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

February 14-17, 2017

Baking, Art, Celebrations - Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies

Using a rolling pin, gentle handling of dough, estimating equal spacing, tinting icing, "painting" cookies, decorating with sprinkles, giving and enjoying!

Cookies, cookies.... Who's going to lick that? That's enough sprinkles on that!

Colour mixing: pink + blue = purple!

Cookers always have the apron on - when they're eating, too. Mm... that's really good - can I have some milk, please? Mmm! And what does this one taste like, right? Who wants to lick the spoon?

Geography, Language Arts - New Brunswick

VLC Homework: learning about Canada, Internet research, colouring, writing - flag, purple violet, black capped chickadee, license plate, interesting facts  (If I yawn, it's probably something boring.)

Becky, please don't make something crazy like this! Whoever did this was crazy-person! This is going to be the worst colouring ever I had. Now I'm going to get super-confused, because I don't know what I'm colouring! They're nutty - whoever made this was very nutty people! Very complicated! Mom, do you think this is even more complicated than the Harry Potter one? I think the person knows how to draw a little bit too goodly. I'm really tired of colouring - I want to stop and rip this page!

Science - Field Trip to Science World

Exploring science exhibits, especially animals (live and stuffed) and a live science demonstration on sound

We got to touch a turtle at Science World. I wanted to touch the snakes. They don't let you pet the snakes because they have to stay for a few days in their pen after they get fed - they can't do anything because they might poop on you. Their poop stinked 'cause they just ate.

You know how interesting this is - snakes when they get bigger, they shed and it's cool, 'cause you can see what it's made... the designs on the back, the scales. I bet an alligator can attack and hurt the snake, or maybe the snake can attack an alligator! 

Crazy enough, some people have allergies to pets.

The big tree was huge. It was high up - I didn't like it. 

Math - Tens and Ones

It's good. In the middle. (Not easy or hard)

How many tens? Write it down. How many ones? Write it down. What number did you make? Let's check (with Cuisenaire rods): take the tens, take the ones. Count by tens. Count by ones. Is it the same number?

Colouring in "tens" and "ones" to represent a two-digit number

Hard and not hard.

Math - Addition and Subtraction

Addition and subtraction, mixed up with 10+, 10-, +/-1, using Cuisenaire rods

I feel awesome that I had no help - all by myself. Oh my god, nothing but check marks!

You must be kinda bored, getting all these right answers. We are definitely going to throw down some more challenging work, pretty soon. (Andrew, VLC teacher)

Writing - Note to a Neighbour

Composing a message, tracing; looking out for neighbours

I was worried the house was going to get crashed down because of the fire - if it happened - from their car.

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