Monday, April 09, 2007

Our homeschooling

Math EPGY - beginning algebra (problems like Mary and Sue have 17 apples, Mary has 7 more than Sue. M - S = ?, M = ? and S = ?) and division

Japanese - writing about her weekend in hiragana

Writing - 1st Draft of article about her favorite holiday (Hanukkah)

Language Arts - going over misspelled words from above article

Science - Read about wetlands and learned about how buffer zones protect bodies of water. Made a model of a buffer zone.

History - Read half of chapter of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (First Quest for Sir Launcelot)

Art - Read about carving and made her own soap carving of a butterfly



Reading - Read Baldwin Tales - Robert the Bruce and the spider and King Alfred the Great and the Cakes

Singing - Practiced new songs - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, I wanna be like you (from the Jungle Book) and Beauty and the Beast.

P.E. - Rode bike for 1 hour and 20 minutes

Piano - lesson w/ composing

And here is a picture of Z , from this weekend, in her Grandmere's backyard. She had decorated it with the pink petals. (She didn't pull them off the planet but found them on the ground under the bush)

6 comments:

Butterfly 8)(8 Bungalow said...

Z's carving came out very pretty. I love the photo because the light shines through it and makes it glow.

What kind of tool does a child use to do this?

sarah said...

That soap carving is so lovely! At first I thought it was made of ice.

C's Learning Treasures said...

I loved the soap too! Very pretty:)

Sounds like a very full and fun day of learning!

C's Learning Treasures said...

I forgot to comment about the backyard,it's beautiful!!

Cher Mere said...

Mariposa - Z used a pearing knife to cut the soap and a pencil to make the designs.

Patience - thank you

O - Thanks for commenting, I hope O is doing better.

Sucero Family said...

The butterfly is beautiful! I also thought that it was ice.