You know what happens after you break a record? You get your picture taken and it goes into the book! Here's Wes posing with his trampoline. What a ham!
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Just For Fun
This isn't about school, but it's always fun to share home movies. Wes decided to make his own Book of World Records and to be the first person to make it into the book. Here's how he set his own record:
The Fourth Quarter
I must have a touch of the Spring Fever because I haven't managed to blog since Spring Break. You must think Wes and I are taking the rest of the year off, but that is far from true. It's already the third week of the last quarter and we've been hard at work. So lets break it down:
Cursive ~ This quarter we are writing EVERYTHING in cursive!
Writing ~ We launched a Letter Writing Campaign. Every week we are writing a friendly letter to someone we know and providing them with paper and a stamped envelope in the hope of getting return mail. Our last issue of the Indie Press this year will be the Friendly Letter Edition and will showcase our efforts. Each letter is written over the course of two days. On Tuesday and think the letter through and record what we want to say on our mini tape recorder. On Wednesday Wes can use that recording to transcribe his letter into a beautiful cursive not with proper Friendly Letter Format.
Language Arts ~ We have made grammar part of our daily routine by incorporating our Practice and Learn Third Grade workbook into the schedule. Each day we do at least one page.
Reading and Comprehension ~ After easing back into this kind of work last quarter, now it's full steam ahead with daily reading and one-a-day comprehension practice from the Third Grade Reading Comprehension Master Skills.
Math ~ We are mostly reviewing in this last quarter to make sure we are in a really solid place going into next year. An exception to this is that we are tackling multi digit multiplication which is new. My rough plan is to go from Multiplication to Division to Fractions and then some basic Geometry if we have time.
Social Studies ~ We are reading about Early American life.
Science ~ We are studying the human body. We have already done an overview and now we are looking more closely at specific areas of the body beginning with the brain.
Extras ~ We are still publishing a bi-weekly paper which we call the Indie Press. We are also still incorporating Piano and Keyboarding and our Recipe of the Week into our schedule.
So you see, we are still working hard. Don't let my lack of checking in make you believe otherwise. I'm also behind on my photo sharing so I will leave you today with a few pictures:
Cursive ~ This quarter we are writing EVERYTHING in cursive!
Writing ~ We launched a Letter Writing Campaign. Every week we are writing a friendly letter to someone we know and providing them with paper and a stamped envelope in the hope of getting return mail. Our last issue of the Indie Press this year will be the Friendly Letter Edition and will showcase our efforts. Each letter is written over the course of two days. On Tuesday and think the letter through and record what we want to say on our mini tape recorder. On Wednesday Wes can use that recording to transcribe his letter into a beautiful cursive not with proper Friendly Letter Format.
Language Arts ~ We have made grammar part of our daily routine by incorporating our Practice and Learn Third Grade workbook into the schedule. Each day we do at least one page.
Reading and Comprehension ~ After easing back into this kind of work last quarter, now it's full steam ahead with daily reading and one-a-day comprehension practice from the Third Grade Reading Comprehension Master Skills.
Math ~ We are mostly reviewing in this last quarter to make sure we are in a really solid place going into next year. An exception to this is that we are tackling multi digit multiplication which is new. My rough plan is to go from Multiplication to Division to Fractions and then some basic Geometry if we have time.
Social Studies ~ We are reading about Early American life.
Science ~ We are studying the human body. We have already done an overview and now we are looking more closely at specific areas of the body beginning with the brain.
Extras ~ We are still publishing a bi-weekly paper which we call the Indie Press. We are also still incorporating Piano and Keyboarding and our Recipe of the Week into our schedule.
So you see, we are still working hard. Don't let my lack of checking in make you believe otherwise. I'm also behind on my photo sharing so I will leave you today with a few pictures:
Chilly Burgers
Space Spuds
Anatomy
Oh and I just remembered! We have also taken a field trip to the Arizona Science Center. We have another field trip to the Wild Animal Park this Friday and I want to buy tickets for the Childsplay Theater production of Never Ending Story. So see? We are busy!
Space Spuds
Anatomy
Oh and I just remembered! We have also taken a field trip to the Arizona Science Center. We have another field trip to the Wild Animal Park this Friday and I want to buy tickets for the Childsplay Theater production of Never Ending Story. So see? We are busy!
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