Kindergarten: October 2013 Archives

Explode the code, pages 56 and 57

By Julie Wang on October 30, 2013 10:22 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

On page 56, Megan has to read a word on the left and then reading the words in a row to its right, she had to "X" the same word. I have her read all the words aloud so I know if she is reading them right.

On page 57, She is given the words, dump, camp, golf, pump, help, and belt, and she has to use the word to fill in the sentences below this. To the left of each sentence is a picture describing what the sentence is about. The first one shows a guy hitting with a golf club and the sentence reads Dan wins at _______. Megan wrote in the word "golf".

Mix and Match Language games- first grade- mailbox.com

By Julie Wang on October 30, 2013 9:33 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

We played a game from Mailbox.com for Language. It consisted of blends. Megan was given a picture and had to pick the starting two letter blend. This went well. It pairs up good with the words she is learning in explode the code.

Mailbox Theme Kit- Apples- Hide and Squeak

By Julie Wang on October 30, 2013 9:30 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan was given cards with the picture on them and had to put them under the right category of blend, like "sp" or "dr" . The first set was easy as they had a picture of the object on it. The second set, which I had her do, was harder and I could see her have to think. The harder set did not have a picture , just a space for the missing letters.

Complete Book of Phonics- Ending Consonants g,m, and n

By Julie Wang on October 30, 2013 9:24 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan had to look at the picture and draw a line between the picture and its ending sound.

Ending Consonants b,d, and f

By Julie Wang on October 30, 2013 9:22 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan looks at the picture and has to write the letter that the word ends with. This was a good review, but was a bit easy.

The Complete book of phonics-ABC order- Pg. 185

By Julie Wang on October 30, 2013 9:16 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

She is given several lists of two words each and she has to alphabetize the list.

complete book of phonics - pg. 184

By Julie Wang on October 30, 2013 9:12 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

She had to put in the short or long vowel in blanks to finish a word. She had to color the short vowels yellow and circle the long vowel pictures.

Explode the code - Book 2.5, page 55

By Julie Wang on October 26, 2013 9:50 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan has done all the pages up till this one, I just get a little behind at times . Today, she is learning new words, but read them well. The words were :

belt, lamp, film, elf, bulb, hump, dump.

She had to read them, write them and put an x on the picture , given a row of pictures, that the word is referring to. She did this well.

Let's go Batty and see some real bats at Waugh Drive Bat Colony.

By Julie Wang on October 26, 2013 9:11 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

We went to see the bats again after a meetup on them. We did a craft where we made a bat out of a paper bag and colored and cut out bat pieces.

Evan Moor pages 69-71 Landforms and Bodies of water Review 1

By Julie Wang on October 25, 2013 8:34 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan had a little test on the landforms she has studied so far, such as

canyons
plains
mountain
vallley
volcano
lake
desert
river
hill
island
oceans

She was given pictures of them, alongside with their name and she had to draw a line between an object's name and its picture. Then, she had to do a similar thing, except, she had to put the letters a-F in the blanks next to the name of the landforms and bodies of water. Then, she had to take a quiz where she had to fill in the blank or answer the question by bubbling in the answer.

This was good as it tested important vocabular, such as the mouth and/or source of a river. It asked what Greenland was the largest of - an island. Also, what describes lake Superior - largest fresh water lake in the world. Other such definitions were asked. She did fine. We looked places up on a world map to see where they were.

Word Ladders , K-1, pages 54 and 60

By Julie Wang on October 24, 2013 9:29 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan did a word ladder starting with hat, and had to change it to pat, pet, pit, pot , hot, hut. Then, we skipped the last three letter words as they were too easy. We went to four letter words. On page 60, she started with tide, and went to ride, rude, rule, mule , mute, cute.

Explode the code, book 2.5, pages 40 and 41

By Julie Wang on October 19, 2013 1:07 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan is given squares with a picture and three words. She has to select the word that best matches the picture. In the first one , there is a picture of a dress, she is given press, dress and grass. Next is a car with luggage on the top of it and she is given the words trip, trap and trot. On page 41, she now has to spell the word for the picture given in the first box. For example, in the first box of her problems, there is a swimmer, she had to circle sw in the first box, "i" in the next box and finally a "m" in the third box to spell the word swim. This goes on for six more of these.

Explode the code book 2.5 pages 49-50

By Julie Wang on October 18, 2013 5:46 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

On page 49, Megan is giving a list of three words and a picture and she has to pick the word that spells what it is the picture is showing. For instance, she is given a picture of a girl licking an ice cream cone and she has to pick lick, luck or lock. She did really good at that page. On page 50, Megan had to pick the letters necessary to spell the word shown in the picture. She made a few mistakes but I nudged her along. She got sick later in the day with a fever and so this might have had some impact.

Math-U-See Alpha Pages 133 and 134

By Julie Wang on October 18, 2013 1:37 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

In Math-u-see , Megan is starting to look at how to quickly add single digits to the number 8 using a block visual. The ones being added to 8 are grayed on the right to make 10. On page 134, she is simple doing addition of single digits to eight (8). Then, she does a couple of word problems involving 8.

Miquon Math Orange Book page F-3

By Julie Wang on October 18, 2013 1:34 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan is continuing basic multiplication and adding of same number for a given amount of time. For example, (3 times 4 ) and (4+4+4). Putting these together make a great visual.

Science Arts, Water Cycle Terms and Paper molds

By Julie Wang on October 17, 2013 1:47 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Today, at Walter Hall , the kids and us had a great time tearing up paper and putting it in a blender to get ready to create a slurry. While they were tearing up paper , Megan and I taught the kids about the water cycle. I say Megan and I because Megan is already very familiar with these terms, Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, runoff, ground water, etc. I told them what each term meant and then related it back to our paper molds. After this, we turned on the blender and watched our paper turn into a slurry. It was awesome to see the eyes of 12+ kids as this turned into a slurry. It was amazing. At first we got green, then it was read. And then, DJ was determined to make blue by adding just blue paper. This was the of our paper making as miles put in chunks of paper, gobs of it, that were not torn into pieces. This got wrapped around the blade and the machine started smoking. Luckily , we were ready to move onto a new activity. Also, asking questions led me to realize that one of the kids didn't know that paper came from trees. As a teacher, one needs to always be looking out for misconceptions or wrong information. Sometimes kids just get concepts in their heads' wrong or someone told them it. I told him that paper comes from trees and he looked at me very baffled. I think we should have a meetup discussing the process of paper making.

Summer bridge activities 1st-2nd grade

By Julie Wang on October 17, 2013 1:01 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

On page 52,Megan had to alphabatize words such as big, little , slow , go, stop, out, up. On page 53, Megan had to circle the greater number of sets of two. on page 54, Megan had to read sentences and circle the best title. On the bottom of page 54,Megan had to write an -es or -s to pluralize a word.

Explode the code Book 2.5 pages 46-48

By Julie Wang on October 16, 2013 12:49 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Lesson 6- Final Blends

Megan is working on ending blends, I guess. This is the start of a new lesson. She had a word and the spaces to put the letters for the words , followed by three images. Megan has to read the word, x out the image and then write the word. These steps seem to help solidify the spelling and meaning of the words presented. On page 47, Megan is given a a word followed by three words. She has to look at and read the first word and then read the other words and put an "X" on the same word. On page 48, Megan is given six words at the top to choose from. Then, she is to read the sentences and put one of the words into the blank spaces. She did this well. She is getting really good at reading.

Megan's plant with labeled parts

By Julie Wang on October 14, 2013 11:30 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Math-u-see alpha pages 125-127

By Julie Wang on October 13, 2013 11:34 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan is doing problems adding numbers to nine and also adding 10s and 100's with no units. On page 125, she is also doing lower number addition, like 6 +1.

On page126, she is adding numbers less than 10, and counting by 10s. On page 127,she just did regular addition problems, adding numbers 1-9 together in single digit math.

Insides of a tree

By Julie Wang on October 8, 2013 10:44 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan learned about the cambium,heartwood, sapwood, etc. we learned that the cambium makes the sapwood We learned ffvv

Spanish School Year 2013

By Julie Wang on October 7, 2013 9:08 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan this passed Monday had a substitute teacher. She learned a lot. They went over colors and counting up to twenty. They went over the months of the year. She handed out a worksheet and learned how to say it's very hot, its very cold, it's cool. They went over the names of the seasons as well. I liked this teacher. She was big on asking the students individually. The problem with this class is that the knowledge varies all over the board. Before the teacher was even here, Megan was writing the seasons out on paper. I think Megan is ahead of other kids in the area of writing. I want to put this picture up on the wall. Going to Laminate it.

Miquon Orange Book - Page F-2

By Julie Wang on October 7, 2013 1:29 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan is learning basic multiplication still. Same concept as the last two pages, except now with 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 6's and 7's. She is multiplying these numbers a given amount of time and also doing skip counting/addition of the same numbers to solidify how these two processes are related.

Miquon Math Orange Book pages F-2

By Julie Wang on October 7, 2013 1:13 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan is learning the basics of multiplication. She is given problems like 2 * 6 . I explained that this means 2 six times or six two times. Then after this, they give her 6 + 6 to show her a relationship the multiplication shows. This is the same with the others, for example

4 times 4 or 4+4+4+4

3 times 3 or 3+3+3

3 times 5 or 5 + 5 + 5

Beyond the code - pages 3

By Julie Wang on October 7, 2013 12:56 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

On page 35, Megan is introduced to some word families used in Zack the Dog Part 4. The families were "oss", "ill", "ack", "im, and "ept" She had to circle the repeating part. On page 35, new words were introduced, cold, told, old, sleep , keep, your, says. Megan had to write and spell these words. On page 36, Megan had to read some sentences and draw a line between the sentences and the picture that describes the sentences, Such as "Is this your dog?" or "Nan told her pal to call her back". Then, Megan and I read Zack the Dog , Part 4 and answered questions regarding it on page 40, with a happy face for yes, sad face for no and a straight face for can't tell. Then, she had to write a sentence answering "Why Red did not run off. She wrote "Red did not run off because he could not leave Zack.

Ancient History - Egyptians and the Nile River

By Julie Wang on October 7, 2013 12:54 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Tonight I read to Megan "the story of the world" on the eqyptians and the Nile River.

Learning about the parts of plants

By Julie Wang on October 7, 2013 12:43 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Plant cell structure (Eukaryotic cells) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tonight I read a book called plant cells to Megan. We talked about what is considered a plant. We read that trees, plants, grass and moss are all considered plants. We read about the plant cell and what is the difference between a plant cell and an animal cell. We discovered that plant cells have a cell wall in addition to a flexible membrane and this helps the lant keep its shape.

We learned the basics of photosynthesis, that is that the plant takes in water from its roots via the xylem and sends it up to the leaves via the petiole. The sun converts some of this to water vapor. The plant takes in CO2 via holes on the underside of it's leaves by a feature called Stomata. There are many of these on any given plant's leaves. Then, the sun splits the water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen molecules. Then, the sun helps to run a reaction between the hydrogen and carbon dioxide that forms carbohydrates and simple sugars. The plant sends this food down to the roots via the phloem. We also learned that plants which flower are called angiosperms.

Megan drew a picture of a plant and its root, stem,and leaves. We discussed the parts of the root and talked about a tap root versus a plant with roots that spread out along the surface. The root in the book looked like a tap root.

We also talked about how in woody plants such as trees, they grow upward and outward, that is the trunk gets wider and longer. Also, it discusses how there is a ring for each year of tree growth.

we also watched a Rap UTube video on the parts of a cell.

Miquon Math Orange Book pages E-21

By Julie Wang on October 6, 2013 1:11 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

On this page, Megan just answers addition and subtraction problems. Some of them are adding three numbers together whereas some are just adding or subtracting two numbers from one another.

Life of Fred Edgewood chapter 4

By Julie Wang on October 5, 2013 12:58 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

In this chapter (4) , Fred studies where students are traveling. So we learn where Eritrea in Africa was, near the Red Sea. We also learned where Scotland , north of Ireland and England. We also found Edgewood is in Maryland, New Mexico , texas, and Kentucky.

For her turn to play, Megan was introduced to:

Median middle value when numbers are arranged from smallest to largest and then the middle number is chosen.

She is learning about shapes. Is a square a trapezoid ?

She is learning about ordinal or cardinal numbers. Numbers used in counting the number of members of a set are called_____________ numbers.

Cardinal.

How to pluralize words -mailbox laminated theme

By Julie Wang on October 5, 2013 12:50 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan has pictures of nouns and she has to categorize words as pluralized by adding an -s or an -es .

Lots of dinosaurs and bird drawings

By Julie Wang on October 5, 2013 12:39 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan has been spending a lot of time drawing.dinosaurs and birds. I will take pictures soon and post them .

Explode the code, book 2.5 pages 38-39

By Julie Wang on October 4, 2013 1:02 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

On page 38, Megan has to "X" the word in a row of the three that matches a beginning word. She has to read all the others as well, so I know she knows what they say and sometimes what they mean. On page 39, She is given a list of words at the top, she then read sentences and has to fill in the word that best finishes the sentences.

Explode the code book 2.5 pages 36 and pages 37

By Julie Wang on October 3, 2013 10:48 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan is given different pictures and she has to write out their name, such as grab, drill, frog, crib, grill, drag, and drum.

On page 37, Megan starts a new lesson, lesson 5. She is given a word and several pictures and has to read the word, write the word ( spelled for her already) and then "x" out the picture which the word describes.

Miquon page F-1

By Julie Wang on October 3, 2013 10:10 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Megan is learning to understand multiplying in miquon. She did 3*2, 4*2,2*4, 2*3. It then shows it to her via adding, 2+2+2, or 2+2+2+2, etc.

Miquon Math Orange Book pages F-1

By Julie Wang on October 3, 2013 1:17 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

On this page, Megan is introduced for the first time to multiplication. Well not truly. I have discussed this orally with her before now. But, now its on paper. She is given 3 times 2 and 4 times 2. I walk her through this saying this means 3 two times or 6 (she comes up with the answer).

Then, later they show her some addition problems that lead to this:

2 + 2 +2

2+2+2+2

4+4

3+3

Science Art

By Julie Wang on October 1, 2013 6:10 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

We did a meetup yesterday that incorporated terms like diffusion, emulsion, and absorption. Megan did most of them. However, she spent a lot of her time on the diffusion one. This one you wet your paper and then you add watered down tempura paint to the pictures. In time, the paint should move across the wet paper. That night, we did two more. One where you

Science and Art

By Julie Wang on October 1, 2013 9:15 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

We did a meetup yesterday that incorporated terms like diffusion, emulsion, and absorption. Megan did most of them. However, she spent a lot of her time on the diffusion one. This one you wet your paper and then you add watered down tempura paint to the pictures. In time, the paint should move across the wet paper. That night, we did two more. One where you add tempura powdered paint to a wet piece of paper. This is supposed to show the powder dissolving and then diffusion. However, if the kids put on two much powdered paint , this effect isn't seen. I am going to have Megan spray hers with a water bottle. We just did this. I am curious if we can actually get it to dissolve and then diffuse. Maybe we should try this with other types of paper.

Okay, the next experiment we did was to add some red tempura paint with oil and some blue tempura paint with water. Then, onto a dry piece of paper, we added the tempura paint/water mixture first in drops. Then, on top of these drops, we added drops of tempura paint/ oil mixture. Megan added a lot of this. I will be uploading a photo shortly.

There was a another one where you added oil and tempura paint to the surface of water and then you laid your paper on top. I am going to do this one to, with Megan, at some point.

We also did a lab that Megan's is familiar with. We put a water and food coloring mix and then oil into a big bottle. Then, I shook it. All the while, I was discussing insolubility . I asked them, is it going to mix. Is it staying mixed? Why or why not? Then, we added soap, and observed. I am not sure what I expected. Really I expected to see smaller globules where the soap broke up the grease molecules. We did separation, but I couldn't see it exactly. So, I am going to repeat it again with Megan.

Lots of leaves-bulletin board - big book of everything

By Julie Wang on October 1, 2013 6:57 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Yellow, orange, red, green and brown construction paper

Magnetic tape

Copy of picture cards -page 21 big book of everything -first grade

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