November 2-13 Main Lesson

"This remarkable evolution series, narrated by the universe itself, concludes with Book 3, the amazing story of mammals.  It picks up with the extinction of dinosaurs, and tells how tiny mammals survived and morphed into lots of new earthlings....horses, whales and a kind of mammal with a powerful imagination- you! It's a story of chaos, creativity and heroes0 the greatest adventure on Earth! And it's a personal story...about our bodies, our minds, our spirits.  It's our story."

Vocab for this ML

apes

Cenozoic era

culture

DNA

Homo Erectus

marsupials

monkeys

paleontology

primates

religion

science

spiritual

taxonomy

October 19-30 Main Lesson

" Settle in with your favorite pillow while the Universe tells the thrilling story of Earth. It's a story about the beginning of life, and hoe Earth triumphs over crisis to become bacteria...jellyfish...dinosaurs!  It's a science story that is your story too, the story of your living Earth and the unbroken chain that connects you to the very first life that began to twitch in the sea four billion years ago.

Vocab ofr this ML:

animals

amphibians

bacteria

birds

dinosaurs

evolution

fungi

genes

mammals

photosynthesis

reptiles

vertebrates

October 1-16 Main Lesson

"Time after time the Universe nearly perishes, then bravely triumphs and turns itself into new and even more spectacular forms- like the Sun and Earth. It eaven turns itself into earthling scientists who help the Universe discover more about itself.  This is a science story from the inside.   And it's a story about you, from the time you were really born- about 13 billion years ago.

 

Vocab for this ML:

 

atom

black hole                                       

carbon

element

galaxy

hydrogen

mass

matter

nucleus

oxegyn

supernova

http://www.neok12.com/  videos watched:

• Atoms and Molecules pts 1,2, and 3
• Physical Science- The structure of an atom 
• Electricity and Matter: Atoms and Elements
• The Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus

Workbook Breakdown

Math Skills: Addition and Subtraction (Shelby)

• ordering numbers
• counting
• odd and even
• place value
• addition and subtraction
• multiplication
• following directions
• perimeter
• telling time
• division
• fractions
• reading and making graphs
• plotting on a grid
• shapes
• non standard measuring
• patterning

Number Activities Grade 2 (Shelby)

• letter/number recognition and formation
• planning
• hand/eye coordination
• fine-motor-skill development
• beginning drawing skills

Planet Earth: Animals of the Water (Shelby)
Learn on the Go Reading Comprehension  Grade 2 (Shelby)

• story characters
• sequence of events
• retelling parts of a story

The Learning Line:  Addition Facts to 18 Grades 1-2 (Shelby and Grace)

• adding numbers with sums up to 19
• column addition with three and four numbers

The Learning Line: Cursive Writing Grades 2-3 (Shelby)

• cursive letters, words and sentances
• read letters and words written in cursive handwriting
• small muscle control
• follow written directions

The Learning Line: Manuscript Writing Grades K-2 (Grace)

• practice printing: capital letters, lowercase letters and words
• write words, phrases, and sentances
• follow writen directions

Learning Train Beginning Reading Grades K-1 (Grace)

• letter recognition and formation
• printing practice
• reading comprehension
• vocabulary building
• finding the main idea
• critical thinking
• inference

Workbooks completed from September 5 to November 20

ok, wow

So 2 months might seem like a long time to not update your portfolio blog, but we HAVE been doing school every day, I swear!
I just got done grading a whole pile of workbooks and sorting artwork and finding pictures.  And I tell you, I am comitted to getting this thing caught up today.
So, what I thought I would do is take pictures of whole workbooks and give a rundown of what they contain.  These two are CRAZY for workbooks and are sailing through them just as fast as I can give them out.

 

This new blogger makes it very difficult to post pictures with captions so my next post will be all the photos of the workbooks followed by a post about all the skills.  I know, it's a little crazy but it will save me hours of frustration.