My morning starts off on Wednesdays with a 7 am garbage truck call, thankfully I guess I am a light sleeper, and I always here the garbage truck. I then quckly run down 2 flights of stairs, in my pajamas, and take out the garbage.
Next up was Tea
AFter this we had breakfast and read another 2 chapters of Little house in the bigwoods. After finishing and looking at our assignments for MBTP I realized, we are only supposed to be reading 1 chapter a day, not 2, so we are ahead reading by 2 days. So tomorrow we will not do any reading and the kids will be so excited to know we will be working on a three paragraph essay again :)
these are pictures they drew to show the differences between today and long ago. They also had space to write a few things. they actually were both excited about doing this one, but we did not have a lot of time to do it. I was actually surprised that I gave them 3 worksheets to do, and left and went upstairs to do a few things, when I came down Nathan was playing with Ginger, but they had finished the work. I was expecting maybe 1 sheet done not all of them :)
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Genevieve |
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Nathan |
They had to make a list of chores that Laura's family did, and then a list of chores in our family. Genevieve had to think about what chores I did. Nathan started laughing when Gigi said this. He said ummm make dinner, wash dishes, do laundry, teach us, drive us everywhere. I will remind this to Nathan when he says to me I never do anything.
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genevieve, her printing was very messy today, I don't think she was into doing this today. |
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Nathan |
Worksheet on Capitalization. Nathan did his where he just rewrote the words that needed capitals instead of rewriting the entire sentence. I thought this was great as he just did it himself!
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nathan |
These are the worksheets they are completing after every chapter, they are recording differences in the big woods compared to life today.
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Nathan |
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genevieve |
Next we finished reading our book on dirt, and had lots of conversations of dirt. We are supposed to do some hands on dirt stuff, but I am supposed to do some homework myself and try to see what we are going to do, one thing we are supposed to do is grow some plants, but we have already done that in the spring, but I am going to read the MBTP guide and see what we will be doing and what I think is important.
Next up is Math.
Gigi is on unit 28
Nathan is trudging along, and I think it is mostly getting better everyday, but today was definitely not yesterday! He definitely felt different learing at the cultural center, he asked to go back there today to do math. Unfortunately we can not do that everyday! But here are a few pictures of his rectilinear perimeters he is trying to solve. What I like about this is I am getting him to add whatever he can in his head and then writing it down on a dry erase board. Trying to get him to see how he can make shortcuts, using mental math, in practice. I think Nathan learns better when he is using a skill, instead of just learning technique. If it is put to use, he finds it useful, and worth knowing. I think it is like me and names, I am terrible at learning names, as I think that oh well I have no need to store your name, I will probably never see you again, Im not filling my head with it. but guess what I have not learned I always end up needing to recall someones name and I almost purposefully never remember a name.
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More rectilinears and unkowns for perimeter |
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finding the perimeter, and solving for unkowns in a rectilinear |
And after math and lunch came Hockey, here are a few pictures of my little hockey players! Nathan is doing lots of fancy footwork and he's dropping down on the ice triying to block shots etc. You can see how much he loves the feeling of moving on the ice. He loves how much better his feet are moving, you can see how confident he feels. Gigi is a fierce one, she is gaining confidence and is right in on the action and game this year. She wants that puck, and she likes it. Last week, a boy on her team was picking on her (I think it was the boy girl thing where the boy has no idea how to talk to a girl so he is just plain mean), he was not letting her come off the ice and was screaming in her face evertime she came off. Jeff was doing the timeclock and could see this little boy harassing her and was just going to go and speak to him again, but little Gigi took care of it herself. She came off the ice, gave him her staredown, and gave him a really big two handed shove onto the bench, then stared down at him from her taller position. Needless to say the boy never bothered her again. Unfortunately he chose the other girl on the team to pick on. Jeff laughed at this situation as it was a I guess I don't have to worry about her. And normally I do not condone violence to others, but I think this child just needed to know that Gigi would not take it from him. Jeff had already gone in there and talked to him, as he was hitting everyone over the head with his hockey stick...
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Nathan trying to block a shot |
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genevieve is the red player second from right |
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Nathan number 58 |
Hi Marcy,
ReplyDeleteGreat to see the kids enjoying hockey!
If you want to try to target a dozen or so commonly miss-spelled words at a time, some students prefer to use a bookmark or a desk-topper instead of a large "no excuse" word list...
And perhaps Jeff would like to do a reno project to make the perimeter/area math more meaningful... tiling/carpet and baseboards are always good for that! :)
Rachel