Title: Charting the Course: Social Studies Webquest for EED 463N
These look interesting, hope the links continue to work so I can look them up again later.
They seem quite interesting.
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Title: Charting the Course: Social Studies Webquest for EED 463N
These look interesting, hope the links continue to work so I can look them up again later.
They seem quite interesting.
Today we built things, practiced real life sorting, and worked at stuff from head of the class.
we did a sequencing pictures activity, a counting exercise, addition, sequencing numbers, and a different number sequencing unit. We learned that he has the numbers NAILED from 1-10 but has some difficulty figuring out the 10-20 series. So we’ll continue to work on that.
then off to help with the hospital rummage sale for an hour. The lad was an excellent helper running things to the toy table as we found them.
Once we were home again we sorted garage sale stuff in the basement, the lad played, we talked, we sorted, we enjoyed life for the most part. 🙂
Since we are going out this afternoon, we decided to do some book work this morning.
I asked the lad to pick a number between 3 and 8 and that’s how many pages we would do in each book. He waffled between 4 and 5 and settled on four. 🙂
These are the books that we did
Capital and lowercase letters.
After this book we read two poems, one of those poems mentioned wind and weather maps which we want to look up sometime.
Letter Play
After this book we read a story.
Number Fun
We read a poem called “wagons west”. It was a fairly long poem, and lad asked questions which I always like.
Then we did Fisher Price, preschool book, I can learn. This book had number and letter sound concepts in it. He had a great deal of fun teaching one of his baby(correction little child) stuffies about matching and letter sounds. On one page he made up stories about why different stuffies didn’t like different shapes.
Then we read a poem about Indian children. Can’t say it went over very well. 🙂
The complete book of numbers and counting
Once again doing this book the stuffies played an important role in helping him count and to teach. We had a lot of fun using his stuffies to reinforce learning. 🙂
We followed this book by reading the Little Red Hen where the lad helped read the “not I” and the “I will” parts. by the end of the story he was also filling in the animal parts.
My Heavenly Helper, k-2
This book has lots of dot to dots in it. It’s interesting seeing him learning well his letters and numbers even though I don’t focus on this information a lot in our schooling. But through reading and copywork he’s doing good at picking it up. After this book we read a story about a tiger called “Kattor”. He was a rather silly young tiger who had to learn a lot growing up.
This afternoon we need to take dad to the eye doctor so we’re going to go see a movie called “African Cats”.
African Cat
Documentary
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey
I have to admit…I was feeling somewhat reticent about studying Mother’s Day but chose to do so because I’m often surprised at what details are pulled out of studies that I never expected. This study, though not a favourite of either me or my son, was no different than studies I’ve undertaken in the past. To my surprise, I actually learned something, and at times was able to take an unappreciated study and turn elements of it into something my son appreciated. 🙂
For instance I learned why on Mother’s Day a carnation is given to each lady in our church. The carnation is actually the flower of Mother’s day. Bet YOU didn’t know that either.
My son had fun learning abit about different countries and seeing where they are on the map. He particularly seemed to enjoy figuring out what different countries looked like (aka Italy looks like a boot) and then looking for them. Scotland had us fooled for a while since it wasn’t colour-coded or labelled very well on our world map.
We had fun finding countries, we found it interesting that it’s not hosted on the same day all over the world, we found it boring that it’s basically done the same where-ever you go.
Each day has a theme.
Day 1: What Is Mother’s Day? Day 2: The History of Mother’s Day Day 3: Celebrating Mother’s Day Day 4: Preparing for Mother’s Day Day 5: Goodies for Mother’s Day
My son had fun drawing cards for me and for his gramma. I liked that I was able to forego looking up some words in the dictionary and through questions help my lad figure out what words meant.I had a firm appreciation for how scripture was brought into play with this lesson. Helping my son sehttp://www2.blogger.com/img/blank.gife how God used women in the lives of the men he did great works through was interesting.All in all, this study was well-done and I would encourage anyone interested in learning more of why this Mother’s Day holiday was started to check it out.I received a copy of this lapbook/unit study in exchange for my fair and honest review.
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Was looking at this Math Art class on currclick and learned a couple new terms.
Mandala and Tessellation.
Both are these are math, done in art form.
Not quite for us yet, but it was interesting learning. 🙂
Here are the books up for voting this year.
The Blue Spruceâ„¢ Award is a provincial primary reading program which brings recently published Canadian children’s picture books to Ontario children ages 4 to 7 in kindergarten through to grade two. For many children, this is their first introduction to the world of books; it is a very exciting time for everyone.
The students will peruse/read 10 nominated Canadian picture books and then vote for their favourite book. They need to have at least perused/read 5 of 10 to be eligible to vote. They also can have these books read to them to be eligible to vote. Based on student voting across the province, the best picture book is then selected and the author/illustrator is honoured with the Blue Spruceâ„¢ Award.
The goals of the Blue Spruceâ„¢ Award program are:
- to promote reading for enjoyment and information among primary students
- to make students aware of quality Canadian picture books including Canadian authors and illustrators
- to develop the student’s skill in evaluating a picture book based on story, text and pictures
- to provide opportunities for students to discuss the picture books in an authentic manner
This is the result of our reading and what the lad appreciated (or not).
He liked Thinkamajink the very best — liked this one enough that it inspired stories
followed by in order of liking
C’mere boy
imaginary garden
proud as a peacock
jack the bear
perfect snow
sorta liked: willow whispers
HATED violet. this was a quite adamant “I HATE that book mommy”
Today we did some work on the Mother’s day unit study done by Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett.. Made this copywork sheet of 1 Samuel 1:27. Today we did day three and four.
We practiced animal husbandry by giving the cats a bath! They very much needed it.
My laugh of the day:
We were researching how the Scots do mother’s day and we saw a picture of cottage pie and my son’s response when I asked if we should celebrate mom’s day like the Scots was “If you tried to serve me that I might accidentally throw up.”
and right after saying that he learned the pencils break if you apply enough pressure. IT WAS AN ACCIDENT MOMMY! I didn’t know it would happen! 🙂
We had fun with the languages page, where we learned to say mother’s day in various languages.
and then we did some science by making some cookies. 🙂 I threatened to leave out the chocolate chip cookies to see what might happen…and that was met with a look of horror! So we didn’t do that. 🙂 had fun none-the-less.
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