After three long weeks off from school, we are finally back at it. Three weeks is officially long enough to have forgotten nearly everything. She has been inverting numbers and letters again, but after tomorrow, I think that will pass. It makes me wonder though how summer will go. :/
I decided to do a math fact game, as it was increasingly boring to just do flashcards. I wrote the math facts, both plus and minus, to 2 (sets of 0-10) (i.e. the last cards would end in 10-2 and 10+2) as well as doubles, and the properties of 0, onto the back of tickets, then scrambled them into a gift bag, and allowed her to pull out the problems and solve using manipulative, number lines, hundred charts, or plain simple mental math. She pulled the problem, I wrote it on the white board, and wrote the answers she found.
Here is her completed math facts for today.
We also began an addition folder, she glues one side of the correct problem to the answers on the squares, then she can practice, by looking at the problem and checking her answers by flipping it open.
For Literature we read the Pied Piper Of Hamlin. She chose to make a comic book retelling for her comprehension project.
A fun way to do compound words, I found this on pinterest.
Later this week I plan on doing this:
We have also been reviewing subjects and punctuation. Kelsey really likes watching this Electric Company video about silent "e"
Since I am starting to suspect she is a visual learner we have been using the white board a lot more, and the cd provided by her school that goes along with Sing Spell Read and Write isn't so useful, so I have been scouring youtube and pbs kids, as well as whatever I can find to help illustrate the ideas at hand. Both of these videos have really helped her. Between the Lions, which was a show on PBS seems to have a lot of neat phonic songs available on youtube.
Since history tends to be a very abstract kind of subject matter, I did my best to illustrate the lesson.
What you are looking at is the end result. It shows rain coming down the mountains and flooding the Nile River where the farmers had their land. I showed the overflow of water, then the water receding, and then illustrated how the farmers figured out that this happens every year, and how they dug canals to plan for the flood, then plugged them to keep water for the crops. I also illustrated a silly stick-man battle between Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, each with their respective Kings, ans how the White Crown gained control over all of Egypt, thus placing the Red Crown upon his White Crown as the Double Crown.
She then identified the area on the map and saw the new land acquired by the King.
We added a "Life Among the Nile" fold-able to her lap-book, complete with a crocodile tour guide. She was especially amused by this being that the crocodile is enormous compared to the Nile on the paper.
We did a fun lesson in science about friction, involving socks and sliding on the floor, as well as trying to slide on the floor without socks. Then we did a silly experiment with a shoe and a rubber band to explain the difference between Kinetic friction and Static friction. DO not be impressed, a 6 year old will always find a way to thwart the intended result, and so she did. :( But at least I think the sock one stuck.
That's it! I'm off to prep for tomorrow and into the week if I can, as well as make dinner.
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