We are going to the Science Center today. The theme is Owl Pellets…yup, that would be owl hairballs/vomit. I think we are going to dissect it to see what the owl has been eating.
Spelling: pg 63; spelled words aloud (all correctly)
Reading: The Three Little Pigs by Dawn Bentley
Math: +3 flashcards. 2nd day doing +3 and already know some by heart
Spelling: SWvB pg 62, practice writing words in writing tablet.
Math: homemade (hm) wkst - adding (+3), subtracting (-3), time (:00, :05, :15, :30, :45)
, place values (42,698).
Reading: Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed adopted by Tracey West.
Science: KIEA pg 36 Llama
*Beautiful outdoors (mid 70’s supposedly…we shall see). When we are done school we plan to play outdoors and make rice krispy squares.
Right now we are taking a break from language (First Language Lessons) and history (Story of the World). The reason for this we have decided to give extra concentration to math (as we have been sorefully neglecting math thus far this year). I wasn’t really excited about doing math, but now I am and am progressing quickly. And we are also reading every day of course, but I don’t really need to be encouraged to do that at all. I love reading. We are also still working everyday on spelling (Spelling Workout). Spelling is not my favorite subject. I love science (currently Kingfisher First Encyclopedia of Animals) though and we do that almost everyday.
My mom is thinking of ordering me a math program called Math-U-See (MUS). She has heard great things about it. For now she has been making me homemade math sheets for a couple of weeks now. I am working on addition such as 79+23= And subtraction such as 79-23= I need to work on adding and subracting higher single digits together though. Like 9+5, 8+6, 9-5, 8-6….I can do these easily with manipulatives. And in MUS there is a certain pattern with blocks for manipulatives. For now I am doing all the addition and subtraction in my head and we haven’t gotten to those yet (when not using manipulatives).
I can recognize numbers through the 10,000’s place such as 96,254. And now the different place values (1’s, 10’s, 100’s, 1000’s, 10000’s).
I am becoming quite the time teller. We work on reading clocks and I am really doing quite well at it.
Soon we will be working on money again as well. And higher single digit addition/subtraction.