Bible
Weekly church attendance.
Weekly Awana attendance
Sunday School verse:
Luke 12:28a
Joshua 24:15c
1 Corinthians 10:31
Mark 4:8
Isaiah 64:8
1 Corinthians 3:9
Matthew 23:11
Awana Verses:
John 1:1
Romans 3:23
Ecclesiastes 7:10
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Jeremiah 17:9
John 3:36
Psalm 100:3
Romans 15:4
Jeremish 10:10
Acts 16:31
Genesis 1:1
Revelation 22:13
Caileigh told her Awana leader about a missionary.
Caileigh made a poster showing people serving and worshipping God.
Caileigh works on her "search sites" each section where she looks up certain scriptures and answers questions.
Caileigh created a creation poster.
Math
-fractions
-Creating fractions that are improper and that are mixed.
-Geometry
-angles isosceles, obtuse, right angle.
-measuring angle using tools.
-estimating angles, then measuring.
-Perpendicular lines. Finding them, labeling them. Parallel lines.
-2D shapes. Finding nets of solids.
-3D shapes (prisms, pyramids, etc.)
-Radius and Diameter of circles.
-Finding area and perimeter of regular and irregular shaped objects.
Completed Singapore 4A
-FSA practice tests
Language Arts
Sigmund Brouwer writing assignment-short story
Attending 2x monthly Sigmund Brouwer sessions.
Writing a creative writing story using lessons learned through the sessions.
Weekly Spelling unit
Daily grammar practice
Going through the process of peer editing. Caileigh writes a 5 paragraph essay and then trades with Aiden to edit each others papers. This process is more about the editing process, then the writing process. They go through a list of steps, first reading entire paragraph, second correcting spelling, third correcting grammar and finally adding some suggestions.
Finished reading Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Writing a book report. Peer editing.
Science
Simple Machines
Review
Discussed Simple Machines.
Read Simple Machines Berenstain Bears.
Watched Brain Pop Jr. Simple Machines.
Walking through Tim-Br-Mart and finding all the simple machines. Seeing how simple and compound machines make up the many things around us.
Getting parts to create a super pulley.
{Caileigh and Emily made a fan using K'nex. A compound machine}
Making a pulley from our house to the Kaspers house! Carries a bucket and can pass important items:)
-Creating catapults using popsicle sticks and marshmallows.
Social Studies
Government
Donna Ward's Government modules
-Reading Who Runs this Country Anyway? and answering module quizzes.
Module 1 - Types of Government
Module 2 - Positions in Parliament
Module 3 - British North America Act
Module 4 - Constitution Act & Charter of Rights
Module 5 - Winners and Losers
Module 6 - Election Time
Module 7 - Election Day
We watched a televised segment with our local candidates sharing some of their platform.
Caileigh came to the election station with me and walked through the voting process.
Canada Votes:How we elect our Government
by Linda Granfield
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police-how they started in Canada.
Discussed various rights that we have as Canadians. Looked at our responsibilities within those rights. Discussed the question, "Should there be a limit to our rights?" Discussed what God's standards would be.
Watched Brain Pop on Rights and Responsibilities.
Watched a video on Canadian government on Discovery Education.
Looked at Aboriginal government. Discussed the words consensus, self-governed government. Completed worksheets on Aboriginal Government.
Watched Suppression of Aboriginal Rights, Nisga's Government on Discovery Education.
Looked at an example of a bill passed by government on water conservation. Read the stance of each political party. Decided which political party we most agreed with. Answered the question of whether or not we would pass the bill if we were an MP.
Caileigh created a pamphlet on Cathy McLeod. She also wrote Cathy a letter asking for information that might help her to do a project on Mrs. Mcleod. Caileigh mailed both the letter and pamphlet.
Cathy McLeod wrote back!! Sent a lovely letter and we will look her up next time we are in Kamloops. Caileigh was disappointed that she failed to tell her she was homeschooled as we would have been able to meet her when she came to town. Sent Caileigh a package full of information on the government.
Donna Ward's modules. Reading Who Runs this country Anyway and completing second unit.
Module 8 - On Parliament Hill
Module 9 -Touring Ottawa
Module 10 - A New Session
Module 11 - A Day in the House of Commons
Module 12 - Proceedings
Module 13 - A Bill Becomes Law
Module 14 - Wrap Up
Immigration
Watched Brain Pop on Immigration.
Read The Kids Book of Canadian Immigration.
Read, "The Lotus Seed". Completed a work sheet about how an immigrant would feel about various circumstances.
Interviewed Great Aune, Great Gramma, Grandfather and Gramma to find out information about where our families immigrated from.
Doing a family project on Scotland and learning lot's of great family history from our family that has immigrated from Scotland.
Put together a family tree up to Caileigh's great grandparents.
Created a collage showing Canada as a multicultural nation. Filled out a worksheet showing facts about Canada as a multicultural and multilingual country.
Created a "Cause and Effect" sheet about when Canada rejected a Jewish boat after the war.
Read Rights and Responsibilities of Canada and re-wrote them in own words.
Did a short study on an immigrant family and completed a worksheet about the family's experience.
Remembrance Day
Watched televised Remembrance Day service.
Read Flander's Fields.
Coloured Remembrance Day pages.
Caileigh wrote a remembrance day poem.
Health/Career
Reviewing puberty.
Discussed all the changes occurring in the body. Discussed the practical side of what to do when these changes occur. eg. menstruation.
-Completed worksheets about parts of the female anatomy.
-Did a worksheet assessment about which changes have occurred in Caileigh's body.
-Watched Brain Pop video on period.
-Read Girls and your Changes
Goals-Discussed short term goals, mid-range goals and long term goals.
Notebook showing a goal from each section.
Brain Pop videos on smoking and addiction.
Internet safety on Brain Pop. Included quiz.
Cyberbullying video on Brain Pop.
Looking at ways to prevent communicable diseases.
Watched Brain Pop videos on personal hygiene, swine flu, sars, chicken pox, avian flu, west nile virus, small pox and anthrax.
Created a poster showing how to stay healthy.
Discussion on friendships. How we can be good friends. Looking at issues that arise between friends, eg. secret sharing, etc. Looking at ways to include everyone.
Brain pop video on conflict resolution.
Caileigh came to woman's bible study and helped by watching the younger kids. She did a good job keeping them entertained and safe.
We attended a baby shower. Caileigh was so excited to attend and worked hard to make the baby a blanket as well as the mother a scarf. She also baked the family a pan of granola bars. She loves creating things to give to others.
Caileigh reads to her younger brothers and sister.
Caileigh regularly bakes and helps cook.
PE
Weekly gymnastics class.
Weekly large group Awana games. Includes running, jumping, hopping, throwing, catching, kicking, sliding, strategy.
Sledding
Snow shoveling
Snow fort building
Weekly family skate. Caileigh is improving on speed.
Fine Arts
Weekly piano lessons
Weekly theory homework.
Practising songs for Christmas recital. Working on a duet with Mikayla. Caileigh enjoys listening to different versions of her song to help choose style.
Christmas practice challenge. Caileigh completed 12 challenges over Christmas break assigned by her teacher including things like, playing a song 5 times in a row working on dynamics, writing out the counting of entire song then playing 3 times through each day, completing an extra theory sheet, teaching someone in the family to play jingle bells, etc.
Weekly church attendance.
Weekly Awana attendance
Sunday School verse:
Luke 12:28a
Joshua 24:15c
1 Corinthians 10:31
Mark 4:8
Isaiah 64:8
1 Corinthians 3:9
Matthew 23:11
Awana Verses:
John 1:1
Romans 3:23
Ecclesiastes 7:10
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Jeremiah 17:9
John 3:36
Psalm 100:3
Romans 15:4
Jeremish 10:10
Acts 16:31
Genesis 1:1
Revelation 22:13
Caileigh told her Awana leader about a missionary.
Caileigh made a poster showing people serving and worshipping God.
Caileigh works on her "search sites" each section where she looks up certain scriptures and answers questions.
Caileigh created a creation poster.
Math
-fractions
-Creating fractions that are improper and that are mixed.
-Geometry
-angles isosceles, obtuse, right angle.
-measuring angle using tools.
-estimating angles, then measuring.
-Perpendicular lines. Finding them, labeling them. Parallel lines.
-2D shapes. Finding nets of solids.
-3D shapes (prisms, pyramids, etc.)
-Radius and Diameter of circles.
-Finding area and perimeter of regular and irregular shaped objects.
Completed Singapore 4A
-FSA practice tests
Language Arts
Sigmund Brouwer writing assignment-short story
Attending 2x monthly Sigmund Brouwer sessions.
Writing a creative writing story using lessons learned through the sessions.
Weekly Spelling unit
Daily grammar practice
Going through the process of peer editing. Caileigh writes a 5 paragraph essay and then trades with Aiden to edit each others papers. This process is more about the editing process, then the writing process. They go through a list of steps, first reading entire paragraph, second correcting spelling, third correcting grammar and finally adding some suggestions.
Finished reading Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Writing a book report. Peer editing.
Science
Simple Machines
Review
Question-What is Motion?
-Looking up definition in the dictionary
Discussing definition and thinking about motion.
Reading Pebble Go information on motion. Completing experiment on What is Motion.
Watching Brain Pop video on Sir Isaac Newton.
Discovery Education-How Things Move
Brain Pop Jr-Push and Pull
Activities: experimenting with motion-creating domino paths. Looking at the difference between the force of the push. Creating various experiments to test the fall of dominos by inserting one variable with each experimentation such as changing the path, used or the size of dominos. Making predictions based on the changes.
Learning through play dough. (push and pull)
Journaling
Question-What is Energy?
-looking up definition in the dictionary
Discussing definition and thinking about motion.
Reading about energy on Pebble Go.
Reading The Berenstain Bears Science Fair on what energy is and energy types.
Watching Brain Pop video on Forms of Energy, Sources of Energy, Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Conserving Energy, and Kinetic Energy,
Activity-4 different experiments. Building a marble track. Testing gravity on items. Making a roller car using elastics. Testing friction on various surfaces.
Identifying potential energy and kinetic energy.
Discussed Simple Machines.
Read Simple Machines Berenstain Bears.
Watched Brain Pop Jr. Simple Machines.
Walking through Tim-Br-Mart and finding all the simple machines. Seeing how simple and compound machines make up the many things around us.
Getting parts to create a super pulley.
{Caileigh and Emily made a fan using K'nex. A compound machine}
Making a pulley from our house to the Kaspers house! Carries a bucket and can pass important items:)
-Creating catapults using popsicle sticks and marshmallows.
Session 5
Inclined Plane
Read:
“The inclined plane is the simplest of simple machines because to make it work, nothing moves. You move! Another name for an inclined plane is a ramp. It can be as simple as the driveway leading to your school or as sophisticated as the staircase in the Empire State Building. A ramp works by helping you lift things more easily up to a higher level. It can be really difficult to carry a box of stuff up a ladder. But carrying that same box up a staircase is an easier job.
Remember, there's always a trade-off. The way an inclined plane works is that to save effort, you must move things a greater distance. If you compare the length of a ladder to that of a staircase going to the same height, you'll find the ladder is much shorter. But it takes a lot more effort to climb a ladder than to simply walk up a flight of stairs. The ancient Egyptians figured this out over 3,000 years ago when they built their pyramids. They used long, shallow ramps to help them move the heavy stones to the top!”
-Reading Pebble Go information
-Conducting Experiment on inclined planes
Reading “Using Ramps and Wedges” by Wendy Sadler
Inclined Video on Brain Pop
Wedge
Read:
“The wedge is really an inclined plane turned on its side. But instead of helping you move things to a higher level, a wedge helps you push things apart. The blades of a knife or a shovel are both wedges. A wedge can also be round, like the tip of a nail, or the tines on your fork. Basically, the wedge works just like a ramp: The narrower the wedge (or the sharper the point of a wedge), the easier it is drive it in and push things apart. But here's the trade-off: To split something apart really wide, you have to push the wedge a long distance.
Discovery Education
-Simple Machines:Wedge
-Work, Energy Simple Machine:Inclined Plane, wedge, screw
-Reading information on Pebble Go
-Conducting experiment on wedges
Activities:
K/Nex
Journaling
Session 6
1st, 2nd and 3rd class Levers
Read:
“In its simplest form, a lever is a stick that is free to pivot or move back and forth at a certain point. Levers are probably the most common simple machine because just about anything that has a handle on it has a lever attached. The point on which the lever moves is called the fulcrum. By changing the position of the fulcrum, you can gain extra power with less effort. A good example of a lever is a see-saw. Let's say that you're really light, and you want to lift a really heavy person on the opposite side. If you put the fulcrum in the middle, you won't have a chance. But if you slide the fulcrum closer to the heavy person, it will be easier to lift. Where's the trade-off? Well, to get this helping hand, your side of the see- saw is much longer (and higher off the ground), so you have to move it a much greater distance to get the lift.
Brain Pop Levers
Reading Using Levers by Wendy Sadler
Pebble Go Levers
Experiment on Levers
Discovery Education:
-Discovering simple machines: Leverl, wheel, axle, pulley
A Lever Makes Work Easier
The Three Main Parts of a Lever: Fulcrum, Resistance, and Effort
The Three Classes of Levers: First, Second, and Third
Read-“Levers” by Michael Dahl
Creating different types of levers using K’Nex
Pulleys
Reading information on Pebble Go
Conducting experiment on creating a pulley from Pebble Go
Video on Brain Pop
Reading Using Pulleys and Gears by Wendy Sadler
Discovery Education
Simple Machines:Gears
Activities:
Creating: marshmallow catapult.
Session 7
Screws
Read:
“The screw is really an inclined plane in the round with a wedge at the tip. Think of a typical screw. The wedge is the pointed end. The inclined plane is the thread that wraps around the screw. Screws are used in many different places to hold things together. Basically, a screw is like the ramp — and the width of the thread is like the angle of an inclined plane. The wider the thread of a screw, the harder it is to turn it. And here's the trade-off: If you've ever had to put in a screw with really narrow threads, you've probably found that you have to turn it a really long time to get it to go anywhere. Just like in a ramp, the easier the effort, the longer the distance you have to move something
Pebble Go information on Screws
Experiment on screws.
Gears
Discovery Education
-Simple Machines-discovering gears
Brain Pop-Gears
Acitivites:
K/Nex
Session 8
Wheels and Axles
Read:
“A wheel and axle is really two machines in one because you can use each part in different ways. The first way is to roll something along. Wheels help you move an object across the ground because they cut down on the amount of friction between what you're trying to move and the surface you're pulling it against. (The axle is the object that attaches the wheel to the object it's moving.) Since only the very bottom of the wheel touches the ground, there is less surface area to rub — and less friction. Imagine pulling a little red wagon without any wheels! Generally speaking, the bigger the wheel, the easier it is to make something roll. The second way of using a wheel is like a lever in the round. A door knob or a faucet on a sink are really round levers, and the "fulcrum" is in the middle where the axle turns. Imagine if a door knob was replaced with a little rod. It would be much harder to open the door! Once again, there's a trade-off: The larger the diameter of the wheel, the less effort you need to turn it, but you have to move the wheel a greater distance to get the same work done
Pebble Go-Wheels and Axles
Experiment on Pebble Go
Compound Machines
Discovery Education
-Simple and Compound Machines
Learning about Rube Goldberg machines
Reading Crazy Contraptions
Making our own Rube Goldberg machines
Quiz #1-1 00 %
Quiz #2- 95 %
Social Studies
Government
Donna Ward's Government modules
-Reading Who Runs this Country Anyway? and answering module quizzes.
Module 1 - Types of Government
Module 2 - Positions in Parliament
Module 3 - British North America Act
Module 4 - Constitution Act & Charter of Rights
Module 5 - Winners and Losers
Module 6 - Election Time
Module 7 - Election Day
We watched a televised segment with our local candidates sharing some of their platform.
Caileigh came to the election station with me and walked through the voting process.
Canada Votes:How we elect our Government
by Linda Granfield
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police-how they started in Canada.
Discussed various rights that we have as Canadians. Looked at our responsibilities within those rights. Discussed the question, "Should there be a limit to our rights?" Discussed what God's standards would be.
Watched Brain Pop on Rights and Responsibilities.
Watched a video on Canadian government on Discovery Education.
Looked at Aboriginal government. Discussed the words consensus, self-governed government. Completed worksheets on Aboriginal Government.
Watched Suppression of Aboriginal Rights, Nisga's Government on Discovery Education.
Looked at an example of a bill passed by government on water conservation. Read the stance of each political party. Decided which political party we most agreed with. Answered the question of whether or not we would pass the bill if we were an MP.
Caileigh created a pamphlet on Cathy McLeod. She also wrote Cathy a letter asking for information that might help her to do a project on Mrs. Mcleod. Caileigh mailed both the letter and pamphlet.
Cathy McLeod wrote back!! Sent a lovely letter and we will look her up next time we are in Kamloops. Caileigh was disappointed that she failed to tell her she was homeschooled as we would have been able to meet her when she came to town. Sent Caileigh a package full of information on the government.
Donna Ward's modules. Reading Who Runs this country Anyway and completing second unit.
Module 8 - On Parliament Hill
Module 9 -Touring Ottawa
Module 10 - A New Session
Module 11 - A Day in the House of Commons
Module 12 - Proceedings
Module 13 - A Bill Becomes Law
Module 14 - Wrap Up
Immigration
Watched Brain Pop on Immigration.
Read The Kids Book of Canadian Immigration.
Read, "The Lotus Seed". Completed a work sheet about how an immigrant would feel about various circumstances.
Interviewed Great Aune, Great Gramma, Grandfather and Gramma to find out information about where our families immigrated from.
Doing a family project on Scotland and learning lot's of great family history from our family that has immigrated from Scotland.
Put together a family tree up to Caileigh's great grandparents.
Created a collage showing Canada as a multicultural nation. Filled out a worksheet showing facts about Canada as a multicultural and multilingual country.
Created a "Cause and Effect" sheet about when Canada rejected a Jewish boat after the war.
Read Rights and Responsibilities of Canada and re-wrote them in own words.
Did a short study on an immigrant family and completed a worksheet about the family's experience.
Remembrance Day
Watched televised Remembrance Day service.
Read Flander's Fields.
Coloured Remembrance Day pages.
Caileigh wrote a remembrance day poem.
Health/Career
Reviewing puberty.
Discussed all the changes occurring in the body. Discussed the practical side of what to do when these changes occur. eg. menstruation.
-Completed worksheets about parts of the female anatomy.
-Did a worksheet assessment about which changes have occurred in Caileigh's body.
-Watched Brain Pop video on period.
-Read Girls and your Changes
Goals-Discussed short term goals, mid-range goals and long term goals.
Notebook showing a goal from each section.
Brain Pop videos on smoking and addiction.
Internet safety on Brain Pop. Included quiz.
Cyberbullying video on Brain Pop.
Looking at ways to prevent communicable diseases.
Watched Brain Pop videos on personal hygiene, swine flu, sars, chicken pox, avian flu, west nile virus, small pox and anthrax.
Created a poster showing how to stay healthy.
Discussion on friendships. How we can be good friends. Looking at issues that arise between friends, eg. secret sharing, etc. Looking at ways to include everyone.
Brain pop video on conflict resolution.
Caileigh came to woman's bible study and helped by watching the younger kids. She did a good job keeping them entertained and safe.
We attended a baby shower. Caileigh was so excited to attend and worked hard to make the baby a blanket as well as the mother a scarf. She also baked the family a pan of granola bars. She loves creating things to give to others.
Caileigh reads to her younger brothers and sister.
Caileigh regularly bakes and helps cook.
PE
Weekly gymnastics class.
Weekly large group Awana games. Includes running, jumping, hopping, throwing, catching, kicking, sliding, strategy.
Sledding
Snow shoveling
Snow fort building
Weekly family skate. Caileigh is improving on speed.
Fine Arts
Weekly piano lessons
Weekly theory homework.
Practising songs for Christmas recital. Working on a duet with Mikayla. Caileigh enjoys listening to different versions of her song to help choose style.
Christmas practice challenge. Caileigh completed 12 challenges over Christmas break assigned by her teacher including things like, playing a song 5 times in a row working on dynamics, writing out the counting of entire song then playing 3 times through each day, completing an extra theory sheet, teaching someone in the family to play jingle bells, etc.
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