Friday I read some more of Platt's Castle Diary and If You Lived in the Days of the Knights by Ann McGovern, E did math and had basketball practice. Saturday we went to the Chinese New Year Festival downtown, and E had a basketball game.
Today dawned grey and rainy and we didn't feel like school. E did her theory page for piano and some math, then we went to the IMAX and saw Blue Planet, which was pretty good and covered lots of earth science.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
94-96
We took Monday off to clean house. Yes, the whole day. No, my house is not clean yet.
Tuesday: read about Chinese New Year with The Great Race by Dawn Casey and Lanterns and Firecrackers by Jonny Zucker. This site has lots of activities, crafts, and printables. Watched Life in the Middle Ages: The Serf. E did math
Wednesday: E had piano and dance lessons and did math.
Thursday: Read from Castle Diary by Richard Platt and If You Lived in the Days of the Knights by Ann McGovern, and E did math, took a spelling test, had a Spanish lesson, and went to Grandma's house for her sewing lesson.
Tuesday: read about Chinese New Year with The Great Race by Dawn Casey and Lanterns and Firecrackers by Jonny Zucker. This site has lots of activities, crafts, and printables. Watched Life in the Middle Ages: The Serf. E did math
Wednesday: E had piano and dance lessons and did math.
Thursday: Read from Castle Diary by Richard Platt and If You Lived in the Days of the Knights by Ann McGovern, and E did math, took a spelling test, had a Spanish lesson, and went to Grandma's house for her sewing lesson.
Friday, January 23, 2009
91-93
Wednesday: piano, math, dance
Thursday: we went to Atlanta to see an exhibit of China's terracotta warriors at the High Museum--very cool. Also went to Zoo Atlanta.
Friday: some grammar pages and a math lesson, plenty of playing outside in beautiful weather, and a trip to the library.
Thursday: we went to Atlanta to see an exhibit of China's terracotta warriors at the High Museum--very cool. Also went to Zoo Atlanta.
Friday: some grammar pages and a math lesson, plenty of playing outside in beautiful weather, and a trip to the library.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
90
This morning E had a spelling lesson and then we watched the inauguration (I confess I used it as a carrot--I told her if she didn't do her spelling quickly enough we'd miss it. I've never had a spelling lesson go so fast!) We went out to lunch to celebrate and then instead of doing math I let her go over to her friend G's house to watch two American Girl movies: Molly and Felicity.
Monday, January 19, 2009
89
Today was King day, but I wasn't on top of things, so we didn't do anything special about it, though E did notice on her own how fortuitous it was this year, coming the day before Obama's inauguration.
Today we read Forces & Motion: A Question and Answer Book by Catherine A. Welch, which is excellent, by the way, and then Lift-a-Flap Castles by Jamie Elder, Marguerite Makes a Book by Bruce Robertson, and some more of Castle Diary by Richard Platt. Then E had a spelling lesson and a math lesson. Finally, I gave her an issue of Kids Discover Magazine that is about China's Great Wall, and told her to read it on her own time.
Happy King Day!
Today we read Forces & Motion: A Question and Answer Book by Catherine A. Welch, which is excellent, by the way, and then Lift-a-Flap Castles by Jamie Elder, Marguerite Makes a Book by Bruce Robertson, and some more of Castle Diary by Richard Platt. Then E had a spelling lesson and a math lesson. Finally, I gave her an issue of Kids Discover Magazine that is about China's Great Wall, and told her to read it on her own time.
Happy King Day!
Friday, January 16, 2009
85-88
Tuesday: read A Medieval Feast by Aliki and "Beowulf" from Osborne's Favorite Medieval Tales, and a few entries in Platt's Castle Diary. Did math and Spanish.
Wednesday: E had piano and dance lessons, and did math
Thursday: E had math and spelling, and they watched A History of the Middle Ages on DVD. We read a story from Osborne's Favorite Medieval Tales ("The Island of Lost Children") and a little bit of Castle Diary by Richard Platt, as well as playing around with Knights in Armor by Sally Hewitt (for T) and learning more about forces and friction with Energy in Motion by Melissa Stewart and The Magic School Bus Plays Ball by Nancy E. Krulik. (I really don't like the TV adaptations of the MSB series as much as the original books, but you try to find an engaging book about friction for gradeschoolers!)
Friday: we attended a performance by Complexions Dance Company and E has basketball practice tonight and a game tomorrow. She is doing a math lesson and then we will watch Social Structure in the Middle Ages and probably do a Spanish lesson.
Wednesday: E had piano and dance lessons, and did math
Thursday: E had math and spelling, and they watched A History of the Middle Ages on DVD. We read a story from Osborne's Favorite Medieval Tales ("The Island of Lost Children") and a little bit of Castle Diary by Richard Platt, as well as playing around with Knights in Armor by Sally Hewitt (for T) and learning more about forces and friction with Energy in Motion by Melissa Stewart and The Magic School Bus Plays Ball by Nancy E. Krulik. (I really don't like the TV adaptations of the MSB series as much as the original books, but you try to find an engaging book about friction for gradeschoolers!)
Friday: we attended a performance by Complexions Dance Company and E has basketball practice tonight and a game tomorrow. She is doing a math lesson and then we will watch Social Structure in the Middle Ages and probably do a Spanish lesson.
Monday, January 12, 2009
84
Today we started learning about the Middle Ages with Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Medieval Castle by Joanna Cole, then the first of Mary Pope Osborne's Favorite Medieval Tales, "Finn MacCoul". We also read the first few entries in Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page by Richard Platt. After a break we started learning about forces: Forces Make Things Move by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, and had a spelling lesson. After lunch we watched Ancient Civilizations for Children: Ancient China, had our first Spanish lesson, and now E is doing her math. T has started teaching himself to read with starfall.com and the Bob Books.