Friday, September 11, 2015

Alex Term 1 Part 2

Bible

Sunday School
-Learning about God's gift and plan for families.  Family life in bible times.
-Parents
-Thanksgiving Psalm 118:1

Weekly Awana
Awana verses:
-John 3:16
*Completed introductory handbook and earned vest and Hang-glider handbook
-1 John 4:14
-1 Corinthians 3 & 4
-John 20:31
-Acts 16:31

A Child's Book of Character Building-contenment, obedience, wisdom, tenderheartedness, thankfulness, honesty and joyfulness.

Read Berenstain Bears and the truth.

Language Arts

-Daily writing practice
-Daily reading practice

Drawing pictures, then dictating a sentence about the picture.  Writing it through copywork.




















Read-Aloud
Charlotte's Web

Reading Club with Pippa
Session 1-

We wrote a poem about Autumn.  What it looks, sounds, feels, smells and tastes like.

Alex has started a notebook where he draws pictures and then asks me to dictate what the pictures are about.

Math

Math Seeds

Competed Singapore K/A
-Heavier than/lighter than
-measuring weight
-length and size
-matching/sorting
-numbers to 5
-numbers to 10
-order
-shapes
-patterns
-capacity
-comparing sets

Started Singapore K/B
-more than/less than
-adding and subtracting
-time to the hour

Science

-learning about salmon life cycle.  Watched videos on Brain Pop Jr, Discovery Education and Magic School Bus.  Made a salmon life cycle paper.  Read Simon and the Salmon.

Interested in stars.
Watched brainpopjr video on the solar system.
Watched Magic School Bus on stars.

Read "Acorn to Oak Tree", about the life cycle of an oak tree.  Created a life cycle picture by cutting/pasting.
Watched magic school bus on Plants.  Watched Magic School Bus on Seeds.

Read "How to make an apple pie and see the world".
Watched Reading Rainbow on "how to make an apple pie and see the world".
Created apple life cycle pages.
Coloured pictures of apples.
Made Apple Pie!
















Learned how to research using Pebble Go.  Researched river otters.  Completed two research papers.

Discussing different seasons.  Drawing pictures showing trees during the four seasons.
Watched season videos on Brain Pop Jr.
Read:  The Cycles of Life Seasons
Summer by Tanya Thayer
Spring by Tanya Thayer
Winter by Tanya Thayer
Fall by Tanya Thayer

Learning about sharks.  Watching videos on discovery education.  Researched on Pebble Go.  Made a shark book from Enchanted Learning.

Social Studies

Read The Oak Tree.  Saw how communities have changed over the last 150 years.  Discussed the various ways in which they have changed, eg. transportation, housing etc.

Watched videos on Discovery Education learning about different cultures.  Discussed cultures and traditions of our family vs. others.

-Learned about life in the past.   We visited Fort Langley and completed 5 activities of the fur trade eg. making barrels, making iron sculptures, panning for gold, carrying fur bales and pretending to trade at the store, etc.

















Map
-learning about reading map keys

Jordan helped make a map of 100 Mile House including the favourite places we visit.

Health/Career


Watched Brain Pop Jr videos on rights and responsibilities.  Took the hard quiz.
-wants/needs.
-money-saving and spending
-houses

Baking

















Abeka Health 2
Learning about the importance of sleep.
Positive thoughts leading to positive health.

Fine Arts:
-making items for Fall Fair
-Weekly painting projects
-Daily colouring
-Creating clay sculptures




















PE
-Biking up to 3km
-trampoline jumping
-swimming once a week
-running and climbing
-kicking soccer ball
--1 Corinthians 3 & 4
-John 20:31
-Acts 16:31

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