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 .
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Megan did a geography lesson today on Texas, filling in the state capital (Austin) and the major body of water that is southeast of texas and the river that forms the border for us in the Southwest. Also, what country borders Texas on the Southwest, which is Mexico. Also, where did "The Alamo" take place, that is its San Antonio.
Megan and I read about the Pilgrims who landed on Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. We discussed that this world was new to them, so they called it "The New World". Also, we discussed they were coming here because they couldn't practice their religion in England, where they came from. Then, it discussed how they listened to the King of England for a time until the American Revolution, where we became Independent from England (Britain). July 4th , 1776. We also learned where Massachusetts is located on the map.
Today, Megan and I reviewed whom Christopher Columbus was as I need to go over important historical people. In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. We discussed that he was trying to find a faster route to "The Indies" but he reached the North American- South American Continents, more specifically central America, which is just an extension of North America.
We read a story on Edhelper about Laura Secord and out of curiosity we read about the War of 1812, generally to find out where the canadians came in. In the process, we learned why we went to war and what impressment means in Military terms. We did learn that the British and the French were at war with each other and the British were fighting Napoleon. And the French had control of Europe, and America, being a free country was exporting their goods to both of them, via ships. But
I read Megan a couple of Edhelper's reading comprehension stories, one called bee and fly at the baseball game and one on "Laura Secord saves the day". The latter is a true story about a black lady's personal journey to warn the british that the American's were attacking. This helped the Canadians. They celebrate her in Canada and she has been made bigger than reality in Mythological stories in Canada.
Every day we do our date, day of the week, record the time and the weather on a thermometer. We did not have the time and weather sheet today, but she did do the month and date in coins.
We are reading this book by Laura Ingalls Wilder. While we read it, we discuss the important vocabulary and discuss what they are doing. Thinks discussed we're the churning of butter,what is buthering and the parts of the pig, venison and how they smoked it to make it last, bears, panthers, minx,muskrats. When reading this , one gains a sense of the life of a pioneer.
As we read this, we mop,eye a pocket of time, shown below. Basically the chapters are there and there are event cards, and as Megan hears the event, she puts the card into the pocket. I think it helps with retention.
First I have to say , this was a great day. We went with Leslie, Colby and Sable. , we did a lot more with their Newton know how section. We learned about gravity, newton's three laws, momentum, angular momentum, inertia, etc. it was neat, that had a trebuchet set up and the kids could looked at the effect on angle - they put a ball on the metal bar attached to the heavy weight and pulled it down to various angles to see the effect on distance the ball traveled. They have always had a place where you can. Lift yourself using a pulley system and this is always fun. Then, they had pairs of hills set-up where you can roll a ball down, and Upon getting to the bottom , the path lead to either a small or large loop, or as in another pair, a flattened out ending or one curved upward at the end. They had a spinning table where you played with the idea of centrifugal force. Then they had a top table we did not visit. They had a plastic wall roller coaster that you rolled a ball down and tried to get it over all the hills. They had a table that took a ball down in a funnel motion., at each station , there were movies that taught the concept , providing the necessary background information .
We did a little with densities and fluorescence. Megan made a drawing that shows up under UV and I explained to her that the sun emits UV rays and so we took her drawing out into the sun. We played with their shape/property tester, where you have to find a shape that has the right weight, magnetic, shape, and fluorescence properties.
We spent a little time looking at African culture and a specific tribe. We learned some about Brer Rabbit and their sayings, stories, and way of life. They fished using nets and a plastic water with crawfish, crabs, fish, etc. they had a kitchen set-up with tables and a pot type cooking area like they would has used back in Africa. I was reading a book on how they were taken in chins as slaves, an area that interested me.
