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Wednesday after a busy day

9/26/2012

 
I have learned over the past two years to remember to extend grace to my lad the day after a busy day.   We don't plan serious book work.  We learn as we do things.

Reading

World history.. we got kinda caught up in this book today so we read two pages,rather than the normal one.   We learned some of the tricks of the trade to desert warfare, and about using elephants!

50 Magical stories: "the lad who went to the north wind".  In this story the bad person got punished as a natural consequence.

Classic Animal Stories: "the elephant's child'.  the big question of the day was.. why did they keep spanking him just because he asked questions???   and then why did they say he was bad when he spanked them back at the end of the story???  Why mom???  

The ultimate guide to wildlife of north america.   Today we learned about the giant hairy desert scorpion.  It's venomous but generally people are fine.   And the Eastern Cottontail.   Did you know this rabbit mostly lives east of the Rockies and sometimes uses gopher holes to hide in during the winter?

Today's Detours

the lad was playing with his smoothie today and I mentioned how it was starting to look like the leaning tower of Pisa.   That turned into a discussion about what would happen if it was the leaning CN Tower.    Which of course led us over to this wiki article on the tallest buildings in Canada. 

It surprised us how many of the tallest buildings in Canada were bank buildings.  "they must have lots of money mom.  We should be a bank mom, our house I mean". :)

This of course led to a discussion about land use, and how much land we save by building apartment  buildings.    We talked about relative size, and did some greater than/less than work.  Superkids did up this page for us.  :)  hopefully you can see it.

We took the time to look up some of the interesting tall buildings around the whole world as well.    Many of them are quite interesting architecturally, but many are quite boring office type buildings.

second detour was Jelly ears.  :)  WE started here, and then went here.

the picture below comes from jmagnus

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The world

we started our work on our paper mache globe.   The picture below was taken by my lad.   We got the first layer done.   it was quite a discussion deciding what to do.  Should we just do the earth (the one highest up), should we do three earths (one for everyone in the family), should we do an earth for mom and son, should we do the moon, earth and sun?  and paper mache them all?   We decided to do the sun (not paper mached), the earth and the moon.  An old agility frame came in handy for hanging them.  We hope to do a second layer tomorrow.  and then next week we'll do continents, paint, talk about north,south pole, longitude, latitude and all that stuff.

I enjoy doing these long term projects with the lad.  it gives LOTS of time to talk about the world, to come up with interesting questions...for instance.. does the moon have layers like the earth does?   why does the sun get storms on it and how do scientists know these things because the sun is too hot to travel to?
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Sight Words

Today the lad had to do a short quiz on the five sight words we learned last week.  He did fairly okay.  We need to practice them some more.   He surprised me when we did the practice piece just how many words he did know.  So it's all rather neat. :)

Math

We took an assessment through K5Learning to see just where he's at for math.  I learned watching him what he needs to practice a bit more, and some things we haven't really looked at a whole lot.

His results for reading were
For reading,
Phonemic Awareness - Exempt
Phonics - Inter. K
Sight Words - Early Grade 2
Vocabulary - High Grade 1
Reading Comprehension - Early Grade 3

Pretty much how I was at his age. :)  I firmly believe that understanding phonics comes with age, and given that he's doing more words than I thought he knew...it's coming together for him.  :)

Just got his math assessment and for most things he's in grade two, with geometry being grade three.  He was majorly stressing over the measurement stuff (as we haven't focused much on that) so I helped him do those.  (probably shouldn't have but I did). :)

The Brain, Science and more

9/20/2012

 
One of the joys of homeschooling is to have incredibly flexible days.

We can start at 9 a.m., or we can start at 1130... it all works.

Human Body - the brain

On-line resoures
Used the brain picture on this page with the words cut away so the lad needed to figure out what each part is called.   He used the one on this page as a sort of guide.    
We learned, using this page,  about how brains don't work the same on each side, the left being more logical, thinking, fine-tuning and the right being creative, big picture focused.   And how they relate to each other...how when we just read a book we don't worry about the grammar of a sentence (right brain big picture) or we can learn the grammar (left brain) so the right brain can be the big picture easier.   The lad compared that to thinking of a picture and then taking the time to draw things correctly.  :)

Most pictures we see of the brain show a side view of it, so I thought it pertinent to show the lad how a different view of the brain will show different things.  So this site gave us a top-down view which showed how the olfactory bulbs are hidden inside the frontal lobe.

We very briefly talked about how we can help the brain learn by using different things to help it.   This site proved be helpful in that regard.

If I have time later this week we'll be making these brain food items...but I haven't been able to download it yet.  (need to restart firefox and all that).


We used some book resources to add some lapbooking elements to our study of the brain.

Sight Word

From the flashkids, sightword book we practiced the word Long.   The lad's sentence was "a long party with flies to eat".     The entirety of the sentences he has been writing have all be spider themed.  "Spiders scared them"  "I like spiders"  "I would like a spider"  "come here spider"   Makes me smile. :)

Art

For art we are using "Canadian Art Ideas"  This resource is produced by Canadian Curriculum Teaching Resource.   I have to say, I really like this book and if I could link it on Amazon I would.  It spells things out in a logical manner and I can tweak it as per the lad's interests.  I can also use the ideas, find a project that fulfills it's mandate and then teach the lesson.   The pages themselves are rather boring, but I can use the ideas and as a NON-arts minded individual having a focus is working well for me.  :)

Our lesson today was on Complementary colours.

Reading

as you all know by now, my reading encompasses four regular books at this time (at least that I document in the mornings). :)   We have others we read at night.

This morning we read from
World History.   The lad found this one to be quite interesting today, he kept asking all sorts of questions.  It was about how knights had different sorts of helmets and they protected their horses as well.  It also mentioned strategy used in battle which highly intrigued my lad.  We play a game on facebook called Social Empires and it fits in well with our history lessons, so he's slowly learning some strategy as he "kills" trolls.  :)

Classic animal stories: bellerophon and pegasus.   These odd names are a good way to teach phonics and how one uses them to pronounce unusual names. :)   This story seemed sad to the boy.   I can't say I much liked the ending of it either.

50 Magical Stories: An unexpected Opening.   This story made us want to get the rest of the book as it was just the start of larger book.   We want to know what happens next.  Anyone have a copy of "The brass bottle" by F. Anstey?

The Ultimate Guide to wildlife of North America: brought us the Great Egret and the Tiger Salamander.   The great egret was hunted by people because he was so pretty.  The Tiger Salamander has a wee tiny area that it lives around here, much to my son's chagrin as he'd like to catch one and build just the right place for it to live. :)

Science Experiment

This was simply just fun to do.  :)   Seriously, it was just fun.  Take a FRESH bar of Ivory soap.  Chop it up a bit, doesn't need to be as fine as the lad did it.  Put it in a microwave from 75-90 seconds and just watch the magic. (yes I know, not really magic).  But fun none-the-less.  :)
Since the lad battled with me about taking some of the flakes to see if I could remake a soap bar I chose the smallest form I had (a dog bone), mixed in two drops of food colouring to about 1/2 cup flakes, added a wee bit of water,... perhaps a tsp?  and squished altogether in a ziploc bag and used a soft spatula to remove it.   Will be placed in the fridge to "set".  We'll see how it turns out.  I had the lad draw step by step pictures in our science experiment book.

Plasticine and Math

9/19/2012

 
Since today was Wednesday our focus was math and Canada.  I had hoped to do some art, but that simply wasn't going to happen today due to phone calls and a discussion over books read.

Our reading

we read the cinder maid.  I have to admit, I love this story much more than Cinderella.  A much more enjoyable story with a bit more 'oomph" to it.   The lad liked it to, especially all the different way the prince tried to catch Cinder Maid.
Archers and Peasants.   The infantry was mostly made up of poorly trained farmers.   Many weapons were later based on farm weapons, just more finely tuned to be dangerous, and different countries preferred different types of weapons .. some the spear, others the longbow and still others the crossbow.
Two stories out of this book today due to the lad begging for just one more. :)   the first was a story about how Athens got so many olive trees .. a fanciful story called the Horse and the Olive.

The next story was the Story of Arachne.   A proud young lady who needed to learn her real place in the world and how the "god" took pity on her.  made for interesting discussion afterwards.
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Today we learned about the Porcupine.  This was fun to learn about since at night we are reading a book about Prickly Porky (a porcupine).   We learned that a porcupine doesn't automatically hit out when threatened.  First, climb a tree.  Second, turn your back and chatter, third make yourself stinky, Fourth lower head and rattle your quills, and finally... hit out with your tail.

the other was the southern black widow spider.   Did you know that they mostly like to play dead when threatened?  yeah.. I didn't either. :)

Canada

Since Canada is part of the world we are learning about earth.   Last week we learned about the different parts of the earth and I thought today I'd reinforce that a bit by making a model of the world using plasticine.
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he also needed to do some writing today.  We drew a semi circle of the world with it's four main pats and then labelled then.   Since his hand was tired he then dictated to me the facts we learned about those four parts. :)
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the book we are using is "the Earth".  we are on lesson two.  it is written for older students, but with some fine tuning it is working out well for us. 

Sight words

Since part of my determination this year is to assist the Lad in learning better how to read I made the decision is that every day we'll learn one or two new words. 

Today we did Come and Would.   We are using a small booklet I picked up at Costco. 
the lad is very much enjoying this book so I plan to make up my own sight word sheets to do throughout the year.  A much nicer way to learn sight words than doing route memorization.     It also gives me a natural way to do some phonics type work with him as on one of the pages the words were trying to fool him so I was helping him sound those ones out. :)

math

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we did a couple more lessons out of this book today.  we learned about edges and vertices (corners) on geometric shapes.
I had a meeting this afternoon that the lad needed to come along with, so we toted along a math book and a couple of pages I had downloaded this morning. 
and yes, I know he's a grade two boy, but he's needing some backtracking right now, so this is where it's at for him.  I expect within the month he'll be feeling his normal confident math self.  :)   he did two subtraction pages out of this book.  Mind, he asked if he could change half of one of the pages into addition questions and I smiled and said sure. :)

Then he needed to a maze...this was somewhat complicated alphabet maze.  The other page was on fractions.  For someone who hadn't really looked at fractions before he was able to do this with just a couple of whispers with mommy.  :)
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