M & M Adventures: Week 4

Max: This week I finished reading the Dinosaurs Before Dark book from the Magic Treehouse series. I practiced my spelling words and did some pages in Explode the Code.

Mali: I did more lessons with my Toe By Toe book. I did some activities in my Dyslexia skills workbook. We started reading the new Princess in Black book we got.

Math - We walked around the neighborhood and counted steps. First we estimated how far 100 steps would take us. Then we estimated how far 1000 steps would take us. It was really quite far! We used click counters to track our steps. We also started a collection of 1000 natural items. We picked up and counted 620 little seed pods we discovered on our walk. We are also practicing our “adds to ten” math facts.

History - We learned about Christianity coming to Britain from the Romans.

Science - We learned about the periodic table some more. We went over ionic and covalent bonds. Covalent bonds involve sharing of electrons.

Music - We had to do video class this week because we had a potential COVID exposure through our neighbors, but luckily it turned out negative so we are okay to go next week. We learned the red chord on the keyboard.

Tech:

Max (Coding): This week I didn’t end up doing any coding.

Mali (Photography): My mom and I both tried to take pictures of a couple of birds that landed on our bird feeder. It was tricky to get the zoom to work and to stabilize the camera enough.

Competencies -

We helped get the cinder blocks placed for the foundation of the chicken coop we are building in the back yard. It took quite a bit of teamwork and cooperation. And communication, too. Sometimes we didn't really understand what our dad needed us to do so we had to ask for more information.