January 19-23 wrap up

Boy has this week been a fun an exciting one! We did some crafts that taught how water can move. This week we ventured into the planet of Venus!!!!!  Starting this week and for the rest of the year we are reading chapter books, a chapter a day and at the end of the book we will be doing book reports. We hung new classroom decor. We witnessed an awesome stare off between Lilly and Buddy. We took lots and lots of photos and oh yea in case you m missed it we blogged an entire day!!!!



Here was the famous stare off!!! Lilly was even growling at Buddy so he got up and got closer to her, She got louder and eventually got up and walked away. It was very amusing to us!

Like I mentioned we are reading chapter books now. The first book picked by Robert is The Mouse and the Motorcycle. George is LOVING the book so far. He gets so happy when we bring it out. Its the last thing on the planner every day to kind of keep him going. If its a cliff hanger ending he gets very bummed that he has to wait an entire day for the next chapter.

George is rocking his mow hawk here and working on a journal.

I've talked many times about our "Life of Fred" books but I wanted to show you a page from the your turn to play chapter. George is still loving the book very much! He looks forward to the days we do the Fred book which we do twice a week.

Here's how George answered. He uses a spiral notebook, that I number then I read him the questions.

The craft!!!! We used coffee filters folded them up and cut little chunks out of and then dyed them in water with food coloring. George was shocked how quickly the coffee filters absorbed the water. It was a lot of fun. George said the water "slithered up like a snake" I found that very funny.

We put them on trays to dry.

Then George decided to wear one on his head. hahaha. Such a goof ball!

Working on language arts.

We read about the volcanoes on Venus and went ahead with the activity to make one. We put a small glass dish on a plate and surrounded it with flour.

We melted butter. George did a great job.

Then poured it over the dish. At this point the butter represented the lava flowing and we checked it a few hours later and it was cooled and hard which represented the rocks on Venus.

Working on his math journal he does everyday.

Here was what he did that day. Hes coming along far and doesn't need much help anymore just for me to read the question under the date and the today's problem.

Working in a journal, Again doesn't need help very often and if he does he will just come to my desk and ask.

That's a giraffe and a swing set in case you needed to know.

These were George's spelling words this week. He did really good. He claimed he spelled the first one right but I didn't see the letters correctly. So he needs to work on his penmanship.

After he reads a bob book we write a sentence about it and he copy's it into his journal then draws a picture that follows along.

While I read his science text he plays in the knetic sand. This really helps keep his focus on listening to what I say. We talk back and forth about what I read too.

All the things we talked about we wrote on the big white board. George liked seeing this and I think its a great stepping stone to teaching him how to take notes.

We hung up the coffee filters!!!!!  They look amazing in the school room.

George doing some work at his desk.

If you ever wanted to see my lesson planner!  Its pretty packed,

My desk doesn't look much better.

George complains about my flash so he insisted that I take a picture of myself. Turned out kinda cute so I figured I would include it.

Facts about Venus and that's his drawing of a volcano.

In his draw write now book we drew birds. He did in the end color them but I didn't get a picture of that.

George is getting very good at solving for the unknown. So proud of him.

So this has been our week all wrapped up nice and tidy with a bow. George did a great job this week and hes doing amazing. While doing reading George is doing less sounding out and said that reading is getting easier and that makes him happy.

January 12-16 wrap up

         So obviously you can see I've decided to date the wrap ups instead of do them by x weeks.  This past week has been interesting to say the least. We lost two days of school. One was due to last minute baby sitting and the other we ended up grocery shopping and running errands all day and then had a den meeting for cub scouts. Even with 3 days we got a lot done.



George did this art craft. He filled the whole thing in with glue and then picked the different colors he wanted and filled it in.

Sitting at his desk working on his work.

His charts for Spelling! Like said in a previous post every time he completes a level he gets a sticker over that level.

This was taken at the beginning of the week and he did a level of reading so now he has another sticker on this chart. He is averaging 2 levels a week in reading.

Working on his math. This week he was doing two digit addition with carrying. He was not very found of this at all but got the concept and did very well with it.

When he struggles with the math he makes a number line to do the math. He kept turning around and yelling at me to not get a picture so I was very lucky to get this one in.

Yes George does have a Mohawk hes been begging for one. And end of the week means fun friday hes able to count tickets and cash them in. He had 20, the magic number for the glow in the dark dough he wanted. He was so happy!!!

So their you have our week! We got a lot done and George loved it. Hes also still grabbing books and reading. You would think the dogs are sick of hearing them but they listen nicely. Can't wait to see what next week has in store for us!

First week back!

So this was our first week back from Christmas break. It was definitely nice to get back into the school room. George was happy and ready to go.  This week we did take Wednesday off along with the public schools. This week we completed a lesson in math on skip counting which George found very easy. We got through a lesson in spelling and two lessons in reading. We finished up our lesson in science on Mercury.  So here are some pictures of the week!

Christmas is over so that means new border! I put up the winter one.

Since we started skip counting by two I showed him how making groups can make a mutiplication problem. At this point in the book it was just skip counting by 2's

Every year I like to make a new police id kit. It has all his info in it, finger prints as well as a new photo of him. He likes doing this. Who wouldn't finger prints are fun!

Here's the finger prints.

In science we had some experiments to do. Here we are making craters. We put flour in a bowl and dropped marbles. Different heights and sizes.

For a fun go to activity I pulled out the pocket volcano.

We filled the chamber with baking soda and then added vinegar. Dad sat in and watched it.

Then we added baking powder and put it under water to see an under water volcano.  George liked the above ground volcano more.

At the spelling/reading board making words.  I give him a word and he writes it. This week we also added 3 constant vowel teams. Sh, Ch and Th.

Our other science activity was to make mercury. To do this we made a salt dough recipe and then used marbles and pencils to make craters. George wasn't to found of making the dough. He found it to be sticky.

Here he is using the pencil to make the craters. The dents it makes are representing what asteroids would do.

The end result.  Then leave it out to dry.

All in all it was a great week back. George also made some crafts and in his draw write now book he drew a dog. I didn't get pictures of that though. George is also up to 16 tickets then decided to save them so he got a bonus. He is wanting to save up for the glow in the dark dough I have. 

We are looking forward to next week and the rest of the year. George is loving his work. His favorite would have to be the other math book we use called Life of Fred. It is a story (technically a series) about a 5 year old math professor named Fred. It basically shows the children through the story how math is used in real life examples. Currently Fred is on a boat that sprung a leak and went ashore. George was so mad when the chapter ended as a cliff hanger. We do 2 chapters a week,

So that wraps up this week!