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. 

 
:) 

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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.