Friday, December 8, 2017

Mikayla-Term 2

Bible

-Operation Shoebox.  Finding gifts to fill the box and returning it to church
-writing letters to our sponsor child in Ethiopia  
-performing christmas song in front of church and solo reading Isaiah 9:6
-Weekly sunday school attendance with scripture memorization
-Memorizing the books of the Bible in Sunday School
-Joined GEMS girls club.  Learning scripture.  Attending bi-monthly.  They do crafts, scripture memorization, singing and study a variety of topics in order to earn badges.
-We made cookies for the staff at the senior's home.

Mikayla got to learn cake decorating at GEMS





















Scripture Craft

























Mikayla has been a great help taking care of Gigi.  She makes sure she has the things she needs and helps walk beside her to make sure she doesn't fall.











Mikayla helps her brothers with their school work














Math
Test every 5 lessons.

Test #10= 20/22
Test #12 =18/20
Test #11=18/20
Test #13=17/20
Test #14=20/20
Test #15-17/20
Test #16-18/20






















-multiplication drills
-dividing
-multiplying 2 digit numbers
-adding and subtracting decimals
-adding and subtracting numbers with more than 3 digits
-division with remainders
-rounding to thousands
-multiples and factors
-multiplying 3 digit numbers
-estimating
-rate
-data using graphs
-polygons
-exponents
similar and conguent figures
-multiplying by multiples of 10
-millimeters
-stories about fractions of group
-finding information to solve problems 
-geometric transformations
-factions of a set
-measuring turns
-division with three digit answers-dividing money
-metric units of mass
-classifying triangles
-symmetry
-tesselations


(Tesselations)











LA

-Writing assignments from CC
-Assigned Reading books with Social Studies topics
-Reading challenge from HCOS

Poetry writing
-Haiku
-cinquain

- weekly cursive practice













Social Studies

-Finished reading The Broken Blade by William Durbin 

Fur Trade

Read
Dear Canada -Footsteps in the Snow-Fur Trade Diary

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





Researching for informative poster about the fur trade.  Starting with a list of questions to answer.

Building a fur trade fort model using popsicle sticks, hot glue, paint etc.

Field Trip to the Vernon Museum
-Learned about gold rush in Vernon
-Learned about artifacts from the past
-Chinese immigration
-Did a "learn about the museum" through a scavenger hunt

2nd Field Trip to Vernon Museum to discuss fur trade
-scavenger hunt
-trading post game

Canadian Railway

Read
-Dear Canada A Ribbon of Shining Steel
-Canada Through Time-Building a Nation


Science

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




















Sound-Apologia with family

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
Brain Pop Jr-Light

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


Fine Arts

Painting pottery at a local pottery shop




















-bi-monthly piano lessons with Miss Kierra
-daily practice
-performed Christmas in Egypt with musical theater group
-played christmas songs for the seniors home



















-Play the piano when we visit the home.

-kids created thank you cards using drawing tutorials.

(An example of Mikayla's)


Making crafts at Mikayla's birthday party
















making early morning pancakes when friends visit from out of town













One of Mik's weekly GEMS challenges was to bake a cake for someone else so she made one for our friends visiting from 100 Mile.  The girls decorated it together.














Learning to use a chocolate mold kit











PE/Health

-bi-weekly swim lessons running for 5 weeks starting in January-Passed level 2


-ski lessons on Silver Star in January
-Mikayla's skating has really improved this year and we realized it is because she roller blades daily.  This has really helped her skills to improve.


Book-What do You Stand For?  A Guide to Building Character by Barbara Lewis
-Responsibility
-Relationships
-Safety
-Citizenship
  Watched Citizenship on Brain Pop
Discussion on mental health.  Read Total Health.
-Brain Pop video on behaviour and stress
-Brain Pop Jr. video on anger

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