Fossils

Jayden was very proud of himself today. He did all of his school work by himself without any help. He even got 100% on his math quiz on T4L!

T4L Math

T4L Math worksheet

Spelling

Spelling

Grammar

Caitlin was very proud of herself too. She learned how to write E's and the number 5. Then she wrote her name.

She made happy faces with orange foreheads

After tracing her name, she wrote it on top.

We worked on history with our Encyclopedia of World History. I love this book. Each page has a link that you can check online where it goes more in depth with different sites and articles. 

Today we were talking about fossils. One of the pages we read sent us to an interactive website that allowed us to move a dead animal around (not as weird as it sounds!) so we could learn the best place for fossils to form.

The book also linked us to this website, where we followed the instructions on making our own fossil prints.

We all thought the end result looked gross

The kids flattened the "soft mud" and stuck their dinosaurs in it. I explained that the soft mud eventually turns into rock, and the remains form an imprint.

Jayden's

 

Caitlin's

I'm not sure how much they understood, but they enjoyed it nonetheless!

Parks and Playdates

It hasn't been sunny for a couple of days but we did get a chance to enjoy an afternoon at the park.

We also went to Carolyn's house for a messy playdate.

First official day!

Today was our first official day back at school. We took a couple of weeks off from any formal learning so that I could regroup, get myself settled in with my own school work, and so the kids (well mostly Jayden) could have a bit of a break.

 

My first grader!

We started off with history and read the introduction chapter of The Story of the World. We discussed the words crops, archeology, archeologist, history, and historian. They both seemed very interested and Jayden even asked if we could read a chapter every day.

 Then he worked on grammar,

 and spelling.

Then he went to T4L and worked on his math. He worked on counting by 3s and patterns on the hundreds chart.

 Then he came back and worked on his supplemental worksheet.

 Here is my big girl- officially a preschooler

 She worked on tracing the letter E.

 Then she got ambitious and work on previous letters.

 When she was done she decided to go read...

 We headed to the library and the kids borrowed two books each.

 

 

We had a fantastic first day! I'm so glad that it was successful and we are all looking forward to this school year!

Science Co-op

I don't know if I am crazy or not, but we joined ANOTHER co-op. This is our 3rd co-op that we are part of. This is a science co-op that meets 2x a month.

While waiting for all of the children to come, the kids played.

Then we started our unit. The kids learned about blood. Rachel, the coordinator, read several books about it. She passed out several books for the kids to look through too.

 Then she showed how plasma, red blood cells, and white bloods cells work in our body.

 (adding white blood cells)

 After she added all of the components, she went outside and sprinkled some dirt inside to represent germs. The dirt clung to the white blood cells (marshmallows). She gave each child a chance to shake the jar.

The kids loved it and we look forward to our next class.