Week 5 - Human Body

Wow...that was a FAST month.  

This week, Rachel wanted to explore the human body.

Mighty Girl of the Week: Elizabeth Blackwell - First American Woman Doctor

Math

5 pages of MEP (Red book 1A - grade 1, pages 46-53 )  
My math witch!  She altered the question's number line to include all the negative numbers because they would correct as well.

Reading

   She read: 

       Frog and Toad are Friends
       Annie and Snowball and the Dress-up Birthday by Cynthia Rylant

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

Sight Words

muscles, joint, tendon, bones, parachute, candy, pencil

Spelling
kiss, fell, buzz, off, pass, ruff, mess


Writing Practice
Two sentences plus spelling words.


Science

We constructed a skeleton of her (life size).  Plus, we found a couple of great apps about the human body.   Additionally, we watched a National Geographic movie about the body from birth to death.  (She really liked the movie.)

We also filled different size glasses with equal amounts of water and talked about why the water levels were at different spots.

Geography

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

Brave Writer/The Wand (Language Arts)

Started the second month of The Wand.  We covered doubling letters immediately after short vowels (at the end of words).  We reviewed punctuation and added quotation marks.  We looked at how "ai" makes the short e sound.

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

Physical Ed

Gymnastics and dance classes.

She spent afternoons at Colwell playing.

Reflections on the week:
It was a much slower week.  We didn't get a much done on school work, but still made progress.