We've begun the second chapter in Science: Classification, more specifically living things. We did collect another big bag of leaves on our walk today but alas, it disappeared without a trace, so we went a much tastier route. CANDY! It's a pretty good motivator for school work on a Friday night. I was going to wait till after the weekend but he was eager to get to it, as you can imagine.
Mckenzie came up with six different ways to classify the candy: types, colour, size, packaging, shape and taste. We'll use this for math as well and another day we'll graph the categories. (I scribed for him)
We also did reading and another chapter report/overview of "Stranded" by Jeff Probst. It was pretty basic.
We did the math train again and this time he did 49 questions. Little brother was a good cheering team because he got to reap the rewards alongside Mckenzie when he hit his mini goals.
And earlier in the day we began the classification chapter and we came up with four different classification systems. We also did a quick review of the characteristics and needs of all living things. The candy classification came tonight.
We also began learning sign language, but shhh, it's supposed to be our little secret. We used a DVD from the library. We learnt a handful of basic greetings and courtesies.
He did some biking today since the weather was nice, well, not raining.
And now he's reading his Percy Jackson book, The Sea of Monsters.
Overall it was a very full and productive day.
Yesterday he was at the school. Seems like he's enjoying it. And Mr. Not Interested In Sports scored 3 goals in soccer! He was pretty proud of himself although he tried not to show it. I was pretty proud too.
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