Week 25 Notes

Some things going on this week that have their own blog post or webpage:

Science Club - Weather / Humidity

Art History - Helen Frankenthaler

Music - Our List of Jazz Artists

Language Arts - Short Stories and The Canterbury Tales

Mathematics - The Book of Perfectly Perilous Math and Easter Egg Averages

Monday, Mar 27

SSR

Morning Math

age 6, 7, 8 - number pages, add table of contents, decorate front & back covers of Math MLB, add to Portfolio Box, introduction to Golden Bead Material Activity Set, independent work with the Golden Beads (addition #1, multiplication #1)

age 10, 11 - Easter Egg Averages CR & AH, Decimal Stamp Game AZ, Long Division KW

Jazz Artist - Billie Holiday

Board Games - Check the Oven, Mancala, Turn Over, jacks

Read Aloud - chapter 4 of Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Outdoor Play

Language Arts

SWI - read Breakers & Builders by Steve Light, write and illustrate word sums for words in the book, pay particular attention to < dig > and note the doubling convention



Grammar - Mad-Lib Theater

Short Stories - "The Feather Pillow" AG

Nature Sketching

write in Plan Books

Tuesday, Mar 28

Farm Day ZCS

SSR

Morning Meeting & Classroom Routines

Jazz Artist - Charlie "Bird" Parker

Language Arts

Special Guest - Dr. Jeffrey Punske, Professor of Linguistics

Canterbury Tales: Character Review Crossword KLL

Outdoor Play

Read Aloud - chapter 5 of Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Mathematics - GBM (subtraction card #1, division card #1)

Handwork - knitting, embroidery, counted cross-stich

Board Games - Quixo, Turn Over, jacks

Art History - read Dancing Through Fields of Color: The Story of Helen Frankenthaler by Elizabeth Brown

write in Plan Books

Wednesday, Mar 29

SSR

The hfw Project - "that"

Morning Meeting & Classroom Routines

Special Guest - Molly Maxwell, Carbondale Senior Planner

Jazz Artist - John "Dizzy" Gillespie

Morning Math

GBM (multiplication card #2, division card #2)

age 10, 11 - CR & AH rough draft Easter Egg Averages for MLB, AZ dynamic addition and subtraction with Decimal Stamp Game, KW Long Division Multi-Step Word Problems

Supercharged Math - Algebra week 5 KLL

Read Aloud - chapter 6 of Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
(write word sum for new word: be + calm + ed)

Outdoor Play

Language Arts

SWI - figure out how to illustrate < try >, focus on the convention of toggling, write word sums
try + ed ---> tried

try + al ---> trial

try + out + s ---> tryouts

Grammar - introduction to Transitive & Intransitive Verbs

Handwork

Art History - round #1 of Soak-Stain Paintings

write in Plan Books

Thursday, Mar 30

SSR

The hfw Project - "and"

Morning Meeting & Classroom Routines

continue with Morning Math assignments

GBM (multiplication card #3, division card #3)

Jazz Artist - Thelonious Monk

Language Arts

SWI - continue the family of < try >, look at a two-step word sum and an example with a prefix
try + ing ---> triing ---> trying

re + try ---> retry

Grammar - make random sentences with Subject & Predicate French Fries, use Montessori Grammar Symbols to symbolize them and determine whether the sentence has a Transitive or Intransitive Verb

Short Stories - "The Necklace" AG

Read Aloud - chapter 7 of Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
(write word sum for new word: rope + walk + er + s)

Outdoor Play

Handwork

Art History - Helen Frankenthaler week 3 video lesson from Art History Kids "Magnificent Modern Art" course (an in-depth look at her 1966 painting "Tutti-Fruitti"), round #2 of Soak-Stain Paintings

write in Plan Books

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