Language Arts, Math & Science

I'm so happy with the Building Thinking Skills book that I bought the beginning of the year.  It has a lot of really great lessons in several different subjects.  I particularly like the Language Arts lessons as that is an area of struggle.  It's nice to see that he does pretty well in these.

 He also asked me to do the math train game.  Wow!  Really?!  Yes, you may.  I wrote out some new flashcards for today's game.  I wanted to incorporate our recent math lessons on decimals, fractions and percentages.  He did very well.  As usual, candy is always a good incentive for Mckenzie.

 As you've noticed we are studying extreme environments in Science.  Space is one of those environments we're focusing on.  Volcanos is another one of interest to Mckenzie.  Today he began his large scale volcano model. 

Surviving Space

Chris Hadfield - Going Blind in Space, Fear and Danger

Water Colours

Camp

 When we first talked to Mckenzie about homeschooling he was a little hesitant, however after talking about all the possible pros and cons of both homeschooling and middle school he obviously chose homeschool.  Camp was a big selling feature.  One mention of kayaking and he was sold.  He's been looking forward to camp for a while now and it's finally here.  He'll be home tomorrow from his 3 day, 2 night getaway.  The weather was the most beautiful it's been all year; perfect for camp.  The setting is beautiful and with fun exciting activities planned throughout I have no doubt he's having a great time.  Milo and I stayed for a few hours the first day.  We went with Mckenzie's group on a big hike around the lake then we stayed as Mckenzie went kayaking and through until after lunch time.  For his sake I want him to stay as long as possible, keep having loads of fun, but for mine, I can't wait to have him home and tell me all about his adventures.

April 28th

 I feel like we managed to cover several subjects today.  A little of Science, a bit of Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Art and Sports.  This art project was an attempt to work with shading.  The paints didn't co-operate as I had hoped they would but oh well.  First draw a picture, anything you want in the centre of the page, then use water colours in one colour to add varying degrees of shading around the image.  Then fill in the image with zentangle doodles. 

 And in math today we worked on fractions, decimals, and percentages and how they relate to each other.  Of course it didn't hurt to use junk food as a motivator.

 100 pieces of licorice (well 50 cut in half)

 What percentage of the licorice have been covered? 

 

And here's an art project that we did a couple of weeks ago but I forgot to post.  We took advantage of book stores giving away calenders which hadn't sold and cut the pictures into tiny strips, then we drew an animal silhouette.  This was a giraffe that didn't have enough room on the page for a longer neck.  Then simply glue the strips on.  I chose to do a tree which might have been a nice project for Fall since we were using lots of golden hues. 

See previous post about Water Surface Tension