Friday, December 20, 2013

Gemma's story.

The task was to elaborate. Gemma was given these two sentences: Pat built a house. The house collapsed. Here she is retelling the story that she created....




 

Aiden's Big Nate Talks.

Aiden loves to read and got a set of three chapter books for a gift from Finn. He read them all for fun while we had a break with the baby. Mom introduced him to a little bit about book reports:


 
Book 1

Book 2

Book 3



Of course there shall be Christmas crafts.

The kids making ornaments for the tree.

 
Painted angels. 

 
Stringing jingle bells. 

 
:) 

:) 

Gem's

A quick show of some of Gemma's work too....

 
A drawing by Gemma. 

 
I love how Gem always draws her people with differing details. 

 
People- A book about diversity of all kinds, from jobs, to religion, to homes, etc.

 
I don`t know why these pics have turned sideways on me, but here is some Get Ready for the Code. 

 
letter recognition. 

 
Handwriting Without Tears is great! Here are Gemma`s Gs. 

 
Q

 
O

C

 
Gemma`s Sonlight copywork. 

 
Science. Birds. 

Aiden's

Some quick samples of Aiden's work this winter month....

 
Reading from the New Testament. 

 
-alk, -all work in Explode the Code workbook. 

 
-ed endings.

 
Math-U-See Unit 14

 
Math test 17/18

 
 The first page of the test with the correction.

 
Science: birds. 

 
Sonlight Science worksheets...

 
birds. 

 
Spelling test 13: 10/10

 
Aiden got 10/10 on his pretest too :) 

 
A short story. 

 
synonyms 

 
People- a book about diversity. 

 
Socials- Map Book. The Prairies.

 
BC. He has to find and recognize the province, capital city, and body of water in each of these assignments. 

The Groove

We are now a family of six. Four little oaks.... learning, bending, kicking, growing. We named him Finn Benjamin Alexander Lokstet. Finn means fair and bright and wise.








Sunday, October 27, 2013

SS

Social Studies for October:

 
Aiden's mapping. 

 
PEI, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. 

 
Following directions. 


 
Aiden, Gemma, Keiran, and Mom read this book together. 

 
Finding and discussing things. 

 


 
In the home. 



October Math

Aidy:

 
shapes, skip counting, adding doubles....

 



Gemma: 

 
weight

 
length

Gemma's story.

The Cat at the Beach