Week 10 - Reading, Metamorphic Rocks, and Turkey Tag

 Wow, 10 weeks of homeschool in the books. I sort find that hard to believe. 

This was the week that Norah scribbled all over my planning book for the week. 🙈🙈Oops. 

In language arts this week Emmett was supposed to move to the book Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk. We started reading it but neither of the boys was really into the story. It is set in the time of the Great Depression and although we will be talking about that time in a historic sense it was too scary for the boys in this already anxiety ridden time in the world. They were still interested in Greek mythology and so we decided to call an audible and continue with the Percy Jackson series. We've read the first three books together. Emmett and I then went on to read numbers 4 and 5 separately. He finished WAY before I did. Ha. He will be putting together a poster project on book number 4. He's not thrilled but it is a good way to learn about how stories are plotted. 

Micah continues to work on sight words. He often fights back on his reading while we are "doing school" but he brought me Hop on Pop one night at bedtime. I had put a couple of books on the shelf in his room that I thought he might be able to do himself. He read the entire 64 pages to me! I was so proud of him and more importantly he was so proud of himself. So cool.

Jonah wanted to work on the letters C and G this week. Why you ask? Those are Curious George's letters obviously! We worked on lower case letters and he pin punched several letters to build strength and fine motor control. He also read a whole bunch of Thanksgiving books with me including Curious George's Thanksgiving. 

Emmett has been working on multi numeral multiplication in math. He is using the common core method and I know it's not a popular parent position but I really like it. It makes so much sense. These kids are going to have such good number sense because they will understand how it works. It is really hard to jump into common core halfway through but if you have been with it from the beginning the logic follows all the way through. 

Micah's math is subtraction with 10 frames and 9 groups. He prefers to just do the problem but we've been trying to slow down so that he can write out the picture too. 

Jonah's math this week consisted of measuring Thanksgiving pictures with both a ruler and math cubes. He loves his dad's tape measure so later in the day, he took that outside and measured all the things on his own. 

Science this week was fun! Micah was learning about metamorphic rocks. See the video below for his description of the lab. 

Emmett's physics lesson was about projectiles and satellites. This involved throwing a whole bunch of different things across our yard and figuring out why certain things went farther than others. Ice, pumpkins, pillows, a shoe, a stuffed animal, a rock were all projectiles with mass and velocity. 

His engineering lesson was about Rube Goldberg machines or as Emmett would say, "how to make something easy way harder than necessary". In the end we opted not to build one but watched so many YouTube videos that we might be pros anyway. Emmett's favorite was this one, The Swish Machine: 70 Step Basketball Trickshot (Rube Goldberg Machine)

Our last fun activity on Friday was to make a whole flock of feather turkey's for Turkey Tag! Aren't they cute!?

 

Gobble Gobble! Have a great week.