Amazing Day!

What an amazing day we had today!!  Tomorrow's assignments are posted here, or "Homework Hideout" is also linked on the right of this page.

Here's a summary of our day, along with tips and tricks to pry information out of your kiddos about class!  As homeschoolers, we use all day for education, so I want to let you know what we talked about so that you can talk about Spanish in the car, Math in the grocery store, or ask about that math game we played when you tuck them in!

Spelling- We reviewed the words, discussing the different special sounds in each word.  For example, we talked about how "stood" uses "oo" as in book, how "chicken" uses "ck" because it follows a short "i", etc.

 Handwriting- We worked on vowel formation.

Grammar- We discussed the parts of a book (title, authors, index, table of contents).  Tomorrow, discuss the parts of "Indian in the Cupboard" and have them look up a chapter using the Table of Contents, find the author, etc.

Math- We discussed the terms "sum", "addend", and "cummutative property".  We talked about the root of commutative being "commute", meaning to "move around".  We also used mental math techniques for addition, and played a card game to practice mentally adding double digit numbers!

Science- We will have science on Thursday, but I sent home a sheet of vocabulary words to look over.  See the Homework Hideout for how to prepare for Thursdsay's science lesson!

Social Studies/History- The students talked about the study of history, why we study history, primary and secondary sources of information, and learned about longitude and latitude.

Writing- Today, the students talked about different genres of books.  They began reading the book "Thank You, Mr. Falkner" by Patricia Polacco.  We will open with this story in order to discuss our uniqueness, our differences, as well as the way that the author uses imagery, word choice, and sentence structure to create her story.


Art- The students learned about self portraits, creating their own!  Check out the artwork, but we'll be keeping a portfolio at school so the kids can display their work at an art show at the end of the semester!

 

Music- We had an awesome time learning the basics of the keyboard, as well as the sharps and flats!  (http://www3.northern.edu/wieland/theory/keys/beadgcf.htm)