The Bergblog: Snapshot Summary, September 26-30, 2011 week 4

Snapshot Summary, September 26-30, 2011 week 4

Snapshot Summary, September 26-30

The most special event this week was that Katie turned 20!

Math

We played with part-whole frames.

We worked on column addition, and how to align numbers so that they are all lined up in the proper places for place value.

We worked on column addition problems with regrouping with manipulatives.

We subtracted two-digit numbers on the Hundreds Chart, some with regrouping.

English

We reviewed some vowel sounds and the rules. We started reading Frog and Toad Are Friends and looked for words that fit the rules. (We looked at the difference between frogs and toads...see below)

We reviewed nouns and worked on identifying the subject of a sentence.

We looked at adverbs and how to recognize them. We looked at their comparative forms. We looked at some adverbs and adjectives that are confused sometimes like good/well and real/really.

For spelling words we worked on long and short o words, and words with -ck and x in them.
Sam took an English test.

Alex's journal

History and Geography

Alex's map showing how the wars in Europe spread to the New World's French and Indian Wars.
Map from Story of the World 3 Activity book.

We studied the French and Indian wars.
Sam wrote about the House of Burgess.

We looked at colonial foods brought to us by the Indians.

The Three Sisters medley -Butternut squash, Lima beans and corn cooked together with butter and a little honey.

We made toys of the Northeastern Indians.

Wampanaog Toss and Catch Game

Northeastern Indian Pouch

and Corn husk dolls.

Science

James using Exploring Creation With Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures to label the parts of a fish.

We began our study of fish.

Quentin only needed to glue the proper words for the most basic parts of a fish, but he wanted to include sketches the growth of a fish from egg to adult.

James also glue down the names of the most basic part of the fish, but also hand labeled the names of all the fins. He decided to add color to his background, which kind of made the labels in pencil hard to see. We will go over them again with a black Sharpie.

Alex and Sam labeled the inside parts of the fish.
(bones pictured here, and the organs)

Then James wanted to label the bones of the fish, too.

Our study of fish tied in with our nature study.

We worked on this project but we didn't have the materials to finish them, so we will probably finish it up next week.

We looked at the difference between frogs and toads.

We had fun with surface tension and buoyancy.

We even made art with it.

Foreign Languages
Sam is still working on Greek and Latin. In Greek, he just finished the second declension masculine and is working with vocabulary and sentence practice with them.
He worked on the vocative case in Latin.

Our Favorite Resource This Week

If you have a high school student who does not want to do dissections and is not planning on going into a biology related field, you might want to use this coloring book instead. This is no kiddie coloring book. It has as much detail as you would need for high school or even college biology. It also has a write-up that goes with each structural identification.

Household Ways