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Track and Field

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hurdles

Today was track and field day for our homeschool group.

The lad had a great deal of fun. I am hopeful that one day the lad will learn that when I say he’ll enjoy something because it has lots of running around and jumping and what not that he’ll believe me first before whining and complaining about it.

But once that aspect of our day was over, the lad enjoyed himself. So did I. It was nice to spend the day with like-minded people and children. 🙂

Obstacle Course

The lad ran hard, jumped hard, played hard. He was a strong encourager of others. “go Micah go!” He asked good questions when he learned that one of his teammates suffers from bad asthma. For the most part he listened well. And he tried to do events even if they were hard.

They tried the high jump. Humour was provided to us. 🙂
The highest they got was five cms beyond the height of the mat.

No day would be complete without some running.
This was the start to the 100 m dash. They also had a 50 m one.

ball free throw

The day was for the part good weather wise. The ground was rather quite wet. There was an area of water saturation that led to the lad going through a complete clothing change.

I thought it funny, every chance these five year olds got
they started to make sand castles. 🙂

At lunch time the children had fun with the parts to the obstacle course.


Chocolate!

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Chocolate Challenge

Today we start our study of the DownloadNGo unit study/lapbook on CHOCOLATE! The lad’s reaction when I told him what we were going to study was “YEAH!!” This study is done by Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett.

The outline of this study is as follows.
Day 1: Chocolate – What Is It?
Day 2: The Story of Chocolate
Day 3: The Types of Chocolate
Day 4: The Science of Chocolate
Day 5: Let’s Have a Chocolate Party!

I’m not sure if we are going to do this study by days as it is laid out of if I’ll just pick and pull pieces out or what. Time will tell. Now to prepare a lesson. 🙂

we did day one and two, not in it’s entirety.

we needed to use additional links because not all the links were working.

http://www.unctad.org/infocomm/anglais/cocoa/crop.htm

http://thechocolatereview.com/where-does-chocolate-come-from-/where-does-chocolate-come-from.html

http://www.hersheystory.org/lib/docs/lessonPlans/ChocolateMath.pdf

http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/chocolate/education.html

We practiced words like longitude, latitude and the equator. And all the parts of the rainforest.

We did some geography (made a map of the amazon rain forest), history (learned the history of chocolate), art (drawing and telling a story), social studies (studying the Mayan, aztecs, and zolatecs) and science (made tollhouse cookies).

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Today we built things, practiced real life sorting, and worked at stuff from head of the class.

we did a sequencing pictures activity, a counting exercise, addition, sequencing numbers, and a different number sequencing unit. We learned that he has the numbers NAILED from 1-10 but has some difficulty figuring out the 10-20 series. So we’ll continue to work on that.

then off to help with the hospital rummage sale for an hour. The lad was an excellent helper running things to the toy table as we found them.

Once we were home again we sorted garage sale stuff in the basement, the lad played, we talked, we sorted, we enjoyed life for the most part. 🙂

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Tuesday – book work today

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Since we are going out this afternoon, we decided to do some book work this morning.
I asked the lad to pick a number between 3 and 8 and that’s how many pages we would do in each book. He waffled between 4 and 5 and settled on four. 🙂

These are the books that we did

Capital and lowercase letters.

After this book we read two poems, one of those poems mentioned wind and weather maps which we want to look up sometime.

Letter Play

After this book we read a story.

Number Fun

We read a poem called “wagons west”. It was a fairly long poem, and lad asked questions which I always like.

Then we did Fisher Price, preschool book, I can learn. This book had number and letter sound concepts in it. He had a great deal of fun teaching one of his baby(correction little child) stuffies about matching and letter sounds. On one page he made up stories about why different stuffies didn’t like different shapes.

Then we read a poem about Indian children. Can’t say it went over very well. 🙂

The complete book of numbers and counting

Once again doing this book the stuffies played an important role in helping him count and to teach. We had a lot of fun using his stuffies to reinforce learning. 🙂

We followed this book by reading the Little Red Hen where the lad helped read the “not I” and the “I will” parts. by the end of the story he was also filling in the animal parts.

My Heavenly Helper, k-2

This book has lots of dot to dots in it. It’s interesting seeing him learning well his letters and numbers even though I don’t focus on this information a lot in our schooling. But through reading and copywork he’s doing good at picking it up. After this book we read a story about a tiger called “Kattor”. He was a rather silly young tiger who had to learn a lot growing up.

This afternoon we need to take dad to the eye doctor so we’re going to go see a movie called “African Cats”.
African Cat
Documentary

An epic true story set against the backdrop of one of the wildest places on Earth, “African Cats” captures the real-life love, humor and determination of the majestic kings of the savanna. The story features Mara, an endearing lion cub who strives to grow up with her mother’s strength, spirit and wisdom; Sita, a fearless cheetah and single mother of five mischievous newborns; and Fang, a proud leader of the pride who must defend his family from a once banished lion. Disneynature brings “The Lion King” to life on the big screen in this True Life Adventure directed by Keith Scholey and Alastair Fothergill (“Earth”). An awe-inspiring adventure blending family bonds with the power and cunning of the wild, “African Cats” leaps into theatres on Earth Day, April 22, 2011.

Director: Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey

Here’s the official site.

Carnations and more

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Over the past two weeks we took some time to study Mother’s Day. This Mother’s day unit study was done by Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett.. Here is day one/two and day three/four.

I have to admit…I was feeling somewhat reticent about studying Mother’s Day but chose to do so because I’m often surprised at what details are pulled out of studies that I never expected. This study, though not a favourite of either me or my son, was no different than studies I’ve undertaken in the past. To my surprise, I actually learned something, and at times was able to take an unappreciated study and turn elements of it into something my son appreciated. 🙂

For instance I learned why on Mother’s Day a carnation is given to each lady in our church. The carnation is actually the flower of Mother’s day. Bet YOU didn’t know that either.

My son had fun learning abit about different countries and seeing where they are on the map. He particularly seemed to enjoy figuring out what different countries looked like (aka Italy looks like a boot) and then looking for them. Scotland had us fooled for a while since it wasn’t colour-coded or labelled very well on our world map.

We had fun finding countries, we found it interesting that it’s not hosted on the same day all over the world, we found it boring that it’s basically done the same where-ever you go.

Each day has a theme.
Day 1: What Is Mother’s Day? Day 2: The History of Mother’s Day Day 3: Celebrating Mother’s Day Day 4: Preparing for Mother’s Day Day 5: Goodies for Mother’s Day
My son had fun drawing cards for me and for his gramma. I liked that I was able to forego looking up some words in the dictionary and through questions help my lad figure out what words meant.I had a firm appreciation for how scripture was brought into play with this lesson. Helping my son sehttp://www2.blogger.com/img/blank.gife how God used women in the lives of the men he did great works through was interesting.All in all, this study was well-done and I would encourage anyone interested in learning more of why this Mother’s Day holiday was started to check it out.I received a copy of this lapbook/unit study in exchange for my fair and honest review.

more reviews can be found here.