She did this I. Her science notebook. For yesterday's date she wrote a sentence, a decently long one.
November 2012 Archives
Studying the effect of adding water to both these substances, We observed baking powder fizzes and bubbles, whereas baking soda ( contains only a base) , did nothing.
Colored a circus tent according to subtraction problems.
Megan finished her first subtraction crossword puzzle. Page 22 in her addition-subtraction book.
Words that start with L. Color the picture in each box that starts with "L"
Beginning sounds
Color the pictures in the row that have the same beginning sound as the picture in the first box(page 95).
Draw a picture of a word that rhymes with a given word, draw its picture and write the word (page 94)
Worked on capital N and capital R.
Answering questions about locations of objects on a map using a compass rose and a map key. page 21 in Evan-Moor Geography.
On page 20, Given a picture with stores, identify the name of the store based on its picture.
Home workbooks
Page 12 and Page 13 - adding numbers with sums of 10. Page 14-15 basic subtraction.
Page 78: distinguishing middle from beginning vowel sounds. Page 79: match written words with pictures for cat, map, bat, and hat. Page 80: identify words having short vowel Ee, Page 81: draw a line from a picture to its word for short IIt sounds
Pages 74-77. These pages test awareness of short vowel sound in the beginning and middle of a word.
Did higher number addition problems, sums up to 9, such as 4+5, 7+2, 2+4. Etc.
Megan drew a line connecting a problem to its answer.
Turned word problem into adding problem based on the wording. question asked how many children did he take or how many tricks I. All did the puppies do?
In discussing explorers ( early) , we discussed and made a compass. We took a needle and rubbed it in one direction for about 40 times.well rubbing it 20 times was not as good. Also the first day, we put it on a thin plastic from a yogurt cup top. This had its advantage as one could see the needle wobbling as it searched for the north direction. Then our latest method has to be doing the same thing between two corks..
Colored in clown according to addition answers, adding up to 6, such as 5+1 and 2+2, etc.
Page 151 -153 adding +1, page 154 hundreds, ones, units place value and counting shapes., page
I am periodically going over < and > with Megan. She did a page of this with various numbers from in the tens place, 19 -90 was the range of numbers compared. I am teaching her that the tens place is used at first, but if this place value is the same, say 23 and 29, then the units place determine which number is bigger. Did page 198 in complete book of numbers and counting. She also practiced writing " eight" .
Pages 14 rhyming "Ed" words, page 15 rhyming "ell" words, page 17 rhyming "ell" word maze.
I was deciding what crafts to do for early explorers. Megan wanted to make a telescope. We looked this up and realized this came later than our current explorers, de vaca, Coronado, and even La Salle. We then looked up a compass and read it was first created by the Chinese, probably during the Qin dynasty (221-206 B.C.).We then read about lodestones, which were invented around 850-1050 A.D.A loadstone was a mineral containing iron oxide which aligned itself in a north -south direction.
So we studied compasses and made one by rubbing a needle against a magnet 20-40 times in the same direction. It then aligned along the North -south direction.
Megan colored in a flower based on answer to addition problem on page 208 and a complex bird puzzle on page 209. She loves to color so why not reinforce math at the same time.
Can you find me? Building thinking skills
Did pages 82 -90, covering rhyming words, letter that begin a group of words, picture that matches criteria, listening for the last sound in a word.
Oct. 1st - read the work, copy it and X out picture that matches it. Next page, 2, "x" the same word , she has to "x" the same word as the one in the left most box. Page 3, pick the word that best completes the sentence.
oct. 2nd. Circle the word that describes the picture shown (page 4),
Megan colored two pictures based on the additon sums in her counting and numbers book.
Did several pages on the beginning consonant sounds and one on short A sound.
Megan did Several pages on the value of a penny and adding pennies. A pages 279-283.
Lesson 1 page 1 read the word, copy it, and x the picture that shows this word.
Page 2 x the same word.
Finished her last three pages.
Megan finished the whole book . The last page was done on november 1st .. I often forget ti record something , but the dates are on the workbook.
Colored her Seventeen page and wrote seventeen four or five times .
Did one page of this.
What numbers add up to 10. I had her work with blocks to visualize this. Then I tried to teach her, using place value blocks, that when you add a number to ten, 9 and less, it just becomes 1x, with x being the number added. Like your x is your number of units and your 1 is your ty or tens place. All the will need repetition of course. Also, she would ask what is 10 + 20 and I would pull out 10 blocks and say that is like adding the tens place without any units ( math-u-see's ones place). She seemed to understand this, but again repetition is key.
