Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts

Week 6

On Monday 10/08 Hayzel started school by doing a review of fractions.
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Per his request, we played a quick game of Fraction Memory.
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Then it was time for his 2nd Chapter Test.
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He scored a 95 on a twenty question test. We went over the question he missed just so that I could make sure he fully understood why he got it wrong, then we were finally done with Fractions! For now at least.
Afterwards, Hayzel and I read some books on the four seasons, concentrating mostly on fall.
Earlier that morning Hayzel and I had driven Sr. to the airport. so we went online and through the use of Delta Airlines’ flight tracking system we tracked dad’s airplane as it flew him to his destination.

In the evening we baked fall cookies. 


Tuesday, Hayzel worked on geography. He learned how to give directions using North, South, East, and West.
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Next, he began the introductory worksheet on the next chapter in math: Operations.

Finally, he did a LA module in T4L consisting of words with the er, ir, ur sound.
I also gave him a list of 5 spelling words to write out.

We ended the day with a play date with our favorite little guy, Lucas.


Wednesday, Hayzel starting things off by completing a book report for the book, “Buster on the Farm.”
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Then he did some spelling/penmanship work.
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In geography, he learned about the compass rose.
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I showed him how to find it in various different maps.
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Then he made his own.
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In the afternoon, due to rain, tball was cancelled and we stayed indoors for some Fall crafts.

On Thursday morning, Hayzel worked on  math terms. He learned the meaning of plus and minus signs, number sentences, addition and subtraction, and how to determine whether a number sentence is true or false.
He supplemented that with module on T4L and a worksheet.

In the afternoon we headed over for our first science class of the school year at the McAuliffe-Sheppard Discovery Museum in Concord. The classes are part of a year long study of the Earth and its galaxy. Thursday’s program was on:
Earth were we explored its land, water, ice and atmosphere.
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Learning about the polar ice caps

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A visual on ice core dating

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Review on the water cycle
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Water cycle demo
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Rock demo

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Rock scratch test

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Presentation illustrating how the atmosphere works
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soda can atmospheric pressure experiment

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Earth and it's atmosphere. The air in the baggie represents the atmosphere surrounding the Earth.

This was a pretty interesting class and everyone seemed to enjoy it.

The next class calls for:
The Moon: Discover Earth's closest neighbor - its features, how it changes through the month, and its role in eclipses.

 Friday was a review day.  He continued to work on number sentences and his spelling words. He did another book report and watched a few videos on the seasons.


Below is a screenshot of Hayzel’s T4L report for the last 2 weeks.
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Kindergarten: Week 5


Monday, Hayzel woke up to his newly decorated daily board:
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This gives him an overview of the day, his schedule, and the weather.

He worked on the last module in the Fractions chapter in T4L . He completed the supplemental worksheet and took the last quiz, which he aced.
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His last set of footie pajamas :(

He followed that with geography worksheets:
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and a module on the seasons in T4L:
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After school we met up with some friends (old and some new ones too!) at a park for some fun.


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Then we hit the new Microsoft store at our local mall for a workshop.
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Finally, we went to the library for some new books:
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Happily skipping to the car with a new load of reading books.



Tuesday morning, there was more geography worksheets, fractions review, and reading comprehension.
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In the afternoon, we went to Science Explorer where we learned about the lungs.
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Wednesday was character education day. Hayzel is learning about being respectful.
First he watched a clip on Youtube from the Kids for Character video:

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and together we read some books:
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We discussed how being respectful means: Treat others how you would like them to treat you.

Afterwards Hayzel decided he wanted to do a “project”. He didn’t know what exactly, but he knew it had to be done with water and sugar. So we went on Google for some ideas and decided to make rock candy.

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Dissolving the sugar in boiling water.

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The sugar is suppose to crystallize around the piece of yarn.

It should take about a week for the rock candy to form, so I’ll update more about it at a later post.
T ball practice was cancelled because of the weather that afternoon.


On Thursday morning, Hayzel and I played a Fractions memory game I made with the help of our trusty laminator.
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He had a lot of fun and we played for about an hour.

Then we decided to leave early so that we could stop at the store for some new rain boots before we headed to dance class.
He really enjoyed himself during class:
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During warm-up.



Friday was little co op day. Carolyn hosted and we continued the ocean theme with some more crafts and activities.
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After co op I had scheduled schoolwork for Hayzel to do. Jen told us she was heading to the beach that afternoon and invited us. I initially said no, but after going outside and realizing how hot the day was turning out to be, and some serious arm-twisting from Tania, we decided to play hooky and go to the beach.



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It was amazing. It was a beautiful warm day, and the kids played to their hearts content.

Days like those make me realize how lucky we all are to be homeschoolers. It took no less than 5 seconds for me to adjust our plans and  head out, and there was no one to answer to but ourselves. Because of it, we got to enjoy one final day at the beach this year. In October! Crazy, right?
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