Aim for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars

Or, what I hope we’ll accomplish next week…

 

Reading Comprehension:

Animal Legends, use an organizer to write your own.

Discussion; what is a myth?

Short passage on the Arctic

Vocabulary:

Antonyms

Worsen, knowledge, inferior, synonyms, bashful, encourage, cautious, complain

Writing:

Write a police report, making use of a story map

Describe your room, using details.  One paragraph.

You hear a sound at the window of your room.  Describe in detail.  One paragraph.

Using the picture of the house provided, describe what is going on at the house.  Three short paragraphs.

Review use of main idea, topic sentence

Create a brochure about your town.  Include artwork.

Review, in detail, writing paragraphs, using clusters of ideas

Geography:

Imports and Exports of South America

Plants of South America

Animals of South America

Continued discussion of deforestation of South America

Responsible Tourism

Write a post-card about your vacation to South America

Art:

Paint an experience Stuart Little had in the story.  Use pencil to outline, then color in with watercolors

Math:

Division with Remainders, an introduction

Place value, expanded notation and standard form

Adding and Subtracting 3 through 5 digits

Return to three digit multiplication

Copywork:

Taken from Aesop, ‘The Patchwork Girl’ by L. Frank Baum

Literature:

Final review of Stuart Little

Life Skills:

How to Brainstorm

Predict what will happen

Use of proper equipment for sports

Social Studies & History:

Field trips planned, depending on Mr. A+’s situation

Continue reading ‘All Sail Set’ & ‘Look Homeward, Hannalee’

Continue work on Native American paper with Ms. B.

D.E.A.R:

‘The Search for Delicious’ & ‘Pendragon’

 

Coming up at A+

On tap for next week:

A field trip.  Most likely to Charles Towne Landing, Mr. Brilliant keeps saying he just doesn’t care and I’m not inclined to take him on a field trip if he doesn’t care.

Objectives on this field trip are to learn about the flora and fauna of the Charleston area, also, to learn about the Native Americans of our area.

Grammar:

Pronouns

Verbs, linking verbs, helping verbs

Verb tense, past, present, future

Using ‘ing’ verbs

Review present tense verbs

Math:

Numeration through 1,000,000

Carrying and Borrowing with long division

1 digit numbers x 2 digit numbers

2 digit numbers x 3 digit numbers

Inverse of multiplication is division

Vocabulary:

hostile, petrify, quiver, scamper, shriek, wrath

Palindromes

more prefixes & suffixes

Copywork: Taken from ‘Socks’ by Beverly Cleary, ‘The Wind in the Willows’ by Kenneth Grahame, works of Robert Louis Steveson, & works of Aesop

Geography: Create a Country Fact Sheet, Imports & Exports, Deforestation of South America

Reading Comprehension:

More fables, use of sequencing, more animal legends

Writing:

Story Map

Mr. Brilliant met with Ms. B, his writing tutor.  They are working together on the written presentation of Mr. B’s Landscape Project.

Review writing skills

Life Skills:  Making choices from Stuart Little unit

Science: Evaporation, solid vs. liquid, Whaling in America from Stuart Little unit

Cooking Science, describe the properties of sugar, peanut butter and sugar and peanut butter, mixed together

Spanish: We missed our lesson with Miss Naomi this week, she had a family emergency and had to leave town.  Mr. Brilliant will continue studying food words.

Coming up this Week

Vocabulary: frigate, necessity, patience, dilemma, obliged, exasperated, amble(d), lunatic, jostling, hospitality, undertaker, imposter, courteous, awesome, extractor, elated, petrified, peer(ing), elegant, exaggerated(d), emerge(d), notoriety, idly, bedrock, fisticuff

Words that sound alike/Homophones

Prefixes and suffixes

Read-a-loud: Finish ‘Turn Homeward, Hannalee’

Reading Comprehension: Main idea, recognizing details

Writing: The Hook, organizing a new article, write a news article, art for news article.  Topic sentences and supporting detail.  In-depth review of business letter.

Grammar: Similes, synonyms and antonyms, palindromes

Reading and Social Studies: Continue reading ‘All Sail Set’, ‘Helen Keller’, start a new book.

History, Art, Science: Continue work on Landscape with focus on Native Americans of LowCountry, dwellings, food, clothing.  Mammals of LowCountry.  Fish, birds, trees of LowCounty

Create a diorama from Stuart Little unit

Math: Place value to millions, rounding, review multiplication using ‘fact factory’, multiplication tens, hundreds, thousands.  Greater than, less than, equal to.  Introduction to carrying and borrowing in division.  Numeration through 1,000,000.  Adding and subtracting 3 through 5 digits.

Copywork: 5 days this week.

Science: Use of flags to communicate from Stuart Little unit.  Parts of sailboats.  Use of natural power.

Social Science: Making choices from Stuart Little unit

Today at A+

Field trip to the vet.  No, I don’t really consider this schooling, however our local vet does engage kids if they come to the exam, and she’ll take them back to the lab and the surgery and allow them to help with procedures and so forth, so a trip to the vet really is more of a field trip than otherwise.

Reason for trip?  Our elder kitty, Pinky, is pissed off, literally.  She’s taken to peeing on things all over the house.  This tells me she’s either got some major behavior issues coming up (again), and/or she’s got a UTI bothering her.  Pinky isn’t very old, only about five now, but it has been hard for her this last year.  Her twin sister died a year ago due to kitty leukemia.  Pinky had never been apart from her sister from birth until The Brain’s death and I feared Pinky would suffer a swift decline after her twin passed on.  Thankfully this did not happen.  After an extended period of mourning Pinky became her usual, cranky self again.

So, then, school work…

Art:  Make a small book movie of Stuart Little’s search for Margalo —  taken from the Stuart Little unit.

Math:  Place value to ten thousands, adding and subtracting using regrouping

Spelling: Continue spelling plurals

Social Studies and Reading Comprehension: Review short passage on Native Americans

Vocabulary: Rumbled, massive, maneuvered, scurrying

Grammar: Pronoun referents

Geography: Land area and population of South American countries

Copywork: Passage from ‘A Christmas Carol’

Science and Writing:  Use of graphic organizer

D.E.A.R. Comic books

Social Studies and Reading:

‘Liberty for All’ by Joy Hakim – completed chapter 7

‘Indian Legends’ an Oak Meadow Collection – completed chapter 14

‘Who Was Helen Keller?’ by Gare Thompson – completed chapter 3

‘All Sail Set’ by Armstrong Sperry – finished chapter 2

Read-aloud:

‘Turn Homeward Hannalee’ by Patricia Beatty

Mr. Brilliant says he feels too ill to work.  I think he’s mostly faking it, but I rather doubt we’ll get to his projects today.

This Week at A+

Oy, I need to do a weekly recap from last week.  Here’s what we did today:

Vocabulary:

Slake, Imperative, Suspicion, Undaunted, Dire, Cholera, Anxious, Dispirited, Lurch, Baffled, Fierce, Molting, Penetrate, Despicable, Balance, Clamor, Scoundrel, Rogue, Oozed.

Antonyms

Grammar:

Nouns and Pronouns

Math:

Adding and Subtracting 1 and 2 digits, Multiples, Skip Counting.

Geography:

Distances, linear or distance scale

D.E.A.R.

The Halloween Party from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler

Spanish:

Review words Miss Naomi gave on Thursday.

Art & History:

Research, then draw Native American homes of the Low Country.

We’re scheduled to go to a Home-school game club today.

Update:  The homeschool game club was fun.  Mr. Brilliant played Battleship.

This Week at A+

Science  —  Shapes in Nature  — Square, Circle, Spiral, Triangles, Stars, Pentagon, Hexagon.  After finding them in nature we found them in the man-made world.  We discussed form and function.  —  Landscape – Make River using wax and blue-green dye.  —  Make bread.  Learn more about yeast, sourdough and how flour and water turn into bread.  Learn about breads around the world.  Learn about grains eaten around the world.

Grammar  —  The simile, using personification, telling a story using the five senses (Gold Nugget story, you are a gold nugget, what do you see?  Hear?  Taste?  Smell?  Touch?  Continue working on type of sentences.  (Command, Exclamation, Question, Statement).  Correctly writing book titles.

Vocabulary  —  Breaking News Paragraph, finding morals in fables.  Commonly Confused Words.  Synonyms, Antonyms.

Writing  — Friendly Letter  — Thank you to Grand-dad and Gigi  —  Carrie

Literature  —

‘Stuart Little’  —  Quiz.  Map of New York City.  Challenges Stuart dealt with, ‘Meeting a Challenge’ worksheet.

Poems; ‘Blind man & Elephant’ by John Godfrey Saxe and ‘The Village Blacksmith’ by Longfellow.

‘By the Great Horn Spoon’  — comparing Gold Rush Prices for common good to today’s prices.  Study of diseases common to 1849.

Reading  —

Fables comic series

The Wright Brothers

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

The Monitor and the Marrimac

William Wilberforce

Math  —  Word problems, multiplication facts, review borrowing, sequence, reviewing adding and subtracting 1 & 2 digit numbers.

Life Skills  —  Making bread, menu planning

Spelling  —  Long vowels, ea, ee, ay, ai, k sound.

Art  — Outlines, drawing with and without.  TJ created a battle scene.  Creating Marzipan animals, related to Civil War unit (Marzipan being used commonly as decoration).  Melted wax and added color for Landscape box.

Geography  —  Continue unit on South America  — Pampas, Andes, Amazon River — Studied Hemispheres.