More schooling

Math: Mental Calculations.  IXL.com for weights and measures.  Word problems using money and division.  1 digit x 2 to 3 digit multiply and divide.

Writing Skills:  Paragraph on pets.  Imagine a setting.  Describe a room.

Spelling: Continue Irregular Plural Nouns.  Children.  Deer.  Dozen.  Feet.  Geese.  Media.  Men.  Mice.  Moose.  Oxen.  Sheep.  Teeth.  Traffic.  Wheat.  Women.

Spanish: Continue place words.  Continue word games.  Test upcoming.

Science: Begin unit on cells.

Social Studies/History/Art: Make Native American village.

Reading ‘Gone-Away Lake’ by Elizabeth Enright.

History: Continue with Civil War project —  this one is about battles and the second (not started yet) is about being a soldier.

Social Studies: Memorizing the states and capitals.

Art: Reading about Monet

Updating school work, continued

Writing Skills: Descriptive Paragraphs.  Using your senses.  Making a Riddle.  Make a riddle using all five senses.  Describe your room in detail using your five senses.

Grammar: Adjectives.  5 part projects on using adjectives.

Math: 2 and 3 digit division problems.  Word problems, some multi-step, using division.

Art: Drawing pets.  (I sure wish Mr. Brilliant weren’t so negative about art).

‘The Horse and His Boy’ book report.  Using a Personification Web.

Spelling: Compound words.  4 part project using compound words.

Copywork: Readings taken from ‘The Midnight Ride’ from ‘Fifty Famous People’ by James Baldwin.  Readings taken from ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ by Edward Lear.  Readings taken from ‘The Mouse and the Motorcycle’ by Beverly Cleary.

Science: The End of the Dinosaurs.  Why do many scientists believe that a huge meteorite caused the dinosaurs to disappear?  Meteorites. Extinct.  Climate.  Crater.  Impact.  Chicxulub.  Luis and Walter Alvarez.  Not Quite Human.  What role do robots play in the world today?  Interact.  Toxic.  Precise.  Galileo.  Jason Jr.

Reading ‘The Wright Brothers’ by Quentin Reynolds.  ‘The Great Wheel’ by Robert Lawson.  ‘The Landmark History of the American People — from Appomattox to the Moon’ by Daniel J. Boorstin.  ‘All-of-a-Kind Family’ by Sydney Taylor.  ‘The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children’s Poems’ Edited by Donald Hall.  ‘Pendragon Book Five: Black Water’ by D.J. MacHale.  Surprises According to Humphrey’ by Betty G. Birney.  ‘Warriors – Cat of the Clans’ by Erin Hunter.  ‘Power of Three – Warriors – The Sight’ by Erin Hunter.  ‘Bad Cat’ by Jim Edgar. ‘Warriors – Battles of the Clans’ by Erin Hunter.  ‘Power of Three – Warriors – Dark River’ by Erin Hunter.

 

 

 

Dull, worn as a dishrag

That’s how I’m feeling today.

Yesterday I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.  I’ve had arthritis for years, it has never bothered me much until last month.  I’m having a flare up in my hands and feet.  I’m tired all the time.  It will get better soon, I know.  What is frustrating is having all this work to do, and all these projects I want to do and all I can do is keep Mr. Brilliant’s school work going, do the laundry and get food on the table most days.  Some days I cannot even get the laundry washed, much less folded and put away.  However, I shall not complain, I shall just continue to push myself as hard as I can.

So, on to school.

I’m falling further and further behind on documenting Mr. Brilliant’s work.  I’m not even bothering keeping it in chronological order anymore.  Or filing it, though that MUST be done soon.  Still, in order or not, it is all being documented here.

Spelling: Regular Plural Nouns.  Animals.  Doctors.  Heroes.  Officers.  Teachers.

Copywork: Readings taken from “The Pied Piper of Hamelin’ by Robert Browning.

Vocabulary:  Myth. Fable.  Symbolism.  Personification.  Alliteration.  Allusion.  Biography.  Autobiography.  Therefore.  Meanwhile.  Hereby.  Foremost.  Forward.  However.

Math:  3 and 4 digit word problems using division.  3 and 4 digit problems being worked aloud.

Writing Skills:  Poems.  Diamante.  Limericks.  Mr. Brilliant wrote his own diamante.  Metaphors.

 

That’s all I can get done in one sitting.  I’m just too tired and the joints hurt too much.  Blast it.