Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Alex-Term 2

Bible

Awana

-reviewing new testament books
-memorizing versus
-learning about Joseph 
-memorizing Psalm 23

Sunday School
-How the Bible was written
-Is the Bible True?

-weekly memorization

LA

Read Aloud
-The Adventures of Reddy Fox by Thornton Burgess
-Tornado by Betsy Byars

-Weekly Spelling Unit

-First Language Lessons
   *Definition of a noun
   *Caterpillar poem memorization

-Explode the Code Book 1 1/2

Writing
*letter writing
*Verse writing

Beginning to complete note booking pages with several sentences.  A variety of topics like health, bowling, Beethoven, etc.

Monthly speech therapy-practice several days a week

Math

Singapore 1B
-Charts/graphs-bar graphs
Reading and interpreting.  Alex made a tally chart and a bar graph showing how many different types of toys he owns.  
Alex is keeping track of the weather and temperature for the month of December.
-adding numbers to 40
-subtracting numbers to 40
-Dividing  Working with putting numbers into groups and counting the # of groups, and the amount in each group
-Finding 1/2 and 1/4.
-Finding and continuing patterns.
-Time to the hour and half hour.

Social Studies

Aboriginal Study 
Books /Videos

-Canada's Natives Long Ago by Donna Ward
    *Canada's Natives, Who Are They?
    *Inuit of the Arctic
-Native Homes by Bobbie Kalman
-B.C. First Nations Studies by Kenneth Campbell
-The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada by Diane Silvey
-Arctic Stories by Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak
-Inuit (Brain Pop)
-Under the Ice (Discovery Education)
*Woodland Hunters
-Native People of the Woodlands (Learn 360)
Activitites
-notebooking page on Inuit
-discussing similarities and differences between Inuit and Woodland Hunters
-mapping locations of aboriginal groups
-colouring pages on aboriginal groups

Map Work
-Making a map grid
Landforms
-volanos
-islands
-hills
-mountains
-Grand canyon
-desert habitats   (Watched Magic school bus Desert episode)

Canada Study
Canada My Country
-maps
-compass rose
-Symbols of Canada
-Flags
-Coat of Arms
-Canada's Monarch
-Inspirational Canadians  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Terry Fox

Activities
-following a map
-worksheet of symbols
-creating own coat of arms

Books
Canada's Maple Leag by Ann-Maureen Owens
Our Canadian Flag by Maxine Trottier
Oh, Canada by Per-Henrik Gurth




Local Actions have Global Consequences

Videos
Community Rules and Laws-Discovery Education
Boxes for Katje-Discovery Education
If the World were a Village-Learn 360
The Difference Between Needs and Wants -Learn 360
Rights and Responsibilities-Brain Pop
SOS Children Videos

Activities
-Discussing how the things we do can impact the greater world, eg. operation christmas child, sponsor child, praying for other countries etc.  Brainstorming other ways we can help.
-Read Matthew 7:12.  Alex drew a picture showing how he can treat someone the way he would want to be treated.
-After watching rights and responsibilities brainstorming some responsibilities that Alex has at home and then drawing a picture of it.He went on to draw a picture of his responsibilities in the community, and in the world.  We put these together to create a book.


















-After watching videos of children in other countries sharing about their life we brainstormed and created a brain map of all the things we would want people to know about our province.  Alex created a poster showing some of the symbols of BC

Communities Then/Now
-Watched Berenstain Bears In theAttic (Learn 360)
-Watched Then and Now (Discovery Education)
Pebble GoThen and Now
-Transportation
-School
-Clothing
-Games
-Houses
-Communication
-Farming
Playing Games on Pebble Go relating to Social Studies.

Science

The Sky-Weather, sun moon, stars-Digital Study

Books
-Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Sylvia Long
-Stars! Stars! Stars! by Bob Barner

Videos
-What is weather?  (Brain Pop)
-Temperature (Brain Pop Jr)
-Seasons (Brain Pop Jr)
-Fall (Brain Pop Jr)
-Winter (Brain Pop Jr)
-Spring (Brain Pop Jr)
-Summer (Brain Pop Jr)
-Fall (Learn 360)
-Spring (Learn 360)
-The Moon (Learn 360)
-The Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space (Learn 360)
-The Magic School Bus See The Stars (Learn 360)
-Bears of all seasons -Berenstain Bears (Learn 360)
-The Water Cycle (Brain Pop Jr)
-The Water Cycle (Discovery Education)
-The Water Cycle (Pebble Go)

Activities 
-After reading 3 separate accounts of creation from Ojibway culture, Haida culture and the woodland aboriginals, we discussed the similarities and differences of those stories as compared to creation.  Alex then drew a picture of the biblical account of creation.
-Worksheet on comparing sunny day and rainy day with venn diagram
-Worksheet of drawing the different types of weather
-Worksheet on writing about favourite season
-Experiment showing how blubber (lard) acts as warmth for animals living in extreme cold
-Making rain and discussing terms like evaporation, condensing, condensation, etc.  (Water cycle)
-Making rain using shaving cream and food colouring
-Mini research from Pebble Go
-Bringing a cup of snow in the house and watching it melt to see how much water it actually is.
-Creating water cycle with Lego
-Keeping a weather chart and logging the weather for the month of December.
-Making a water cycle model
-Working as a group to write an acrostic poem about WEATHER


Making water cycle models with friends.




Health
Helping with dinner


Watching Sid the Science Kid on Being Healthy.  Including exercise (what happens to our heart when we exercise?), healthy eating, drinking water, getting sleep, dental health, etc.
Alex made a note booking page to share his learnings.
Video on sugar - Brain Pop Jr
Video on food groups- Brain Pop Jr
Video on eating right-Brain Pop Jr
Video on digestive system-Brain Pop Jr
Video on washing hands-Brain Pop Jr
Video on Be Safe-Brain Pop Jr
Video on Bullying-Brain Pop Jr
Game Up

Mikayla asked the boys questions and quizzed them from the Safetyville game cards. Pertained to various safety topics e.g.. poisons, strangers, road safety, kitchen safety, etc.

Applied Technology
-Raz Kids
-Reading Eggs


Fine Arts
-Daily practice
-Weekly lessons and theory
-Practicing Here Comes Santa for recital
-Daily practice of Networks app for note recognition.  10min. each day after practice
-Goals-steady counting, smooth triads


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