Last Week of Packet 3!

After this week, I will have done a whole packet! There are 7 for the year. This one was a short packet, but I am confident we did well. I worked really hard. I spend a lot of time prepping at night to pull things that coincide with the curriculum, and getting things ready for the next day. Between the time I spend home-schooling and prepping, and my husband working 2 stores and late hours, we are both wiped out lately. Anyway, on to today's fun!

She has been working on habitats in science. She gets to watch a lot of videos online. One of them was about Humphrey the Whale who got stuck in the Sacramento River, and needed help to get home, a true story. The video was on Reading Rainbow, which I particularly love that they had. Then again I am mesmerized by the fact that Geordi La Forge is not wearing his Star Trek visor. Oh, yes, I just referenced Star Trek. Let the rumors be put to rest, I am in fact a huge nerd. I may just reference other sci-fi goodness like Mystery Science Theater 3000, a personal favorite of mine. Perhaps some Monty Python. Or I'll just get back to blogging about home-school. That was an over-share. Sorry.

Back to science, we watched an awesome video I found for jellyfish, and thanks to Living Social, I will be making a somewhat impromptu field trip to The Birch Aquarium in La Jolla on Friday. My mom is in town that day, and wants to help with home-schooling, but I am a control freak, and won't allow anyone else to help me. I'm working on that. Again, another over-share. :( 

Drifters of the deep from Eugenia Loli-Queru on Vimeo.

We did some interactive games and videos involving the ocean habitat, and she got to paint her ocean habitat picture to go into her habitat file. She loves Science and Math, so we try to do a lot with that.

History, a timeline about the 13 colonies.

Here she is making her rules if she had a colony. She didn't like a lot of the ones the colonists had to live with. Neither would I. She took that very serious. Jeez.

And this is what she came up with. Ironically she doesn't even like cranberry juice. I think Thanksgiving may have been a little suggestive with the cranberries? You must ride a bike on Saturday. No excuses!

Math. Learning about symmetry, more money, word problems, doubles, you know the usual.

She loves the mystery bag part. She likes having to guess how many things and getting it right. She's actually pretty good at it.

We practice with our hundred chart every day. Sometimes I do this, sometimes I have her write her numbers to 100. Sometimes we play a hundred chart game. Both my girls love the hundred chart game. Yeah, my youngest hangs around and drives her sister nuts all day, but she is a little sponge and I am amazed at how much 1st grade stuff she can pick up.

More practice with time. We seem to forget things over weekends. Mondays always require a little refresher.

Language Arts, clusters, rhyming, and songs. I am always amazed that she can read big words, but struggles on the smaller ones. It almost seems like she thinks, "no that can't be right, that's too easy, it needs another syllable or something."

An Iroquois Tale, "The Three Sticks" and reading comprehension. If you read this, you'll see that I have a resident tattler. 

This is the number line and the hundred chart that I laminated so that she can use dry erase markers on it for her math. It is exceptionally helpful for larger number addition and subtraction.

I also got to see what's in store for the next packet, and it is all about Egypt and Physics. Super excited! Inertia is something a klutz like me excels at!