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!