Max - Week 13

L. Arts: I read two of the review practice sheets in the back of the book. I did a worksheet on identifying nouns and verbs. I read a new story from the I See Sam series, Matt at Bat. I read some mini books, including Clocks.

Math: I played Number Dice Junior with my mom few times and also with my sister. I practiced using as many of the five days as I could to make a target number. I won. I also did some workbook pages practicing addition and some Dreambox lessons on the computer.

Science: We learned about atoms. We built models with Skittles and also as a group with balloons. We learned that the atoms of different elements have different numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons.

History: We learned about King Tutankhamen. He wasn’t a very important or notable pharaoh but his tomb wasn’t discovered until the early 1900s so he is really famous. His tomb was undisturbed which was notable because so many were raided.

Music: We focused a lot on baby steps on the staff. A major chord is made up of all baby steps. A baby step goes from a line to a space or a space to a line. We identified mi-re-do and sol-sol-do in our Circle to the Left song.

Tech (Engineering): We built a fort wall patterned after Jamestown with the building stuff at Thanksgiving Point. We also built cup towers with a bunch of cups we had gotten for a neighborhood party game. We built a really tall one.

Admiring the Dinovember dinos one morning

Some spelling words. We noticed just now that I spelled "have" wrong. Oops!

You try to use all 5 dice to make a target number

One of the several games of Math Dice Junior I played this week

Building atoms

Atomic model built with skittles

Building our skittle atomic models

Atomic model with balloons--we are keeping the nucleus corralled

Making the wall 

Building Fort Jamestown

Practicing baby steps on the staff

Reading practice in my language arts program

Assembling my new minifig

I earned this Korg minifig with my lesson points

I noticed how the sunlight shone through these dice and looked really pretty

Our awesome tall cup tower

more practice words

We took a slow-mo video of us knocking the tower down

Mali - Week 13

Language Arts: I did a lesson and read the new story Hit the Gas. I practiced my phonogram cards and my word cards. I did some Reading Eggs. I did a Build A Sentence activity with my mom. You swap out different words in a sentence to change it to match the picture, then draw a new picture card and change the sentence again.

Math:  I played Number Dice Junior. I did some Dreambox. I built a 100 chart. I did some workbook pages. One was fun because it had mommy and baby butterflies and I found all the babies even if they weren’t in the same row.

Science: We learned about atoms. We built models with Skittles and also as a group with balloons. We learned that the atoms of different elements have different numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons.

 
History: We learned about King Tutankhamen. He wasn’t a very important or notable pharaoh but his tomb wasn’t discovered until the early 1900s so he is really famous. His tomb was undisturbed which was notable because so many were raided and robbed a long time ago. 

 
Music: We focused a lot on baby steps on the staff. A major chord is made up of all baby steps. A baby step goes from a line to a space or a space to a line. We identified mi-re-do and sol-sol-do in our Circle to the Left song.

Tech (Engineering): We built a fort wall patterned after Jamestown with the building stuff at Thanksgiving Point. We also built cup towers at home with a bunch of cups we had gotten for a neighborhood party game. We built a really tall one.

Playing Math Dice Junior

Building atoms with Skittles

Building atoms with balloons

Being silly

Building the Jamestown Fort

Our fort inside the wall

Practicing baby steps on the staff

Making dinosaur families

Build A Sentence activity

Build A Sentence

Math worksheet

I had fun matching all the babies with their moms

A craft I made this week

We are the Cup Crew

Max - Week 12

L. Arts: Max- I read minibooks. I finished up the lessons on SH/TH/CH. I practiced reading a list of Silent E words and I read A LOT more in one minute than I did the first time I read the list a few weeks ago. I did an assessment and had to read a poem and two passages. I only made one mistake in each of the passages, and no mistakes in the poem.

Math: We practiced adding on. One day we practiced math facts while jumping on the trampoline. We made Candy Countdowns to Christmas and practiced couting and writing numbers. I built a 100 chart by filling in where the numbers go on Dreambox. I practiced adding as well.

Science: We learned about air. We learned about the layers of the atmosphere. We used a blower and floated coffee filters, balls, and little ghosts made out of coffee filters in it. We also had ghost races where we blew them with straws.

History: We learned about the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. The Egyptians were defeated by the Hyksos because the Hyksos had chariots and bows and arrows. But about 100 years later, the Egyptian princes joined together and used the same technology to drive out the Hyksos. We learned about Hatshepsut as well, the only female pharaoh of her time.

Music: We practiced Chords in Pieces and our other songs. We could wear our costumes to class if we wanted to. This week was a “no parents” class.

Tech (Engineering): We made our Candy Countdowns. We started out using staples and tape but then figured out that hot glue worked a lot better.

Other: No Tumbling this week because of Halloween. We had fun trick or treating. We had a halloween party with our co-op. We practiced our Spanish lessons. We are learning how to answer and ask questions. We learned a new type of question, which is a statement with “verdad” at the end, which is like saying “right?” at the end of an English sentence.

Flips!

Playing Do-mi-mi, mi-so-so, ra-fa-fa, la-ti-ti

Fun with the vacuum airstream

With mom, the Coca-Cola Bear, my aunt Anita, and Uncle Bryce

Doing Tangrams on Osmo

Big Dinosaur Footprints

Cool Decorations at the Dinosaur Museum

I'm a unicorn and Mali is a reindeer

I sorted all my mom's hangers by color

Working on my Candy Countdown to Christmas

All done with my countdown!

Fun with air

Mali - Week 12

L. Arts: I read some of my word flip books. I practiced flash cards. I read the story Jam again. I did the assessment on Reading Eggs and it said I am at lesson 51.

Math: We practiced adding on. One day we practiced math facts while jumping on the trampoline. We made Candy Countdowns to Christmas and practiced couting and writing numbers. In Dreambox I have been exploring how numbers can be used to measure distances. Using lengths of ten, I am building a number line model.

Science: We learned about air. We learned about the layers of the atmosphere. We used a blower and floated coffee filters, balls, and little ghosts made out of coffee filters in it. We also had ghost races where we blew them with straws.

History: We learned about the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. The Egyptians were defeated by the Hyksos because the Hyksos had chariots and bows and arrows. But about 100 years later, the Egyptian princes joined together and used the same technology to drive out the Hyksos. We learned about Hatshepsut as well, the only female pharaoh of her time.
Music: We practiced Chords in Pieces and our other songs. We could wear our costumes to class if we wanted to. This week was a “no parents” class.

Tech (Engineering): We made our Candy Countdowns. We started out using staples and tape but then figured out that hot glue worked a lot better.

Other: No Tumbling this week because of Halloween. We had fun trick or treating. We had a halloween party with our co-op. We practiced our Spanish lessons. We are learning how to answer and ask questions. We learned a new type of question, which is a statement with “verdad” at the end, which is like saying “right?” at the end of an English sentence.

Our model of the atmosphere layers on the floor

Snuggling up in a dinosaur nest

I'm getting chomped by this dinosaur shadow

RAWR

Fun Halloween decorations at the Dinosaur Museum

I had fun drawing all over the white board

So I had mom get me a big paper off our paper roll...

And I drew this picture of some eels and their adventures

About to head out into the cold to trick or treat with
our aunt Anita and Uncle Bryce

Look who showed up! Happy Dinovember!

My Candy Countdown to Christmas (made with Halloween candy)

I drew this picture of what we could do with the air stream from the vacuum.
It was so cool how we could tilt it sideways and it would still hold the ball.