Bible
-Reading "God and Me" devotionals with Mikayla each evening. We have been through the book once already but she has requested we read it again.
"We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with His son, Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3
This is love for God, to obey His commands and His commands are not burdensome. 1 John 5:3
Math
-Daily practice of simple addition/subtraction facts up to ten. Building up speed and accuracy.
-learning ordinal numbers
-Learning numbers, addition, subtraction up to 20.
Language Arts
First Language Lessons
-learning the definition of a noun
-learning about common nouns
-memorized, "Caterpillar" poem
Writing With Ease 1
-daily practicing copy work with proper finger positioning! This is very hard for Mikayla so we are focusing on daily practice. Holding her pencil correctly has caused her quality to go down a little but I am going to give it a few months and see how it goes.
First day of school paper
Mikayla enjoys narrating stories to me and then illustrating them.
Egs.
Read/Aloud
Mikayla really enjoys hearing stories from when people were younger and they made mistakes, yet learned from them. Mikayla asks me to tell stories about when I was young, or her Gramma/Nanee were young. Mikayla often relates the stories to her own life and how she is similar or different from the character.
-Stories from Grandma's Attic
-More Stories from Grandma's Attic
-Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic
Raz Kids-Reading practice
Science
Mikayla had an idea to create a season chart. She created the entire poster independently and was excited to show me the final product.
Working through a Heritge science kit on animals.
Books Read:
It's Alive by Scholastic
Animals Grow by Scholastic
Tale of a Tadpole by Karen Wallace
A Walk in the Park by AIMS education foundation
Hungry Animals by Pamela Hickman
Animal Disguises by Emma Ryan
Discussing how animals are the same and different. Discussing living/non-living. Discussing the needs of animals and plants. How people can effect the habitats of animals and what we can do to support animal life.
We read about food chains and put worked through a worksheet to fill in the missing chain links.
We reviewed terms such as hibernate, migrate, camouflage.
Learning about the various groups of animals. Taking plastic animals and placing them in the correct categories. eg. mammals, amphibians, reptiles, etc.
Created a power point presentation on snakes and lizards.
Reading the creation story in Genesis and discussing the different days the different parts of creation were made.
Mikayla created a "Garden of Eden" poster and added animal cutouts from magazines. She is hoping to add to it throughout this unit.
Learning about life cycles. Creating life cycle charts about various animals.
We watched videos on Discovery Education on the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and frogs.
Mikayla made a book showing the different stages of a frog's life cycle.
Helping with gardening. Learning about how to prepare the garden, planting seeds, watering the garden, weeding, and garden care.
Learning about life cycles with chickens. Helping to care and feed our neighbour's chickens.
Social Studies
Mikayla created paper dolls to show all the members of the family. She taped them together to form a crown.
Economy and Technology- Awareness of money-Mikayla was given $5 from a grandparent. She has spent quite some time trying to decide on the best way to spend the money. She has (with help) come up with several ways that the money could be spent and yet is taking her time to ensure she makes a wise decision.
We visited a Canada celebration and learned about Canada. Mikayla created a beaver puppet. We visited the 108 Heritage site and looked through the museum that showed a house set up from pioneer times.
We discussed various signs and symbols of Canada and Mikayla made a poster showing some.
-Watched a video on Canada and learned about The culture, geography and history of canada.
Health/Career
Continuing with "meal helper" day. Mikayla helps me to decide on the meals we cook for the day and we discuss how the meals are balanced (include all the food groups) and how we could change them to make them more balanced. She learns basic food preparation skills during this time.
Mikayla had her 4-6 year immunization. We discussed what immunizations are for, and why we receive them. The health nurse gave a wonderful analogy about soldiers helping out the blood to keep the body healthy. Mikayla showed her little brothers how to be brave during the shot.
We made cookies and handed them out at Mikayla's great grandparents nursing home.
Mikayla played the piano for some of the residents at the nursing home.
Mikayla made a woman from church a craft and we delivered it to the seniors home. Every Sunday the woman likes to tell us that the craft is still hanging on her door.
Read, "Once Upon a Dragon.....Stranger Safety for Kids" Discussed different safety rules for meeting and coming into contact with strangers. Went through various scenarios to see what we would do.
Helping me to make homemade ice cream!
PE
Rhythmic Gymnastics starting September 29-December 15 (once a week)
Swim Lessons-June-twice a week.
Swim lessons-August (8 sessions)-Passed
Swimming and practicing skills, 2-3 times a week for July and August.
Mikayla has made a big improvement in her swimming over the summer! In June, she began to feel scared to put her face into the water and it caused her to fail her swim level. By practicing regularly and then going back into swimming in August, she has overcome her fear and now is swimming with her face underwater! She can swim well with a lifejacket and can swim short distances without. One of her favourite things to do is cannonball into the pool getting very wet!
Each day we ride bikes and I have noticed Mikayla becoming a stronger bike rider. 2-3 times a week she rides her bike while I run and she is able to keep up for several kms, even going up steep hills.
Mikayla goes for short runs with me one or twice a week up and down our road. She is increasing her stamina.
Mikayla has many opportunities to practice proper safety while riding her bike on the roads. Wearing a helmet, staying close to the shoulder, stopping completely at times if the road is narrow or a car is driving fast, etc.
Fine Arts
Continuing with bi-monthly piano lessons throughout the summer.
Practicing 3-5 days a week during the summer months.
Weekly lessons starting in September.
Practicing 5 days a week.
Theory practice includes.......Working hard with note recognition in a variety of ways, using letter tiles, playing a simple dice game, iPad apps, etc. Recognizing terms such as treble clef, repeat, quarter, half and whole notes, etc.
{Current song}
-Reading "God and Me" devotionals with Mikayla each evening. We have been through the book once already but she has requested we read it again.
"We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with His son, Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3
This is love for God, to obey His commands and His commands are not burdensome. 1 John 5:3
Math
-Daily practice of simple addition/subtraction facts up to ten. Building up speed and accuracy.
-learning ordinal numbers
-Learning numbers, addition, subtraction up to 20.
Language Arts
First Language Lessons
-learning the definition of a noun
-learning about common nouns
-memorized, "Caterpillar" poem
Writing With Ease 1
-daily practicing copy work with proper finger positioning! This is very hard for Mikayla so we are focusing on daily practice. Holding her pencil correctly has caused her quality to go down a little but I am going to give it a few months and see how it goes.
First day of school paper
Mikayla enjoys narrating stories to me and then illustrating them.
Egs.
Read/Aloud
Mikayla really enjoys hearing stories from when people were younger and they made mistakes, yet learned from them. Mikayla asks me to tell stories about when I was young, or her Gramma/Nanee were young. Mikayla often relates the stories to her own life and how she is similar or different from the character.
-Stories from Grandma's Attic
-More Stories from Grandma's Attic
-Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic
Raz Kids-Reading practice
Science
Mikayla had an idea to create a season chart. She created the entire poster independently and was excited to show me the final product.
Working through a Heritge science kit on animals.
Books Read:
It's Alive by Scholastic
Animals Grow by Scholastic
Tale of a Tadpole by Karen Wallace
A Walk in the Park by AIMS education foundation
Hungry Animals by Pamela Hickman
Animal Disguises by Emma Ryan
Discussing how animals are the same and different. Discussing living/non-living. Discussing the needs of animals and plants. How people can effect the habitats of animals and what we can do to support animal life.
We read about food chains and put worked through a worksheet to fill in the missing chain links.
We reviewed terms such as hibernate, migrate, camouflage.
Learning about the various groups of animals. Taking plastic animals and placing them in the correct categories. eg. mammals, amphibians, reptiles, etc.
Created a power point presentation on snakes and lizards.
Reading the creation story in Genesis and discussing the different days the different parts of creation were made.
Mikayla created a "Garden of Eden" poster and added animal cutouts from magazines. She is hoping to add to it throughout this unit.
Learning about life cycles. Creating life cycle charts about various animals.
We watched videos on Discovery Education on the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and frogs.
Mikayla made a book showing the different stages of a frog's life cycle.
Helping with gardening. Learning about how to prepare the garden, planting seeds, watering the garden, weeding, and garden care.
Nature walks to explore plant, insect and animal life. Learning to identify plants and insects in our area.
Learning about life cycles with chickens. Helping to care and feed our neighbour's chickens.
Watching Wild Kratts, The Magic School Bus science programs weekly
Social Studies
Mikayla created paper dolls to show all the members of the family. She taped them together to form a crown.
Economy and Technology- Awareness of money-Mikayla was given $5 from a grandparent. She has spent quite some time trying to decide on the best way to spend the money. She has (with help) come up with several ways that the money could be spent and yet is taking her time to ensure she makes a wise decision.
We visited a Canada celebration and learned about Canada. Mikayla created a beaver puppet. We visited the 108 Heritage site and looked through the museum that showed a house set up from pioneer times.
We discussed various signs and symbols of Canada and Mikayla made a poster showing some.
-Watched a video on Canada and learned about The culture, geography and history of canada.
Working through Map Book 1
-Viewpoint eg. birds eye view, top view, side view
-Colouring a map of the 7 continents
-land and water forms
-creating maps with map keys and symbols.
Health/Career
Continuing with "meal helper" day. Mikayla helps me to decide on the meals we cook for the day and we discuss how the meals are balanced (include all the food groups) and how we could change them to make them more balanced. She learns basic food preparation skills during this time.
Mikayla had her 4-6 year immunization. We discussed what immunizations are for, and why we receive them. The health nurse gave a wonderful analogy about soldiers helping out the blood to keep the body healthy. Mikayla showed her little brothers how to be brave during the shot.
We made cookies and handed them out at Mikayla's great grandparents nursing home.
Mikayla played the piano for some of the residents at the nursing home.
Mikayla made a woman from church a craft and we delivered it to the seniors home. Every Sunday the woman likes to tell us that the craft is still hanging on her door.
Read, "Once Upon a Dragon.....Stranger Safety for Kids" Discussed different safety rules for meeting and coming into contact with strangers. Went through various scenarios to see what we would do.
Helping me to make homemade ice cream!
PE
Rhythmic Gymnastics starting September 29-December 15 (once a week)
Swim Lessons-June-twice a week.
Swim lessons-August (8 sessions)-Passed
Swimming and practicing skills, 2-3 times a week for July and August.
Mikayla has made a big improvement in her swimming over the summer! In June, she began to feel scared to put her face into the water and it caused her to fail her swim level. By practicing regularly and then going back into swimming in August, she has overcome her fear and now is swimming with her face underwater! She can swim well with a lifejacket and can swim short distances without. One of her favourite things to do is cannonball into the pool getting very wet!
Each day we ride bikes and I have noticed Mikayla becoming a stronger bike rider. 2-3 times a week she rides her bike while I run and she is able to keep up for several kms, even going up steep hills.
Mikayla goes for short runs with me one or twice a week up and down our road. She is increasing her stamina.
Mikayla has many opportunities to practice proper safety while riding her bike on the roads. Wearing a helmet, staying close to the shoulder, stopping completely at times if the road is narrow or a car is driving fast, etc.
Fine Arts
Continuing with bi-monthly piano lessons throughout the summer.
Practicing 3-5 days a week during the summer months.
Weekly lessons starting in September.
Practicing 5 days a week.
Theory practice includes.......Working hard with note recognition in a variety of ways, using letter tiles, playing a simple dice game, iPad apps, etc. Recognizing terms such as treble clef, repeat, quarter, half and whole notes, etc.
{Current song}
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