Home Learning Week 17 - Ontario, Apple Taste Test, Denim Purse

Oral Reading - Critter Club, Various Library Books

Improving fluency, reading with expression, reading for meaning; making predictions; reading for enjoyment

I think they kidnapped the dog; it's called The Clue of the Missing Puppy! See? The missing puppy! Oh my god - this is scary!

Who the heck is this person? Ch. 14 - The Surprise Guest. Oh! It's a surprise, for sure! Probably a vampire, right? It's in the night... 

Oh - not a vampire.

Spelling - "ck"

Memorizing spelling rules, sounding out, using Scrabble tiles and Word Spin

Geography, Language Arts - Ontario

VLC Homework: Ontario flag, symbols of provinces, loon, license plate, Niagara Falls
Learning about Canada, Internet research, writing, colouring inside the lines

Math - Addition and Subtraction 

Using "clues" to determine how to solve different types of equations: using number line for +1, -1; using "10 partners diagram" for 10-; adding "teen" for 10+; using Cuisenaire rods or Math Playground to solve equations without number clues

6) Hold on. What the heck is going on here? Oh, an eight.

12) Two and a ten - so how do I do it, Mom? A nine... It's three!

13) Ten minus six. Four!

14) Five plus four. How do I set this up? I don't get it. Ha! A nine! It's a nine. Nine! Oh boy, that's dramatic.

Do you think Andrew's going to be impressed? How much? Like, what number?

No one messes with me, right now; I'm doing this right! How proud are you? No help from Mom... Oh no: Moom - that does not work.

Taste Test - Apples #2: Pacific Rose vs Envy vs Fuji

Comparing using senses of smell, sight, taste, touch; stating preferences and explaining reasons

Mm! Sweet. Very sweet. Almost tastes like cotton candy! Cherry cotton candy!

Physical Education: Running Laps

We should do sixteen laps!
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How do you feel, Mom... how do I explain it? Energetic! I feel much more better doing that - how do you feel, Mom?

Did you know Diego is faster than me? He's like a master and a pro! He zips all over.

Cooking - Using Up Overripe Ingredients

Measuring, counting, making up a new recipe to not waste food, tasting/evaluating

Strange Smoothie

4 brown, soft pears
1 wrinkly apple
1 perfect banana
1 tbsp hemp hearts
1 tbsp flax seed
2 tbsp lime juice
9 ice cubes
1 L milk

The banana and apple don't really stand out together. I guess there's a lot of ingredients to here.

Writing - Shopping List 

Executive functioning: making lists to aid memory; legible printing; listening, sounding out words

Sewing - Denim Purse from Pockets and Discards

Trimming piping ends, pinning, hand basting with cotton thread, machine stitching (patch pocket), cotton vs polyester thread

I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I did it!

This can be like my little snack place. 

Machining, using zipper foot, "steering", backstitching to secure, clipping threads, cutting, cleaning up all the feathers!

When I'm a grown-up I can put a milkshake in there and go to work. If I had work. 

Oh yeah, that's nice, that's real nice. Oh my god, yay! I think I'll put energy bars if I went to the gym. 

Do you think I'll rock it? Should we do selfies? I got a feather in my nose!

Other Home Learning Posts

Home Learning, Day 1, Grade 4 - Smoothie, Recycling Rigid or Soft Plastic, Transfer Station, Compost

Home Learning - Week 2 Chai, Fruit Fly Trap, Garden Kiosk, Albinism

Home Learning - Week 3 Apple Taste Test, Gymnastics, Back Brace, Subtraction

Home Learning - Week 4 Subject/Predicate, Squash, Mint/Calendula Face Mask

Home Learning - Week 5 Slugs, Radish, Mushrooms

Home Learning - Week 6 Thanksgiving, Earthquake Kit, Soaring Eagle

Home Learning - Week 7 BC, +/- 1, Braces, Bees, Rain Water

Home Learning - Week 8 Pizza, Alberta, Halloween

Home Learning - Week 9 Dogs, Earrings, Adding White

Home Learning - Week 10 Christmas List, Cupcake Face Mask, Green Poodle

Home Learning - Week 11 Mango Lassi, Saskatchewan, 10 Partners, Cat

Home Learning - Week 12 Bees, World Book, Lip Balm, Seeds

Home Learning - Week 13  Memory, Sewing, Back Brace Adjustment

Home Learning - Week 14 Snow,  Salad, SPCA, Manitoba, Bison

Home Learning - Week 15 Christmas, Manure, Evil Sister

Home Learning - Week 16 Gerbil, Slime, Hummingbirds, Cocoa

Home Learning - Week 17 Ontario, Apple Taste Test, Denim Purse

Home Learning - Week 18 Thank You Notes, Math Without Help, Term Two Reflection

Home Learning - Weeks 19+20 Nerd Outfit, Quebec, Birthday

Home Learning - Week 21 Emotions, Ordering Numbers, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Soaring Eagles #4

Home Learning - Week 22 Valentine's Day, Science World, New Brunswick

Home Learning - Week 23 Worried, Adding Tens, Nova Scotia, Science World #2, DIY Lip Gloss Soap

Home Learning - Week 24 Real-Life Math, Nap, Lonely, Wolfdogs, Spring, Chocolate-Covered Strawberries

Home Learning - Week 25 Schedules, Yukon, Pysanky, Bank Machine, Regrouping, Loved, Term 3 Reflections, Soaring Eagles #5

Home Learning - Week 26 Rotten Food, Embarrassed, Newfoundland and Labrador, Can Opener, Skating, Teacher Screecher, Rain Water, Slugs, Word Search

Home Learning - Week 27 Cheer, Fish, Digit Sequences, Spelling "ea", Sad, Spring 2, Matching Pictures, Butterfly Books, Math Review, Private Questions 2

Home Learning - Week 28 I Spy; Subtraction of Numbers Larger than 19, without and with Regrouping; Spelling "ee"; Frustrated; Ancient Greece; Nunavit; Quinoa Veggie Salad; Cat Whiskers; Dog Biscuit; Butterfly Cage; Baby Alive Food DIY

Home Learning - Week 29 Kitchen Scraps, Northwest Territories, Butterflies, Fort Langley, Bike Riding, Estimation, Helpful, Banana Orange Smoothie

Home Learning - Week 30 Watermelon, Money, Tired, Butterflies, Handsome Warren, Catnip, Water Measurement, OT Assessment 2, Rounding, Contractions, Silly, Soaring Eagles 6

Home Learning - Week 31 Ella Enchanted, Butterflies 3, Money, Story of Life 1, Watermelon 2, Sweet Pea, Tomatillo, Disappointed, Visual Memory, Adding Tens, Garden Beds, Muffins, Thank You to Carol, Contractions 2, Butterfly Cage, Ken

Home Learning - Week 32 Encyclopedia Brown, 41st Ave., Money, Chrysalides, OT Assessment 3, 600 Million Years, Mishka, Related Tens, Round-Offs, QE Park, Mother's Day Card, Acting and Dancing

Home Learning - Week 33 Butterflies, Estimating Sum and Difference, Thailand, Money Book, 600 Million Years 2, Library Holds, Mara the Meerkat Fairy, Soaring Eagle 6
Home Learning - Week 34 Castles, Planting Veggies, Long and Short "a", Butterfly Release, Banana Smell, Estimating Sum and Difference, Drawing v Colouring, Horrid Henry, Poppy Seed Pasta Salad, Pond Water 2, Trike Planter, Lush Gift Card, Beekeeping
Home Learning - Week 35 Money, 600 Million Years 3, Long and Short "e", Cirque de la Symphonie, Farm Visit, Sharks, Appropriate Questions, Microscope, Pandora, Telling Time, Estimation, Cheer

Home Learning Week 16 - Gerbil, Slime, Hummingbirds, Cocoa

Calendar - January

Saying the date; remembering order of days of the week, months of the year; ordinal numbers (first to thirty-first); temporal understanding/patterning: yesterday, today, tomorrow; printing practice: small, legible letters; executive functioning: keeping track of appointments, reducing anxiety and perseveration

How many sleeps do I have left? Six. Is that a long time?

Science - Animal Care

Feeding, playing, observing, getting it back in the cage!

Dusty is cute. Dusty is adventurous. And fast. And hard to catch. Yeah! We had to actually really handle her, right? Right? That's my gerbil.

Math - Addition and Subtraction

"Mom hellped me; Mom did not hellp me all the time" - writing both a sum and difference equation for each set of blocks

7) I should write the twelve there. Then put the six there. Then put the other six there. Bravo! I did it with no help from Hedgehog!

Hedgehog needs some serious medication. He got in a car accident. Did he got in a car crash?

Science - States of Matter
Executive Functioning - Emotional Regulation Skills

Exploring states of matter; using "fidget toys" as self-regulation strategy

Do you like the feel of this slime? It gets the badness out of you. Squeeze it and it gets out the madness. I'm not mad right now. 

I don't know what it smells like. It used to smell like grape. Now it smells like something bad. It's definitely Galaxy slime, or something. Oh, it stinks! I have to wash my hands. It's so ticklish! It's actually ticklish. Did you felt it? Did you actually felt it, Mom?

Social - Playing Games

Trying new games, reading and following directions, counting; evaluating and giving opinion

Leaping Lizards - Thank you, whoever made this game, but we don't like it. It's kind of babyish. Do you hear me?

Science - Birds

Feeding hummingbirds, observing

I think it likes it! Is that the same bird? Why it didn't came the other time? Maybe it was sleeping. Don't go outside Mom - you'll scare him.

Science - Animal Tracks

Observing evidence of wildlife in the city; following tracks, hypothesising, predicting

Raccoons!

My favourite is summer and winter and fall and all of them. I'm crazy like that.

Cooking - Hot Cocoa

Reduced Sugar, Candy Cane Hot Cocoa

Adapted from Allrecipes

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/3 cup boiling water

• 4 cups milk
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 marshmallows
• 1 candy cane, crushed

Method:

Whisk cocoa, sugar and salt in a saucepan. Blend in the boiling water. Simmer, stirring, for about 2 minutes. Stir in 4 cups of milk and heat until very hot. Do not boil. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Pour into 4 cups. Add marshmallow and sprinkle with crushed candy cane.

Following directions, measuring, stirring, whisking, crushing, enjoying, sharing

Excuse me! I'll bet Andrew heard that! Burping is the boss of you; you can't help it! 

That's something we should look up: why do toots get stinky? It's quite interesting, right?

Other Home Learning Posts

Home Learning, Day 1, Grade 4 - Smoothie, Recycling Rigid or Soft Plastic, Transfer Station, Compost

Home Learning - Week 2 Chai, Fruit Fly Trap, Garden Kiosk, Albinism

Home Learning - Week 3 Apple Taste Test, Gymnastics, Back Brace, Subtraction

Home Learning - Week 4 Subject/Predicate, Squash, Mint/Calendula Face Mask

Home Learning - Week 5 Slugs, Radish, Mushrooms

Home Learning - Week 6 Thanksgiving, Earthquake Kit, Soaring Eagle

Home Learning - Week 7 BC, +/- 1, Braces, Bees, Rain Water

Home Learning - Week 8 Pizza, Alberta, Halloween

Home Learning - Week 9 Dogs, Earrings, Adding White

Home Learning - Week 10 Christmas List, Cupcake Face Mask, Green Poodle

Home Learning - Week 11 Mango Lassi, Saskatchewan, 10 Partners, Cat

Home Learning - Week 12 Bees, World Book, Lip Balm, Seeds

Home Learning - Week 13  Memory, Sewing, Back Brace Adjustment

Home Learning - Week 14 Snow,  Salad, SPCA, Manitoba, Bison

Home Learning - Week 15 Christmas, Manure, Evil Sister

Home Learning - Week 16 Gerbil, Slime, Hummingbirds, Cocoa

Home Learning - Week 17 Ontario, Apple Taste Test, Denim Purse

Home Learning - Week 18 Thank You Notes, Math Without Help, Term Two Reflection

Home Learning - Weeks 19+20 Nerd Outfit, Quebec, Birthday

Home Learning - Week 21 Emotions, Ordering Numbers, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Soaring Eagles #4

Home Learning - Week 22 Valentine's Day, Science World, New Brunswick

Home Learning - Week 23 Worried, Adding Tens, Nova Scotia, Science World #2, DIY Lip Gloss Soap

Home Learning - Week 24 Real-Life Math, Nap, Lonely, Wolfdogs, Spring, Chocolate-Covered Strawberries

Home Learning - Week 25 Schedules, Yukon, Pysanky, Bank Machine, Regrouping, Loved, Term 3 Reflections, Soaring Eagles #5

Home Learning - Week 26 Rotten Food, Embarrassed, Newfoundland and Labrador, Can Opener, Skating, Teacher Screecher, Rain Water, Slugs, Word Search

Home Learning - Week 27 Cheer, Fish, Digit Sequences, Spelling "ea", Sad, Spring 2, Matching Pictures, Butterfly Books, Math Review, Private Questions 2

Home Learning - Week 28 I Spy; Subtraction of Numbers Larger than 19, without and with Regrouping; Spelling "ee"; Frustrated; Ancient Greece; Nunavit; Quinoa Veggie Salad; Cat Whiskers; Dog Biscuit; Butterfly Cage; Baby Alive Food DIY

Home Learning - Week 29 Kitchen Scraps, Northwest Territories, Butterflies, Fort Langley, Bike Riding, Estimation, Helpful, Banana Orange Smoothie

Home Learning - Week 30 Watermelon, Money, Tired, Butterflies, Handsome Warren, Catnip, Water Measurement, OT Assessment 2, Rounding, Contractions, Silly, Soaring Eagles 6

Home Learning - Week 31 Ella Enchanted, Butterflies 3, Money, Story of Life 1, Watermelon 2, Sweet Pea, Tomatillo, Disappointed, Visual Memory, Adding Tens, Garden Beds, Muffins, Thank You to Carol, Contractions 2, Butterfly Cage, Ken

Home Learning - Week 32 Encyclopedia Brown, 41st Ave., Money, Chrysalides, OT Assessment 3, 600 Million Years, Mishka, Related Tens, Round-Offs, QE Park, Mother's Day Card, Acting and Dancing

Home Learning - Week 33 Butterflies, Estimating Sum and Difference, Thailand, Money Book, 600 Million Years 2, Library Holds, Mara the Meerkat Fairy, Soaring Eagle 6
Home Learning - Week 34 Castles, Planting Veggies, Long and Short "a", Butterfly Release, Banana Smell, Estimating Sum and Difference, Drawing v Colouring, Horrid Henry, Poppy Seed Pasta Salad, Pond Water 2, Trike Planter, Lush Gift Card, Beekeeping
Home Learning - Week 35 Money, 600 Million Years 3, Long and Short "e", Cirque de la Symphonie, Farm Visit, Sharks, Appropriate Questions, Microscope, Pandora, Telling Time, Estimation, Cheer

Home Learning Week 15 - Christmas, Manure, Evil Sister

Traditions - The Nutcracker

Reading (3 versions), retelling, listening to the score, attending the ballet

Is it a love story? Well, the story is about the girl and the boy and they got married at the end. He's a prince but he was a nutcracker. The boy turns into the nutcracker 'cause the King of mice made a spell on him that made him like that. 

They meeted at Marie's house because that's where she lives. Her uncle gave her the nutcracker because he thought that was a nice Christmas gift for her. Her brother was jealous and he threw the nutcracker on the ground and Marie cried so much that the nutcracker was hurted from the brother. 

Uncle was in a dream that suddenly made her in a dream. Everyone was asleep, but not Marie.

The King of Mice was getting Marie and cursed the Nutcracker. And the mice were pirates, 'cause look: they have swords and look: and also an earring and a bandana and a thimble and a needle. Then they had a fight. The mice and the nutcracker fought together. The soldiers, they fighted with swords and wooden guns. 

Marie was hopeless. Marie threw the shoe at the mice and the mice got upset 'cause they did, of course. And they vanished. All of them vanished by the big girl. And the curse gone away. 

The nutcracker became a prince and then next page: so the prince bringed her to the sweet land and they saw ballets. The prince bringed the girl to the candy castle - a lovely prince. They got married when she was a grown up.

Math - Addition and Subtraction

10) Add them together. What do they make? What do I use? It's gonna be five. It's gonna be six. Sixteen. Sixteen, isn't it? Is that correct?

11) Three plus one. Thirteen. Oh, oh, wowowow. Four!

12) Ten minus one. Mom, I don't know how to do this. I don't know. Oh! Nine! Nine! It's a nine, right?

13) Fourteen minus seven. Ten and then a four. Where's the fours? Is this a three or four? Seriously. I am not happy right now. What do I need to do here? Oh, nine - I need nine. What number do I need? I don't know which numbers I need. I don't know what it is. Mom - help me! This is something I don't want to do right now... Yes! Seven!

14) Six plus one. Sixteen! Seven!

15) Ten minus four. Ten minus... Six!

16) Four plus nine. Put them together... do we need to get a ten? It's going to be bigger than ten. I was mumbling. Three! Thirteen! (Oh my gosh! Pepper spray! It's in your mouth!) That's a huge three. I disagree on that three. I should stop complaining about this eraser - it does erase. Hold on - that's a tiny three!

Traditions - Carolling

Singing, following along, choosing, enjoying!

My hair looks so silky there. Doesn't it look so silky? Right, Mom?

We do celebrate Christmas, but not in the God way. The true meaning of Christmas: don't tell them what the present is.

Art/Traditions - Christmas Tree

Cutting, gluing

I did not do the whole thing; Kelsi did some, I did the rest. I just picked the colours. I did do some cutting. Not all the gluing.

Traditions/Writing - Good-Bye Note

Well-wishing, printing

 It's one way Kelsi can remember me.

Gardening/Physical Activity - Hauling Manure

Shovelling, collaborating, preparing garden for Spring

Manuring!

Feeding chickens!

It's raw rice. Their beaks don't hurt a lot - not at all.  'Cause they're just pecking. Do you think we will get chickens?

Physical Education - Skating

Listening, skating forward, stopping, jumping, spinning

What time is it, Mr Santa? Weird.

Physical Education - Gymnastics

She likes chatting, I guess. 

Do you agree with me I need to be in a private class? 'Cause it was babyish, the other class. They're babies, right?

Language Arts - Story Writing

Jack and the Beanstalk

Reading, mind-mapping, retelling, printing, illustrating, colouring, cutting, gluing (6 pages)

Y's are tricky for me to do.

Christmas Story

Using mind map to compose a story with beginning, middle, end. Printing.

It's called, um, "Lulu".

Traditions/Language Arts - Card Writing

Writing a message, legibly

That's a whole lot of feisty on that page. And I'm not the kind of girl you expected! I'm going to write an exclamation! And... Have anything to say? I'm going to erase that. He might see that. 

I'm so excited about bringing this to him. Do you think he'll blush at me? What do you think he'll do? Am I blushing? Look at my cheeks. I just feel like to cry. No - I feel like to laugh. I just feel embarrassed.

Art - Masks

Pretending, decorating with markers, social activity with a friend

Would I technically be your evil sister if I wore this? Let me see if I am creepy in this mask.

Other Home Learning Posts

Home Learning, Day 1, Grade 4 - Smoothie, Recycling Rigid or Soft Plastic, Transfer Station, Compost

Home Learning - Week 2 Chai, Fruit Fly Trap, Garden Kiosk, Albinism

Home Learning - Week 3 Apple Taste Test, Gymnastics, Back Brace, Subtraction

Home Learning - Week 4 Subject/Predicate, Squash, Mint/Calendula Face Mask

Home Learning - Week 5 Slugs, Radish, Mushrooms

Home Learning - Week 6 Thanksgiving, Earthquake Kit, Soaring Eagle

Home Learning - Week 7 BC, +/- 1, Braces, Bees, Rain Water

Home Learning - Week 8 Pizza, Alberta, Halloween

Home Learning - Week 9 Dogs, Earrings, Adding White

Home Learning - Week 10 Christmas List, Cupcake Face Mask, Green Poodle

Home Learning - Week 11 Mango Lassi, Saskatchewan, 10 Partners, Cat

Home Learning - Week 12 Bees, World Book, Lip Balm, Seeds

Home Learning - Week 13  Memory, Sewing, Back Brace Adjustment

Home Learning - Week 14 Snow,  Salad, SPCA, Manitoba, Bison

Home Learning - Week 15 Christmas, Manure, Evil Sister

Home Learning - Week 16 Gerbil, Slime, Hummingbirds, Cocoa

Home Learning - Week 17 Ontario, Apple Taste Test, Denim Purse

Home Learning - Week 18 Thank You Notes, Math Without Help, Term Two Reflection

Home Learning - Weeks 19+20 Nerd Outfit, Quebec, Birthday

Home Learning - Week 21 Emotions, Ordering Numbers, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Soaring Eagles #4

Home Learning - Week 22 Valentine's Day, Science World, New Brunswick

Home Learning - Week 23 Worried, Adding Tens, Nova Scotia, Science World #2, DIY Lip Gloss Soap

Home Learning - Week 24 Real-Life Math, Nap, Lonely, Wolfdogs, Spring, Chocolate-Covered Strawberries

Home Learning - Week 25 Schedules, Yukon, Pysanky, Bank Machine, Regrouping, Loved, Term 3 Reflections, Soaring Eagles #5

Home Learning - Week 26 Rotten Food, Embarrassed, Newfoundland and Labrador, Can Opener, Skating, Teacher Screecher, Rain Water, Slugs, Word Search

Home Learning - Week 27 Cheer, Fish, Digit Sequences, Spelling "ea", Sad, Spring 2, Matching Pictures, Butterfly Books, Math Review, Private Questions 2

Home Learning - Week 28 I Spy; Subtraction of Numbers Larger than 19, without and with Regrouping; Spelling "ee"; Frustrated; Ancient Greece; Nunavit; Quinoa Veggie Salad; Cat Whiskers; Dog Biscuit; Butterfly Cage; Baby Alive Food DIY

Home Learning - Week 29 Kitchen Scraps, Northwest Territories, Butterflies, Fort Langley, Bike Riding, Estimation, Helpful, Banana Orange Smoothie

Home Learning - Week 30 Watermelon, Money, Tired, Butterflies, Handsome Warren, Catnip, Water Measurement, OT Assessment 2, Rounding, Contractions, Silly, Soaring Eagles 6

Home Learning - Week 31 Ella Enchanted, Butterflies 3, Money, Story of Life 1, Watermelon 2, Sweet Pea, Tomatillo, Disappointed, Visual Memory, Adding Tens, Garden Beds, Muffins, Thank You to Carol, Contractions 2, Butterfly Cage, Ken

Home Learning - Week 32 Encyclopedia Brown, 41st Ave., Money, Chrysalides, OT Assessment 3, 600 Million Years, Mishka, Related Tens, Round-Offs, QE Park, Mother's Day Card, Acting and Dancing

Home Learning - Week 33 Butterflies, Estimating Sum and Difference, Thailand, Money Book, 600 Million Years 2, Library Holds, Mara the Meerkat Fairy, Soaring Eagle 6
Home Learning - Week 34 Castles, Planting Veggies, Long and Short "a", Butterfly Release, Banana Smell, Estimating Sum and Difference, Drawing v Colouring, Horrid Henry, Poppy Seed Pasta Salad, Pond Water 2, Trike Planter, Lush Gift Card, Beekeeping
Home Learning - Week 35 Money, 600 Million Years 3, Long and Short "e", Cirque de la Symphonie, Farm Visit, Sharks, Appropriate Questions, Microscope, Pandora, Telling Time, Estimation, Cheer