Term 2 Friday week 3

Bible

reading

phonics

spelling

writing

English/history/technology and maths made a bandanna and wore it

Little House Study

reading comprehension questions, looked at picture of the cowboys with the cow they gifted to Pa in “Inside Lauras Little House” Carolyn Strom Collins and read and made a bandanna as describe in the book, read and discussed these internet sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy and the links about their Attire and tools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cowboy.jpg

Maths addition, subtraction, multiplication, probability, fractions and time

Swimming rode his bike there and over to the Warehouse and home again afterwards

Youth group

Term 2 Thursday Week 3

BIble

reading

phonics

spelling

writing

Science watched these birds outside there were 3 of themaltogether

English

Little House Study

read about wells

found some information about the Osages

Maths addition, subtraction, multiplication

technology put the wheels on the wagon

music/history/bible

read this page

looked at a Tam Tam on google

read about the Janissary army

listened to Rondo Alla Turca

read more here

read Exodus 14:15 – 15:22

listened to this piece of music called Dance and Shake Your Tambourine

let My Home Schooler play with mine

PE Bike ride

Term 2 Wednesday Week 3

Bible

reading

phonics

spelling

writing finished writing the good copy to Granddad

English

Little House Study read about The Osage Indians

discussed why skunks smell

Then did an English exercise sequencing stories

Maths addition, subtraction, multiplication

technology scroll sawed with Mr Wonderful 4 wheels for our wagon

Art draw something that swims

click on the button above to link

Term 2 Tuesday Week 3

Play group/Art My Home Schooler lead the activity today and it proved to be popular with lots of the children wanting to do it and some good disscussions being had around the table about cats and pets

This is what My Home Schooler made and the other children did their own too

Reading

Spelling

Maths adding subtraction multiplication My Home Schooler has finally mastered the 3 times tables YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

PE Rode his bike to Annes and back again. He also rode it to playgroup and back again this morning

Anne

Term 2 Monday Week 3

bible study

reading

phonics

spelling

writing

English/Science Little House Study researched garter snakes, and put information into our nature book (this did our research the old fashioned way in books as our printer wasnt working)

Maths adding, subtraction, multiplication, time, line graph

Science looked at a couple more pages of “How Big Is It?” Ben Hillman

looked and worked out how old our carrot plants are now and when they need harvesting

Egg experiment

Egg experiment 2

Art worked out what My Home Schooler is going to do

for the activity tomorrow at play group

Writing copied piece of writing to send to Granddad

saturday

This afternoon we went to see the Story Teller. We saw him a long time ago when we were in Auckland.

We saw looked at an aquarium at the garden centre where he was

Then we went to the library.

Term 2 Friday Week 2

Bible study

reading

phonics

spelling

writing

Science (needed to finish these experiments before the weekend)

experiment 1

experiment 2

When it had smashed My Home Schooler declared excitedly that the membrane was like a balloon. He wants to do it with lots of eggs now!!

Little House Study read some more of “Inside Laura’s Little House” read about sicknesses in those days, surviving as a settler and prairie animals

Maths/Geography adding, subtracting, multiplication, traveling distances and looked at where the routes they would take in a map, statistics, $$

swimming/biking

My Home schooler actually did a lot of biking today

this morning he went to the shops and back to get a bottle of milk

then he biked to the pools later in the day and then to the supermarket then home again

youth group

Term 2 Thursday week 2

bible study

reading

phonics

spelling

writing

Little House Study/social studies/history/science

Looked at an oak tree on the internet as this is the kind of tree Pa probably would have used to build their house with.

Also looked at Kauri trees which is what the early houses in New Zealand were made of.

found out some information about wolves and put it into our nature book

Maths addition, subtraction, multiplication, time, matching 3d models to their net draws, perimeters (first time worked with decimals)

Technology started to make a model of the wagon like the Ingall’s had

Term 2 Wednesday Week 2

bible study

reading

phonics

writing

spelling

Little House on the Prairie study english/maths/geography

read some of the retentive parts of “Inside Lauras Little House” by Carolyn Strom Collins and Christina Wyss Eriksson

We read about how Laura changed some aspects of the truth to make her story more interesting. We discovered that through research people have been able to establish where the cabin would have been. We discussed how often people put important places and dates in their bibles. We looked at my own bible and saw how I have underlined and made notes and put my addresses in it. My Home Schooler thought was defining the book. We found out how they traveled each day and compared it to how far that would be from here. Very slow travel. We read about why pioneers moved west. We compared the way the prairie became available very much the same way New Zealand would have become available when parts of it were sold off so the Englsih people could live here. We paced out the length of their house and compared it to our lounge. My home schooler was surprised that they would be able to fit 2 double beds, a table and chair and other objects into our lounge. I reassured him they could have done so easily, pointing out they didnt have all the junk we have. We read and discussed their toilets and what an outhouse and a chamber pot is. Looking at photos on the internet at these too.

maths addition, subtraction, multiplication, prime and composite numbers

PE cycle up to shops to get eggs for science

Science eggs

experiment 1

experiment - The Floating Egg

Experiment – Squeeze an Egg Without Breaking It

Term 2 Tuesday Week 2

Play group

My Home Schooler rode his bike there and back

Maths adding subtracting multiplication prime numbers

Anne