Weekly review: January 24th-30rd, 2010

January 24th -30rd, 2010

(Emma was sick for most of the week so skipped co-op and violin, also took it light on other items.)

Language arts:
- Right Track Reading: Lessons 28-29
- On the Banks of Plum Creek - chapters 29-31
- Watched Disney’s movie Little House on the Prairie. Emma spotted areas where they followed the storyline and areas where they did not. Starts in Little House in the Big Woods and continues through Little House on the Prairie.
- lots of reading with Emma’s books.

Math:
- addition and subtraction worksheets
- lots of daily use and practice
- Singapore Math PM 1A - textbook pages 48-49 and workbook pages 49-52
- introduced addition and subtraction flashcards.

Science)
- bird watching: Emma spotted a bird in our yard she had not seen before. It was a white crowned sparrow.

Other-
- Art class- Make up class. Learned warm and cool colors. Made a sun with warm colors using pastels. Painted the sky with cool colors using watercolors. Crumpled it up and un-crumpled it to create **???***(and this I need to check with the teacher on what the art term if for what they did).
- Art class- This week’s class. Part 1 of a two week project. Working on making a collage. Took 4 pieces of watercolor paper and painted on them with 2 colors. Assignment was to have 1-2 colors (same two) on each page but for each page to look different. Also, water colored a larger paper. Next week will learn to create a stencil and continue with the painted pieces.
- Ice skated for two hours Friday. Included a race with a former team mate, an 8 year old boy. Emma skating forwards, N skating backwards. N says it was a tie.
- learned about donating used items.