This past month we have done spelling, language arts, social studies, science, and math.
In spelling, we are learning about prefixes, and how it changes a word. For example, fiction means make believe. But if you add –non in front of the word it makes it so it means real.
In social studies, we just finished up with Ancient Egypt, and taking the test sometime next week. We are making a board game, and then switching games so that we can play other groups games that they made.
In language arts, we are doing reader’s and writer’s workshop. In reader’s workshop, we learn about predicting thing that will happen in our independent reading book. Then we read for about 25 minutes each day. In writer’s workshop, we take a piece of writing and make it our own.
In science, we have learned about the prairie. We just finished a project to either make a picture book to preschoolers, poster, letter to another animal on the prairie, or a comic strip. We also did a prairie observation and went out to the school prairie and looked for animals out there. We also tried to find, draw, and name a grass or forb.
In math, we switch classes. One of us is learning about ratios and the other one of us is doing ALEKS. One example of a ratio problem is: Jenna found a bag of marbles. There were 13 marbles in the bag. 6 of the marbles were blue. The other seven were green. Name the ratio for the blue marbles. Answer: 13:6.
In FCE, we are making pillows. We could customize our pillows any way that we wanted. We have learned 3 different stitches; the running stitch, the overcast, and the inside-out. We just finished our pillows last Wednesday.
We have learned so much this month, and hope again for the 8 months to come!
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