May 28, 2012

Phonics (ETC) -- Continued 'ar'

Math (RS) -- Introduced building-10 game Old Main; adding tens and ones

Reading:
1. Chapter 4 of "Flat Stanley"
2. Part of "Frog and Toad Are Friends"
3. "The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat"

May 27, 2012

Math (RS) -- Hundreds problems, review of whole-part circles

Phonics (ETC) -- More 'ar'

Reading:
LOTS of books, over 2 hours of reading
1. Comics
2. Frog and Toad Are Friends
3. There is a Bird on your Head
4. The Pinkeriffic Playdate
5. I Can Jump Higher
6. Chapters 1-3 of Flat Stanley
7.... and more

May 25-26, 2012

Still searching for a good phonics that will hit Nugget where she is.  After a tour of the FPEA homeschool conference, I settled on Explode the Code level 6.

Phonics (ETC) -- Pages 1, 2, and 3 of 'ar'

Language arts -- Correct on all of Dolch 3rd grade

Math (RS) -- Introduce hundreds; Go to the Dump

Field trip -- Orlando Mini Maker Faire (robotics, rocketry, general inventiveness)

Reading:
1. A Mother's Love
2. Frog and Toad Are Friends
3. The Avengers

May 21, 2012

Handwriting -- thank you note

Math (RS) -- building tens and ones worksheet

Language arts -- tested Dolch sight word lists

Reading:
1. Calling All Piglets
2. Helping Out Day, Hooray!

May 20, 2012

Science -- Released 2 monarchs; observed one emerge from the chrystalis

Handwriting -- Thank you note

Math (RS) -- Go to the Dump game

Phonics (Pathways) -- 'ar' and 'or' sounds and various spellings

Language Arts (Reading a-z) -- Read "The Busy Pond" (level D) and used visualizing and word decoding strategies

Reading:
1. Caps in the Air
... various others during the day

Read-alouds:
Yes, didn't record

May 19, 2012

Language arts (A-Z) -- I'm trying out Reading A-Z's leveled reading program.  Nugget tested around reading level G or H, but I've moved down to level D to get the benefit of the earlier language arts topics.  Today she read "Animal Tongues" and we discussed visualization, nouns, and similes.

May 12-16, 2012

We took a driving trip to Asheville, NC.

Geography -- observed and discussed the change as we moved from the flat, tropical landscape of Florida up into the cool mountains of North Carolina.

Science -- toured the Western North Carolina Nature Center where we saw numerous native animals and plants; completed their "Wild Child" badge by doing 3 activities (compass navigation; water/soil/air temperature; observing, identifying, and drawing a caterpillar).

Reading:
Read a tremendous number of books, ranging from level 1 to level 3 and including working on an early chapter book.