Weekly Review Jan 3 - Jan 9, 2010

Weekly review Jan 3 - Jan 9, 2010

Math:
- Played Sum Swap. Board game working with adding and subtracting.
-Counted to 20 by 2‘s, 100 by 5‘s
- Number bonds written out.
-Working on counting backwards from 30.
- Began introducing rounding up or down. Would look online (or in the car) for the temp a couple times a day and then choose the correct piece for her weather chart (temps starting and 0 and increasing by 10‘s so 0, 10, 20.…100)

Language Arts:
-Right Track Reading - lesson(s) 22, 23, 24 (half). Lesson 24 introduced working on blended consonants with exercises like “fat --> flat” She flew through them!
- Tried sounding out animal names in a book she checked out from the library.
- Poetry Pockets at library.

History:

Science:
-Bird watching - we set up 3 feeders in our yard. She is able to identify male and female house finches!
- Started reading books about animals. Browsed through “Emi and the Rhino Specialist.” Also looked at webcams with rhinos and looked at pictures of a baby rhino taken from a webcam during the 1st hour of his life.
- Tour at the vet’s office. We were in for Dorje and asked about the possibility of a tour in the future since she has been expressing interest in becoming a vet. He took us for a tour then!
- Exploring with a black light.
- Keeping track of temperature on her weather chart (as well as what the weather is like, what clothes to wear and the day of the week).

Extra curricular:
- Lots of geocaching!
- Learning basics of chess
- Ice Skating
- Bowling
- Meeting with RC for monthly meeting
- Began learning how to use a hammer properly. She remembers to put on her safety glasses before she starts.
- Does Wii FitPlus count towards PE in the winter?!? One of the activities on it is bumping bumpers with numbers on them to make sums of 10... She did great on this one. She is also loving the free run, skiing, biking, and balance games to name a few.