Learning Log - Week 1 (2015)

MATH:  For math I did DreamBox math online.  I did math rack.  It's where there are these little beads on it and you can make a number and something else and you can make the same thing, but differently.  They are fun.  For example 6 + 7 = 10 + 3. 

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I read 15 minutes a day to my mom.  My favorite book this week is called Hot Dog.  I worked on spelling and rhymes.  We clapped to Jack an Jill, and I learned how to write it.  I also learned about weather on ABC Mouse.  On Reading Eggs I did some fun painting games. 

SCIENCE:  I learned how to classify objects.  I had a tomato, marshmallow, Q-tip, grass, cucumber, and blocks.  I had to figure out which ones go together.  I put Q-tip and marshmallow because they are both white and partly squishy.  Tomatoes and marshmallows can also go together because they are both soft.  Sometimes animals are put in groups too.  A snake and a mouse can be put together because they're both living creatures...they are animals.  But a snake and a plant don't go together because a plant cannot move as well as a snake can...it goes with other plants.

All living things have to be able to move, eat and make kids.  A rock is not alive because it cannot move, talk, eat or make little rocks.

ENGINEERING:  My brother helped me make a see-saw.  Then later I made a see-saw all by myself looking at the instructions.  At first, one side was longer, and it didn't work.  I tested it.  That side was heavier and fell down, and then I found out I was missing one piece on the other side.

Here's a picture of my see-saw.

HISTORY:  I put a puzzle together of the United States.  I can do it by myself.  There are 50 states.