Weekly wrap-up

Bible - Anna finished the Walk With Jesus reading plan and started the Holy Week reading plan. It's just an 8 day plan so she will finish it next week. She's also been working on another reading plan in the night - the Hero's of the Old Testament plan. She's made it to day 13 of the 25 day plan. She mastered a couple of new verses in Scripture Typer this week and has 10 verses mastered now.

Art - We worked on a few different art projects. We used small strips of paper to make a beautiful card. This was a project I had to do with our ladies group and I decided to test it out on Anna. She was thrilled and did a great job.

She decided to sketch me again this week.

She also watched a YouTube video on How to Draw An Autumn Tree with Coloured Pencils and tried it out for herself.

Inspired by a picture narration exercise in First Language Lessons, we also browsed through the works of N.C. Wyeth.

Grammar - We did lessons 16-19 in First Language Lessons, which included reviewing nouns, verbs, abbreviations, and capitalization rules.

We also read and discussed the Robert Lewis Stevenson's poem The Wind and did a picture narration of N.C. Wyeth's painting "Dick and Lawless in the Holyrood Forest", an illustration for a scene from Robert Lewis Stevenson's story Black Arrow. We checked out the other illistrations N.C. Wyeth painted for The Black Arrow and read the synopsis of the book at BooksShouldBeFree.com and decided it wasn't an appropriate book for Anna to read for some time yet.

Math We're still having fun with Math. We uses cuisenaire rods to add two digit numbers and discussed tens and ones, regrouping, and carrying. We also uses the rods and a hundreds chart to discover and discuss odd and even numbers. I introduced a new game, which I called What's Hidden, which we played using the rods, some cards with plus and equal signs on them and a tub. While Anna closed her eyes I setup an addition equation with the rods and cards, but I hid the solution under the tub. Anna had to see if she could figure out the answer and then check it. Then she made up an equation for me. I recorded all the equations we made. She loved doing this but soon added her own flair and created a game that we decided to call Guess the Addends. Once again we took turns making up equations for each other but the guesser had to keep her eyes closed and ask questions, such as are the two addends the same, are the addends more or less than 5, etc. to try to figure out what the addends were before figuring out what the solution was. We had great fun playing this game and it covered reviewing addition facts and more/less concepts.

Music - Inspired by watching The Wizard of Oz last week, Anna decided to work on learning Somewhere Over the Rainbow. We found a YouTube video of Judy Garland singing the song and she listened to that each day and sang along with it until she was confident to sing it on her own. We checked out a couple of other versions of the song but this was the one Anna liked best. I got a kick out of how she tried so hard to sound like Judy Garland.

Phys. Ed. - We went swimming twice this week. Anna is getting more and more confident and strong in her swimming abilities. She's moving beyond the dog paddle and getting better at the breast stroke.

Reading - Anna finished the magic Kitten book she was reading. We started listening to Dr. Dolittle from BooksShouldBeFree.com and got so far as chapter 7. I decided to do a reading comprehension exercise with Anna and printed off a reading comprehension exercise from SuperTeacherWorksheets.com. She did pretty good with it.

Science - We finally started our science book and added science to our schedule on a regular basis. We are doing Exploring Creation with Zoology 1. We discussed what zoology is and learned about taxonomy and binomial nomenclature.

Social studies - Continuing with our lessons in the Story of the World: Middle Ages, we learned about Justinian the Just Emperor and his wife Empress Theodora. Anna decides to take notes with the iPad during our history reading and took some great notes all on her own that really helped her answer the review questions after the reading.

Spelling - Continuing with our lessons in Spelling Power, we covered the spellings for the long o and long u sounds. Anna is still enjoying the program and doing good with it.

Writing - Continuing with our lessons in Writing With Ease, we narrated passages from Misty of Chincoteague and Anna did copy work and dictations from these narrations. She also did the cursive writing worksheets from Kidzone for letters t, e, and l. She is doing great with writing!

And that's our weekly wrap-up! You can check out some other weekly wrap-ups at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers blog. Read her's first and then scroll down to find links to others. If you haven't tried writing a weekly wrap-up yourself yet I encourage you to try it. You don't have to be as detailed as I am many aren't. I'm loving doing the wrap-ups.

 

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I Love To Do Addition Game

"Let's do math now so we can have some fun." That's not a sentence that passed my 7 year old's lips last year, but it was spoken by her today. I give Denise Gaskin and her book Let's Play Math credit for the change. Following Denise's advice I have laid aside the work book and instituted some games to teach and practice math concepts and facts. We are learning and having fun.

Our math time has consisted of us playing lots of games, many with cuisenaire rods. One day this week Anna wanted to make up a new game for us to play, and she titled the game "I Love to Do Addition".

At her suggestion we've been using eraser pencil toppers as player tokens, even though we don't really need player tokens to play the game. She assigns each of us a token and gives each of us a cuisenaire rod that matches the colour of the token we have. Our eraser pencil toppers are blue, yellow, and orange so we each end up with either a nine, five or ten rod. That makes it pretty easy to practice adding nines, fives, and tens.

To play the game each player takes turns making up an addition problems for the other player. One of the addends in the addition problem has to be the number that is represented by the players rod. For example, if I have a blue token I get a blue rod, which represents the number 9. Anna makes up additions problems for me that always has 9 as one of the addends. If Anna has a yellow token she gets a yellow rod, which represents the number five, and I have to make up addition problems for her that always has the number 5 as one of the addends. We take turns giving each other problems and figuring out the answers using the cuisenaire rods.

While we are playing I record the addition equations on a sheet of paper just to give Anna a visual of what we are doing. I don't make a big deal of pointing it out to her I just do it in plain view so she can see it.

I noticed today that she is really getting adding by tens and adding by nines and often doesn't have to use the rods to figure out the answer. She really has learned a lot through this game that she made up, and she's having a ball playing it.

Thanks, Denise Gaskin, for helping me realize I need to put some fun back into our math time.

Math is the theme for the Homeschool Weekly Photo Challenge this week so I'm linking the post there. Do you have a math inspired photo to share?

Copyright Jacqueline's Jabberings 2006-2013

 

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Coin trade game

 

Inspired by a game suggestion in the Let's Play Math book, Anna and I have been having some fun. She loves the game and is learning the value of coins without realizing she's doing math. :-)

You need about 9 pennies, 4 nickels, 3 dimes, 4 quarters, and one looney per player.

We have double this because just two of us are playing. We keep our coins and a die in a ziplock bag.

Players take turns rolling the die. Each dot equals one cent. Players collect the number of cents indicated by their roll and then check to see if they can make any trades before the next player rolls. Once they have five pennies they trade it in for a nickel, two nickels get traded for a dime, two dimes and a nickel get traded for a quarter, and four quarters get traded for a looney. The first to get the looney wins.

Here's a video of us playing the game. You can tell how much she loves it by her excitement at the end, even though she lost.

 

 

 

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Math turned into Art

I am sure Little One has an artistic bent.  Our walls are full of indications of this.  :)  Seriously, from a very young age she has loved to draw, color, paint, create and I have been amazed by many things she has done.

One day last week we were doing a page in the Kindergarten Scholar work book I picked up at WalMart a while back.  It was a math page on identifying geometric shapes.  There was a suggestion at the bottom of the page to use cans, bottle caps, etc, to trace around to make a bunch of different sized circles on a sheet of paper.  Little One loved doing this and we filled our paper with circles and that was that.  Instead of doing a whole lot of different sized circles we used just a couple of different sizes but we used different colored leads to trace around them  A little later in the day I found the page of circles sitting on the bench in the porch, but the circles now had faces in them.  I thought it was very cute.  She informed me that it is our family and the Reids, friends of ours that found come visit.