Category: School News

No school due to Good Friday.

Today is our Friday and we are ready for our Easter Holiday! Tomorrow is Good Friday and we will not be having class.

Today we did a few things (mostly written work) and were complete in the early afternoon.

In the classroom:

Today was Isabel’s big presentation of her poem. We did several video trails before she gave her first presentation to Nana and Pompo online!

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She did an awesome job!
Nana was super impressed with her ability to memorize this poem.

Tomorrow she will do it again for Grandma and Grandpa.

In Language Arts, Isabel’s assignment today was to tell a story. That was all.

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The “carrot-caper”!

Dictation passage:

Psalm 107:1,9 .
Done beautifully.

Spelling test:

She was upset that she missed “splendidly”.
She did a great job regardless.

In math, I had her do several skills in multiplication and division. She’s beginning to like multiplication (she told me that today) but she doesn’t like division all that much.

5-minute frenzy:

Next time she does a 5-minute frenzy, I told her I would challenge her.
She thought that was a great idea!

In order to get all our states completed before the end of the school year, we did 4 states today.

California.

Minnesota.

Oregon.

Kansas.

It was a new kind of Tuesday for us. With piano lessons in the morning and our Play-well Lego® class in the afternoon. Our Tuesdays are busy!

I have to say, that Isabel pulled it off. We completed all but 2 subjects and we can focus on them tomorrow! Very proud of our girl!

In the classroom (before leaving for piano):

We started the morning with getting into the Bible and read our reading from both Isaiah and 1 Corinthians. Great way to start the day! Filling our minds with things above and getting the right mindset for the day!

Spelling test:

Great job again on spelling.

Isabel has been keeping a journal since receiving one for her birthday. Each morning I give her 10 minutes or so to write her thoughts down before moving on with the rest of the day. She has kept it up (without complaint) since. I have not read all the entries but have peeked at a few, in hopes of seeing more lengthy passages. Maybe as she continues to write, they will get lengthier and she’ll begin to enjoy writing more. We’ll see.

On the way to piano lessons, Isabel read aloud part of our history lesson for the day. She did an awesome job and by the time we arrived at our piano teacher’s door, we were finished. This also worked well at getting Isabel to read louder, due to road noise and such. I may have to keep this in mind and continue the practice each week in order to boost her voice volume while reading at home.

After meeting Daddy for lunch, we arrived back home and worked on several more things with a heavy focus on Language Arts: past, present and future tenses. We also worked on passive and active voice.

Before our Lego® class, Isabel played 2 online games. One was a Lewis and Clark expedition game and the other was a state location game. She loved the state location game and played both the easy and harder version. She even tried her hand at the capital game but wasn’t able to finish before we left. It’s something we will play again.

We also completed our 5-minute frenzy test for the day.

Today’s test was a bit of a challenge, I had added 10, 11 and 12 multiplications to the mix.
She got flustered and didn’t finish but that’s O.K.
I realized today that I have been grading her frenzy tests wrong. So from now on it will be correct.

Until tomorrow…

We are looking forward to this short week but we have a lot to complete before we get to our Easter vacation!

In the classroom:

This week is Isabel presentation of her memorized poem, “Paul Reverse’s Ride” by H.W. Longfellow. She has practiced it so hard and has done so well at memorizing it, I think, she just wants it to be done and over with.

I’ll post the presentation soon. We will not be able to get to it until Wednesday or Thursday.

In Bible we are continuing through 1 Corinthians and Isaiah. Great lessons to be learned from those whom started out in faith.

Our Native American prayer focus this week is the Pawnee tribe. We haven’t heard about this tribe in any of reading so, it’ll be great to learn about this tribe.

Spelling:

Forgot a comma.

5-minute frenzy:

Tomorrow I change it up!

In language arts we talked about regular and irregular verbs. We didn’t focus to much attention to it since Isabel was rattling off irregular verbs faster than I could write!

The dictation passage this week is:

“Give thanks to the Lord, because he is good. His faithful love continues forever. He gives those who are thirsty all of the waster they want. He gives those who are hungry all of the good food they can eat.” – Psalm 107:1,9

In science we went over mirrors (concave and convex) and bending light. Learned how light travels through different objects and how that light can change direction, speed up and slow down.

We are finishing up our latest book:

Isabel has really enjoyed it and we both have been caught rooting for the little horse.
A great book!

We will also finish, this week:

Isabel has really enjoyed this one and hearing her laugh is great to hear while she reads aloud.

It’s Friday!

We have had another busy week and next week is going to be busy as well, with it only being a 4 day week before Easter break the following week!

We are looking forward to this break. It’s our final big break before the final weeks of school. We’ll have 10 weeks of school left after Easter break! Exciting times but we still have a way to go before then, so we’ll take it day by day and week by week until we are through.

In the classroom:

As something different for the day, I laid out all Isabel’s assignment’s for the day on her desk and had her choose what order we would do them in. She chose wisely and we ended our day reading 2 books before class ended.

Friday’s dictation passage:

Another long one this week but Isabel had half of it memorized.

Her Bible lesson this week.

5-minute Frenzy:

She got all her answers correct and ran out of time for the final 2 answers!
She was so close!

Multiplication tables are fun!

Spelling test:

Missed the “s” on “huts“.

Today we worked on 1 state which brings our total of completed states to 30!

Wisconsin.

It’s almost the weekend!

Got any plans for the weekend? I think we’ll be working on the lighting in the dining room and family room, at least Gino will be.

In the classroom:

In our Lewis and Clark expedition, after a hard winter crossing the Rocky Mountains, we have made it to the Pacific Ocean!

We have visited and traded with Native American tribes all along the way.

• Kaskaskias
• Souks
• Kickapoos
• Shawnee
• Missouris and Otos
• Omahas
• Yankton Sioux
• Teton Sioux
• Arikaras
• Cheyennes
• Mandans
• Hidatsas
• Assiniboines
• Crows
• Blackfeet
• Salish
• Shoshones – the tribe of Sacagawea
• Nez Perce
• Yakamas
• Wanapams
• Walla Wallas
• Umatillas
• Teninos
• Wishram-Wascos
• Watlalas and Cushooks
• Chinooks
• Cathlamets
• Clatsops
• Tillamooks

We have learned about the great buffalo hunts and how important this ONE animal was so important to ALL the tribes, not just the plains Native Americans.

I love this illustration from one of our library books about the buffalo.

Spelling Test:

She missed 2.

2 States:

Iowa.

Texas.

We got through all of yesterdays few extra things and we were able to get all of today’s work completed but our 2 state studies completed for the day!

Spelling test:

She missed the “e” in strangely.

Working on her math skills.
Today’s focus was time and money.

5-minute frenzy:

A new sheet and she only missed 2.
Great job!

Daisy came to hear her play…

and stuck around for the whole half hour of practice play.
So cute.

Today is an exciting day for Isabel.

She is starting a new class called “Play-Well TEKnologies®” it’s a Lego® based engineering class after school. Sounds very interesting and we’ll see what it’s like this afternoon. Before we get there though we need to get our classwork completed. (see below)

In the classroom:

No piano class today – Ms. G is on spring break with her family.

We started our day with Bible reading in Isaiah 2:10-22 and 1 Corinthians 6:12-7:24.

We are continuing our journey across the Louisiana purchase with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. We have met several new Indian tribes and several we have already studied about or prayed for in our evening devotionals. It’s been great. We have made it to what is present day Montana.

Isabel is working hard at learning her poem about Paul Revere. Next week is the big reveal and presentation. Will she be able to recite the whole thing? I think she will but you’ll have to wait and see.

 

In math we covered several areas in subtraction, geometry, division, fractions and multiplication. She was on a roll!

5-minute frenzy:

She’s got them all correct!
That’s what matters most!

Spelling test:

Great job.

“Play-Well TEKnologies®” class:

The class is offered through Isabel’s old school and my former employer.

Listening to the instruction for the day.

There are about 12 kids in the class (various ages).

Getting their parts for what they are going to build.

Isabel asking for some help from the teacher. I believe she was the only new-comer, all the other kids were in the last class that was offered.

Her battle bot she made. She was proud of her accomplishment and she had a lot of fun!

Until next week…