Feb 24 - March 2

PE
-dancing
-bean bag toss
-jumping jacks
-walk to Mill lake & play at playground & walk (3 amazing hours of fresh air and fun - and meeting a random new homeschooling family)
   -swings, slides, running, skipping, climbing, spinning...
-3 hours at Safari Zone (climbing, running, sliding...)
-1 hour McDonalds Playplace (climbing, sliding...)

MATH:
Hungry Hippo (counting the marbles) (who has more / less)
Printing the number 6, 3, 7 )as these are the numbers that she gets most frustrated on and writes backwards.
3 pages of math addition
counting to over 200 while swinging on swing at park

SCIENCE:
Sid the science kid feeling good inside & out.
     - A brush with teeth. (mommy scribed - Big A told me what she learnined about teeth)

Sid the sceince kid feeling good inside & out.
     - I want cake. (mommy scribed - Big A told me why its not a good idea to eat cake everyday, what Sid wanted for his birthday meal, and what she would like if she was able to pick her favorite birthday meal)
      - 4 food groups (treats...sometimes)

Sid the science kid  feeling good inside & out
     - Why cant i watch TV all weeked?
              - body would get tired
              - body needs to excercise

SOCIALS:
-sing song about north , south, east, west
-DVD: Worlds Together:  West Africa for kids (grade1 -6) 
Talked about similar / different than Canada & our family.
Big A was quite in awe watching this movie - very sweet.
-Wrote similarities / differences about Africa and here.
-Made the Flag of Nigeria (Africa)

READING:
Big A read scripture during Sunday school (into microphone for all the kids to hear)
Read worksheet on shapes & drew what the words said to draw
Read story about Nigeria (Africa)
Big A read the printing sentences in her workbook to me - she did GREAT!

WRITING:
4 pages in Kumon Printing workbook
4 pages in Kumon Printing workbook
 * see socials

MUSIC:
Singing during Sunday school
Singing during church service
Listening to music in the car & in her room
West Africa DVD had music from West Africa to listen to and instruments seen in West Africa too.


DRAMA:
Big A put on little play about the story Lion Witch & Wardrobe that she read with daddy.

ART:
Lots of coloring, cutting, taping,
Big A made a lion head today and called it "Aslan" (from Lion, Witch and Wardrobe that she read with daddy")
*see socials

Feb 17 - 23

Feb 17 - 23.
PE:
-2 hours of horse therapy
-Running, mucking stalls, riding, balance, stretching, liftinf heavy objects (saddles)...
-Yoga DVD
-Group games in church gym
-Family Walk in neighborhood
-Running around White Rock, throwing rocks into the ocean, collecting seashells, walking & running on the pier, exploring the shores We spent about 4 hours exploring the ocean & shores today.
-dancing

ART:
Drawing
Coloring
Cutting & Gluing & Taping

SCIENCE:
Tuesday was a beautiful sunny day that was spent running around White Rock, throwing rocks into the ocean, collecting seashells, walking & running on the pier, exploring the shores, having a picnic, just a beautiful girls day at the ocean together. We spent about 4 hours exploring the ocean & shores today.

MATH:
Finished Princess Math workbook on Addition & Subtraction. (4 pages)
In the car we listened to skip counting CD songs
Daily Calendar
4 pages in her math text book (one page was subtraction and she did it in addition and exploded when she found out she "did it all wrong."  I told her that if it  was addition - she got them all right. (didnt help).

SOCIALS:
Making and delivering homeless kits...contain food, drink, socks, mitts...

READING:
Assigned scripture reading during Sunday School
Played 2 hours of Reading Eggs website
Reading from Bible

WRITING:
She wrote down as many words that she could remember from horse therapy, and wrote a few sentences about Horses and why they are her favorite animal.
Spelling does not matter at this time as getting her to the table to write is such a fight & struggle.

Big A wrote:
The horse is my favorite animal because,
I ride it I take care uv it I faed it I Love it

Big A has been printing 4 pages a day in the writing workbook

MUSIC:
Singing in sunday school, kids club & sunday morning worship service
We constantly listen & dance to music

DRAMA:


HOME EC:
Folding Laundry

BIBLE:
Donut Man DVD -
Sunday School
Kids Club
Daily Devotions with mommy


Mommy is having a rough week. Not much getting done.

Feb 10 - 16

The week of Feb 10th to 16th

Sunday: Big A did some reading to the other kids in Sunday School.
Lots of singing
Art

Monday:
This week Big A was blessed with 2 hours of horse therapy.
-muck the stalls
-dry the horse (as it was raining)
-brush the horse
-feed the horse
-clean out the hooves
-rode a lot on her own
-played simon says with pointing to different parts of the horse & saddle & parts involved in the horse equipmentt (she is learning a lot of horse terminology)

Daddy & Big A finished reading "Lion, Witch & Wardrobe this week and celebrated by watching the movie together (it was nice - they dont get a lot of bonding time). They have decided to work through the rest of the series. I have asked Daddy that for the rest of the books to read a chapter and then get Big A to draw about what she heard in the story. (the writing will happen then too).

Tuesday:
Watched Super Why (reading show)
Did 4 pages in printing book
Did 2 pages of addition (adding by 2's & 3's)

Valentines Party today with 3 other homeschooling families that we had the pleasure of meeting today.
-played with a bunch of other children
-valentines version of duck duck goose
-Art: decorate door knob signs
-Art: decorate cookies with icing & valentines candies
-sing songs
-read bible passages
-listened to a story about an apple.
(about an apple whp didnt want to fall on the ground because there were worms on the ground,...

Dr. Bamber Assessment today  - final part of large Assessment : hope to get final results next week...i hope

Put together a gaint Map of Cananda Floor Puzzle
Talked about provinces, where we live , where we will be going on our vacation.
Talked about capital cities.
Talked about capital of Canada

Big A read to me:
1) "Canada in Colours" by Per-Henrik Gurth  (Socials Studies)


Wednesday:
Chilliwack car apt & visit with Auntie :)
Reading & Browsing through our new Socials Book series by Judy Zocchi...
-In Mexico
-In Japan
-In Canada
-In Nigeria
-In Vietnam
-In Scotland
-In Germany
-In the United States
-In Sweden

Played a math addition game on Aunties Ipad.











Thursday:
Valentines Arts & crafts
Reading Prince Caspian with daddy.

Friday:
Big A had fun socializing with the kids from "moms morning out"  - they played lots of games in the gym, and did valentines art / crafts, they read stories & sang songs.

Saturday :
We went to the Tradex to see the all the animals.  There was everything from hedgehogs & chicks to puppies / dogs, reptiles, groundhog & horses. Big A LOVED watching the horses and listening to the talk that the vetrinarian gave on horses. Also how to care for  animls in the wild and remembering to recycle. What a great family afternoon!
Reading Prince Caspian with daddy.

Feb 3-9

This week is mostly about cleaning out the house & planning our trip.

Socials:

Big A is helping plan our 5 week trip to Winnipeg (and all our stops along the way)

We are pulling out maps and talking about towns & provinces , and where we will stop and who we will see...

Math:

She is also planning activities / field trips once we get to Winnipeg - she is helping me sell items and count money to put into the envelopes - to make sure we have the money when we get to Winnipeg

 

-Dream box computer game

-Work book - Addition & Subtraction

 

Reading:

Girls watched a lot of Word World DVDs

Played Reading Eggs

Big A & Daddy are reading through "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe"

Big A is reaing some horse & pony easy readers from the library

 

She had  meltdown on Tuesday because reading her math problems were too difficult for her - she got really really frustrated.

Aparently her math was too hard too and she quit.

Writing:
Big A did 4 more pages in her printing book

Art:
Big A borrowed a book called "How to draw Horses"  - She has been drawing lots of horses for us, her horse therapy teachers, and more...