Week 25 Photos

These photos go with the post Week 25 Notes (Mar 27 - Mar 30).

the early readers from High Noon Books are really interesting and fun


this is the Alba series

Golden Bead Material and Activity Set

Decimal Stamp Game

using our ages to practice mean, median, mode, and range

Easter Egg Averages

using the Racks & Tubes for Long Division

we read an article in the Southern Illinoisan about last Saturday's Pop-Up Roundabout

Mad-Lib Theater

an introduction to the doubling convention

this was a great excuse to draw construction equipment!

Monday afternoon Nature Sketching

Dr. Jeffrey Punske, Linguistics Special Guest

I asked him to focus on the Great Vowel Shift and
the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

writing "Bojangles" in IPA

Bird & Diz

we begin the IPA Word of the Day
this word is < that >

learning to purl

Molly Maxwell, Carbondale Senior Planner

 

I sent an email on Monday after we read the Pop-Up Roundabout article

and she wrote back right away and said she'd love to be a guest!

we have found many interesting new words in our read aloud story
(historical fiction from the late 1700s / early 1800s)

our first attempt at Soak-Stain Paintings

unfortunately the paints weren't as flowy as they needed to be

we tried adding water, but we still didn't get the effects Helen Frankenthaler did

an introduction to some advanced Grammar Symbols

K-W-L charts in Science Club

review of the doubling convention

and an introduction to the toggling convention

there are only 3 suffixing conventions in English:
replaceable < e >
consonant doubling
toggling < y > to < i >

symbolizing sentences with the paper Grammar Symbols helps the children
to better see if something is a transitive or intransitive verb

of course, doing it with silly sentences makes it even more fun!

the color coding of the digits in Montessori is wonderful scaffolding
for Place Value

our second attempt at Soak-Stain Paintings