On Wednesday, we celebrated my fifty-first birthday. Katie made this wonderful
and also whipped up a gfcf version for Alex and herself. Now that I have you drooling, I will tell you what hands-on things we accomplished in school this week.
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| week 10 |
Math
We have been working on advanced division for a few weeks now, working through the manipulatives stage. However, there comes a point in which the problems become so large that the trading board becomes too cumbersome.
So, this week it was time to work on transitioning to working with just paper and pencil. We began by his writing the numbers one through 10, putting a circle around each number. I then got him to go by five down the line, so by the 1, he put a 5 and by the 2, he put a 10 and so on.
So now we were ready to begin with a division problem, but I wanted it to be small enough so that we can check his problem with the chip trading boards. This bridges the gap between them.
The problem was 4321 divided by 5, and I wrote it in the traditional manner.
When we got to the last number, which didn't take any numbers from the fives column, he wrote it as a fractional remainder.
Then, I got him to check his answer with the chip trading board, (just as I have done with his brother.)
I gave him more problems, with different column numbers to work with.
At some point, I asked him to teach me by telling me the steps, one-by-one as he does the problem.
At this point, he can create his own problems, either from whole cloth, or by rolling a die.
He also is asked to solve word problems...
We are having a party at our homeschool group, and we have been asked to bring peanuts to share. If there are 32 people who are coming to the party and the bag of peanuts we are bringing holds 125 peanuts, how many peanuts would each person get?...
Quentin is working on addition and subtraction with multiple digits and Sam is working his way through Teaching Textbook's Algebra and really enjoying it.
Quentin is working on addition and subtraction with multiple digits and Sam is working his way through Teaching Textbook's Algebra and really enjoying it.
History and Geography
We learned about Vietnam this week in our geography studies...
and started a file box system for our history timeline.
We also studied about immigrants sailing to America in the late 1880's and early 1900's, along with some study of the presidents of the period.
Sam is finishing up his work on World War I. I must admit that I am learning a lot through his study, as I never seemed to get to the World wars in my own schooling (and we, as homeschoolers worry about gaps!) Because of this I could never keep the wars straight.
Reading and Writing
Sam is practicing the 25 minute essay for his taking the SAT essay section, and is working on Literary Lessons through Lord of the Rings.
Science
In science, we are finishing up our study of Protista with a look at algae. I will post more on that next week. We may take a sudden right turn and begin studying the human body as I just purchased Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology. Quentin is very interested in the human body, and bones in particular.
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I cannot express to you how much it means to me.
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