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