Friday, December 2, 2022

Week Twelve Notes

Monday, Nov 28

    SSR

    Morning Math age 7 - read A Million Dots by Sven Völker and practice reading numbers to the millions place

    Morning Math ages 10 & 11 - Basic Skills Daily Practice Warmups (grade 6, 1st 6 weeks, week 2)

    Basic Skills Daily Practice Warm-ups
    these review 5th grade math

    Morning Math age 13 - Grade 8 Student Workbook from Making Math Meaningful by Jamie York (constructing triangles, using a protractor)

    Morning Work Time: Pterodactyls - play Ready, Set, Draw for reading, play Jump One for math, write 2023 calendar numbers for Jan & Feb

    Morning Work Time: Plastic Utensils - KW make biome maps of North America and Oceania using Continent Stencils from Waseca Biomes, CR & AH Fraction Finder 13, AG draft & type business letter to Hasbro

    Fraction Finder #13

    Writing a Business Letter in Grade 6 & Making a Difference

    Fables at Snack - The Astrologer, The Hedgehog and the Hare, begin puppetry skills and look at inventory of puppets and backdrops

    Read Aloud at Lunch - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, chapter 9, The Mock Turtle's Story (link is to read this book online for free at Carnegie Mellon University)

    Indoor Play Time - Pterodactyls explore finger puppets, Plastic Utensils play "Art School" and do a lesson on how to draw eyes

    Outdoor Play Time

    Art History: Mary Blair - read I Can Fly (1950s) and The Up and Down Book (1960s), both illustrated by Mary Blair, and look at examples of her non-Disney work

    reinterpret Concept Art assignment from Nov 10 (done with colored pencils) as a painting (student choice of watercolor paints, watercolor pencils, or Gelatos)

    Foods of the World: Oceania - make Cheese Rolls from New Zealand


Tuesday, Nov 29


Wednesday, Nov 30

    SSR

    Morning Math age 7 - begin Multiplication Mosaic #19 with Mortensen material

    Morning Math ages 10 & 11 - continue with Basic Skills Daily Practice (Wednesday is multiplication) using the Checker Board as needed

    Morning Math age 13 - Square Root Algorithm

    Business Letters - KLL draft business letter to Site Superintendent at Giant City State Park about handicap access at Group Camp (requesting that a ramp be built on either side of the bridge in lieu of the existing stone steps)

    Fables at Snack - The Donkey and the Load of Salt, The Boys and the Frogs

    Read Aloud at Lunch - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, chapter 11, Who Stole the Tarts?

    Afternoon Work Time - individual projects including Handwork, writing 2023 calendar numbers for Mar & May (they accidentally skipped Apr), finishing morning math work, playing educational games

    Games - Rhyme Out, Whatchamadrawit, Lion in My Way, Da Vinci's Challenge

    Science Club - see detailed notes at Air Pressure: How and Why


Thursday, Dec 1

    SSR

    Morning Math age 7 - finish Multiplication Mosaic math problems and solve puzzle

    Morning Math ages 10 & 11 - continue with Basic Skills Daily Practice (Thursday is division) using the Racks & Tubes as needed

    Friday's section is miscellaneous problems; since we don't meet for school on Fridays we use those for Early Finishers (this week the Friday problems were Order of Operations and Equivalent Fractions)

    Morning Math age 13 - continue with Square Root Algorithm (comparing different methods)

    grade 7 Square Root Algorithm Short Algebraic Method (PDF)

    grade 8 Square Root Algorithm Without Zeroes (PDF)

    Morning Work Time: Pterodactyls - Knitting (chicken, turtle, lamb)

    Morning Work Time: Plastic Utensils - Max's Stolen Burger (Decimal Addition and Subtraction Math Mystery Game)

    Nature Study - read day 1 (Painted Turtle) of All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings by Gayle Boss

    "All Creation Waits" Animal List blog post

    Read Aloud at Lunch - finish Alice in Wonderland

    Business Letters - exchange letters and give one another feedback, edit, type final version of letters, sign, address envelopes, and mail

    Games - Adsumudi, Clumsy Thief Jr., try out new math game Fraction War

    First Play Planning Meeting - recall the 20 fables, evaluate each for being Puppetry Possible, narrow down the list of ones we want to do, brainstorm ideas and make sketches


The photos to go with this week are here.

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