Week 6 - Human Body (cont.)

This week we're extending the human body topic.  We did bones last week.  This week we're learning about organs in our body.

Mighty Girl of the Week: Elizabeth Blackwell (First American Woman Doctor),
Dr. Emily Stowe (Prominent Canadian Doctor)

Math

5 pages of MEP (Red book 1A - grade 1, pages 54-58)  

Reading  (I am horrible about remembering all the titles, so we constructed a reading challenge chart.)

She read 7 books this week by herself, including:

   She read: 

       Eight Legs Up
       Scooby Doo
       Too Many Cats

       Shampoodle

   We read:
        Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (a chapter a day)

Sight Words

Review last week's: muscles, joint, bones, parachute, tendon, candy, pencil, skeleton

Spelling
kid, clap, kit, clock, take, camp, say, said, to, too, two

Writing Practice
Three sentences plus spelling words.


Science

We constructed another outline of her (life size).  This time, she put in some of the organs.

Field Trip: Brookes Farm.  We went with a homeschooling group in Durham.  We toured the farm (a large, working one) and the owner told us about crop rotation, male vs female flowers, and the various crops they grew.  Plus, they had a lot of fun things to play on outside.  She played for a good three hours.

Geography

We worked on locating the provinces and states on an ipad app (Geo Master).

Brave Writer/The Wand (Language Arts)

We reviewed that every syllable has a vowel and watched a video on nouns.  We also reviewed periods, commas, and capitalization rules.

Thursday Tea Party and Poetry
No tea party this week. :(

Physical Ed

We've dropped gymnastics.  It was just too much of a free-for-all and not enough instruction.

Instead, she has decided to take Taekwondo.

She spent afternoons at Colwell playing.

Reflections on the week:
I am way behind on blogging the weeks.  Trying to get caught up.