Bible
-Continuing to memorize the books of the new testament.
Math
-Bug sorting and patterns.
-Playing math games for math facts to 10
-Memory finding pairs adding to 10
-Go Fish finding pairs adding to 10
-Working on addition math facts on iPad.
-Looking at width. Objects that are wider than others.
-Measuring length. Which objects are longer/shorter
-Working with pattern shapes to make pictures.
-Building with Lego to create 3D shapes. Sorting Lego pieces into various categories based on one attribute.
-Sorting coloured squares by single attribute eg. colour. Then arranging them like a bar graph and counting which has the most, least, the difference between each, etc.
-Writing out a number chart from 1-100
-Identifying odd and even numbers from 1-100. Colouring all odd numbers one colour, and even numbers another. Playing the "Odd and Even" game. I call out a number and they determine if it is odd or even.
-working through grade 1 math sheets from Easy Peasy homeschool.
Singapore 1
-numbers to 10
Language Arts
Read-Aloud
-Where the Red Fern Grows
-Prairie Thief
-The Adventures of Chatterer the Squirrel by Thornton Burgess
-My Fathers Dragon by Ruth Stiles Burrett
-Writing out memory verse.
-Practicing flash cards of sight words.
-Working on creating alphabet books about the community
Health/Career
Read, One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul. Discussed how the character made useful items out of old bags and helped to clean up her community. Challenged Jordan to build something out of recycling. Jordan created a home for one of his toys.
Berenstain Bears and the Bully-leraning how to respond properly to unkind people.
Baking muffins.
Learning to make cinnamon rolls.
Read Franklin is Messy.
Read The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room
I challenged Jordan to clean his room and keep it clean each morning. We put a hook up behind his door to hang his house coat and cape. (just like the story)
Read the Berenstain Bears and the trouble with money. Discussed different purposes for money.
Read The Berenstain Bears Dollars and Sense
Social Studies
Technology
-Brainstormed with boys all the different forms of technology around us.
-Watched a short video form you tube that explained what technology is......."Anything man made that makes our lives easier."
-Boys each created a poster showing various forms of technology and defined it in their own words.
Watched a Caillou episode about Chinese New Year.
Had a Valentine/Chinese New Year tea party:)
Read, My Mama Loves Me A Child's Discovery of Africa by Roxanne Joyal. Looking at how life is different in Africa from here. How is it the same.
Science
Read GroundHog Day. Discussed origin of holiday
Read, Over and Under by Kate Messner. Discussed how during the winter many animals live under the snow.
Created art pictures showing animals living above and below the snow line.
Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft
Read Salamander Room.
Illustrated a picture to show how Jordan would create a habitat.
We read Salamander Room and created dioramas for plastic lizards.
Plants
Videos/Books
-Franklin's Garden
-Poetree-book of poetry about different types of trees
-Brain Pop Jr.
-parts of the plant,
-plant adaptation,
-plant life cycle
-Sid the Science Kid-soil
-Magic School Bus
-seeds
-gets planted
-From Seed to Plan by Allan Fowler
-Forest What Would you Like? by Irene O'Garden
-V is for Venus Flytrap by Eugene Gagliano
-The ABCs of Plants by Bobbie Kalman
-Flowering Plants
-Miss Rumpus by Barbara Cooney
-Plants in the Winter
-A Tree is a plant
-The Tiny Seed
Activities/Worksheets
-living non-living
-parts of a plant
-Craft showing parts of a plant
-Planting bean seeds to watch growth
-Growing carrot tops
-looking at different seeds and comparing the size. Discussing how different sized seeds produce different sized plants
-made a lunch using the different parts of the plant. stalk-celery, flower-brocolli, seed-sunflower seed, etc.
-Created a lifecycle chart of a bean
-Put some beans with water in a dark room. Put other beans in the sunlight with no water. Put another set of beans in water, in the light. Compared growth of the various beans. Determined what seeds need to grow.
-Put celery in food colouring and watched what happened. Coloured a picture to show.
-Weekly walks to Walker valley to investigate signs of spring, wildlife and plant life.
-Visited an agricultural day in 100 mile. Learned about invasive plants in our area. Received handbook for our walks to the valley to identify invasive plants. Received colouring books about invasive plants to learn more.
Discussed how invasive plants are an environmental issue. Discussed the difference between native plants, and invasive. Discussed how seeds are spread. Discussed why invasive plants are a danger to our local environment and what we can do about it.
Learning about Rabbits. Read, Rabbit by Sally Tagholm.
Read about rabbits on Pebble GO.
Watched a video on pet rabbits on discovery education.
Watched a video on pet rabbits from you tube.
Visiting baby rabbits at the Rutledges.
Watching live streaming of various animals. Eagles, fish, etc
Science Experiment.
We did an experiment to see what would happen if we put gummy bears into different liquids. We made guesses of what we thought would happen. Completed the experiment to see what did happen. We then made some further guesses to see what would happen if we left the gummy bears to dry out for several days. We discussed all the findings.
PE
-Little Ninjas Gymnastics Class-45 min. weekly
-Awana Games
-Weekly walks
-bike rides
-Hiking
-Swimming
-Skating
(Practising tree climbing skills)
Fine Arts
-Watercolouring painting of lupines based on Miss Rumphius
-finger painting hyacinths
-Continuing to memorize the books of the new testament.
Math
-Bug sorting and patterns.
-Playing math games for math facts to 10
-Memory finding pairs adding to 10
-Go Fish finding pairs adding to 10
-Working on addition math facts on iPad.
-Looking at width. Objects that are wider than others.
-Measuring length. Which objects are longer/shorter
-Working with pattern shapes to make pictures.
-Building with Lego to create 3D shapes. Sorting Lego pieces into various categories based on one attribute.
-Sorting coloured squares by single attribute eg. colour. Then arranging them like a bar graph and counting which has the most, least, the difference between each, etc.
-Writing out a number chart from 1-100
-Identifying odd and even numbers from 1-100. Colouring all odd numbers one colour, and even numbers another. Playing the "Odd and Even" game. I call out a number and they determine if it is odd or even.
-working through grade 1 math sheets from Easy Peasy homeschool.
Singapore 1
-numbers to 10
Language Arts
Read-Aloud
-Where the Red Fern Grows
-Prairie Thief
-The Adventures of Chatterer the Squirrel by Thornton Burgess
-My Fathers Dragon by Ruth Stiles Burrett
-Writing out memory verse.
-Practicing flash cards of sight words.
-Working on creating alphabet books about the community
Health/Career
Read, One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul. Discussed how the character made useful items out of old bags and helped to clean up her community. Challenged Jordan to build something out of recycling. Jordan created a home for one of his toys.
Berenstain Bears and the Bully-leraning how to respond properly to unkind people.
Baking muffins.
Learning to make cinnamon rolls.
Read Franklin is Messy.
Read The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room
I challenged Jordan to clean his room and keep it clean each morning. We put a hook up behind his door to hang his house coat and cape. (just like the story)
Read the Berenstain Bears and the trouble with money. Discussed different purposes for money.
Read The Berenstain Bears Dollars and Sense
Social Studies
Technology
-Brainstormed with boys all the different forms of technology around us.
-Watched a short video form you tube that explained what technology is......."Anything man made that makes our lives easier."
-Boys each created a poster showing various forms of technology and defined it in their own words.
Watched a Caillou episode about Chinese New Year.
Had a Valentine/Chinese New Year tea party:)
Read, My Mama Loves Me A Child's Discovery of Africa by Roxanne Joyal. Looking at how life is different in Africa from here. How is it the same.
Science
Read GroundHog Day. Discussed origin of holiday
Read, Over and Under by Kate Messner. Discussed how during the winter many animals live under the snow.
Created art pictures showing animals living above and below the snow line.
Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft
Read Salamander Room.
Illustrated a picture to show how Jordan would create a habitat.
We read Salamander Room and created dioramas for plastic lizards.
Plants
Videos/Books
-Franklin's Garden
-Poetree-book of poetry about different types of trees
-Brain Pop Jr.
-parts of the plant,
-plant adaptation,
-plant life cycle
-Sid the Science Kid-soil
-Magic School Bus
-seeds
-gets planted
-From Seed to Plan by Allan Fowler
-Forest What Would you Like? by Irene O'Garden
-V is for Venus Flytrap by Eugene Gagliano
-The ABCs of Plants by Bobbie Kalman
-Flowering Plants
-Miss Rumpus by Barbara Cooney
-Plants in the Winter
-A Tree is a plant
-The Tiny Seed
Activities/Worksheets
-living non-living
-parts of a plant
-Craft showing parts of a plant
-Planting bean seeds to watch growth
-Growing carrot tops
-looking at different seeds and comparing the size. Discussing how different sized seeds produce different sized plants
-made a lunch using the different parts of the plant. stalk-celery, flower-brocolli, seed-sunflower seed, etc.
-Created a lifecycle chart of a bean
-Put some beans with water in a dark room. Put other beans in the sunlight with no water. Put another set of beans in water, in the light. Compared growth of the various beans. Determined what seeds need to grow.
-Put celery in food colouring and watched what happened. Coloured a picture to show.
-Weekly walks to Walker valley to investigate signs of spring, wildlife and plant life.
-Visited an agricultural day in 100 mile. Learned about invasive plants in our area. Received handbook for our walks to the valley to identify invasive plants. Received colouring books about invasive plants to learn more.
Discussed how invasive plants are an environmental issue. Discussed the difference between native plants, and invasive. Discussed how seeds are spread. Discussed why invasive plants are a danger to our local environment and what we can do about it.
Learning about Rabbits. Read, Rabbit by Sally Tagholm.
Read about rabbits on Pebble GO.
Watched a video on pet rabbits on discovery education.
Watched a video on pet rabbits from you tube.
Visiting baby rabbits at the Rutledges.
Watching live streaming of various animals. Eagles, fish, etc
Science Experiment.
We did an experiment to see what would happen if we put gummy bears into different liquids. We made guesses of what we thought would happen. Completed the experiment to see what did happen. We then made some further guesses to see what would happen if we left the gummy bears to dry out for several days. We discussed all the findings.
PE
-Little Ninjas Gymnastics Class-45 min. weekly
-Awana Games
-Weekly walks
-bike rides
-Hiking
-Swimming
-Skating
(Practising tree climbing skills)
Fine Arts
-Watercolouring painting of lupines based on Miss Rumphius
-finger painting hyacinths
-painting on canvass
-Painting crosses for Easter
Painting dioramas.
Piano
-weekly lessons
-practicing C Major scale both hands
-playing songs made up of notes C, D, E
-playing games for note recognition
-completing weekly theory writing homework
Valentine Party with friends.
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