Learning Log Week 25

MATH: I did k12. I added and subtracted with base 10 models.  You can change the base 10 block to ones to subtract.

SCIENCE: I did k12. I learned about bones and muscles.  You have to have bones and muscles because if you don't your body will just flop.  You have joints to help your body bend and muscles to move them.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I did k12.  I practiced vocabulary and handwriting and phonics.

ROCKETRY:  I did three launches.  It got really windy and one went flying really far, but we found it luckily. 

ELECTRICITY:  I did projects with my dad and turned my favorite one in.  My favorite one was where the siren doesn't go off unless you shine the light off the paper and then the siren goes off.  I also liked the one that made typewriter sounds.

Learning Log Week 24

MATH:  I worked on Study Island.  I worked on numbers that are greater, less than or equal.  My favorite game was the motorcycle game.

SCIENCE:  I went to the Children's Discovery Museum.  I learned how to climb trees in the jungle area.  I played in the water works area.  I played outside on the zip-line.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I read some stories to my mom from an easy to read book.  I practiced writing.  I watched Leap Frog movies to help with reading.

ELECTRICITY:  I worked on some assignments with my brother.  I'm getting ready to turn in my favorite one to my teacher.

ROCKETRY:  I made a rocket launch banner with hearts on it for Valentine's Day.  I'm going to do a rocket launch with my dad today!

Learning Log Week 23

MATH: I did k12. I worked on subtraction and regrouping.

SCIENCE: I did k12. I learned about oceans. I learned about crabs and how they crawl sideways. I learned some animals just drift in the current.  Some animals use their fins to swim.  Oceans have saltwater.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I did k12. I read books with my mom.  I learned that the ph sounds like the f sound. 

ELECTRICITY: I'm finishing up a project with my brother.  I cut out a paper and put it on the spinning fan.  It made lots of colors.  I did my own project, and it made it launch up high like a rocket.

Learning Log Week 22

MATH: I did k12. I learned about different ways to add.

SCIENCE: I did k12.  I learned about wetlands.  Frogs live there, maybe snakes and birds and grasshoppers.  It wet but you can still walk through it.  It looks like it's an ocean, but it's really just mud.  I learned about animals that live underground.  Moles live underground.  They make a big mess.  They are very cool creatures, but they are also annoying when they get in your garden.  They can barely see.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I did k12.  I'm working on handwriting.  I'm learning about compound words.  They look really big, but they are really just two words stuck together, so if you put one finger on one half and read that half, then put one finger on the other half, then read that half...then you put them together and you can read the word.  I'm also learning about words that end in -ed.  That means it already happened.  Some words have double trouble endings.

ELECTRICITY: I'm working on some projects with my dad and some by myself.

ROCKETRY: I played on the NASA website.

Learning Log Week 21

MATH:  I did k12.  I learned how to add up numbers with ones and tens and hundreds.  The highest number I did was 963.

SCIENCE:  I did k12.  I learned about rainforests.  Lizards and snakes and birds live in the middle of the forest.  It's very wet and very rainy, and it's very warm.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I did k12.  My favorite story my mom read to me this week was a boy with a new cap.  Everyone wanted his cap even the princess and the king, but he ran away.  He liked his cap because it was made from his mother.  I've been working on writing and spelling.  I've been spelling without anyone noticing. 

ELECTRICITY:  My favorite project is the whiner...the one that makes a loud noise.  My dad helps me with my projects.

ROCKETRY:  I played on the NASA kids club website.

Learning Log Week 20

MATH: I did k12.  I'm learning about ones and tens and how to count up with place value mats.

SCIENCE: I did k12.  I learned about habitats.  I learned about grasslands and the rainforest.  The rainforest is always raining and wet.  The grasslands have lots of grass and lions trying to catch other animals.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I did k12.  I read to my mom every day.  I took a DIBELS test with my teacher.  I like when my mom reads to me.  I'm working on vocabulary and how to use base words.

ROCKETRY: I'm planning my next launch, but I'm waiting for some of the snow to melt so I don't lose my rocket in the snow when it lands.

ELECTRICITY: I'm doing lots of projects with my dad.  He showed me how to do some morris code with the sound buttons.

Learning Log Week 17-19

Math: I did k12.  I learned about money and how to count it and tell what it is.  I played a game with my mom of who could tell how much the money was worth.

Science: I did k12.  I learned about habitats.  I learned about forests and deserts.  Forests have a canopy and a floor.  Some animals in the desert don't drink much water.

Language Arts: I did k12.  I read books with my mom.  I liked the book, "And I Mean it Stanley."  Stanley is a dog.  I read books to my mom.  I practiced handwriting.

Rockets:  I'm planning for my next rocket launch.

Electricity:  I've been doing projects with my dad.  I like the ones that make noise.