Jordan-Term 3

Bible

-Jordan attends Kids Club and Sunday School weekly

-Jordan made cookies for an elderly friend of his.
Making Easter Pictures for the residents of the seniors home.  We handed out the pictures and some rice krispie treats:)
-Helping decorate Safeway for summer

Math-Completed Singapore 3A and B

-Fractions-equivalent fractions-simplifying fractions
-Adding and subtracting equivalent fractions
-Angles-acute, obtuse and right angle
-Area of shapes-comparing and creating
-Time
-Working on math drills
-Right Start math worksheets

Completing the first test of Saxon 5/4.

English

-Daily Journal Writing-starting with 2 sentences daily.  Adding in descriptive words and details
Have progressed to 3 sentences-working up to a paragraph several times a week.

-wrote a mini science report

-writing a short story

Jordan learned about cinquain poems and wrote two of his own

Speech Therapy-every two weeks-homework, reading stories with "r" components, answering questions based on the story.

-Assigned Reading-The Magician's Nephew

-Read ALoud-Stories from King Arthur's Court

Science

-Watching the butterfly life cycle

Planning a garden-planting seeds

-researching squid
-Jordan researching dolphins to write a mini report on them
-Visited science center and rode in the Gyro Chair

-experiment on creating stained glass sugar

-experiment on creating geode crystal eggs

-experiment on running dyes using skittles
-experiment with making chocolate milk mixtures
-Creating a Sway presentation to show Scientific Process

Social Studies

Comparing people groups

Books/Videos

-World Cultures-Aboriginal Australians

-World Cultures-Bushmen of Southern Africa

-World Cultures-Yanomami

-World Cultures-Aleuts

-Bushmen of Africa-clicking language-You Tube

We created a Venn Diagram showing the similarities and differences between the African Bushmen and us in Canada relating to social structure.
Created a Venn Diagram comparing government st.ructure

ADST

Jordan has been busy creating Rainbow bracelets.

I gave the younger three a cake decorating challenge.  They first drew their designs on paper.  We had a vote on what they thought the best design was.  The kids then got to design a second idea to go along with the winner's design.  The final step was for the kids to decorate 3 cupcakes each, and decorate the large cake together.

Jordan has been using melty beads to create his own designs.

Cake decorating at Safeway

Making a wooden helicopter from a kit

-Working with clay

PE/Health

Jordan found a jack knife in the backyard.  He attended "knife safety" classes via Skype with his Grandpa.  He learned about knife safety, proper management, etc.

Jordan is participating in sports each week at Kids Club.
Scootering at the skate park
Swimming
Trampoline jumping
bike riding
-Biking to piano


















Mikayla gave the boys a fitness class and taught them about the FITT principle.  Created a video on it.

Art

-Weekly piano lessons-weekly theory-daily practice

-Power Point on composer

-Jordan has been working on composing his own piano song.
-Jordan has moved from Faber 2A to Faber 2B
-Field Trip to the art gallery

Jordan enjoys creating art using online tutorials