10/26/13 Pics

Co-op assignment

Co-op assignment

Veggie Tales

Math Mammoth + gel pens

10/26/13 Orange

10/26

Grande
20000 leagues reading

Regular
Soccer game
Birthday card making

Petit
Read whole Geronimo Stilton book

10/25/13 Orange

10/25

Trip to aquarium-
Penguins, lion fish, rays and horseshoe crab touching, seals, sea lions, piranha, sea turtle, octopus, many tropical fish, jellyfish, cowfish

Birthday card making

Party crashing

10/24/13 Orange

10/24

Co op day

Large
Art- icons
History- discussion group
Ward method
Latin
Piano lesson
Writing- story

Medium
Piano lesson
Book club - Moffats
Math
Spelling bee
Local history

Small
Play
Piano lesson

Guests arrive!

10/23/13 Orange (because Blue is hard to read)

10/23

Old
Math
History
Grammar

Mid
Math
History
Narration

10/26/13

Links:

Crab nebula

Supernova

Pulsar


For youngest, older can watch, too:

North Pole stars

Northern Lights




The Baldwin Project


Read Sarah Plain and Tall
Math Mammoth
one hour reading (Winter Pony, Little Women, various, Fever 1793)

Watched The Privileged Planet

Mass

10/25/13

Murderous Maths
Math Mammoth
Proverbs
Einstein's Universe
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Sarah Plain and Tall
Fred
Fred
Math games on computer

Duct tape bag with horse collage

Looked up Winter Pony, daughter enjoying it very much but beware

With youngest, star book and King of Ireland's Son

One hour reading, one hour writing

 

Quiz 10/25/13

Tell me one thing from Proverbs so far:

Write the first line from the Gettysburg Address:

What was the writer of “Letters of a Woman Homesteader” doing for work during the time we read about today?

Tell me one thing about her life that we learned about today.

When an object falls because of gravity, it loses / gains some of its rest energy.

Give me an example of how people have for many years used something falling to do work or harness energy.

Roger Penrose thought it would be funny to speculate on how we could satisfy our

energy needs by throwing ________ into a b________________ (it would have to sp__

so they could retrieve the buckets).

A smaller star, like our Sun, ends its life by briefly expanding and then collapsing into a

w________ d_________.

A much larger star will explode into a s_____________ and then what doesn’t keep

expanding out it will collapse into a neutron star (some kinds are called p_____).  If it’s

big enough it may become a b_______________.

There may be a black hole in the center of every g___________.

Extra Credit:

When a large star explodes, the remains that keep expanding out create a n_________.

The explosion noted in 1054 by Chinese astronomers became what we can see now as

the C______ n_________.

10/24/13

Co-op day (science, writing, choir, art, Spanish)

Visit with friends

Collect firewood

10/23/13

Math, Einstein's Universe with verbal quiz, Letters of a Woman Homesteader, library, playground with friends, grocery shopping, bank

Tons of library book reading

10/22/13 Blue

Eldest
Math
History- read ch 4
Poetry writing- ode to droidika
Grammar
Fencing
Violin practice

Middle
Math
Grammar
History
Narration
Copywork
Soccer practice

Youngest
Tongwork
Playdoh

piano practice, library trip

played Timeline

10/21/13 Blue

Eldest
Coop
20,000 leagues book club
Essay on three characters
Reading
Science- light, refractive index, water gel balls
Popcorn sales
Scouts

Middle
Art
Thank you notes
Science- ditto
Violin practice
Reading

Youngest
Lots of outdoor play
Building

10/22/13

Finish yesterday's links.

Portrait for middle child, who complained that seeing farmland from the air was depressing because of the big brown patches.

Cool name chart.

Math
Proverbs
Einstein's Universer

pool with friends

library

10/22/13 Blue Pics

10/21/13

Accidentally ran across "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", which we've read before. 

It's on Youtube.


Links:  Guardian angel prayer

Creed


Article on poet and one point of learning

Exoplanet video


Exoplanet video

Youngest reads Sir Cumference  with me

 Reads Where the Wild Things Are, Danny and the Dinosaur, some Spyology, Frog and Toad, The Going to Bed Book

Math Mammoth, Fred, Murderous Maths, Proverbs, Spelling

Einstein's Universe

Quiz

 

Quiz 10/21/13

What does Proverbs say a good wife is like, or what does it say a bad wife is like?

If you’re not sure which operation to use to solve a problem (+, -, x, or /), what does Dr. Schmidt (Fred’s creator) say to do as a trick?

Can one form of energy be converted into another?

True or false:  The total amount of energy in the universe changes.

If you are traveling very fast towards a star, it will look ______________.

If a star is traveling very quickly towards you, it will look ______________.

What does E = m mean?

Does light have mass?

Matter is just frozen ________________.

Extra credit:  If you break down white light through a spectrum, what colors do you get (in the correct order)?  Hint, it’s the colors of the rainbow.

Dance class

Had friends coming over, but they were sick so couldn't visit

Chores:  Oldest chopped veggies for dinner, Middle made sour cream biscuits, Youngest watched and did a touch of ironing and then washed off rubber plant

One hour reading -- Oldest Chekhov stories, Middle Cottage at Bantry, Owl Creek counted in reading

One hour writing -- middle assignment for co-op writing class, writing about tire swing, youngest copying alphabet letters, lower case, then reading

 

 Middle finished learning "When Irish Eyes are Smiling"

10/20/13

Mass
Individual reading
Baked brownies and cookies, helped with dinner, oldest listened to SOTW while making quilt, middle lots of piano, youngest reading joke book

10/19/13

Birthday get together for oldest, ice skating and snack with two friends
Individual reading