Spanish: Parte Primera: Leccion Primera: 4. Ejercicio y 5. Cuestionario.
We use Poco A Poco (found through Google books) and it says it is 'an elementary direct method for learning Spanish' but that doesn't necessarily mean 'elementary' as in K-5 grade! I am guessing these are for high school or upper grades. We are doing alright with the book (I have the Teacher's Manual, also found at Google books) but I also have some experience with Spanish. I've taken a couple classes (one in high school and one in college, will be doing another in the Fall) and can recall or guess what it is that we are supposed to know/learn. It is somewhat a little confusing sometimes, but I am thinking we will be okay. I am going to be using some of our supplements (aka fun things like coloring and singing songs) the next few times we do Spanish.
Order & Reality:
1.3 pages 16-20 aloud with mom; narrate. Answer questions under Brain Drain and Thought Provokers. Discussed Environment Explorer on page 17. We took turns reading and narrating. We are still going to do the actual 'explorer' activity. We are going to go down to the North Platte River to collect some dirt, as well as from our backyard and our gardens. Using three separate jars we will watch the dirt separate from water and observe and discuss what we see.
Lee:
Bede's: Read Week 3 section, Chapters V & VI. She was supposed to keep a list of unfamiliar words as well as locate place names on the globe/map and also fill in the timeline with people and events...she didn't do any of those things :( Did tell me briefly about what she read.
LoFPA: Chapters 5-7; looks like it is getting more challenging for her. Perhaps I am a mean mommy but I'm glad! It seems that she was just zooming through her stuff without even having to think about it. Now she had to ask for help in how to set up some of the problems. She knew how to do them, just had a memory lapse at the time.
TFD: Lesson 16: Loaded Question. Just 'thought about' her reading today... she had a problem with writing 'dunno' on a lot of the questions from last reading. Perhaps she didn't like when I said, "you need to figure out an actual answer to the question; 'dunno' does not qualify as an answer."
Writing: Today she started My Access writing online. Her assignment is on whether or not teens should have an allowance. Her choice... Perhaps I will get to publish her writing. I liked her argument ;) (Psst: she's against an allowance!)
Fox:
LP510: We conveniently have misplaced his Unit 509 LIFEPAC. I corrected the Self-Test that he did last and *poof* now it's gone! So, we are just skipping the rest of 509 and moving onto getting 510 done with. It is review over all of grade 5 math. He did 3 pages of almost complete pages of nothing but problems! He totally hates that type of math. He used to like timed math (5 minute math) but he doesn't like to spend more than 10 minutes on math at all. I require that he do x-amount of work or x-amount of time. Usually it is a mixture. If he knows he only has to do x-amount, he rushes through and is done within 15 minutes (and not done well). Or if I say x-amount of time then he drags out 2 problems for the entire time. I did allow him to go onto MathMovesU.com for some fun with math. I like it when they enjoy what they are supposed to be learning.
Reading: Abraham Lincoln's World. I would like for him to read from the other books he has on his list but he seems to really enjoy this one more than the others. Okay with me :)
Tomorrow he will start his Writing assignments with My Access online. It will help his writing skills, I hope.
We are making cakes today to decorate the remaining 3 cakes- of 5- that are mandatory to do for 4H. The first picture is from two days ago; Lee is making a shell border. The one below is Fox making 'dots' on top of the cake. He was going for red frosting but pink is what he got :) As soon as it cools off (well, even if it doesn't!) we are going to decorate some more cakes!
They are also working on their posters. Lee is doing a poster on "Tips on Tips" (for cake decorating) and Fox is doing his on "Parts and Jobs of Robots" (for robotics). Lee is done with her Photography entries. Fox still needs to decorate a cake for his entry (a 'fake' cake, that is- I think we will use an upside down cake pan). Later tonight- about an hour- we are going to a pool party with the public library for summer reading :) Fox is the only one that participated in the reading program. But we all get the rewards :)
We use Poco A Poco (found through Google books) and it says it is 'an elementary direct method for learning Spanish' but that doesn't necessarily mean 'elementary' as in K-5 grade! I am guessing these are for high school or upper grades. We are doing alright with the book (I have the Teacher's Manual, also found at Google books) but I also have some experience with Spanish. I've taken a couple classes (one in high school and one in college, will be doing another in the Fall) and can recall or guess what it is that we are supposed to know/learn. It is somewhat a little confusing sometimes, but I am thinking we will be okay. I am going to be using some of our supplements (aka fun things like coloring and singing songs) the next few times we do Spanish.
Order & Reality:
1.3 pages 16-20 aloud with mom; narrate. Answer questions under Brain Drain and Thought Provokers. Discussed Environment Explorer on page 17. We took turns reading and narrating. We are still going to do the actual 'explorer' activity. We are going to go down to the North Platte River to collect some dirt, as well as from our backyard and our gardens. Using three separate jars we will watch the dirt separate from water and observe and discuss what we see.
Lee:
Bede's: Read Week 3 section, Chapters V & VI. She was supposed to keep a list of unfamiliar words as well as locate place names on the globe/map and also fill in the timeline with people and events...she didn't do any of those things :( Did tell me briefly about what she read.
LoFPA: Chapters 5-7; looks like it is getting more challenging for her. Perhaps I am a mean mommy but I'm glad! It seems that she was just zooming through her stuff without even having to think about it. Now she had to ask for help in how to set up some of the problems. She knew how to do them, just had a memory lapse at the time.
TFD: Lesson 16: Loaded Question. Just 'thought about' her reading today... she had a problem with writing 'dunno' on a lot of the questions from last reading. Perhaps she didn't like when I said, "you need to figure out an actual answer to the question; 'dunno' does not qualify as an answer."
Writing: Today she started My Access writing online. Her assignment is on whether or not teens should have an allowance. Her choice... Perhaps I will get to publish her writing. I liked her argument ;) (Psst: she's against an allowance!)
Fox:
LP510: We conveniently have misplaced his Unit 509 LIFEPAC. I corrected the Self-Test that he did last and *poof* now it's gone! So, we are just skipping the rest of 509 and moving onto getting 510 done with. It is review over all of grade 5 math. He did 3 pages of almost complete pages of nothing but problems! He totally hates that type of math. He used to like timed math (5 minute math) but he doesn't like to spend more than 10 minutes on math at all. I require that he do x-amount of work or x-amount of time. Usually it is a mixture. If he knows he only has to do x-amount, he rushes through and is done within 15 minutes (and not done well). Or if I say x-amount of time then he drags out 2 problems for the entire time. I did allow him to go onto MathMovesU.com for some fun with math. I like it when they enjoy what they are supposed to be learning.
Reading: Abraham Lincoln's World. I would like for him to read from the other books he has on his list but he seems to really enjoy this one more than the others. Okay with me :)
Tomorrow he will start his Writing assignments with My Access online. It will help his writing skills, I hope.
We are making cakes today to decorate the remaining 3 cakes- of 5- that are mandatory to do for 4H. The first picture is from two days ago; Lee is making a shell border. The one below is Fox making 'dots' on top of the cake. He was going for red frosting but pink is what he got :) As soon as it cools off (well, even if it doesn't!) we are going to decorate some more cakes!
They are also working on their posters. Lee is doing a poster on "Tips on Tips" (for cake decorating) and Fox is doing his on "Parts and Jobs of Robots" (for robotics). Lee is done with her Photography entries. Fox still needs to decorate a cake for his entry (a 'fake' cake, that is- I think we will use an upside down cake pan). Later tonight- about an hour- we are going to a pool party with the public library for summer reading :) Fox is the only one that participated in the reading program. But we all get the rewards :)
How much fun with 4 H. Love it. I would like to get my oldest involved at some point.
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