Reading Log

Mr. Brilliant finished ‘Who was Kelen Keller?’ by Gare Thompson

‘Harriet the Spy’ by Lousie Fitzhugh (book one)

‘Diary of an Early American Boy’ by Eric Sloane chapters 1-5

Friday Fishwrap

Writing:  The Topic Sentence; writing a business letter, review, from Stuart Little unit; use of quotes from the Stuart Little unit

 Math:  Expanded notation, place value, thousands, hundred thousands

Vocabulary: Homographs; wound

latitude(s), horrendous, monotony, banshee, impending, becalmed, tarry, yarn, languished, exotic, inclement, ration(ed), guava, Patagonia, stalwart

Copywork: Taken from ‘All of a Kind Family’

Social Studies and Reading:

‘Liberty for All’ by Joy Hakim – completed chapter 9

‘Who Was Helen Keller?’ by Gare Thompson – completed chapter 5

‘All Sail Set’ by Armstrong Sperry – continue chapter 3

Art & History:  Make your own Civil War battle with paper doll soldiers

History: More detailed study of Native Americans of the LowCountry.

Coastal Tribes:  Kiawah, Etiwan, Sewee, Stono, Wimbee, Combahee, Ashepoo, Yemassee, Kussoe, Edisto

Tribes died off due to:

Escamauca War

Smallpox

Yemassee War

After Yemassee War most remaining Native Americans left the area to join the Cherokee tribes.

Government: Small, autonomous tribes.  Tribal chief referred to as ‘King’.

Today at A+

Copy Work.  

We have nearly finished ‘Writing with Ease’ Level 1.  Yes, it’s aimed at a 1st grader and Mr. Brilliant is in 4th grade and doing 5th grade work, however, he has issuing with his handwriting and listening skills.  This work addresses both.  Additionally I am examining where he may have gaps in his grammar.

Spelling:

Plurals.  I have trouble getting Mr. B to slow down enough to do this right.  He knows it is fox/foxes but he keeps writing foxs.  *shrugs*

Writing & Research:

Research and write 4 facts about 2 breeds of cats, from the Stuart Little unit.  At this moment he’s sitting and looking at wiki and yelling at me that there no facts there.  *facepalm*

Math:

Rounding, place value

Science:

Short discussion and then writing paragraph on electricity.

Native American names of local mammals:

Deer:

Catawba: wideboye (wee-duh-boy-yay)

Cherokee: ahawi (ah-wee)

Racoon:

Catawba: ciqene (chee-kuh-nay)

Cherokee: kvtli (cutt-lee)

Fox:

Catawba: depeyamuye (duh-puh-yah-moo-yay)

Cherokee: tsutia (joot-lah)

Rabbit:

Catawba pv(n)wa(n) (pun-wahn)

Cherokee: tsisdu (jesse-doo)

History & Art:

Continue work on Landscape.  Make list of items needed to build model of Native American – LowCountry home.  (LowCountry is spelled correctly, I didn’t forget the space between words nor capitalize the C in error).

Social Studies and Reading:

‘Liberty for All’ by Joy Hakim – completed chapter 6

‘Indian Legends’ an Oak Meadow Collection – completed chapter 13

‘Who Was Helen Keller?’ by Gare Thompson – completed chapter 2

‘All Sail Set’ by Armstrong Sperry – working on chapter 2 (despite Mr. B loving ‘Call it Courage’ he’s struggling with ‘All Sail Set’.  Ironically, Mr. A+ has spirited away this book and read it himself).

Read-aloud:

‘Turn Homeward Hannalee’ by Patricia Beatty