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

March 27-31

Cooking, Senses, Gardening - Rotten Food 

Using senses of sight, smell, touch to identify and explore spoiled food; composting

OO - that strawberry looks really bad! What does it look like when you cut it? Green, slimy colour!

What does it feel like? Ew, I don't want to feel. Very bad feeling... you touch it Mom - I dare you to touch it!

Kind of dirty-smelling...

Social and Emotional Development - Embarrassed

Processing, recognizing, discussing and developing language for emotions; fine motor: colouring

Tell me your embarrassing stories when I'm colouring this. Did you had underwear? Was it a girl or a boy? 

That's really embarrassing. Did you laugh, or not?

Canadian Geography - Newfound and Labrador

Learning about provinces of Canada; Internet research; writing; colouring
flag; flag meaning; flower, tree and bird; license plate; interesting facts

The flag is strange-looking.

Cooking/Math - Using a Can Opener, Ripping Parchment Paper from a Roll, Setting the Microwave

Fine motor tasks: using a can opener (open arms, place flat to can, close arms and squeeze, twist until a "click" is heard, pull arms apart, position pincher and close arms, pull up on lid while using helping hand to hold can); removing parchment paper from a roll (rip down against corrugated edge while holding roll tight to stop from slipping); keying in heating time on microwave
Recognizing seconds vs minutes

I didn't even know I was capable of that. It's amazing the things we can do that we don't know. That's why you say I am brave and powerful.

Skating - Final Report

Gliding forward and backward, touching toes while gliding, turning on the spot and while gliding, two-foot jump while gliding, snowplow stop backward and forward

That foot is cold as ice as a popsicle in the freezer that stayed overnight!

Visual Memory and Visual Attention to Detail

At VLC, using Cuisenaire rods ("smarty blocks") - copy the pattern, compare, correct

AZ : What is it? I'm a little bit scared to do this.

Andrew: Oh come on - I wouldn't ask you to do something you can't do. 


Andrew: ... Not only do we have to pay attention to how many blocks there are, what colour they are, but also to how they are oriented on the table.

AZ: This is perfect and I am awesome.

Math - Ordering, Adding, Subtracting

Subtracting using Cuisenaire rods; adding 2-digit numbers, with regrouping using Cuisenaire rods; ordering using hundreds chart and by memory

Math can be pretty tricky if you don't know what you're doing, and it can be a pain in the patootie if you have to start all over again.

Fine Motor/Social Skills - Puzzles

Developing hand-eye co-ordination and fine motor skills; building visual-perceptual skills; developing attention, concentration and thinking skills: recognizing, remembering, matching, sorting and problem-solving; collaborating with a partner 

I think he's a boy bear, cause he is wearing blue. He may be a boy, maybe not. You can't really tell, 'cause teddy bears look exactly alike. This is hard - do you think this is at my level?

Reading, Writing - Book Report

Retelling, evaluating, recommending, reporting

I'm the kind of a girl who likes scary things. Happy dreams? No! I like spooky videos! I spook myself out, but I love it!

Vampire School - Teacher Screecher

It was about vampires and zombies in a school - two zombies, a lot of vampires. There was a teacher - I think Miss Fitt was her name. She's a zombie. She was first not a nice teacher - she made them do all math, and nothing else - and then she got super duper nice: she gave them candy. I'm not lying - it's in the book! 

I don't want a teacher like Miss Fitt - I'm happy with math... much happier, because they were not doing good math for me. I like my math teacher I have already.

It was not a scary book - it was pretty funny, I would recommend this to other kids, unless they don't like funny books. I would not recommend it to Oona, because there's a lot of weird words, monster words, made-up words, and she might not understand them, 'cause she is Japanese - she might not understand any crazy words.

It took two days to read. I would read another book like this; there are more books here, on the back. 

Weather Science, Math - Rain Water Collection

Observing, measuring, graphing, discussing, comparing, counting by 2, colouring inside the lines

Actually this is a really nice colour!

1. Which month had the most rain? October - 49cm
2. Which month had the least rain? February - 14cm
3. How much rain did we have in March? 15cm

Oh the drama! The drama! I was just being a drama queen, Mom.

Gardening, Math - Slug Count

Using calculator to find total slugs moved to date; clearing calculation when a mistake is made; counting by 5; expressing 3-digit numbers

So we're going to ask that calculator to tell us?

415 slugs - that's crazy!

Reading - Word Search

Developing word recognition, pattern recognition; spelling

I've got a cough in my throat, and a cough in my nose.

Look at that - there's so many words!

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

March 6-10, 2017

Reading - Schedules

Reading schedule to find out order of instructors: find the day of the week, find the time, look for your name, look for teacher's name

What day is it today?

Canadian Geography - Yukon

VLC homework: Flag; Province or territory; license plate - the Klondike; Gold Rush; raven; fireweed

Klondike Gold Rush. They find gold and they crushed it.
The Northern Lights are in Yukon - in the sky. They are crazy pretty.

Cooking - Pizza

Gaining mastery and independence: spreading sauce evenly with spoon; choosing topping combinations, sprinkling on toppings; setting oven temperature and timer; setting table

The secret to pizza is you have to have that yummy sauce all over or it's going to be very, very dry and that's not good.

I'm going to get messy as heck here. Messy as heck is fine - it just means you're getting dirty. I sprinkle them around... I kind of like the feeling of cheese getting cold in my hand. Cheese is necessarily not very good for you.

Cooking - Soaking Beans for Soup

Soaking beans in many changes of water; pouring, using helping hand

To make them not fart.

Traditions - Pysanky

Fine Motor: copying with wax, dyeing; selecting colours by order of shade (lightest to darkest); removing wax with heat

Our neighbours teached us to do it. It is difficult. It takes a very, very long time to finish it. It does, right? It looks so cool. For sure.

Self-Care/Money Management/Everyday Math - Using the Bank Machine

Reading and following prompts; keyboarding skills; counting

Bank machines are math. It brings you money.

Everyday Math - Dividing Equally

"Dealing" crackers into equal piles

They're like little pancakes or something - barbeque flavour.

Math - Regrouping

Switching out ten ones for one ten

AZ: You're not saying I'm going up a level in math?!
Andrew: I am saying that.

AZ: I am not ready.

Andrew: You are ready, young Padawan.

Adding, using squares on 10x10 grid to make sum, without regrouping; writing the addends and sum as numbers; replicating with Cuisenaire rods

Andrew: Things are about to get real.
AZ: No, no no...

Andrew: Oh, stop being such a chicken. It's just math.

Adding, using squares on 10x10 grid to make sum, with regrouping; writing the addends and sum as numbers; replicating with Cuisenaire rods

AZ: "50-ten"

Andrew: We're not allowed to have numbers bigger than nine in the ones. So what do we do? When we add up the little, white ones, ten of these is the same size as one of the tens. When you get a full column of ones, you get to take these away and trade them in for another ten. Now what number is it?

AZ: 60

Andrew: ...What you just did has a sophisticated math name and it's called "regrouping". Regrouping just means trading in ten of these for one of these. You just trade them because they are equal - they are the same size.

Adding, using Cuisenaire rods, to make sum, without grid, with regrouping; writing the addends and sum as numbers

What the...! What in the world! Zero ones and ten tens!? One hundred! What the heck?! That is just amazing!

Are you thinking that I can actually handle this? That I can actually do all this math?

Oral Reading - The Fire Station - Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko

Reading for pleasure and to pass the time; a quick read

Tricky words: Michael, Sheila

I finished the whole thing while I was waiting - it didn't take very long.

Oral Reading - Where Did I Come From?

Reading for information and interest; discussion

You must be pushed out very hard.

Lots and lots of discussion: menstruation, conception, month-by-month development of baby in utero, birth

They want to spend more time to hug each other tight. The big hug. Were you grossed out when you heard your mom say that to you? When your mom told you?

Spelling - "ou" and "oi"

Memorizing spelling rules and sight words by repetition, writing and extension exercises: Scrabble tiles, magnetic tiles; printing legibly

I was doing spelling there. I like spelling.

Social and Emotional Development - Loved

Happy. Nice. Happy. My mom and dad make me feel loved. 

Gymnastics - End of Term Report

I like the balance beam the best.

Increasing strength, balancing, following directions; turning, knee scale, stork stand, straight jumps on high beam; cartwheel; bridge with one leg up and bridge kick-over

I'm pretty strong - I did that when I was in taekwondo.

I like her attitude. 

Third Term Reflections

1. What did you like to do outside recently?

Soaring Eagles - I liked all of it: I went in the forest with my teacher, Peter, played some games like camouflage, tag, and racing. I enjoyed animal tracks on the snow.

2. Who do you look up to and what have you learned from them recently?

I don't have anyone I look up to. I look up to Miranda, but not everyday. She is nice. Nothing very much else.

3. What did you practice doing a lot recently and how would you explain or teach it to someone else?

Doing math homework - addition and subtraction. Addition is plus - you add them together. Subtraction is minus - you take one out. The best way to learn math is to use Smartie Blocks (Cuisenaire rods) and practice a lot.

Calendar

Saying the date: day, month, number, year; sequencing: days of the week, months of the year, ordinal numbers (first to thirty-first); temporal understanding/patterning: yesterday, today, tomorrow; printing practice: "X" from corner to corner, without tracing "dots"; small, legible letters; executive functioning: keeping track of appointments, reducing anxiety and perseveration

What's going to happen tomorrow?

Vocabulary - Ella Enchanted

Writing sentences showing understanding of vocabulary from Ella Enchanted

Some times it's not fun to do it, but you just gotta do it.

Listening

Objectives: "to start listening as soon as the speaker starts speaking; to listen to the entire directions; to remember the directions while searching in highly detailed picture; to carry out the directions accurately"

AZ: I have good eyes. You can't trick me.

Becky: I wasn't trying to trick you.

AZ: I know. But if you were, good try.

Social and Emotional Development - Appropriate Questions

Compiling a list of potentially socially inappropriate questions; discussion of the questions - when are they appropriate, or not?

I don't know what to say!

Soaring Eagles Nature School - #5

Hiking, tracking, birding, identifying animals and plants, survival skills, physical activity, enjoying the fresh outdoors with other kids

Before:

I'm going to get messed up today - dirty, wet... messed up. I'm going to get soaking wet, no matter what happens!

After:

I'm definitely cold and dirty, so there's no choice - you're going to bring me a bath - a warm one! Warm me up, baby - yeah, yeah, yeah - oh yeah!

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

February 27 - March 3, 2017

Everyday Numbers - Reading Temperature

Estimating temperature; reading thermometer; discussing changes in weather and seasons

Winter just told us off, 'cause look: it's 1... 1 degree. I thought winter was close to over! Oh, come on! Right? I hope it doesn't start snowing all day today, today.

Writing - Responding to Blog Comments

Nap

Identifying nap direction in fabric and animals

"Hey AZ,

"... It is strange how animals feel different depending on how you touch them, isn't it? Why is it when you pet a cat or dog from head to tail it's smooth, but when you pet it from tail to head it's rough?"

NAP! Nap is how the fabric goes up and then down, but it doesn't like it. It only likes going up, but not down. Animals' nap goes down.

Alpaca doesn't like when you pat it this way.

Real-Life Math - Age Difference

Using Cuisenaire blocks to find the answer to a real-life math question: age difference

"My son, Hugh, is 13 years old. How many years older is he than you?"

13 - 10 = 3   He is 3 years older! 

Math - Adding 2-Digit Numbers to 99, With and Without Ones, Using 10x10 grid

Writing number for coloured-in squares (addends) on 10x10 grid; colouring in grid to represent the sum; writing the sum as a number (5 sheets)

I think I need to do more home schooling. I was working so slow - as slow as a bug. Now I'm like (snaps fingers)!

If Carlo saw this, what would he do? What do you think he would say? He'd congratulate me!

Social and Emotional Development - Lonely

Processing, recognizing, discussing and developing language for emotions; fine motor: colouring

If I have no friends to play with, I did (feel lonely)... yeah, 'cause your friends bring good memories. 

I do recommend asking them to be your friend, asking them nice questions: if I can, can I join you? What's your name? You just wait until they have eye contact, then say hi. And if you have snacks and you want to share - as long as schools allow that. As long as they're not like, "Nah, go away" - then walk away. 'Cause who knows what their attitudes are?

Oral Reading - Critter Club - Book 4: Marion Takes a Break

Reading out loud for enjoyment and understanding; discussing plot; inferencing; predicting

Reading punctuation: period - stop; exclamation - excited or loud; comma - pause

Tricky words to read: satin, whew, cooler, boomed, Marion, "looksie", lemonade, booths, hopped, ladle, though

Period! Oh no, I didn't meant to say that! That's funny and ridiculous, right?

Internet Research - Wolfdogs

Looking up topics of interest on the Internet; using both hands to type; reading and sifting through information

Some are domesticated and some are not. No wolfdog for me, because they are dangerous. See? I'm not kidding! They are furious! I'm not kidding, right! I told you they're real. Now do you believe me they're real? I think they say, "Don't mess with us!"

You should believe me 'cause I have the dog encyclopedia book - I'm not lying. They are very, very ferocious.

Self-Care, Nutrition - Reading Ingredients

Reading nutritional information: calories, ingredients; discussion: artificial flavours, colours, additives; comparing nutritional information and ingredients of different products; discussion: bought vs home-made

When I taste yours they don't taste at all like that. I want to make it exactly the same as that. I don't want to follow the instructions on the recipe.

Gardening - Signs of Spring

Looking for signs of Spring: hellebores, snowdrops, tender new leaves, worms in warming soil

It's dramatic! What is it doing? It's dramatic - see? Why is it pooping on me?

Who's the mother of the Earth? Mother Nature! She takes care of all the plants, if you take care of them, too. She gives you a helping hand!

A little dirt won't hurt if it gets into your mouth, it's fine. But a lot of it will be too disgusting. A little dirt is fine.

I'm going to make daffadaisies!

Oral Reading/Science - Magic School Bus

Oral reading for interest and information; stimulating interest in various areas of science for future investigation

I watched one once, and I was not interested of it, but now I am! Ms. Frizzle is definitely out of the ordinary. Wow - she is a scientist!

Math - Addition and Subtraction using Math Playground

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

5) 5 + 8... how do we do that? Oh yes! (Cuisenaire rods) 13!

Thank goodness there are erasers in the world, right?

Canadian Geography - Prince Edward Island

VLC Homework: learning about Canada, Internet research, colouring, writing - PEI Flag; Flag Meaning; Flower - Lady's Slipper; Bird - Blue Jay; License plate - Birthplace of Confederation; Interesting Facts

This is fun, right? I like this part. Like what do the license plates say?

Real Life Math - Age Differences, Again

Answering her own real-life math questions using addition or subtraction and Cuisenaire rods

Howard is 4, AZ is 10. How much older is AZ?

Ooh - that's a tricky, tricky number! Howard, you might be shocked by this!
10 - 4 = 6

Six years older than Howard!

I think Honey's 5 years old, so I think... Honey this is shocking! Honey, Look! Look at this! I don't know what it means. What does it mean, right?

My age: 10 years

Honey's age: 5
10 - 5 = 5

Honey is 5 years lower than me.... younger!

What do you think Andrew will say... Wow, AZ, that's impressive! Do you think he will say that? Wow - proud. Do you feel proud?

Math - 2-Digit Addition Without 10x10 Grid, Using Cuisenaire Rods 

Representing each addend with Cuisenaire rods; pushing the rods together (first the ones, then the tens) to make the sum; writing the sum

5) 18 plus 40. Eight ones. What was I doing there? What do I do here? Oh, I know - put them together!

I always get tired when I'm done math.

Cooking - Chocolate-Covered Strawberries

Reverse-engineering a recipe; melting chocolate using double boiler; fine motor: dipping strawberries; discussion and taste test: dark, white and milk chocolate; discussion: calculating cost to make recipe, comparing cost to price in chocolate shop

Oh - that looks good, is it hard to do?

It is not hard! It looks super-hard, but it's easy. You get some milk chocolate and melt it. We got the top of the strawberries and dipped the bottom of it into the chocolate. We sprinkled it with dark chocolate from a squeezer.

Yummy!

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