Homeschool Week: 1/5/2015

This week began our Dinosaur Adventures

Math:
To start Munchkin worked on measuring our toy dinosaurs with a ruler

He loved this!

Reading:
Then we moved on to What Is It? Cards.  Munchkin had to guess what dinosaur was being referenced by reading 3 clues.

After he finished this, Munchkin matched up our toy dinosaurs with the descriptions to double check his answers.

 Spelling:
Dinosaur terms for spelling and then he used the index in the dinosaur encyclopedia (which he read in its entirety) to correct his spelling.

Wednesday:
Math:
Munchkin worked on place value by matching dinosaur halves 

Finished!

Arts and Crafts:
We started our major craft - paper mache dinosaur egg.

So messy but so fun and such a great finished product! (to be seen in next weeks post)

Math:
The dinosaur skeletons I ordered arrived just in time.  So without looking at the names on the bottom, Munchkin had to match each skeleton to the dinosaur.

Then he did a pattern block design of a dinosaur.

And, of course, he had to add his own special touch to it (he said it was missing the tale)!

 And then he invented his own.
Reading:
Finishing up the Childcraft Dinosaur Encyclopedia

Friday:
Language Arts:
Working on plural word endings -es or -s

Math:
Subtraction 

Love his "searching" face!

 

Counting on his fingers. He only missed two but we need to practice so much more. He should already be doing multiplication.

 Language Arts:
Counting the syllables in dinosaur names

And then, of course, he wanted time to explore the materials!

 Arts and Crafts:
Applying our second layer of paper mache

So messy!

Waiting to dry.

Working on the cover to his dinosaur lapbook.

First insert - "A diplodicus is as long as three buses."

We probably did a few other activities I forgot to take pictures of but if I don't take a picture, I often forget.  That's why my goal is to make sure to capture his work. Well, until next week!