Mei is my friend’s 5th grader.
Our poetry, language arts and history memory work.
Poem 2
The Tiger by William Blake
List the 8 parts of speech.
Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, Interjection
Tell me about Charlemagne.
In 800 A.D. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor of Europe.
Duncan's memory work for math.
What is the legal move when solving an equation.
Whatever you do to one side of an equation you must also do to the other side.
Mei’s memory work for math and LA.
What do we call the answer to a division problem?
The answer to a division problem is called the quotient.
Language Arts
Together we continued with MCT’s The Music of the Hemispheres and Sentence Island. Duncan tried Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. He tried it a while back and couldn’t get into it. This week he finished through chapter 11, so that is going well.
At my house Mei read The Story of the U.S.A. Book 2 Chapter 1 and completed the comprehension work. I think this will give some of the comprehension guidance I was wanting.
We finished the noun side of our parts of speech lapbook.
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| Mei's completed noun section. |
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| Duncan's completed noun section. |
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| The plural noun minibook is the coolest! |
We reviewed verbs (action verbs, linking verbs, helping verbs and verb tense) using worksheets from the Scott Foresman Grade 5 Grammar Book.
Math
Mei has completed lesson 51 in Saxon 65, continued working in Math Mammoth Blue Series- Fractions 1, and finished lessons 3 and 4 in Hands on Equations.
Duncan did Kumon, continued Math Mammoth Blue Series- The Four Operations, and completed Hands on Equations Lessons 3-7.
History
In history Duncan and Mei covered Chapter 21 of Gombrich’s A Little History. We also read about Charlemagne and Vikings in SOTW2. We completed a minibook for Charlemagne and match books for Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson.
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| Outside of Duncan's left. Inside of Mei's right. |
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| Duncan's inside green. Mei's closed pink. |
Science
We didn’t really move forward in science this week, but Mei and Duncan did watch the Moody science video The Red River of Life.
Spanish
Both Mei and Ducan started Learnables Spanish 1.
Other Stuff
Cool Stuff
On Tuesday Mei and Duncan went climbing.
Mei is a spider. She moves so fast I had a difficult time snapping photos and keeping her in frame. She made it to the top on 10 of her 12 climbs.
Duncan is just a little too small and just couldn't reach quite far enough with his little legs and arms, but he gave it a good try. While he never made it to the top he made it a pretty good way.
On Friday Duncan, Grayson and I went to see the Impressionist exhibit at the Frist with Mei, her mom and the rest of our art class. Of course I couldn't take photos in the exhibit, but the all kids had a great time in the art project room after the tour.
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| Duncan's print. |
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| Mei's print. |
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| My print. |
Not So Cool Stuff
This afternoon we had the thrill of taking Grayson to the doctor to get an ankle x-ray. His ankle has been wrong since sometime during volleyball, but the x-ray showed no problem with the bone so it is a muscle/tendon thing.
That rock climbing wall looks like so much fun!! :)
ReplyDeleteEach year our charter school rents a climbing wall for the kids. It took my daughter two year to make it to the top and hit the buzzer.
ReplyDeleteThe art projects from the museum are great. What was the technique? Torn paper?
P.S. I hope Grayson's ankle feels better. It might be one of those injuries that needs time, lots of time, to heal. My son had a similar elbow injury from pitching and the remedy was to take a break
Those climbing walls are tougher than they appear! I like the grammar lapbook! I'm not much for lapbooking, but I could see that being very useful for grammar!
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