Our library books are due every two weeks. I seems like we were just there and then it is time to get to go again.
Book list of the books I borrowed from the library this week.
Golly Gump Swallowed a Fly
Click, Clack, Splish, Splash
Wagon Wheel
Felicity: An American Girl (CDs)
D.W., Go To Your Room
Pup and Hound Hatch an Egg
Charlie the Caterpillar
One Potato, Two Potato
Mouse's Halloween
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?
Harry the Dirty Dog
Marvelous Mattie
Verdie
The Mitten
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks
Math Curse (renewed)
Today I learned about Rome. It is a city in a country called Italy. Italy looks like a boot and is in Europe. Rome was started two brothers. They were were found by a wolf when they were babies. When they grew up. They built the city of Rome on seven hills and one wanted to be king of it. One got got killed because his brother who made himself king made a law that if anyone climbed the wall they would be killed. The other brother made fun of the short wall and jumped over it. A shepard killed him because of the law. There were seven more kings over Rome after that.
We made a funny VoiceThread about what I studied this week. I hope you like it. We are still making some of it. Mom does a part and then I do a part. At first, we did turns right after each other. Now mom does hers and I check my VoiceThreads to see what messages on the VoiceThreads she left for me. It is kind of like getting mail. I like it. It is fun. Then when she checks her VoiceThread she finds my messages for her. I can't wait until I get the next ones.
Wanda's Monster by Eileen Spinelli
The Bat in the Boot by Annie Cannon
The Hat by Jan Brett
Engelbert the Elephant by Tom Paxton
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
No More Monsters for Me by Peggy Parish
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Baby Brains and Roboman by Simon James
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound by John Irving
Mom set up a special place for me to do my school work in the home school room. It is her old art table. It is slightly tilted which makes it really easy to see what I am working on. We loaded up portable containers with each subject I do. One is for art. One is for math, One is for language arts. We don't yet have a music or history container because those supplies have not yet arrived. We will make them once they get here.
After science, math, and language arts were done, I had a chance to get to paint whatever I wanted to paint. Click the thumbnail to see a bigger image.
We are starting off science by blending a few things together. In my second grade math we have a unit on measurement and in science there is a unit on measurement. So I am learning skills in both at the same time.
I played around with our kitchen spring scale. Click on the thumbnail to see it bigger.
Timothy is going be starting on two modules about plants in his high school biology, so I am going to work on my plant unit now so I can join in on the fun. Today, I started my first lab project. I planted two types of seeds. I planted corn which is a monocot. I also planted beans which are dicots. You can tell which is which by looking at the seeds. We split opn one corn seed and one bean seed. The bean seed comes apart easily into two halves. Di means two so that was a dicot. The corn is pretty much all in one piece. Mono means one, so that is the monocot.
Here is how I planted my seeds. We soaked the seeds for a few hours. Then we lined the inside of a jar with paper towels. By pulling the paper towels back a little bit, it was easy to drop in the seeds so that they would get wedged between the glass and the paper towels. I added water by using the graduated cylinder. That gave me some extra practice with measuring. A graduated cylinder measures in milliliters. The part you read is the bottom of the surface of the liquid. It sort of curves like a smile. That is the meniscus.
Here is a picture of me setting it up. Just click on it to see it bigger.
I am starting on my second grade, unit 1 spelling words today. I have about 22 words to learn for unit one. Most of them sound out, so they are not too hard. I am a little rusty on the ch sound, so I focused on that today. Two of the words are sight words, so I am working to memorize those because they don't follow the rules.
Here are my words:. I will come back in and mark them off of the list as I think that I have memorize them perfectly.
Unit
X
Rules
X
Heart w
X
Cousins
Unit 1
lock
X
from
with
U1 L1 - 1
dish
does
dock
than
cash
X
back
mash
X
chin
math
shop
wish
that
chop
this
ship
whip
mock
which
bath
Below is a picture from today. Just click on it to see it bigger. You can see the main words and the sight words in the plastic sleeve just to my right. The cousin words are not listed. Once I get these mastered then I will work on the cousin ones.Some of the ways I practice are to play Boggle Scramble, write them, and spell out loud when mom calls out the word.
Mom needs to have a quick big picture view of the year's math curriculum. Here it is, three pages that covers the whole year's worth of lessons. Click on the thumbnail to see it full size.
Number Strand
Geometry & Measurement
Page 3 coming soon - 'Statistics & Probability' and 'Algebra'
After learning about bats yesterday, today we turned our attention to frogs. We have a big leopard frog in our dissection box. It is a male because the tympanum is large. It was helpful seeing it on a real frog instead of just in pictures. Something else I enjoyed was hearing the different calls of frogs. I was mostly interested in the leopard frog because that was the kind of frog that we had in our dissection kit. The sounds of southern leopard frogs are a lot like a cackling laugh. It made me laugh to hear them. I attached a sound file to my e-notebook page. When my e-notebook is finished and I publish it as an e-notebook, it will play.
Here is my e-notebook page on frogs that mom helped me with. Just click the thumbnail to see it bigger.
Even though we have moved on to frogs, I am still enjoying bats. Today I wrapped myself up in a sheet for wings and played I was a bat. I saw how baby bats cuddled up with their mommies, so I liked getting into Mommy's lap today with my baby bat wings all tucked up around me. I also parcticed making bat noises to do echolocation. It was fun.
For my e-notebook for Sound I watched an episode of Magic School Bus and we did a sound lab. Both showed me how sound is vibration. Here is my e-notebook page on today's activities. Just click the thumbnail to see it full sized.
This morning we discovered a bat on our porch. One of the cats got him. Probably Oreo because she is a very good hunter. Finding the bat was great because one of the things we are studying is animal hearing. For bats hearing is very important. Without their good sense of hearing, bats would crash into everything at night. Read my e-notebook entry that mom helped me with to learn more about our 'batty' day. Just click on the thumnail below to see it full sized.
I helped dad to wash the car and Fang's tires today. Fang is what we have decided to call the car that Dad is fixing up for Gregory to drive to college. It is a 1972 Maverick. Here is a picture of me helping Dad wash Fang's tires.
It is funny. While we were working hard to wash the cars, look at what our cat, Lucky, was doing.
I had Vacation Bible School June12th to June 16th. On June 16th I 'prayered' the Lord Jesus to come in to my heart. I was at home with my dad and he and I talked a long time in there on his bed. He wanted to be sure I understood. When he knew I understood he 'prayered' with me.
It has been a few weeks since that happened and I have been such a happy boy. I tell my mommy and my daddy I love them all the time. I love Jesus. I am so happy.
Some of the kids from Vacation Bible School also accepted Jesus in their hearts. They were baptized today. I am going to wait to be baptized until I am a little older. The water kinda scares me. Mom and Dad said that was OK and that Gregory and Melody too waited a little while from the time they prayered to the time they were baptised. Mom says that the Lord will make me ready for the water part in His good time.
For now, I am very glad to have Jesus and I think He is very glad to have me.
We have a new neighbor. For a long time a house close to us has been empty. It finally sold. Mom and I walked over to welcome them to the neighborhood. I was glad to see that they had a little girl. Her name is Abby and she will be 5 in a few weeks. Mom invited Abby over to make stained glass cookies with us. Here is a picture.
In the picture we are separating the hard candy into different colors. Then we put them in a ziplock bag and crushed them with a hammer. We used cookie dough for the 'lead' of the windows and filled in the spaces with the crushed candy. When it is cooked the candy melts to make what looks like stained glass - tasty stained glass.
I am 7 now and have had my blog since I was 5. For now my mom is posting for me most of the time, but I am growing up fast and will be making some of my own entries.
Family Photo Album
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