OK, so obviously something changed. I did NOT decide to put Syd in school (horrors!). I just stopped blogging her daily lessons. Couple of reasons; most of them personal. You'll hear about cool projects, life in our homeschool, etc. But the daily log is a thing of the past.
Read the rest of Changes at The Learning Nook
READ ALOUD: 15 min.
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 min
Singapore Math 2A - text page 98 & 99; workbook page 33
Practiced piano - 30 min.
Time 4 Learning - 1 2nd grade Math section
Building Thinking Skills, Grade 2/3 - page 194-195
Wrote assigned sentences
Chose 2 pages from The Anti-Coloring book
Independently read a chapter in Nancy Drew #2
Card Making
Cursive Writing Practice Book - 2 pages (discussed form)
Read the rest of Sunday, September 9, 2007
READ ALOUD: 15 min
INDEPENDENT READING: 15 min.
Writing Skills, Grade 1 - page 70-71
Singapore Math 2A - workbook pages 145-147
Wrote assigned sentences
Practiced piano - 30 min.
Read Welcome to Josefina's World, pages 22 - 25 and answered comprehension questions
Thinking Skills, Grade 3 - page 66-69
Time 4 Learning - 1 3rd grade Language Arts & 1 2nd grade Math section
Read 1 chapter in Who Was Anne Frank?
Worked on Flat Traveler journal
Swimming
Read the rest of Saturday, September 8, 2007
READ ALOUD: 30 min; 15 min
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 min
Singapore Math 2A ~ workbook pages 142 - 144
Welcome to Josefina's World, read pages 18-21 and answered comprehension questions
Spelling Skills, Grade 2 - page 76 & 77
Practiced piano - 30 minutes
Read aloud from American Girl - Josefina's Surprise while Syd played with paper dolls from the story.
Time 4 Learning - 1 2nd grade Math and 1 3rd grade language arts section
Visual Perceptual Skills, Grade 2-4 ~ pages 81-90 and 174
Choose Who Was Anne Frank? as new biography; read 1 chapter
Wrote poetry for Mom & Dad
Read the rest of Friday, September 7, 2007
INDEPENDENT READING: 30 min
READ ALOUD: 45 min; 15 min
Think A Minutes - pages 38 & 39 (completed book!)
Singapore Math 2A - text page 97; workbook pages 138-139
Writing Skills, Grade 2 - page 16, 19, 21
Played assigned piano pieces - 30 minutes
Wrote assigned sentences
Read American Girl - Josefina Learns a Lesson aloud while Syd played with paper dolls from the set
Time 4 Learning - 1 3rd grade Language Arts & 1 2nd Grade Math section
Worked on journaling in Flat Travelers and prepared another one to go with J. to PA & NY. Syd now has Flat Travelers visiting Montana, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania/New York, and NEPAL!
Spent lots of time organizing upstairs room and helping me transform it into out scrapbook area. Spent HOURS scrapbooking.
Read the rest of Wednesday, September 5, 2007
READ ALOUD: 30 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 45 minutes
Writing Skills, Grade 1 - pages 68-70
Singapore Math 2A - workbook pages 136-137
Read First Reports - Japan, pages 37-43 and answered comprehension questions
Wrote assigned sentences
Gymnastics class
Piano class - additional 30 minutes practice as well
Read the rest of Tuesday, September 4, 2007
READ ALOUD: 30 minutes
Writing Skills, Grade 1 - pages 66 & 67
Building Thinking Skills, Grades 2-3 - pages 60 & 222
Singapore Math 2A - workbook pages 132-133
Literature Pockets - Completed A Brave Little Tailor; made a non-fiction mini-book about the job of a tailor
Played assigned piano pieces
Time 4 Learning - 1 3rd grade Language Arts & 1 2nd Grade Math section
Read 1 chapter of Who Was Helen Keller?
Worked on Top Secret Adventures - Japan
Read First Reports - Japan, pages 31-36 and answered comprehension questions
Read the rest of Friday, August 31, 2007
READ ALOUD: 45 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 minutes
Girl Scouts Meeting
Ice Skating with a friend
Read the rest of Thursday, August 30, 2007
READ ALOUD; 45 minutes
Think A Minutes - pages 36 & 37
Singapore Math 2A - textbook pages 94 & 95; workbook pages 129-131
Spelling Skills, Grade 2 - page 74-76
Time 4 Learning - 1 3rd grade Language Arts & 1 2nd Grade Math section
Played assigned piano pieces
Read 1 chapter in Who Was Helen Keller?
Thinking Skills, Grade 3 - page 65
Worked on journaling for visiting Flat Traveler
Read the rest of Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Writing Skills, Grade 1 - pages 58 & 59
Thinking Skills, Grade 3 - pages 62-64
Singapore Math 2A - workbook pages 127 & 128
Read 1 chapter of Who Was Helen Keller?
Building Thinking Skills, Level 1 - page 72, 148, & 149
Read the rest of Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Singapore Math 2a - textbook pages 91 & 92, workbook pages 124-126
Spectrum Spelling - pages 66 & 67
Building Thinking Skills - pages 178 -180
Write 4 Real - Wrote a letter to Grandma about Webkinz.
Read pages 12-17 of Welcome to Josefina's World and answered comprehension questions orally.
Added information to Flat Traveler journal
Practiced assigned piano pieces - 30 min.
Read the rest of Sunday, August 26, 2007
READ ALOUD: 20 min
INDEPENDENT READING: 15 min
Spelling Skills, grade 2 ~ pages 110 & 111
Think A Minutes - pages 21, 34, & 35
Singapore Math 2A - workbook pages 118 - 122
Visual Perceptual Skills - pages 81-84 & 95-96
Completed 2 Time 4 Learning resource worksheets on fractions
Writing Skills, grade 1 - pages 52-57
Read 1 chapter in Who Was Helen Keller?
Read First Reports-Japan, pages 24-30, answered questions orally
Thinking Skills grade 3 - pages 54 & 55
(August 25th - visited Grandma & Grandpa C. and visited with Aunt Amber, Uncle Ron & cousin Shelby)
Read the rest of Friday, August 24, 2007
READ ALOUD: 15 min; 15 min; 30 min
INDEPENDENT READING: 15 min
Went to local aquatic center for our homeschool group's 3rd annual Not-Going-Back-to-School Pool Party
Time 4 Learning - 1 2nd grade Math and 1 3rd grade Language Arts section
Read 1 chapter in Who Was Helen Keller?
Practiced assigned piano pieces - 30 min
Gymnastics class
Attended a drama play that her friends performed - playdate afterwards
Girl Scouts
Read the rest of Monday, August 20 ~ Thursday, August 23, 2007
READ ALOUD: 30 min
INDEPENDENT READING: 15 min
Writing Skills, Grade 1 ~ pages 48-51
Completed additional information in Flat Traveler journal
Math Multiplication Game - tossed foam dice and had to multiply the combined number by 2. Tallied all answeres after 5 turns and the person will the highest number won.
Completed Thesaurus worksheet
Time 4 Learning - Completed 1 3rd grade Language Arts & 1 2nd grade Math section
Read 1 chapter of Who Was Helen Keller?
Practiced assigned piano pieces - 30 min
Wrote Thank you note to Great Grandma
Read the rest of Sunday, August 19, 2007
READ ALOUD: 30 min; 20 min.
INDEPENDENT READING: 15 min.
Singapore Math 2A - textbook pages 88-90; workbook page 117
Introduced a blank Multplication Chart for equations up to 12X12. Filled in answers for equations already known. Discovered that Sydney already knows almost 3/4 of the table!
Literature Pockets - Read Brave Little Tailor; created a comic strip
Holy Cow Science experiment - experimented with color combinations
Read aloud from American Girl - Meet Josefina
Read 1 chapter of Who Was Helen Keller?
Completed information in the journal for our Flat Traveler visiting from Montana.
Swimming
Read the rest of Saturday, August 18, 2007
READ ALOUD: 20 minutes
Read Welcome to Josefina's World, pages 2-5 and answered questions orally.
Writing Skills, Grade 1 - pages 46 & 47
Spectrum Spelling, Grade 2 - pages 62 & 63
Singapore Math 2A - workbook review pages 110-113
Think A Minutes - pages 10 & 20
Time 4 Learning - 1 2nd grade Math & 1 3rd grade Language Arts section
Used dictionary to look up spelling & definitions
Read aloud The Kings Chessboard by Devis Goebu
Prepared and mailed 2 Flat Travelers (one is going to Montana and one is going to our her penpal in Scotland who will be journeying with it to Nepal). Created journals and info sheets for the travelers.
Read the rest of Friday, August 17, 2007
READ ALOUD: 30 min; 30 min
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 min.
Gymnastics class
Logic Safari ~ Pages 27 & 28
Read First Reports-Japan pages 17 - 23 answered comprehension question. We had a lengthy discussion on WWII, the atomic bomb, Hiroshima, and how it affects relations today.
Singapore Math 2A ~ text page 85; workbook page 107-109
Thinking Skills, Grade 3 - page 49
Time 4 Learning - 1 3rd grade Language Arts & 1 2nd grade Math section
Wrote a short story based on this prompt: "A man is walking down the street pushing an empty stroller." Of course, hilarity ensued. LOL!
Read 1 chapter in Who Was Helen Keller?
Practiced assigned piano music - 30 minutes
Completed music notes worksheet (to refresh music reading)
Girl Scouts
Slumber Party with a friend who is moving away. The girls went swimming, scrapbooked pictures of themselves, and watched movies.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Played assigned piano pieces
Read 1 chapter of Who Was Helen Keller
Time 4 Learning - 1 2nd grade Math and 1 3rd grade Language Arts section
Singapore Math 2A ~ Word Problems, page 38 & 39
Visual Perceptual Skills - pages 63-80
Welcome to Josefina's World - read pages 2-5 and answered questions
Read aloud from American Girl - Meet Josefina
Crafts
Read the rest of Tuesday, August 14 ~ Thursday August 16, 2007
Sydney and her troop won an all-expense paid sleepover trip to Sea World because they sold so many &^%$! cookies this year. It was a lot of fun and definitely a once in a lifetime experience! We got to touch a shark, walk hand in flipper with a penguin, and pet the dolphins. We even slept with the penguins in the Penguin Encounter ~ truly a trip to remember!
Read the rest of Girl Scout Sea World Sleepover!
Sydney spent the week at gymnastics camp. It was her first all day camp and, though it presented some logistic issues because of her peanut allergy, it went quite well. Sydney enjoyed the gymnastics and crafts, and I liked that she was getting some all day instruction in "the real world." Invariably, she would return home with little to no lunch eaten. hmmm...something to do with taking MUCH to long to eat (like I've been telling her all along!).
Read the rest of Monday, August 6 ~ Friday, August 10, 2007
READ ALOUD: 20 minutes
INDEPENDENT READING: 20 minutes
Think A Minutes - page 33
Visual Perceptual Skills, Grade 2-4 ~ pages 54 & 55
Read 3 chapters of Who Was King Tut? COMPLETED book!
Played assigned piano pieces. Helped teach Mom how to play C-scales and helped me through some of her earlier songs.
Singapore math 2Z Extra Practice ~ page 21
Writing Skills, grade 1 ~ page 45
Played Math War card game with Mom & Dad
Time 4 Learning ~ 1 3rd grade Language Arts & 1 2nd grade Math section
Swimming
Lots of discussion on eating safely - gymnastics camp starts tomorrow.
Read the rest of Sunday, August 5, 2007