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| Munchkin is always so sweet about letting Ditto help with his science work. |
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| All of the projects are ready to be observed (the cucumber has actually already started expressing water). |
Friday, May 10, 2013
Sonlight Core A - Week 24 Day 4
Science:
Sonlight Core A - Week 24 Day 3
Science:
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| A failed science experiment... |
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| ...the balloon didn't contract in the cold water... |
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| ...and the balloon didn't expand in the hot water. |
Despite the experiment not going as planned, the boys enjoyed themselves anyway...THEY LOVE SCIENCE!
Monday, May 6, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Letter of the Week - B is for...
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| Boomerang! |
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| He always very careful about putting the lids back on the dot markers so they "don't dry out". (also, great fine motor practice) |
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| He enjoyed looking at the creations the children on the dot marker box made. |
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| At times he was more interested in dotting the paper than the boomerang...and that's okay! |
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| Making sure to apply lots of pressure... |
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| ...and to shake really hard so that the ink comes out of the markers the best!
And Ditto also practiced writing his letters. He loves these cards. And we always read these books to go along with our letter (unfortunately, we don't own these...we just check them out from the library.)
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Sonlight K - Week 19 Day 1
Read-Aloud: In celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, we read Abraham Lincoln. It is a very long book and I thought it was quite "deep" but it was enjoyed by Munchkin and Ditto (he sat through the last half of the book). Munchkin even asked me to read it again immediately after finishing it!
We also finished up reading No Children, No Pets. It seemed a rough going in the beginning but in the end, I think, Munchkin enjoyed it.
Tomorrow we will start reading our new book - A Grain of Rice.
For pure enjoyment, we are also reading The Wizard of Oz and Winnie the Pooh again (both of which we will watch the original movies for when we are done reading the books).
Math: We didn't get to it today. Tomorrow we will try to complete Lesson 77 and 78 to catch-up.
Spelling: We continued working on vowel-consonant-silent E words. He did very well on his test. Out of six phrases, he only spelled the word "truck" incorrectly (truk). And out of six sentences, he spelled "pole" incorrectly (pul).
Science: The focus was on trees and leaves in our Children's Encyclopedia. To expand on our learning and understanding of trees, Munchkin did a Parts of a Tree worksheet and some Montessori types of trees three-part cards (Oak, Laurel, Maple, etc.). Ditto helped with the matching of the "just picture" part of the three-part cards. For the leaf section of our reading, we did these fall leaf matching cards. To finish off, we read Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. This is great book to go with this topic. We did a Munchkin found counting the rings of a tree to learn its age the most fascinating part if this lesson.
Language Arts: Munchkin continued practicing his reading. His flow and intonation when reading are coming along quite well.
We also finished up reading No Children, No Pets. It seemed a rough going in the beginning but in the end, I think, Munchkin enjoyed it.
Tomorrow we will start reading our new book - A Grain of Rice.
For pure enjoyment, we are also reading The Wizard of Oz and Winnie the Pooh again (both of which we will watch the original movies for when we are done reading the books).
Math: We didn't get to it today. Tomorrow we will try to complete Lesson 77 and 78 to catch-up.
Spelling: We continued working on vowel-consonant-silent E words. He did very well on his test. Out of six phrases, he only spelled the word "truck" incorrectly (truk). And out of six sentences, he spelled "pole" incorrectly (pul).
Science: The focus was on trees and leaves in our Children's Encyclopedia. To expand on our learning and understanding of trees, Munchkin did a Parts of a Tree worksheet and some Montessori types of trees three-part cards (Oak, Laurel, Maple, etc.). Ditto helped with the matching of the "just picture" part of the three-part cards. For the leaf section of our reading, we did these fall leaf matching cards. To finish off, we read Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. This is great book to go with this topic. We did a Munchkin found counting the rings of a tree to learn its age the most fascinating part if this lesson.
Language Arts: Munchkin continued practicing his reading. His flow and intonation when reading are coming along quite well.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Thor That Wanted to Pick Some Berries
Munchkin wrote this adorable story in school today for our language lesson. The assignment was for him to tell a story about someone going berry picking...
Thor That Wanted to Pick
Some Berries
Untrue Story
1985
– One time there was Thor. He wanted to pick some berries. He walked and walked
and walked but since he was in the desert in Texas, he could not find any
berries. Then all the sudden there was an earthquake. So he decided to leave Texas
and go to Ireland and see if there were any berries there. So he walked and
walked and walked and walked and walked until he came to a mountain. He went
up, up, up, up…but the mountain was very high. He got to the tippy-top. Then he
found a little place called Berry Hill. Then at Berry Hill there was a sign
that said
“There Are a Lot of
Earthquakes Here”
On
the bottom, it said
“There Were Eight
Earthquakes a Day”
So
he went up there until there was the earthquake and he went to Blueberry
Hill. And then he found a big, big
blueberry bush and there, at the blueberry bush, he got off his horse and went
to pick all the blueberries. And then all the blueberries went in his bag. And
then he needed a lot more bags. And he only brought one so he traveled all the
way, all the way, all the way, all the way back to Texas because he was in
North America at Utah. So he had to travel all the way back to Texas because they
didn’t have airplanes back then. So when he got home, he gathered up all of
them and then he went back to Blueberry Hill and said, “Whoaaaaaaaa!” He couldn’t
believe his sight. Can you guess what he saw? He saw the whole mountain was
covered with blueberry plants. So he picked all the blueberries, every single
thing, every single one and then he traveled all the way back to Texas and then
he got more bags.
Then
he went to Raspberry Hill and there the sign said
“There Were a Lot of
Tornados There”
And
under it said
“There Are Ten Tornados a
Day”
So
he went to the place where all the raspberries were, then he went back home.
Then he got more bags and went back there. And there he couldn’t believe his
sight. There were more raspberry plants than at Blueberry Hill. And he picked
every single one! Then he went back home to get more bags.
Then
he got to the rainforest. There was a trail that led to a big grassland. There
he found very, very few berries. He only found like one or two berries. But he
went back home and he found out how many berries he wanted to pick this time. He
counted, “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.”
Then
he started counting by tens, “10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100.”
hen
he started counting by ones again, “101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108,
109.”
Then
he started counting by tens again. He counted to a million! Then he found out
that he needed just 5 berries. Then he went back to Raspberry Hill but he
couldn’t find any berries because last time he picked all the berries. So he
found a hill and he thought it was a regular hill so he passed it. But then he
wanted to go back to make sure he was right. So he picked all the berries.
The End
Munchkin's quote: "Mom, I'm very proud of my story!" As he should be.
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