Corn Maze Pictures

Pictures from the annual trip to the Black Island Farms corn maze. For the first time in our times of going to this maze the weather was neither stormy nor was the ground a muddy mess. The day was not really cold but cold enough you wanted to keep moving.

School Work Oct 26-30

Math
Nickles and dimes
counting on with pennies
quarters
counting on with nickles
count mixed coins

Phonics
spelling
sight words
handwriting
consonant blends

Language Arts
poems
Winnie the Pooh
names of holidays
titles of books
junior great books


Art
read about art and artists van Gogh, Rousseau, Glackens
cave paintings

Music
Hadyn
Mozart

Science
water in the air
cotton ball clouds

History
King Tut
Egyptian Cinderella
Pyramids and Ziggurats

School Work week of Oct. 19-23

Math
Separating
Guess and Test
Logical reasoning
review and assessment
semester test
nickels and dimes

Language Arts
names of months
writing days and months
Winnie the Pooh
public speaking
poetry

Phonics
spelling
handwriting
new sounds

Art
primary and secondary colors
Wassily Kandisky

Science
the rain catcher
water in the air


Music
Bach

History
King Tut
the Egyptian Cinderella

Ogden Dinosaur Park Halloween Activities

Fun activity to do with the kids. It's not a scary Halloween activity although I heard the last two days of this month it will be scary and only for older kids. There were stations to trick or treat at and receive some fun treats. We got free Applebee's kid meals, $10 gift cards to Sparetime, free bowling at Sparetime, and discount tickets to the Ogden Nature Center. Plus it was fun seeing the park at night and decked out. Now I'm anxious to see if they decorate for the Christmas holidays.

School Work Oct. 12-16

Math
equal groups
sharing
separating
problem solving
logical reasoning

Phonics. spelling, handwriting
new consonant blends
sight words
practicing handwriting


Language arts
punctuation review
days of the week
Rumpelstiltskin
writing an invitation
analogies
poetry
asking/telling sentences review
names of months
writing months and dates


Art
how artists use symmetry
drawing with symmetry
the color wheel

Science
seasons
wind direction and wind speed

Music
Bach

History
mummies
the great pyramids

School Work Oct. 5-10

Math
counting to 100
count by 5's
equal groups

Phonics
learning new consonant blends
sight words
phonics readers

Language arts
proper nouns
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
composition
shared reading
analogies
poetry
titles
junior great books

Art
shapes into pictures
how to use symmetry

Science
What's the Solution?
the weather forecast

Music
Vivaldi
Bach


History
Hieroglyphs
More early writing

History Projects

The top two pictures of our Nile River replica. We made the Nile river and then flooded the Nile river to see how the silt gets left after a flood.

The bottom picture is a cave painting picture. Nathan thought making a cave painting was fun. We used black construction paper and chalk.

We also made mud bricks and built a house from them. I did not get pictures of the mud brick project. To make mud bricks you mix 2 cups dirt with 1/2 cup flour and add water until its the right consistency to make bricks. I'd say we added maybe 1/4 cup water. Shape the mixture into bricks using your hands. Cover a baking sheet with foil and place formed bricks on the sheet. Bake at 200 degrees for 2 hours or until hard.

Piet Mondrian

Nathan made a copy of Piet Mondrian's Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow this week in art. I think it turned out pretty good.