Bible
Weekly Sunday School attendance
Reading God and Me devotion each evening. Finding the verses and highlighting them in the Bible.
Weekly attendance at Kids Club church club.
Math
Math games of various types.
Singapore 3A
Topics
-numbers to 10,000
-place value
-greater than, less than
-adding subtracting-4 digit numbers
-estimating then solving
Language Arts
Learning Language Arts through Literature
-spelling (Jordan did poorly on his spelling test this week and said that he must have been going free style:)
-copywork
-nouns/proper nouns
-telling sentence
Read Alouds
-StoryThieves by James Riley
-Frindle by Andrew Clements
-Double Trouble
-Guys Read True Stories
Assigned Reading& Book Report
Third Grade Detectives-Preparing to write a book report at the end
Jordan has been working on his book report.
We first discussed the terms eg. setting, conflict, conclusion etc.
Jordan dictated what he wanted to say and I wrote it down.
Jordan copied the words and created his rough copy.
We edited and revised his rough copy.
Jordan completed a good copy.
He completed the Grading Rubric.
-cursive practice
Lot's of summer reading
Reading for company (He didn't actually put Bupee to sleep:)
Science
Revelstoke Dam visit. Learning about turning water into energy.
The kids made structures in Sunday School
Geology/Erosion
Books/Videos
-Erosion, Changing Earth's Surface by Robin Koontz
-Cracking Up-A Story About Erosion by Jacqui Bailey
-Explore Rocks and Minerals by Cynthia Light Brown
-The Magic School Bus Rocks and Rolls
-A Rock is Lively by Dianna Hutts Aston
-Weird But True Rocks by Carmen Bredeson
-Rocks, Rocks, Rocks by Nancy Wallace
-If you Find a Rock by Peggy Christian
-Trapped on the Rock by Gerry Bailey
-Rocks and Minerals by Steve Tomecek
-Junior Geologist How does the land wear down? Discovery Education
-Landforms Discovery Education
-Kilauea-What's in the World Article
-Kilauea Explosion by you Tube
-Rocks and Minerals- Brain Pop Jr
-Slow Land Changes-Brain Pop Jr
-Fast Land Changes-Brain Pop Jr
-Landforms-Brain Pop Jr
Activities
-froze balloons of water and then used salt and a baster to create erosion. Finally put the ice balls under the tap and watched what happens with fast flowing, high pressure water.
-Did an experiment where we put 3 candies in glasses. The first glass was empty, the 2nd had water and the 3rd had water but we also stirred the water every 5min for an hour. We made predictions and then saw how the candy eroded.
-Created peanut butter balls with layers to show the layers of the earth
-Made a volcano out of salt dough. Painted it. Using vinegar and baking soda, erupted it.
-Alex created a book on the layers of the earth
-LifePac Erosion reading and activities
-Rocks formed by heat, layers of the earth
-rocks formed by pressure
-experiment to show the layering of rocks, sand and soil
-studying collection of rocks and discussing how rocks can be classified
-Classifying landforms worksheet
-Landform Poster
-studying rocks
Made a landform picture using patterns.
Creating a landform diorama out of salt dough
Jordan created a book on erosion for young children.
Salmon
Read/Watched
Salmon Stream by Carol Reed-Jones
A Salmon for Simon by Betty Waterton
The Magic School Bus-Salmon
Completed Salmon Life Cycle Worksheet
Visited Adams River Salmon Run
Rainforest Habitat through Project Builders
Rainforest in a Jar
Created Rainforest inspired art at home
Social Studies
Whistler Gondola
Visiting Shannon Falls
Read:
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh (Sylvia Mendez & Her Family Fight for Desegregation)
-Rights and Responsibilities Brain Pop Jr
-video and quiz
Canada Map -Book 1
-Urban Areas
-Trip Across Canada
-The Maritime Provinces
-Newfoundland and Quebec
-Ontario
The Prairie Provinces
-British Columbia
-The Territories
-Landforms
-Field Trip to O'Keefe Ranch. Learned about letter writing with ink fountain pens and wax seals, visited a school house and had a school experience, toured the museum, did a scavenger hunt and saw artifacts from the Vernon aboriginal group including clothing and baskets.
-Using ink pens
Career/Technology
Project Builders Class-STEM
After project builders, Jordan came home and created a chocolate creation using melted chocolate and Franks hot sauce! He gave a sample to his teacher and she said it was interesting, yet good.
Cake Baking
Jordan made a cake and iced it. He completed every step without help and completely independent.
Keva Plank Creations
Jordan had an Iced Tea stand and made money. The kids also sold min chocolate bars, cookies and bracelets.
The kids are saving pop bottles and every month we take them in for cash.
Various Stem Projects
Regular Meal Days
Auntie helped Jordan with his sewing.
Arts
-Daily piano practice
-Weekly piano lessons
PE
Jordan is signed up for running club at Kids Club. Every Thursday for the next 8 weeks they are working on running skills. The first day they ran 3km and he thoroughly enjoyed it. This week I invited him for 1km on my run and he has discovered he enjoys running. The most they've done during club is 4km but they're hoping to extend this distance as time permits.
The boys received a boat for their birthday and have been learning how to paddle.
Jordan participated in our church's weeklong soccer camp. They learned soccer skills as well as about God.
Tramp Biking
Trampoline Jumping
(Jordan got to try out a giant trampoline while in Osoyoos. He was able to do front and back flips on it and he really enjoyed it)
Swimming
Biking
Scootering
Bowling
Health Topics
Horizonz-Grade 5
-Types of health-social, physical, mental and spiritual
-discussing which activities fit each of the health topics
-benefits of physical health-strength, cardiovascular, feel good, etc
-discussed signs of physical fitness-increased heart rate, tired muslces, sweaty skin etc.
-creating fitness goals
-Jordan created a goal to ride his bike for at least 20min after school each day
-Blogged on worksheet-The Habit of Wellness
Jordan's first hockey game!
Fire Safety
Brain Pop Jr Fire Safety
Read Firefighters by Usborne
Reviewed Fire Escape Plan in our home
Weekly Sunday School attendance
Reading God and Me devotion each evening. Finding the verses and highlighting them in the Bible.
Weekly attendance at Kids Club church club.
Math
Math games of various types.
Singapore 3A
Topics
-numbers to 10,000
-place value
-greater than, less than
-adding subtracting-4 digit numbers
-estimating then solving
Language Arts
Learning Language Arts through Literature
-spelling (Jordan did poorly on his spelling test this week and said that he must have been going free style:)
-copywork
-nouns/proper nouns
-telling sentence
Read Alouds
-StoryThieves by James Riley
-Frindle by Andrew Clements
-Double Trouble
-Guys Read True Stories
Assigned Reading& Book Report
Third Grade Detectives-Preparing to write a book report at the end
Jordan has been working on his book report.
We first discussed the terms eg. setting, conflict, conclusion etc.
Jordan dictated what he wanted to say and I wrote it down.
Jordan copied the words and created his rough copy.
We edited and revised his rough copy.
Jordan completed a good copy.
He completed the Grading Rubric.
-cursive practice
Lot's of summer reading
Science
Revelstoke Dam visit. Learning about turning water into energy.
Kangaroo Farm Visit.
The kids made structures in Sunday School
Geology/Erosion
Books/Videos
-Erosion, Changing Earth's Surface by Robin Koontz
-Cracking Up-A Story About Erosion by Jacqui Bailey
-Explore Rocks and Minerals by Cynthia Light Brown
-The Magic School Bus Rocks and Rolls
-A Rock is Lively by Dianna Hutts Aston
-Weird But True Rocks by Carmen Bredeson
-Rocks, Rocks, Rocks by Nancy Wallace
-If you Find a Rock by Peggy Christian
-Trapped on the Rock by Gerry Bailey
-Rocks and Minerals by Steve Tomecek
-Junior Geologist How does the land wear down? Discovery Education
-Landforms Discovery Education
-Kilauea-What's in the World Article
-Kilauea Explosion by you Tube
-Rocks and Minerals- Brain Pop Jr
-Slow Land Changes-Brain Pop Jr
-Fast Land Changes-Brain Pop Jr
-Landforms-Brain Pop Jr
Activities
-froze balloons of water and then used salt and a baster to create erosion. Finally put the ice balls under the tap and watched what happens with fast flowing, high pressure water.
-Did an experiment where we put 3 candies in glasses. The first glass was empty, the 2nd had water and the 3rd had water but we also stirred the water every 5min for an hour. We made predictions and then saw how the candy eroded.
-Created peanut butter balls with layers to show the layers of the earth
-Made a volcano out of salt dough. Painted it. Using vinegar and baking soda, erupted it.
-Alex created a book on the layers of the earth
-LifePac Erosion reading and activities
-Rocks formed by heat, layers of the earth
-rocks formed by pressure
-experiment to show the layering of rocks, sand and soil
-studying collection of rocks and discussing how rocks can be classified
-Classifying landforms worksheet
-Landform Poster
-studying rocks
Made a landform picture using patterns.
Creating a landform diorama out of salt dough
Jordan created a book on erosion for young children.
Salmon
Read/Watched
Salmon Stream by Carol Reed-Jones
A Salmon for Simon by Betty Waterton
The Magic School Bus-Salmon
Completed Salmon Life Cycle Worksheet
Visited Adams River Salmon Run
Rainforest Habitat through Project Builders
Rainforest in a Jar
Created Rainforest inspired art at home
Social Studies
Whistler Gondola
Visiting Shannon Falls
Read:
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh (Sylvia Mendez & Her Family Fight for Desegregation)
-Rights and Responsibilities Brain Pop Jr
-video and quiz
Canada Map -Book 1
-Urban Areas
-Trip Across Canada
-The Maritime Provinces
-Newfoundland and Quebec
-Ontario
The Prairie Provinces
-British Columbia
-The Territories
-Landforms
-Field Trip to O'Keefe Ranch. Learned about letter writing with ink fountain pens and wax seals, visited a school house and had a school experience, toured the museum, did a scavenger hunt and saw artifacts from the Vernon aboriginal group including clothing and baskets.
-Using ink pens
Career/Technology
Project Builders Class-STEM
After project builders, Jordan came home and created a chocolate creation using melted chocolate and Franks hot sauce! He gave a sample to his teacher and she said it was interesting, yet good.
Cake Baking
Jordan made a cake and iced it. He completed every step without help and completely independent.
Keva Plank Creations
Jordan had an Iced Tea stand and made money. The kids also sold min chocolate bars, cookies and bracelets.
Regular Meal Days
Auntie helped Jordan with his sewing.
-Daily piano practice
-Weekly piano lessons
PE
Jordan is signed up for running club at Kids Club. Every Thursday for the next 8 weeks they are working on running skills. The first day they ran 3km and he thoroughly enjoyed it. This week I invited him for 1km on my run and he has discovered he enjoys running. The most they've done during club is 4km but they're hoping to extend this distance as time permits.
The boys received a boat for their birthday and have been learning how to paddle.
Jordan participated in our church's weeklong soccer camp. They learned soccer skills as well as about God.
Tramp Biking
Trampoline Jumping
(Jordan got to try out a giant trampoline while in Osoyoos. He was able to do front and back flips on it and he really enjoyed it)
Swimming
Biking
Scootering
Bowling
Health Topics
Horizonz-Grade 5
-Types of health-social, physical, mental and spiritual
-discussing which activities fit each of the health topics
-benefits of physical health-strength, cardiovascular, feel good, etc
-discussed signs of physical fitness-increased heart rate, tired muslces, sweaty skin etc.
-creating fitness goals
-Jordan created a goal to ride his bike for at least 20min after school each day
-Blogged on worksheet-The Habit of Wellness
Jordan's first hockey game!
Fire Safety
Brain Pop Jr Fire Safety
Read Firefighters by Usborne
Reviewed Fire Escape Plan in our home
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