Candy School

We had my best friend's family come for "Candy School". I got the idea from here. We used several of her printables. I'll try to post some pictures later. My friend took many and is going to get them to me.

http://www.walkingbytheway.com/blog/

We did many of the same activities, but I did tweak a few for our kids that were older.
Here's what we did:

Scripture Copywork (Psalm 34:8)
Poetry (read some and wrote our own)
M&M color count (predicting, number patterns, etc.)
Acid Test http://www.candyexperiments.com/
Graphing with survey results (we used this for pie charts: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createAgraph/ )
History of Chocolate http://www.librarything.com/work/855015
Fractions with Hershey bars http://www.amazon.com/Hersheys-Milk-Chocolate-Fractions-Book/dp/0439135192
Chromotography (experiment site above)
Floating M's & S's (experiment site above)
Candy math including word problems and weight measurement activities
(addition, subtraction, equation word problems for older; balance scale to arrange several candies in order of weight, figuring average weight of 1 nerd)

Week of November 9th

I'm a little behind on updates, but here goes. We began our week with co-op, then moved on in to our academics. In Bible we studied honesty. We memorized the five "I Wills of Truthfulness". In history we did more timeline work on explorers. Since we studied the Aztecs and Mayans last week, we studied the Spanish conquistadors such as Hernando Cortes. We listened to selections from Mozart and did notebook pages.

Hannah began "Tuck Everlasting" for her novel club. Glencoe has free literature guides on their site. She wrote her persuasive essay on the state of American education. She covered adverbs in grammar and statistics in math.

David studied more about verbs in his grammar. He also continued his chapter on measurement. He has enjoyed it very much. His spelling words list was long e sounds with ee words. He studied more about weather using books from our own resources.

We ended the week with "Candy School" on Friday. I got the idea from this site.
http://www.walkingbytheway.com/blog/

Week of November 2nd

We began our school week attending co-op. We only have 2 more weeks before we are off for all the holidays. In Bible, we studied about not arguing, complaining, or gossiping. We memorized the five "I Wills of Discretion".

In history, we studied more explorers including John Cabot, Vasco de Gama, and Amerigo Vespucci. We had not really studied the natives living in the Americas, so we spent a few days studying the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas. We also had a brief introduction to native Americans of North America. We studied Mozart this week, beginning with watching a video on his life. They both had library books to read and did notebook pages about him.

Hannah attended writing class and has been assigned a pursuasive essay. She is still struggling with her topic, but hopes to have it nailed down this weekend. She studied statistics in math, and finished up a grammar chapter about adjectives. She didn't have science lab this week, but continued in her study. She read several fiction books this week, including two whole books in one day. She is enjoying the series, The Lightning Thief. She also started the series, The 39 Clues.
David learned about verbs in grammar, include past tense and subject/verb agreement. He worked with measures in math and practiced math facts. He is close to finishing up a weather lapbook on the book Weather Words and What They Mean. He especially enjoyed several books from the library by Mo Willems. We were laughing so hard while we read these two. He actually asked me to read one again, which he never does.

Star Wars in Concert

My sister, Angela, came and took me and Hannah to see Star Wars in concert. It was a wonderful experience. Hannah had never attended an orchestra performance before. She is a HUGE Star Wars fan, so it was a great introduction. Anthony Daniels, the actor who was C3PO, was there in person narrating the whole thing.