This week (3/6 to 3/10)

This week Georgia continued working in her math workbook and completed three review quizzes. She also filled out an addition and multiplication grid.

Georgia and I read a chapter from her Ramona book together and discussed the content. She is currently reading Ramona Forever. When she is reading and doesn't know what a word means, she asks. I ask her to read me the sentence it is in and make a guess at the meaning. She is good at making inferences.

Georgia worked with adjectives. On one paper she needed to circle the adjective and underline the noun it described on a series of sentences. Another day she had to come up with eight adjectives describing a dog and writing sentences with the adjectives. And on another one, Georgia needed to come up with eight adjectives describing herself and then make sentences with them.

On Tuesday she had her gymnastics class. She did some backward and forward rolls, worked on some foot work, and other agility enhancing activities.

We continued studying Canada this week. We read library books about Canada, some fact sheets on each province I had printed, and she took a geography test on Canada. She also completed a North America activity.

The girls enjoyed looking at the satellite map we received with our National Geographic magazine. The girls traced the mountains, studied rivers, and other physical features of the Earth.

Georgia finally pinned the rest of her Valentine's card exchange locations on the US map. Then I finished tying the string.

Georgia visited the National Geographic web site some more. She also played a robot game on the PBS web site.

We also watched the movie of Swiss Family Robinson. She liked to see the book come alive on screen and would comment when things were different from how she pictured them while reading.

Georgia does a lot of independent learning. She loves reading from our nonfiction collection.

Olivia worked on http://www.pbskids.org/ some more. She practiced rhyming, patterns, numbers, estimating distances, memory games, and more.

Olivia and I also played a Disney memory game.

Olivia worked with spelling words using Boggle Jr.

And Olivia and I played lower-case consonant Bingo. We also brainstormed words that started with each letter that we needed to find, and practiced pronouncing the letters' sounds.

Another activity she enjoys is playing with the Fisher Price PowerTouch. We have different books with cartridges on different subjects. It is activated by touching the pages of the book.

On Saturday, Georgia attended her class at the Shawnee Prairie Preserve Nature Center. The topic was Woodpeckers. I'll let her talk about it in a subsequent blog entry. While Georgia was at her class, Olivia and I explored various displays and activities at the nature center. We felt different animal furs, saw frogs, looked at different objects under a microscope (one was a snake skin), we did puzzles, studied bugs with a magnifying glass, looked through a box of fossils, viewed and touched a lot of stuffed animals...but her favorite activity was being a junior archaeologist. In a large wooden box filled with dirt, Olivia used a trowel and found some fossils and bones. Then she cleaned the dirt off with a brush. She loved it.