Tuesday February 25

Math- we worked on rounding to the nearest 10 and estimating.  

         - mini lecture,  I used our new magnetic ten frames to reinforce the concept, this definitely helped. 

         - math u see worksheet

     

          GAME- I got Genevieve and Nathan to use flash cards, they first had to solve the equation and then with the answer round to the nearest 10, I then had them put the card in piles of 0, 10, or 20 whichever the sum rounded too.  

       Word problem - they did a word problem sheet from math u see

 

Next we read chapter 2 of tornado

These were the skills learned in today's lesson

     

1 st up was the journal entry for the chapter summary.  Genevieve worked on  hers completely on her own.  Genevieve did do a beautiful illustration as well when she went to bed.  

I scribed for Nathan, he worked on descriptive words in his writting today, even though I hadn't told him that was one of the goals today :).   Nathan thought it was pretty funny when he had to correct my spelling :)

We jotted down our key points first. 

Next we used those points to expand on.  

Next L A assignment was read a paragraph from the book and look at how descriptive the writting is, we read another paragraph that got the same idea across but was not as descriptive.  They then had to write a paragraph using their own descriptive words.  I let Nathan do this assignment completely on his own.  

This was Genevieve's.  

This was Nathan's, his is a little hard to read because if his difficulty printing. 

Next up was Canadian arctic.  We read about prehistoric arctic, we learned about the ice ages.  We could draw on our experiences we had this summer.  We had gone hiking on a glacier :)

Also driving through saskatewan we noticed boulders in random spots, we discussed that the glaciers had moved these ricks there.  

We remembered seeing how glaciers carved the rocks when we went hiking too.  

Monday

Yesterday Nathan and daddy played with the snap circuits, it was great Nathan was able to describe to me exactly what they did, and when one experiment did not go as planned, Nathan was able to explain to me why.  Something about the motor causing interference.  

It's always hard when daddy leaves for work...

We dropped Jeff off at the airport this morning, we went out for breakfast at our traditional abc, we always go there after we drop off Jeff.  The kids played with wiki sticks, making shapes, that's got to be school somehow!  They played the strategy game.  

We talked about the weather...

We are studying weather :)

We talked about the term high ceiling and what that meant, discussed the size of the flakes.  It was windy and we talked about what causes the wind.  

I had intended on doing schoolwork when we got home... It didn't happen, the kids played outside for 3 hrs and now it's dinner time, unless we get some energy tonight, we didn't do much...

There's always tomorow...

Monday

Yesterday Nathan and daddy played with the snap circuits, it was great Nathan was able to describe to me exactly what they did, and when one experiment did not go as planned, Nathan was able to explain to me why.  Something about the motor causing interference.  

It's always hard when daddy leaves for work...

We dropped Jeff off at the airport this morning, we went out for breakfast at our traditional abc, we always go there after we drop off Jeff.  The kids played with wiki sticks, making shapes, that's got to be school somehow!  They played the strategy game.  

We talked about the weather...

We are studying weather :)

We talked about the term high ceiling and what that meant, discussed the size of the flakes.  It was windy and we talked about what causes the wind.  

I had intended on doing schoolwork when we got home... It didn't happen, the kids played outside for 3 hrs and now it's dinner time, unless we get some energy tonight, we didn't do much...

There's always tomorow...

Friday February 21

Tla in the morning, we were on time today!  Nathan was excited as they were performing a play. 

Ot - Nathan

Fsa tests for Nathan- these were slightly painful!   I watched Nathan write the first one and then left and did something else.  From what I could see he got all of his answers correct.  Not sure if his scores took a nosedive as time went on...

Thankfully he really liked one of the stories, he asked me to write down the authors name!   But he definitely found the tests too long, it was too long sitting at the computer.  

This is a picture of Nathan crying and really not comfortable taking the fsa.  We made it through though, thankfully the next story was one he really liked. 

Next Nathan and Genevieve had a play date with neighbours.  They all put on a play for us, it was great, I did record it if anyone needs a record of a drama production :)

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Tuesday - meeting with Nathan's teacher

              - piano lessons

Wednesday - physiotherapy

                    - hockey 2 hrs

    

Some art work of Genevieve's from Wednesday 

Thursday

- Morning learning hockey rules by watching woman's gold medal winning game

Math. - learned about inequalities

Genevieve

Nathan

They played a game of memory subtraction equations

We then did a math word problem sheet involving inequalities

Language arts- focus today was main idea/ summary

Nathan continued reading his ancient Egypt book, still complained when forced to read, but was excited to tell me his summary.  

Genevieve picked a book and read it and summarized it. 

- next we did a worksheet from mbtp tornado unit. 

Next up we started a chapter summary journal for tornado   

Nathan's scribed by me

Genevieve's.  I asked for 3 sentences she did a few too many but did a very good summary.  

Genevieve completed another page in her just write book. 

She used the dictionary to look up how to spell the word train 

And unfortunately we ran out of time, Gigi has cheer we had to leave the house at 4 and Nathan has a physiotherapist appointment with a new physio who specializes in orthopaedics.  

Monday feb 17

Today we read chapter 1 of tornado, and we did the corresponding science unit on weather.  

This was one activity of placing these vocab words in alphabetical order.  If they did not know the definitions they were supposed to look up in a dictionary, but they both knew the definitions. 

Here they matched the words with the definitions. 

Genevieve and I played linkology 

Both Nathan and Genevieve practiced the piano with yoka.  

For math, we lost a little patience so instead of pushing my luck we played a place value game from learning resources.  

Tuesday February 11

Wow am I tired!

Field trip to vancouvers china town.  We went on a guided tour of china town.  It ended with an authentic Chinese lunch.  I would like to take the kids back to china town and explore the shops and garden.  

We then went to science world.  That's always fun.  We watched the IMAX butterfly movie.  They had a Lego exhibit and we played with keva planks :)