Fiday, February 1

Clean up day! Yes, I do mean your room but I also mean the stuff we were supposed t do yesterday that didn't get done.

Let's see:

- Spelling. Quick, what were the three patterns we covered this week?
- Grammar. Time to write something of your choice as long as it contains 4 proper nouns.
- Greek.
- Decimals, pages 19-20 at least. More if you'd like.
- Geography. Remember the pages that we forgot to do yesterday? Do them today!
- I-Science. We're going to look at your textbook and read about the earth and go from there. Maybe look at Brainpop, maybe see what books we have that would be helpful and certainly take a look at the first activity in your workbook. I think it relates to something you already understand but we can still do it if you'd like!

Last night we watched the Nature of Things episode on sight and you were interested in the software that let a blind woman see by sound. I found a link to the site where we can download the software and see if we can learn to use it a bit. Also, to see if we can translate a different sense into something like sight let's take that wooden shape game we have, close our eyes and see if we can build an image in our minds of what each shape is. No peeking!

Psst! Notice anything about the bolded words in the last paragraph?

On to the silliness:

What do you call a pig who knows karate?


A Pork-Chop!

What looks exactly like a hippo but weighs nothing?


Its shadow!

Thursday, January 31

Okay, I think that scheduling Story of the World or any activities that require a large slot of time in the afternoon is a bad idea when Madi is up for the day. I won't do that again.

Today's work:

- Spelling. Please, please do better than yesterday. I don't know where you left your brain yesterday morning but if you could just check and make sure it's installed and running before today's spelling test, I'd sure sppreciate it!
- Grammar
- Greek
- Multiplication drill. You took another minute off yesterday. You're aiming for 3 minutes. Can you do it today?
- Multiplication. I've printed out a multiplication table for you. Go over it with a highlighter and highlight what you know. Once you've got that done figure out what you still need to learn and pick a way to tackle that. I'll help you with this.
- Word problems. Do 3 word problems from Challenging Word Problems.
- Geography. Do pages 5 and 6 from Let's Explore Canada.
- Story of the World and painting.

Wednesday, January 30

I am amazed that you got most of your work done yesterday. With both cousins up I thought for sure the day was a wash but you really committed to getting your work done before and after their visit. Thank you Catherine! The only thing that didn't get done was the Girl Guides thing. Maybe you could tackle that first thing this morning?

On to today's work:
- Spelling.
- Grammar.
- Key to Decimals, pages 16 and 17.
- Multiplication quiz. You knocked a whole minute off your time yesterday!
- Story of the World. I think we're still with the Romans?
- Painting. Might as well work at that while you're listening to SOTW, eh?
- Greek
- Play with you geoboard. I have some challenges for you (from this site) so copy and paste the following list to Wordpad and then print tit out, grab your geoboard and show me what you can do!
Try making the following:

a) triangle with a right angle

b) triangle with no right angle

c) a house containing right, acute, and obtuse angles.

d) a sailboat with no right angles

e) a Christmas tree using at least three triangles

f) a rocket ship made of rectangles and squares

g) a five sided figure

h) a parallelogram that is not a rhombus, square, or rectangle.

Lolcat time:

Tuesday, January 29

Well done yesterday! I can't believe how much we got done and how quickly we got through it!

For today:

- Spelling. I want you to number your sheet today but instead of numbering it from one to 25, use skip counting with 4's.
- Grammar.
- Math. Pages 37 and 38 from Math Mammoth Multiplication and 3 problems from your new Primary Mathematics Challenging Word Problems book.
- Multiplication quiz. Same one as yesterday. Can you beat yesterday's time?
- Greek.
- Let's Explore Canada, pages 2 and 3.
- Music Ace, lesson one. We already did it on the demo but I'd like you to try it again now that I've shilled out money for the full version.
- Reading. Me reading The Horse and His Boy and you reading Owls in the Family and a book or two to Harry. Our reading evaporated over our week off so we need to get back to it.

For your Girl Guides Plants and Animals Badge:

- Choose and use a plant part to propagate a plant. Find something around the house you could use. I'm sure we have roots or seeds at least.

Monday, January 28th

Yea! Back to school! You had a good week off and Daddy's back from his trip and all is right with the world now so let's get some work done.

- Spelling.
- Grammar. Lesson 2: The nouns are back but are they common or proper?
- Key to Decimals p 15-16.
- Multiplication quiz.
- I-Science. We'll read up to page 5 in your text and watch a Brainpop short on the Sun.
- Greek.
- Geeart lesson.

We may end up going to go see a movie. If so we'll put of the Geeart lesson but everything else has to be done.

Okay, time for a silly lolcat picture:

Nothing New Until January 28

Since this week is so crazy and we had a break coming up next week anyway we'll push our break up a week. Be back on the 28th.

Monday, January 21

Somehow we've got to get your work done today in between trips for car parts and a visit to Uncle Peter's house. Anything that needs to be printed out will have to be now so we can take it with us.

- Spelling.

- Grammar. I want you to write a paragraph on the subject of your choice but with the awareness that I want to see articles and nouns, between 6 and 8 of each.

- Greek.

- Math. I've got 3 quizzes for you today. Don't panic. They're not difficult, just meant to keep you sharp. I also want you to work on your Key to Decimals book for half an hour.

- Science. We're doing the Sun. We'll read pages 4 and 5 in the text and then have a big discussion about it. I've got interview questions and I want to know what you know! Later on at home I've got a documentary to watch called, Secrets of the Sun.

Somewhere in there we'll fit some time with Uncle Peter's XBox 360 and Guitar Hero III.

Time for a lolcat!