Friday, December 8, 2017

Alex Term 2

Bible

-Operation Shoebox.  Finding gifts to fill the box and returning it to church
-Performing christmas song in front of the church
-Weekly Sunday school attendance with mostly scripture memorization
-Participating in Bethlehem Star live nativity.

Memorizing John 20:31

Language Arts

-Daily Reading practice
-A Reason for Handwriting

Notebooking




-First Language Lessons
    -definition of a noun
    -common noun/proper noun
    -picture study
    -narration
    -poem memorization

Math

-Length  cm/M  inch/foot
-Weight  g/Kg  oz/Ft
-multiplying and dividing
-counting by 2's, multiplying and dividing by 2's
-counting by 3's, multiplying and dividing by 3's


Singapore 2B

adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers
geometry-3D shapes rectangular prism, pyramid, prism, cylinder, sphere
-number of faces, sides, vertices
-creating shapes with other shapes
-patterns
-fractions
-Time





Social Studies 


-Reading through Discovering Canada The Fur Traders and note booking after each chapter.  Will put the note booking pages together to create a booklet.  We notebooked on 8 of the 12 chapters.





Research project
Starting research for project on comparing Japan to Canada.
 Starting with creating a list of five questions to answer.
Alex interviewed his great aunt via Skype,  who has a son that lives in Japan and she has visited 16 times.


Sampled Japanese food

-Colouring pages on Japan to prepare for the poster.
-Working on putting together comparison poster of Japan and Canada

Books
-The Boy in The Garden by Allen Say
-Erika-San by Allen Say
-Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
-One Leaf Rides the Wind by Celeste Mannis
-the east-west house by Christy Hale
-Japan by Barbara Somerville
-We Visit Japan by Tammy Gagne
-What does it mean to be Global?

Videos
-Samurais by Discovery Education
-Japan food by Discovery Education
-Japan:Crossing the Snow by Schlesinger Media

Read:  The Pen that Pa built-looking at the system of making wool from sheep in the past

Field trip to the Vernon Museum
-Did a scavenger hunt to learn about the museum
-Guess the artifact game
-Learning all about the printing press




Canada Map Book 1
-dfferent views
-map symbols
-zooming in
-mode of the earth
-map and globes
-map of the world -continents and oceans














Science

Went to Science Centre and were introduced to the different animals present.

cockroach!



















-notebooking page on hibernation
-notebooking page on migration

Mikayla taught Alex to make a triorama





















Sound

-notebooking after reading Apologia

Light
Books
Apologia Chemistry and Physics
Light by Sally Walker
Light by Penny Norman

Videos
Discovery Education
-What is light?
-Properties of light?
Magic School Bus-Rainbow
Brian Pop
-Light
-Colour

Activities
-Experiment to see light rays
-experimenting with blending colours
-experimenting to blend colour to see white
-experimenting with crystal to allow light to shine through and see colours

Worksheets on types of light.
-Man made vs. natural light





















Lego building





















Career Education

I can Make a Difference-Apple Press
-Animals needs
-Human needs
-Everyone's needs
-Caring for family
-Community helper
-Being a good friend
-Kindness at home
-fairness
-Rules at home
-Rules at school
-Respecting school Rules
-Respecting people's things
-Cooperating
-Being Kind to Others
-Bullying hurts
-Including Others
-Respecting others
-Responsibility
-Telling the truth
-Doing the right thing

Book-What do You Stand For?  A Guide to Building Character by Barbara Lewis
-Responsibility
-Relationships
-Citizenship
  Watched Citizenship on Brain Pop

Read: The Fabulous Friend Machine-a book about safe cell phone/internet use


Fine Arts

-biweekly piano lessons with Miss Kierra
-Daily practice
-Played Christmas songs at the seniors home

PE

-Skating at the outdoor rink
-Skating at indoor rink
-Sledding
-Shoveling driveway
-bi-weekly swim lesson running for 5 weeks starting in January


-3 ski lessons on Silver Star in January

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