Friday, August 25, 2017

Alex/17/Term 1

Bible

Listening to Leading Little Ones to God each evening.
Attended day camp through Emmanuel Church.
Weekly Sunday School Attendance

Memory Verse 
Luke 6:15
1 Timothy 1:15

Math

Singapore 2A
-Place value to thousands
-expanded notation
-greater than/less than
Review = 18/21

Adding and subtracting hundreds without carrying
Adding and subtracting hundreds with carrying and borrowing.

Length-more than, less than. equal to
-estimating
-measuring with objects and rulers

Language Arts

-Daily Reading practice
-Daily writing eg. journal, note booking or Explode the Code
-Spelling using A Reason for Spelling

Science

Water Reading God's Creation- Weather
-notebooking on readings
-Atmosphere
-hurricanes
Visited Polson Park's Water conservation event.  Learned water conservation facts.  Listened to a story on the life cycle of the salmon.
Read A Drop Around the World by Barbara Shaw McKinney
Read "Saving Water".  Created a comic book style showing ways to conserve water.
Magic School bus-wind
-Conducted an experiment to watch how water pollution spreads.
-Sid the Science kid-water video
-The importance of water (Discovery Education)
-Conserve Water (Learn 360)
-Reviewed water cycle.  Completed work sheet.
-Created underwater art.
















Insects
Books/Activities
-Read Book of Insects.
-Created a mini-book about facts about insects.
-Read Big City Bees
-Visited Planet Honeybee in Vernon
Videos
 Life Cycle of the Honeybee  (Discovery Education)
Insects (Discovery Education)
Honeybees (Brain Pop)
Insects (Brain Pop Jr)

(Planet Honeybee)
















Visited Kangaroo Farm.

Magic School bus-camoflauge
Magic School Bus - ecosystems
Magic School Bus-The human body

Fall
Read Why Do Leaves Change Color? by Betsy Maestro
Watched Sid the Science Kid-Seasons (Discovery Education)
Why Leaves Change Color (Discovery Education)
Created art using pastels and water colour.

Mini research project on polar bears using Pebble Go.

Note booking about animals learned about in CC.

Social Studies

Read Dave Ramsey's book for kids about spending money
Read Dave Ramsey's book for kids about saving money.
Made a note booking page on saving money.

Read Daniel's Duck.  Experimented with soap carving
Read Desmond and the Very Mean Word by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.  Discussed racism and kindness.

Ancient World
Reading The Story of the World (1 Chapter a week)
Note booking about readings.
Wrote, "If I were Mayor of Vernon"......   choosing a rule.  based on Hammurabi's Code
Making cuneiform tablet of name

















Canada has Diverse Communities
Read, "Paddle to the Sea" by Hollings C. Hollings.  Outlines a toy's trip through the great lakes.
Watching videos around the world to compare communities
-The Geography of Canada (Discovery Education)
-Argentenian Culture (learn 360)
-Amazing Sidney (Learn 360)
-Village Life: Cambodia (learn 360)
-Wonderful Turkey (Learn 360)
-Along the Vietnam (Learn 360)
-Getting active in Japan (Learn 360)
-Sweet sounds of Mexico (Learn 360)

Read The Gift of the Inukshuk
-created art

Learning about Canadian artist Ted Harrison















Listening to Gold Rush Fever by Barbara Greenwood

My World in Maps Book (Grade 2)

-View points in maps
-landforms and water
-following map keys
-Using grids
-using compass
-reading maps
-following directions
-globes
-map of the world

Research project
Watching videos on Learn 360 about Japan for comparison project for Term #2.  Will be comparing Canada to Japan.

Remembrance Day

Read up on animals that helped during the war.
Read, "Bear on the homefront" by Stephanie Inns
Created Remembrance Day poems.















Fine Arts

Daily Piano Practice (suspended until Oct)
Learning how to use water colour pencils/paints for note booking.
Alex has been enjoying making comic books



Technology

Alex made his own fidget spinner following an online tutorial.
Weekly Blogging
Made 3/D paper model of steamboat
















Made 3D paper model of digger


















Family Dessert Challenge.  Choose dessert, shopped for ingredients.  Made dessert for rest of the family.  Boys choice, ice cream cake!

Building with Keva Planks




PE

Read
-The Berenstain Bears and Junkfood
- Health Safety and Manners 2

Video
Brain Pop Jr.-exercise
The Magic School Bus Works Out

Activities
-notebooking on eating nutritiously

Geocaching
Bike Riding
Trampoline
Hiking (BX Falls)
Swimming in our pool
Ice Skating
















Weekly bike riding at the BMX park

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