They gave animals on an A-1 through C3 grid and asked where asked where the animals were located via grid lo answer the questions. (Pg. 30) Evan -moormK-2 Geography. On pg. 31 , Megan constructed her own grid, given pictures with grid numbers.
February 2013 Archives
Megan had to do various activities as she studied the borders of some of the United States, like color the three states that border California blue.
Today we studied about Rocks. I read the book "If you find a rock". We then made rock bugs. We decorated rocks with sticks and leaves to make the legs and wings respectively.
Megan and I have been discussing responsibilites and Megan created a handout on her responsibilities,
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We have been working on Katie and the big storm for a week now.we learned about street signs, we learned about big city life and what it takes to keep it running smoothly. We also studied the use of a compass. We followed the story as it discussed directions on a compass rose. We also learned about community workers. I laminated matching person with building or picture associated with them.
Megan made a book called "My book of street signs".
Megan did pages 36-39. She , using stories and fun pictures, and worked on words "by " and "little"
Yesterday, Megan and our homeschooling group went to the Bach to study tides and to use a seine. We measured the tides using a long measuring tape and measure the distance between the observed high tide and the current t
Megan reads a story to me daily-today she read "a different tune" part of an independent reading program for children .
This is a dice game where two people try to get 2-12 by rolling two dice. It turns out that 11, 12, 1,2 are hard to get and 2, and 12 extremely hard. Megan won.
What was supposed to be a lesson on the respiratory system, turned out to be a heart study. We read "Hear your Heart" and this helped us to draw a heart and label the veins and arteries and the direction of blood flow. We also learned the names of the valves and that arteries move blood away from the heart and veins move it toward the heart. We then discussed the blood flow throughout the body and Megan asked where do the arteries and the veins meetup to exchange blood.
Given a picture, and three boxes of letter choices, Megan has to pick the letters that make up the word. Is the sentence true or not? Megan has to read a sentence and determine if it is true or not.
We went to a valentine's party. The kids handed out cards to each other and they made a craft to put them in. It was a lot of fun for all of them.
Megan is learning blend words that start with the a letter followed by "l", like block, clock, etc.
Megan is shown a picture and she has to circle the word that matches the picture, like club or cub, clip or lip, etc. Then, given a list of words at the top and then pictures of items. She has to pick the word that spells that item.
Megan's words in these books are getting harder. I have to see if she is going to fast. They are now doing blends, such as cl, fl, pl, etc. Lesson one has you selecting the blend that goes with the word pictured. Then she has to read a few words and "X" the same word as the beginning word. Then given sword, she had to X out the word it spelled, and then write the word.
I found this on a homeschooling website. its like sugar formations, but this lab using Borax laundry soap. In hot, boiling water you put a certain amount of borax laundry soap, the amount depending on the size of your container and volume of water. What you are doing is forming a saturated solution of the borax crystals. After we made the water, we tied a string around a pipe cleaner and tied the string to a pencil and then we hunt this into the solution. Before doing this, we made a star shape with a couple of pipe cleaners, so that we could make crystal stars. This worked really neat. We still have them, but they are fragile and crystals fall off of them.
Circle the word "goes" that are on the players shirts. Draw a line to the picture that answers the riddle. Circle all the words that spell "has" in the sentences and underline the words that say "goes".
