Music: 

This week was a parent class. We learned about how the bug names in the song we are learning all go with different note patterns. We listened to our songs.

Other: 

We had a fun Valentine party with our co-op.

MALI: I had a follow up visit with the eye doctor and got some vision exercises to do at home.

Max's Flip A Clip animation

Fun with photo filters at Mali's eye appointment while waiting for the doctor

Painting by Mali

New Ziggy game for Mali

Ziggy

Fort in the playroom

Max's magnet construction

We learned about Germany in our Explore the World co-op class

Mali's drawing of the Brandenburg Gate

One of Mali's Dreambox lessons this week 

Leif helping Max with his Valentine's box

Mali's drawing on her Valentine's box: Groot giving a Valentine to a Demogorgon

Max's penguin valentines box

Reading time

Writing valentines 

Writing valentines

We handed out slap bracelets

Checking valentines with his friend Hugh

M&M Week 25

L. Arts:
MALI: I did a review week to practice mastering more words and improve fluency. We played quite a few Ziggy Zebra games with my flashcards. I read a bunch of the stories in my lesson reader that I have read before.

MAX: I did some spelling word practice. I read the first and second stories in my lesson reader. I started reading Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot vs the Mecha Monkeys from Mars. I practiced reading words with EA in them. I memorized a poem called Singing Time.

Math:MALI: I did some more subtraction pages in my workbook. I did some Dreambox lessons about making 100.

MAX: I did Dreambox lessons about moving some of one number to the number you are adding it to in order to make it easier to add in your head. For example, instead of adding 202 + 157, you add 200 + 159. I did more workbook pages with shapes and patterns.

Science: 

In our co-op Marine Biology class we learned about classification and made posters classifying different groups of marine animals. At home for science we started a unit about bodies. We named all the parts of the body we could think of and talked about how in some ways a body is like a car--there are lots of parts that need to work together for everything to run smoothly.

History: 

We learned about Sparta & Athens. Spartans were more concerned about being physically strong and fighting, so in their schools the boys all learned to fight and being strong was really important. In Athens, it was more important to the people that the kids grow up to be educated about numbers and philosophy because they had a democracy and wanted the people to vote for good laws.

Tech (Engineering): 

At the Curiosity Museum we built some really big Lego stairs. We also built some things with the little sunburst/circle things they have in the building room.

Music: 

Our homework this week was to identify skips on the music staff. We did a song called Jungle Rhythm in class and practiced breaking up the beat and moving to a steady beat. We listened to more of our new songs.

We went to the Rec Center and had some fun in the Racquetball court

Tiny twin!

Max's spelling practice

Reading games with Ziggy

Practicing flash cards

Building the Great Wall of our Classroom at co-op

We built these Lego stairs

Max and Mom built this penguin. 

Mali made these flowers

Mali's page from her Marine Biology class 

Max's page 

Painting the apples on a Language Arts page

Poem Max memorized this week

One of Max's workbook pages

We played Bellz

More of Max's spelling