Megan is given a checkerboard with pictures, and if the picture starts with a "ch" sound she has to circle it, such as chair, cheese, chicken, chipmunk, chimney.
July 2013 Archives
Megan had to read the word and if it ended with a g , she would circle the word. If it ends with a K sounds , she underlines it.
Megan has to read the word on the right and draw a line matching it to a picture on the left. Well she should have gone from left to right, but she decided to do it the other way around. some examples were vest, nest, rain main, junk-skunk, etc.
Megan had to pick from several nouns describing a family at a veternarian. She had to read the sentences and fill in the blanks with nouns. Some of the words were daughter, father, boy, veterinarian and women.
Megan had to read a math sentences (adding ) and then write it in number form below it. To do this, she needs to trace the numbers provided. She knows how to write her numbers but I told her its good practice.
Megan today had to draw a line from words with the long O sound to a boat a girl is in. If they didn't have the long O sound, the girl will not put those items in her boat. Then, on the next page, she had to look at a picture and see if it has a long O. If it does, she has to decide if it follows "silent e form" or "oa" form of long O. Then, she has to write in the appropriate letters.
Megan and I traced and cut out fish and put kindness values on them. Megan wanted to decorate hers and so we decided to make hers the one before rainbow fish gives away some scales and mine is the one after he has replaces some of his shiny scales with acts of kindness. This was a neat activity as it is preparing us for our Thursday's meetup on Rainbow Fish.
Megan played a game by the mailbox in their Kindergarten theme kits called buzzing around. There were five bees, cards with 10s addition facts on them, and a bee-right strip of 10 bees. You have to pick a card, answer a math fact and move that many spaces. When you went around, if you got the math question right, you moved that many spaces. As you pass start, you can pick up one of the five bees. You do this each time you pass start. The one who collects the most bees wins.
Megan practiced alphabetical order by taking pictures of items and putting them into alphabetical order on a caterpillar.
Megan read nouns from a list and then read sentences and filled in the sentences with the words from the list, cat, turtle, bird and dog.
Megan is working with adjectives on this page, by reading the sentence and writing the color of the animal shown. If she has trouble spelling them, they provide the words in a word bank at the top of the page.
Megan did math problems using number words rather than the numbers themselves.
We read this book on the prehistoric time period of the Cro-Magnums and of the animals present during the ice age.
Megan was given , on page 22, a family of 10 mice, Mother, father and 8 little ones. Then, three moved to live near a haystack, how many are left. She answered 10 - 3 = 7. Then, there are four mice in a cage, how many ears, tails and feet.
She needed help with the legs and so I helped her to count by 4's. Mother mouse had ten litters a year and each litter had 5 babies in it. How many did she have in one year and in two years. I helped Megan, with the use of my 10 fingers, to count by 5's to get 50 babies in one year and she got the two years, or 100 babies by herself.
She needed help with the legs and so I helped her to count by 4's. Mother mouse had ten litters a year and each litter had 5 babies in it. How many did she have in one year and in two years. I helped Megan, with the use of my 10 fingers, to count by 5's to get 50 babies in one year and she got the two years, or 100 babies by herself.
These word ladders deal with short "o". The words formed on page 33 are job, jog, jot, dot. On page 34, dog, hog, hot, pot.
earlier she did page 32, sob, cob, job , rob.
earlier she did page 32, sob, cob, job , rob.
On page 87, we reviewed the letter blends she had learned in the previous pages. So words like crust, crest, pants , plants, trust, twist, twins, stand , send , spend, etc. She had to look at a picture and circle the word that describes it. On page 88, Megan had to write the word associated with the picture shown, using a word bank at the top of the page.
Today , we used my phonetic alphabet stamps of things and animals to write a rebus story. Megan enjoyed it and put her work up on the wall.
I have noticed that Megan writes her z's backwards, so I am having her write some of them.
sob, cob, job rob.
Megan did three problems. The first one dealt with graphing data on the amount of cats sold per week and reading data off the graph. The second one was about how much cheese do four mice eat if they each get two pieces. The last one is about how many mice one would trap if they trapped one mouse every day for two weeks.
Build match and write. Megan has to build with the blocks (she doesn't at this point), color the blocks for the addition problem and the left and draw a line to the number of blocks on the right. She then has to color the blocks on the right, corresponding to the math-u-see blocks. On the next page, page 68, she just had to answer +1 addition problems and a couple of + 1 word problems. She usually reads these herself, or with some help.
In this chapter, it discusses more the English changes that have occurred over time. It gave the timeline for the various forms of English such as Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Modern English. It gives examples of writings from each of these times. It stresses that the addition of facts and math itself haven't changed over time, 5+8 was 13 1000 years ago when Beowulf was written. He discusses changes in other fields besides English, like Astronomy, computers, Biology, etc. He still needed to show how 9+9 = 18. He did this by dividing 9 pieces of pasta in half.
For problems : Megan had to complete the serious of what happens if you take a stick of pasta and keep taking halves of the pieces left, like one piece broke in half is two, two pieces, each broke in half equals four and , four pieces each broke in half is 8, and 8 pieces broke in half equals 16. She had to finish this series. This seemed hard for her so I work her through the next three, 16----32------64-----128. Then, we stopped. The book of course, did a ton more in their answers.
Then, she had to do some beginning algebra
2) Find a value of x , such that x+x = 14 true , she answered 7
Find a value of y, such that 6 + y = 8 true, she answered 2
Find a value of z that makes 7- z = 4 true, she answered 3
For problems : Megan had to complete the serious of what happens if you take a stick of pasta and keep taking halves of the pieces left, like one piece broke in half is two, two pieces, each broke in half equals four and , four pieces each broke in half is 8, and 8 pieces broke in half equals 16. She had to finish this series. This seemed hard for her so I work her through the next three, 16----32------64-----128. Then, we stopped. The book of course, did a ton more in their answers.
Then, she had to do some beginning algebra
2) Find a value of x , such that x+x = 14 true , she answered 7
Find a value of y, such that 6 + y = 8 true, she answered 2
Find a value of z that makes 7- z = 4 true, she answered 3
Megan is playing math bingo with the play group/homeschool group. Apparently she did very well in the math department.
Megan read a set of three sentences and chose the one that best describes the picture shown. This is much like explode the code. Then , we read some sentences and Megan answered whether it was answering who, what, where, or when .
In this chapter and the previous, Life of Fred has been working on doubles in math. It also discussed a fortnight in this and the last chapter. It also is discussing the different types of English over the years (Old English, Middle English). In the next chapter it discusses these in more detail. It discusses the fact that English is constantly changing and it discussed new words that have been added to the english language over the years starting in the 1940's. For her homework, Megan had to guess where Mouse potato came from. We discussed this and came to the conclusion it is about people who spend their time sitting at a computer as opposed to a couch potato. Then, we read a writing about World War II and had to pick out words that didn't belong in that time period, words like aerobics , latte, brainstormed, and assault rifle. I had to help with this.
Then, she had to copy down a set of addition problems and answer them.
Finally, she was asked what number added to itself = 16. She knew this to be 8. Then, it introduced her to the fact that, in algebra, x would be an unknown number, where x+x= 16.
Then, she had to copy down a set of addition problems and answer them.
Finally, she was asked what number added to itself = 16. She knew this to be 8. Then, it introduced her to the fact that, in algebra, x would be an unknown number, where x+x= 16.
Megan had a sheet of characters from a another planet. They were all numbered and , without a classification key, she just looked at the creatures and made up pairs based on what they looked like and their body features, feet, , antennae, body coloration, wings, antennae, etc. then her friend, who has vp been studying the creatures, comes up with a dichotomous key to sort the animals. Megan paired most of them right originally, except 4, I think this was because she paired them based on coloration , overlooking the fact that the ones of the same pattern of marks did not have the same feature when it came to legs. We discussed that this is an important feature as you would not pair a fish with a lion . I thought this was a cute activity. Megan would rather build or mix things.
History
Ancients
Evan-Moor History Pockets
Copy pages 11, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, and 31
Ancient Egyptians and their neighbors
Gather Supplies needed for projects (Ancient Egyptians and their Neighbors)
Ancients
Evan-Moor History Pockets
Copy pages 11, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, and 31
Ancient Egyptians and their neighbors
Gather Supplies needed for projects (Ancient Egyptians and their Neighbors)
Ziggurat
1 large box like a cereal box
1medium box, like a cornstarch box
1 small, like a baking soda box
1 tiny, like a small match box or jewelry
3-4 days worth of newspaper
Scissors
Duct tape
Wooden board 3 inches wider and 2 inches longer than the largest box
Glue
Clean sheet of paper
Fat book
Artificial clay
Cornstarch
Baking soda
Tempra or acrylic paint
Math Sumerian style
20 toothpicks
10 large paper clips
10 thick rubber bands
Sunset of the Sabertooth (Magic Tree House # 7)
Living in Prehistoric Times (Usborne First History)
Journey through history: Prehistory to Egypt by Gloria and Oriol Verges
Your Mother was a Neanderthal (Time Warp Trio #4)
How do we know where people came from ? by Mike Corbishley
The Cave Painter of Lascaux (Journey through time) by Roberta Angeletti
Books
Ancient Mesopotamia, Let's See Library Ancient Civilizations by Robert Noyed
Sumerians by Jane Shuter
Mesopotamia (Find out About Series) by Lorna Oakes
The City of Rainbows: A Tale from Ancient Sumer by Karen Sharp Foster
Ancient Mesopotamia, Let's See Library Ancient Civilizations by Robert Noyed
Sumerians by Jane Shuter
Mesopotamia (Find out About Series) by Lorna Oakes
The City of Rainbows: A Tale from Ancient Sumer by Karen Sharp Foster
Science RSO
Copy pages 80, 82, and 84
Copy pages 80, 82, and 84
pencil
colored pencils
4 stacking styrofoam cups
yarn- any color, about 3 yards
dry beans or seeds- one each of two different types
tape or glue
Books:
One of greek myth Medusa, to find out what the medusa shape is named for.
Megan had to draw lines between the money value on the left to the money value on the right, On page 25, Megan is giving 10 boxes with three items in them each. She had to "X" out the item that does not belong. This dealt with counting and shapes. On page 26, Megan had to count the money and write the total value of it on the line. I like this as it forces Megan to remember the value of the various coins.
Megan and I played a game today called launch it. There are cards with the ending of words and circle wooden pieces with beginning letters and blends. You launch a coin with the launcher and then use it on your board to spell a word. Winston played with me and said you can add a feature. If you spell the actual word on the card, you get to go again. This should make the game more interesting. I will upload pictures shortly.
Megan is still, on these pages, adding one to numbers. While doing this, she has to color the squares the colors the Math-U-See blocks are. Then, she has to match the math equation on the left to the proper sum on the right. On the next page, page 66, Megan simply does math problems adding one to a number. I know this sounds boring, but this is a review basically. She also does two word problems which are basically adding one to a number.
In this one, like before, Megan has to read two sentences and then X the box that contains the sentence describing the picture on the right . She read these sentences very well.
Megan had to , on this page, select the word to spell the image shown, then write the word. In this way, it is teaching spelling. She did this for skunk, wink, hand, band, wind, sink, and golf. She put the wrong ending letters for golf, until I told her what it was.
Megan did two word ladders
P. 30, kiss, miss, fist , list, lint
p.31 hot, pot, not, rot
P. 30, kiss, miss, fist , list, lint
p.31 hot, pot, not, rot
Megan and I learned about the first farmers, from 10,000 B.C. To 5600 B.C. We learned about how they discovered if they planted seeds, they would get plants and food. Also, they learned to tame animals. The first farming was done on the fertile crescent, where the weather was wetter and warmer and plants could grow more easily. We learned about the types of houses they made, with straw tops and bricks made from mud and clay. They made a wall around a village to protect from wild animals. One of the oldest towns found was Jericho. They had a house made of mud bricks in the shape of an igloo. They became wealthy and had to build a massive wall to protect their town. Catal Huyuk was the largest of the early towns. Around 6,000 people lived there. They left bodies out to rot and then buried the skeletons either under a house or in a shrine room. Megan and I found the major waters around the fertile crescent on a world map on the wall. She labeled and colored the maps.
We read kate and the beanstalk and jack in the beanstalk and , using a Venn diagram , compared them . Kate and the beanstalk had several differences , but the same underlying similarities, that is they both had starving families, sold their cow and received beans in return, supposedly magic beans. In both cases, the mother threw them out the window and a giant beanstalk grew.
For exercises, Megan had to write doubles , 1+1,2+2,3+3, etc. upto 10+10. She was supposed to do it in dot form, but did not want to. After that, Megan had to write out one million after being shown what one thousand was. Then , after reviewing the less than sign, Megan had to write down all the inequality using this sign that were true.
Megan did the problems on pages 18-19. The first one is subtraction six- five = 1, the second one is really a multiplication, one can of food every day, how many cans of food does the cat eat in a week = 7. the third was an addition problem, adding up the different cats of different colors- one plus two plus two. The third problem was hard and I impressed that Megan got it all by herself. The cat has five claws on each of the front paws and four claws on each of the back paws. One cat has how many claws: 18 was her answer. How many for two cats: 36 was her answer, perfectly right.
Megan did page 9 of the critical thinking's thinker doodles. This one was of pig's faces. She had to match the top finished faces with the unfinished faces in the bottom row and then finish the bottom one's to match the top ones.
Megan was given a list of words and has to chose the one that matches the picture. She learned the word golf tonight.
Megan defined Archaeology as The study of the history and culture of ancient civilizations through studying remains such as pots, tools, etc, dug up from the ground.
We are working on the first Evan-Moor ancient history pocket .We defined four words, ancient, history, basic needs , and civilizations.
Week One
History
Ancients Day One
Evan-Moor History Pockets
Photocopy pages 3, 5, 7,8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
Check out or get books:
Archaeologists Dig for clues by Kate Duke
Right here on this spot by Sharon Hart Addy
Eyewitness Books: Archeology by Jan Mcintosh
I can be an Archaeologist by Robert B. Pickering
Discovering the Iceman by Shelley Tanaka
Ancients Day Two
Book list:
RSO Science
Classifying Critters
Copy of RSO's pages 75-78
Animal Kingdom Book
copy of Animal Kingdom Book cover page 115
colored pencils
7 pieces of 12 by 12 Cardstock - each a different color
scissors
glue gel
stapler
Hole punch
stickers
Megan added many problems that went up to 18 . She did good. She missed a couple but I worked with her on this.
On page 27, A screw and a comb are being measure with a rule and Megan had to tell what the size of the items are by reading the ruler shown, Then , on the bottom, Megan had to circle the pictures that had a long "a" sound as in tape. She circled cake, gate, grapes,lamp, and she couldn't figure this out but also whale. On page 28, Megan put a word together with a picture to form a compound word. As a result, she formed cookbook, baseball, butterfly, firefighter. On the bottom of page 28, Megan had to color words that had the long U sound red and the one that has the short u sound blue.
In this pocket, Megan did a words to know for history studies. The words she defined are history, basic needs, ancient, civilization.
Today,
We made a triangular prism shape, a tent shapes, a cube shape, and a cylinder shape out of computer paper. We then stacked books on them . The tent one could not support one book nor could the triangular prism, but the column and the cube could hold one. Then 2 books were tried, but then the cube failed. The cylinder made of computer paper went onto hold 5 books. Then, Megan suggested that a column made out of cardstock would be even stronger. And it was. It held up a lot of books, including her kingfisher dictionary. Her and I were amazed!! She talked about it later , saying to her dad, " it held up the dictionary, could you believe it!!
Megan named her new doll Honey Suckle.
We read the introduction, that is what is archaeology and How do we know what happened, pages 1 - 6.
Megan drew a line between some contractions and what they are short for, like isn't and is not. Then, she read sentences and wrote them in the correct order.
Megan added and subtracted the problems as indicated.Some of these were tough, but she did good none-the-less.
Megan is working on writing in the colors of some foods. She still has chocolate to go.
Megan is slowly working on coloring a space green if it has a short i sound and blue if it has the long i sound. So, she started this today but probably will finish it in the next few days.
On page 80, Megan had to look at the pictures, read the word and then "X" the picture that matches the spelled word. Then, she has to write the word.
On page 81, There are pictures and in the box with each picture is a pair of similar words and Megan has to pick the right word that spells the picture shown.
Megan today did her date, day of the week, date in ordinal number, and then, for sentences used a page in my story starters. She wrote a couple of sentences for a kid who is going to try and eat a worm.
We are reading a neat book about electricity that starts with the time in the beginning and explains how people realized that there was some electrical force in all things. It had us run a comb through our hair and then use the comb to pick up pieces of paper. It didn't work when I ran the comb through Megan's hair the first time, but did through the end of my hair (in was in a braid). It was then able to pick up the small pieces of paper. Then, Megan's hair worked too. Then, we tried to pick up other things, like a small screw, a small piece of wood chip from the lizard's house, etc, but Megan assumed they were too heavy. We could not get anything else to be picked up. The we discussed that everything is made up of atoms, the parts of an atom and the inner parts of an atom (the neutron and the proton) are very rarely lost by an atom as they are held tightly in the atom's center, and that like charges repel and unlike charges attract. The book explained that if an atom has too little or too many of negative charges, they will be unstable and react.
On page 68, Megan wrote her numbers 1-20, She guessed at the color of the 5 block, and did a simple 6+0 word problem, On page 61, she drew 6 cars and 0 cars and did the math. On page 62, she answered some silly math questions related to adding zero. Like how many elephants do you have in your house followed by if three elephants came to visit, how many elephants would you have.
Megan was do fact familia math. She did 2,3,5 and 2,7,9 and 3,5,8.
Megan did not have crayons to do the first part. On the bottom, Megan had to underline the misspelled word on a sentence and then rewrite it the right way. She wrote went, train, room all by herself.
On the top of this page, Megan did a mix of single addition and subtraction problems. On the bottom of page 21,Megan matched job descriptions with the name of the profession .
Megan read the sentences describing the job and a person does and then draws a line between this sentence and the community helper's name it describes (page 21 south). Then she had to read a sentence and then find the incorrect word in the sentence. Then, she had to underline this work and rewrite it correctly. This was on page 22 bottom. Page 22 top has to be done now that we have crayons available.
Megan finished most of this book until it started to be too easy. But this was her first math workbook amd where she learned all her beginning math skills. I liked that it had her write out the number words, not just write numbers. ,,,
On page 20, Megan read a couple of poems and had to circle the letter of the phrase that tells what each poem is about. On the bottom of this page, she had to add the question mark or period to tell the proper punctuation in the sentences. She also did a bunch of addition and subtraction problems on the top of page 21.
