Friday, August 25, 2017

Jordan/17/Term 1

Bible

Leading Little Ones to God 
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

Quiz #1= 19/21

Adding and subtracting hundreds without carrying
Adding and subtracting hundreds with carrying

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
Creative Writing
-Wrote about being a super hero










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
-Conducted an experiment to watch water pollution spread
-Reviewed the water cycle and created a worksheet
-Sid the Science kid-water video
-The importance of water (Discovery Education)
-Conserve Water (Learn 360)

Read "Saving Water".  Created a comic book style showing ways to conserve water.























Magic School bus-wind
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.

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

Visited Kangaroo Farm




















Mini research project on polar bears using Pebble Go












Notebooking on animals learned about at CC.


Technology
Jordan made his own fidget spinner by following an online tutorial.
Weekly Blogging
Made 3-D paper model of steamboat














3D model of digger


















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




Using Keva Planks



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.  Note booking on readings.




















Made clay cuneiform tablets of their name.


Wrote, "If I were King of Vernon...."  Based on Hammurabi's Code.  Wrote his own law.

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 India for comparison project for Term #2.  Will be comparing Canada to India.

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)
-Piano lessons
-Learning how to use water colour pencils/paints for note booking

PE

Jordan has been raking leaves to help out.

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
Daily swimming in our pool
Basketball
Bike riding
Trampoline
Weekly bike riding at the BMX park


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