M & M Adventures

Monday, October 14, 2019

Max - Week 9

L. Arts: I learned about one of the jobs of silent E. Silent E at the end of a word is bossy and makes the Val in front of it say its name. I read so many books and I also read some more in my reader.

Math: We played our new game clumsy thief Junior to practice number bonds to make tens. I also practice some math in our math apps.

Science: In Hands-On Science we learned about why leaves change color in the fall. It’s a result of changing temperature and amount of sunlight. Making leaves is a big job for a tree, and with the reduced sunlight in the winter, the payoff is less because there’s not as much light for photosynthesis. With oranges and yellows, those pigments are already there but hidden behind the green of the chlorophyll. Reds are different and are produced when the sugar in the leaves changes to pigment. We extracted pigment from different colors of leaves, colored fall pictures, and made leaf rubbings. We also read a relevant book and watched a Brain Pop video

History: We learned about Leif Erickson for Leif Erikson day. We had a special Swedish cake in celebration, even though he wasn’t Swedish. We figured it was close enough. It’s called kladkakka.

Music: Our homework was identifying which note was higher on the staff out of a pair. We practiced our songs on the bells. We are learning to play the Scotland’s burning song.

Tech (Engineering): We did origami. We got our own sets in a co-op class. We also got some stacking robot heads that are really tricky to balance. The set came with 8 heads but balancing more than 5 seems impossible so far.

Other: we had two fun field trips this week. One was to Wilkerson Farm on Thursday and the other was to HeeHaws on Friday. We made Halloween sugar cookies with our mom.

Practicing flash cards for reading

We pretended they were little icebergs for my penguin to

hop along

They added a slide into the corn pit

since the last time we were here

Grinding up the leaves to extract the pigments

Doing leaf rubbings

Climbing in the colonial challenge at Thanksgiving Point

Extracted leaf pigments

Origami penguin

Working with the stacking robot heads

I got 5 to kind of balance

More origami

Hay ride at Wilkerson Farms

Corn maze at Wilkerson Farms

On the swings

So fun!

Mom found a unicorn costume for me for Halloween!

Tractor swing at Hee Haws

Hee Haws

Decorating sugar cookies

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Mali - Week 8

L. Arts: I did a new Ziggy game. He was the librarian and the sheep had to practice reading words to earn their library cards. I also practiced flash cards.

Math: I kept on practicing making number bonds. We got a new game called Clumsy Thief Junior and learned to play that one. We also did some activities outside where one of us would draw a card and the other person had to jump on the mat that you could add to that number to make 10/11/12/etc. I did some worksheet pages.

Science: We learned about Magnetism. It was fun to explore all the different magnets. We learned that like poles repel (push against) each other.

History: We learned about ancient China. People there settled around the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. They grew rice. Rice needs a lot of water to grow and the soil has to stay wet.

Music: We learned the Going on a Lion Hunt song. For our homework we listened to the Aladdin song and had to glue the right characters in the right spots based on the order their themes played.

Tech (Engineering): I made a snake out of craft paper and toilet paper rolls. I also made a paper clip and construction paper snake. We went to the skate park and observed (and rode on) ramps and other structures. We went to see Big Boy, the largest steam engine ever built. I also did some of the Inktober drawings. My mom and sister like to do them, so I had fun doing some, too. I'm not doing every day, though.

Other: We passed off all the requirements to move up to trampoline and tumbling level two. This week was our first week going to that class. It was fun.

We realized our car sings "Do Mi So" when you

start it up as the seatbelt reminder.

Butterfly at the Biosphere

Inktober: Bait

On our family hike to Timpanogos Falls

Inktober: Freeze

At the Butterfly Biosphere

Playing Storm the Castle to practice identifying vowel sounds

Practicing flash cards with dinosaurs

Playing UNO Flip

Fun with magnetism at co-op

Bug buddies

At the butterfly biosphere

Mali-pillar in a chysalis

My soup is delicious!

Inktober: Ring

Playing "Boom Boom Ain't It Great To Be Crazy" on the autoharp at music class

Inktober: Mindless

I made these fairies

Game with Ziggy for reading time

The sheep practiced reading

Music homework

Another Ziggy game

Read the words and get to move along the dock, jump in the water
and collect a starfish. Also some candy for fun!

Math

Big Boy

Big Boy, one of the largest steam engines EVER built

Practicing letter sounds with bingo game and dinos

I made this snake

I hooked a balloon and a little person to this paper airplain

Leaves from our hike

Max - Week 8

L. Arts: I read two mini books. I practiced counting syllables in words. I learned about consonant blends at the beginning of words. I learned about capitalizing words.

Math: We practiced number bonds to make 8, 10, 11, and 12. We used our number mats outside because it was a nice day.

Science: We learned about Magnetism. It was fun to explore all the different magnets. We learned that like poles repel (push against) each other.

History: We learned about ancient China. People there settled around the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. They grew rice. Rice needs a lot of water to grow and the soil has to stay wet.

Music: We learned the Going on a Lion Hunt song. For our homework we listened to the Aladdin song and had to glue the right characters in the right spots based on the order their themes played.

Tech (Engineering): I made a snake out of craft paper and toilet paper rolls. We went to the skate park and observed (and rode on) ramps and other structures. We went to see Big Boy, the largest steam engine ever built. I built with our pegs set.

Other: We passed off all the requirements to move up to trampoline and tumbling level two. This week was our first week going to that class. It was fun. We went on a family hike up to Timpanogos Falls.