July 30th, 2007 at 7:47pm |
READ ALOUD: 30 min; 45 min
INDEPENDENT READING: 15 minutes
Building Thinking Skills, grade 2-3 ~ Page 59
Writing Skills, grade 1 ~ page 43 & 44
Daily Dash Diary - 1 entry
Played assigned piano pieces - 30 minutes
Spectrum Spelling, grade 2 ~ page 58 & 59
Read 1 chapter of Who Was King Tut? Discussed different types of pyramids; egyptian beliefs about afterlife, etc.
Math Scavenger Hunt ~ Had to solve multiplication problems and looked up answers on a key to locate next clue/problem. The clues led her throughout the house until she found the prize (an art book).
Read more of Harry Potter & Prisoner of Azkaban
Gymnastics class
Discussed adoption on a micro and macro scale.
Read the rest of Monday, July 30, 2007
July 29th, 2007 at 9:31pm |
READ ALOUD: 45 minutes; 45 minutes; 20 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 15 minutes
Completed weekly Hogwarts work in Divination & Care of Magical Creatures
Read 1 chapter in Who Was King Tut? This lead to a discussion of the Rosetta Stone and it's importance. We viewed pictures online of the actual stone and compared the 3 languages written on it. It also lead to a discussion of perseverance (the man who decoded hieroglyphs for the first time on the Stone took 14 years to do it!).
Read aloud Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban
Singapore Math 2A Extra Practice book ~ pages 27 - 31
Write 4 Real ~ Sydney wrote a letter to Emma Watson (Hermione)
Syd's piano teacher called for the week and Syd performed her assigned pieces for her (performed well, thankfully)
Swimming
Read the rest of Sunday, July 29, 2007
July 28th, 2007 at 10:05pm |
READ ALOUD: 20 minutes
Singapore Math 2A ~ text pages 78 & 79; workbook pages 97 & 98
Practiced forming numerals properly
Hogwarts lessons ~ Transfiguration lesson on Animagus; Charms lesson on creating spells
Played assigned piano pieces
Swimming
Worksheet on identifying music notes on a Grand Staff
Spectrum Spelling, 2nd grade ~ Lesson 12 test
Read the rest of Saturday, July 28, 2007
July 28th, 2007 at 10:02pm |
READING: 1 hour; 30 minutes
Visited library, selected books
Began Harry Potter & Prisoner of Azkaban as a read aloud
Playdate with J.
Swimming
Designed and sewed a dress from scratch; no pattern (I have GOT to get this kid some instruction - she has a knack!)
Played assigned piano pieces
Read the rest of Thursday, July 26 & Friday, July 27, 2007
July 28th, 2007 at 10:00pm |
READ ALOUD: 15 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 minutes
Began independent reading of Who Was King Tut?
Building Thinking Skills, Grades 2-3 ~ pages 219, 220, & 221
Singapore Math 2A Word Problems ~ page 7
Time 4 Learning ~ 1 3rd grade Language Arts & 1 2nd grade Math section
Spectrum Spelling, 2nd grade ~ page 55 & 56
Worked on Jumpstart Explorers and Math Missions for 30 minutes each
Played assigned piano pieces
Swimming & visit with Aunt Amber & Shelby
Read the rest of Wednesday, July 25, 2007
July 24th, 2007 at 11:54pm |
READ ALOUD: 30 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 minutes
Lots of artwork, journal writing and independent play while Mom read Harry Potter's final fate! 
Practiced piano - 30 minutes each day
Time 4 Learning - 1 3rd grade Language Arts & 1 2nd grade Math section
Read 2 chapters in Who Was Annie Oakley? Completed book!
Visited library and selected books.
Calculated fractions for real life. She got a new LPS toy - of which there are 5 total. Her new one brought her personal total to 4. I asked her if she could tell me, as a fraction, how many of the total she has. She was pretty quick with 4/5th's.
Read the rest of Monday, July 23 & Tuesday, July 24, 2007
July 24th, 2007 at 11:48pm |
READ ALOUD: 20 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 minutes
Spectrum Spelling, Grade 2 - Lesson 11 Test; started Lesson 12, page 54
Reviewed Thinking Skills, Grade 3 pages 44, 45, & 46 completed previously. Talked about fiction and non-fiction.
Singapore Math 2A - text page 78, workbook pages 93-96
Literature Pockets/Fairy & Folk Tales - Completed The Bremen Town Singers
Piano Theory - pages 26, 27, & 28 (Completed PRIMER level!)
Played assigned piano pieces - 45 minutes
Read 1 chapter from Who Was Annie Oakley?
Read 2X2=BOO! in conjunction with our multiplication work
Write 4 Real - wrote a letter to a friend
Swimming
Read the rest of Sunday, July 22, 2007
July 21st, 2007 at 8:06pm |
READ ALOUD: 15 minutes
Played both Roll & Add and Roll & Subtract games.
Completed weekly Hogwarts assignments. Arithmancy (found shapes in nature and drew a landscape as variations in shape); Herbology (learned associated flowers, herbs, & trees for Gemini's); Divination (learned about the meanings of her Destiny Number that was calculated last week - the description was freakishly accurate for her!)
Time 4 Learning - 2 2nd grade Math sections; completed Fractions chapter test
Began Top Secret Adventure for Japan - located various demographic facts, learned a few Japanese words, completed word search
MORE paper airplane work - she's getting really good at this! Some of her planes can go 15 to 20 feet!
Read the rest of Saturday, July 21, 2007
July 21st, 2007 at 8:02pm |
READ ALOUD: 20 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING - 15 minutes
Literature Pockets/Fairy & Folk Tales ~ Began Breman Town Musicians
Visual Perceptual Skills Grades 2-4 ~ pages 33 - 38
Completed a fractions worksheet from Time 4 Learning material
Thinking Skills, Grade 3 ~ pages 43 - 46
Spectrum Spelling, Grade 1 ~ pages 51 - 53
Continued Hogwarts Assignments ~ Defense Against the Dark Arts (home & internet safety); Transfiguration (symbology of animals, created coat of arms); Care of Magical Creatures
Learned how to use a checkbook and register. Used an old set of checks and practiced filling out a check & register. Discussed balances.
Swimming
Time 4 Learning - 1 3rd grade Language Arts section
Read a chapter of Who Was Annie Oakley?
Read the rest of Friday, July 20, 2007
July 19th, 2007 at 11:44pm |
READ ALOUD: 30 minutes
Received weekly Hogwarts delivery and spent HOURS with the art books Prof. McGonagall included.
Think A Minutes - pages 12 & 23
Analogies for Beginners - pages 30, 31, & 32
Used reference book as a springboard for creating an entire fleet of paper airplanes (now, I know how this sounds - but this was INCREDIBLY educational!)
Swimming
Reviewed fractions & worked on adding and subtracting fractions using quarters, halves, and wholes.
Field trip to local TV station
Created a list of her favored order of completing her next Literature Pockets book (little did she know she was working on handwriting!)
Read the rest of Wednesday, July 18 & Thursday, July 19, 2007
July 17th, 2007 at 8:44pm |
READ ALOUD: 20 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 minutes
Analogies for Beginners - pages 28 & 29
Spectrum Spelling, Grade 1 - pretest of Lesson 11 material
Time for Learning - 1 3rd grade Language Arts and 1 2nd grade Math section
Logic Safari - page 24 & 26
Building Thinking Skills, grade 2-3 ~ pages 176 & 177
Singapore Math 2A - textbook pages 76 & 77; workbook pages 91 & 92 (introduced concept of multiplication)
Swimming
Played assigned piano pieces
30 minutes work on MathBlaster 2nd Grade
Playdate with Karina & Jake at PlayPlus.
Independently read 2 chapters of Who Was Annie Oakley?
Read the rest of Tuesday, July 17, 2007
July 17th, 2007 at 8:40pm |
READ ALOUD: 20 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 40 minutes
Singapore Math 2A Extra Practice - Page 25 & 26
Time 4 Learning - Completed Chapter Test for Grade 2 Math Patterns
Hogwarts Lessons ~ Divination - completed Numerology lessons; Charms - worked on imagination and brain exercises
Spectrum Spelling, Grade 1 - completed oral test of Lesson 10 material
Practiced writing numerals 1 through 9 (frequently writs them backward)
Gymnastics class
Independently read 3 chapters of Who Was Annie Oakley?
Time 4 Learning - completed a fractions worksheet from yesterday's lesson. I re-explained the concept of fractions and gave her some ideas for remembering numerator/denominator.
Played assigned piano pieces.
Read the rest of Monday July 16, 2007
July 12th, 2007 at 9:18pm |
READ ALOUD: 20 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 minutes
Building Thinking Skills, Grade 2/3 - page 41 & 42
Read a chapter of Who Was Sacagawea?
Writing Skills, grade 1 - pages 38 & 39
Time 4 Learning - 1 3rd grade Language Arts and 1 2nd grade Math section
Completed 2 T4L worksheets to review helping verbs and skip counting (25's, 50's, etc.)
Hogwarts Lessons - Completed Potions lessons (discussed density). Completed 12 word problems for Arithmancy. Discussed Concentration & Memory as it relates to Charms. Performed a few "brain exercises" to help keep our mental muscle sharp.
Swimming
Read the rest of Thursday, July 12, 2007
July 12th, 2007 at 9:13pm |
READ ALOUD: 20 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 minutes
Singapore Math 2A Extra Practice -pages 23 & 24
Analogies for Beginners - pages 26 & 27
Spectrum Spelling, Grade 2 - pages 42 & 43
Write 4 Real - Wrote a letter to her cousin Hayden.
Time 4 Learning - 1 3rd grade Language Arts and 1 2nd grade math section
Writing Skills, Grade 1 - pages 38 & 39
Played assigned piano pieces - 30 minutes
Worked on Hogwarts work. Set up 2 Potions assignments (completion will take place tomorrow). Completed 3 Defense Against the Dark Arts Muggle Style assignments (boating safety, water safety, & electricity). Completed a logic puzzle (similar to MindBenders) for Arithmancy.
Swimming
Read the rest of Wednesday, July 11, 2007
July 8th, 2007 at 7:27pm |
READ ALOUD: 1 hour
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 minutes
Analogies for Beginners - pages 24 and 25
Completed Hogwarts lessons - finished Arithmancy
Played assigned piano pieces
Completed weekly assigned page in Piano Theory text
Reviewed some material from 7-6-07 for accuracy and understanding
Visual Perceptual Skills, Grade 2-4 ~ Completed pre-tests on pages 1 & 2; 15 & 16; 29 & 30; and 43. Demonstrated complete understanding of the concepts introduced. (Even though this is a grades 2-4 book, I think I may have wasted my money on this one - it appears that she already understands the material. 
) For each concept, Syd went on to create a pre-test for ME to complete (thoroughly illustrating her understanding of the concept).
Read aloud from the American Girl-Kaya mystery, The Silent Stranger. Discussed Native American traditions, language, dress, etc.
Independently read another chapter from Who Was Sacagawea?
Swimming
Read the rest of Sunday, July 8, 2007
July 8th, 2007 at 7:21pm |
READ ALOUD: 20 minutes
Swimming
Reviewed words from new Spectrum Spelling lesson
Reviewed basic addition and subtraction math facts using Learning Wrap-ups
Initiated a spelling quiz using Harry Potter/Hogwarts words
Watched Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets and compared it to the novel.
Read the rest of Saturday July 7, 2007
July 8th, 2007 at 7:19pm |
READ ALOUD: 30 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 minutes
Time 4 Learning - 1 Language Arts (3rd grade) and 1 math (2nd grade)
Thinking Skills 3rd Grade - pages 39, 40, and 41
Spectrum Spelling 2nd grade - page 41
Completed math patterns worksheet from T4L.
Singapore Math 2A Extra Practice - page 19 & 20
Independently read another chapter from Who Was Sacagawea?
Swimming
Read the rest of Friday, July 6, 2007
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:43pm |
READ ALOUD: 30 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 minutes
Building Thinking Skills 2/3 - Pages 38 - 40
Singapore Math 2A Extra Practice - pages 16 & 17
Primary Analogies - pages 38 & 39 (book completed!)
Writing Skills, Grade 1 - page 37 (discussed sentence subjects and identified)
Began reading biography of Sacagawea - Who Was Sacagawea?
Piano class
Gymnastics class
Read the rest of Monday, July 2, 2007
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:40pm |
READ ALOUD: 20 minutes
Singapore Math 2A Extra Practice - page 15
Spectrum Spelling, Grade 2 - page 40
Building Thinking Skills 2/3 - pages 35 - 37
Finished Hogwarts assignments for the week.
Worked in Microsoft Word - learned to copy and paste.
Time4Learning - 1 3rd grade Language Art & 1 2nd grade Math section
Wacthed UCF Symphony perform Mozart
Played assigned piano pieces
Completed 2 pages in piano theory text
Played "Guess Where?" with Mom & Dad
Swimming
Read the rest of Sunday, July 1, 2007