Week 36

L. Arts:
Max- i did lessons 37 and 38 in my language arts book. I went over words with AI in them and learned about parables. I did some books and answered questions on RAZ kids. I practiced phonics cards.
Mali- This week I read some stories to myself from my reader. I did some lessons on Nessy and also some Reading Eggs. I wrote a bunch of sentences on my own and then made a little book out of them. I practiced some of my flash cards.

Math:
Max- My Dreambox activities were on making graphs. I liked those. I also did some math pages in my workbook.
Mali- my Dreambox activities were on making tens to add numbers. Mostly using a ten frame. I used a ruler as a number line to help me figure them out.

Tech: 

we built the best project in our Super Structured kit. It was an arch. We watched an informative video on arches on Youtube and learned about compression and tension forces. We made some paper arches as well. We also did paint pouring with mom and Leif.

History: 

we learned about the Mauryan Empire of India. Also about the Jataka Tales that are kind of similar to Aesop’s fables that are about how to live a good and moral life.

Science: 

We did some backyard birdwatching. We also went over by the lake and did some more birdwatching. Our mom has an app we can look them up on and it also has samples of their songs. Some of the birds we only heard but mom knew their calls so she looked them up on the app and showed us pictures of them.

Music: 

we had our music class over zoom. We practiced our songs on the bells. Part of our homework was to color rectangles on a music staff the color of the corresponding bells.

Here's a picture of Mom's Jeep! :)

Super Structures: Arch

Building arches

Some of the birds we saw/heard on our outing

Leif teaching us how to do paint pouring 

Coloring our Earth Day pictures to put on the door

Tried to take a photo through the binoculars. There were a bunch of yellow headed blackbirds in the
tree for quite a while making a lot of noise. 

Max reading along with Leif for part of Leif's reading assignment

Mali's Earth Day picture

Max's Earth Day picture

Making arches

Mali made a bird after she was done making arches

Looking for birds out by Utah Lake

Sunday hike to Lost Creek Falls

Week 35

L. Arts: 

Max- I started the next Ricky Ricotta book, which is vs the Naughty Nightcrawlers. I also did some handwriting and some lessons in my lesson book. I am trying out a computer program called Raz kids and read some stories on there. 

Mali- I am trying out the Nessy program on the computer to see if I like it. I like it okay so far. I did some spelling of my words I’m working on with the wooden letters. I read a few stories in my lesson reader. 

Math:

Max- I did Dreambox lessons on subtracting 3 digit numbers by finding “friendly” numbers to subtract. I also practiced subtraction under 20. We made spinners and spun them to make addition problems. 

Mali- I played the spinner game with Mom and Max. I did some Dreambox lessons too and a little bit in my workbook. 

Science: 

we learned about how even toasting bread and cooking causes chemical reactions which is how it changes the flavor. Toasting other things, especially things like coffee and cocoa beans, really makes a big difference in the flavor. 

History: 

We learned about the Indus Valley people. We learned a little about their beliefs as well, and also the origin story of Siddhartha who became Buddha.

Music: 

We had a class over Marco Polo. Our homework page was to put the right notes in the chord triangles. We practiced the dinosaur song and also Do-Mi-Mi. 

Tech: 

Mali- I did a lot of sewing this week. I made monsters for my friends who came back from 6 months in Brazil this week. I also made Max a penguin. I did all those by hand. Mom helped me with the big sewing part of the penguin and sewed that part on the machine. She and I also sewed me a beanie frog. I named him Clerken after one of my favorite songs, Bathtime in Clerkenwell. 

Max- We went and flew a kite at the park. We learned a bit about how kites fly and also had to do some minor repairs on our kite because one of the sticks poked out the end. Flying the kite was really fun.

(Some pics are from weeks 33/34 because we ran out of time to get them on our blog before.)

I found the Judas Egg!

Sewing!

Decorating eggs for our door decoration. We also hung some on the garage

Our Animal Crossing characters. 

Cookie was too big to fit in the glass. 

Using my tiny cup and plate for my big cookie

Bubbles

Supermoon!

We did some challenges from the provo spring break scavenger hunt and one of them was to use household
items to spell out COVID-19

Max's new penguin that he was saving up points for finally arrived

Royal Penguin with his crown and scepter

Mali ready for an adventure, riding an elephant

We made ch/th/sh out of play doh to practice reviewing

Max's watercoloring painting

Kite flying

Kite flying

Mali on Nessy

Math spinners game

At Squaw Peak

Mali made letter faces

Mali sewing

Her monsters

Chilling on the weekend playing some Animal Crossing

Weeks 33-34

L. Arts:
Max- I did some assessments in the back of my book. On one of them I read all of the words in about 40 seconds. The goal is to read them all under 90 seconds.

Mali- I did a lesson in All About Reading. I finished the Volume 1 reader. I did some Reading Eggs lessons. We watched the first 6 movies of Harry Potter over the week before spring break and spring break.

Math:
Max - We played games. Mom and I played Gobblet. I did Dreambox activities on classifying types of shapes.

Mali - I did a lesson and a chapter review in my math book. We played Castle Panic. I did Dreambox lessons on patterns.

Science:

We went out and looked at the Supermoon and then looked at Venus. Our dad used his star app on his phone and we looked at some other stars as well. We used our telescope to look at the moon. It was really bright.

History: 

We learned more about Rome. We learned about some things in Roman culture (like architecture, roads, baths). We learned a bit about Roman mythology and how it is a variation on Greek mythology.

Music: 

We had another Marco Polo class. We played the accompaniment of the “jump jump jump” part to the Froggy Went A Hoppin song on our bells.

Tech (Engineering): We built with Legos. We decorated easter eggs. We did egg wars with our eggs to find the strongest eggs. We built a fort in the backyard.