I know that I haven't done a weekly report all year, and it seems odd to start with week 21...but sometimes this teacher/mom gets too disctracted with other things to keep up. Here is where we are now.
We started off on Monday (V-Day) attending our charter school's Geography field day. All of the kids had a fun time, and it was exciting for Kai to see all of the different areas that Geography touches. Some of the highlights included: a 20 ft. blown up globe that you could step inside, bird tracking, a craft booth from each continent, sea life presented by Kai's former Oceanography teachers, a desert dome, a condensed history of California play, and Geography musical chairs. The Geography musical chairs was much the same as regular musical chairs, except if you were the one with no seat, you had the chance to correctly answer a Geography question to stay in the game. Kai did pretty well, lasting until only four children were left, but he was out on a question asking what state has "north" as part of its name. He recognized North Dakota, but got confused while reading the map and said, "North Canada." Oh well! As a result, Mommy has since downloaded the Scrambled States of America and ordered Evan Moor Daily Geography.
Here's how we wrapped up the rest of the week:
Bible:
Leading Little Ones to God
My Father's World Bible Reader
English:
Phonics Road 1 - Week 5
Math:
Singapore Primary Math 1B - Unit 13 Ex. 3-7
Science:
Elemental Science Biology - Human Body Week 2 (Skeleton and Bones)
Bill Nye: the Science Guy -Cells
History:
Wrapping up with Ancient Greece. We did the Parthenon activity from our Ancient Civilizations History pockets.
Books read:
Alexander the Great Rocks the World
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
The Greek News
Dem Bones
Biscuit's Valentine's Day
Books read by Kai:
Pegasus
Green Eggs and Ham
Little Bear
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
In Kai's Words...
Kai and I recently had a conversation that took me by surprise. I thought he was just being goofy, but when he explained his reasoning, he left me wondering, "where does he come up with this stuff?"
We were pulling out of the driveway, and there were two big turkey vultures sitting in the field nearby. This is what ensued...
Kai: Mom, do you have to have special powers to be a superhero?
Mom: Yes.
Kai: Well, what about Batman? He doesn't have any special powers. He's just cool and tries to help people.
Mom: You're right! I guess you don't really need a special power, then.
Kai: Did you know that vultures are superheroes?
Mom: No, I've never heard that. I thought they were just birds.
Kai: Well, they are birds, but they help people because when they eat decaying animals, they prevent disease from getting in our water supply.
We were pulling out of the driveway, and there were two big turkey vultures sitting in the field nearby. This is what ensued...
Kai: Mom, do you have to have special powers to be a superhero?
Mom: Yes.
Kai: Well, what about Batman? He doesn't have any special powers. He's just cool and tries to help people.
Mom: You're right! I guess you don't really need a special power, then.
Kai: Did you know that vultures are superheroes?
Mom: No, I've never heard that. I thought they were just birds.
Kai: Well, they are birds, but they help people because when they eat decaying animals, they prevent disease from getting in our water supply.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Summer Report
This summer report is pretty late, partially because it takes so long to upload pictures to my computer and partially due to business. Anyway, better late than never..... Here are some fun learning activities that Kai did this summer.
We started off the summer early with a trip to the Wild Animal Park, where Kai fed the Lorikeets and learned the size of a gorilla's arm span. Our focus for the summer was primarily on animals, so this was a neat way to kick things off.
Next we were off to Washington, DC. Unfortunately almost all of the pictures from the trip ended up blurry, so I am only sharing a few. Kai's favorite thing was visiting Mount Vernon and learning all about George Washington. He particularly liked the film they showed before the tour and hearing about how George Washington died (strep throat).
It was raining almost the entire trip, so we weren't able to do as many things as we wanted, but of course we visited the Smithsonian. Kai's favorites were the Air and Space museum and the Natural History museum. He loved the bug exhibit at the Natural History. The butterfly room was really cool. They had all different kinds of butterflies coming out of their chrysallis, and they were flying everywhere. Kai also really enjoyed the Sea animal room and the African animal room. In the picture below, Kai is standing in front of the Wright flyer at the Air and Space museum.
Upon returning home, we all had a great day at the final big event of the year for Kai's charter school, Science day! Kai built a little electric car. He had a really fun time with it, and when we came home, he and Daddy experimented with how to make the motor stronger and faster until finally it burned out.
Here is Kai holding up the fossil he found along with his little homemade lava lamp (colored oil and water). It was really hard to get a pic without his eyes closed.
We also built and launched a rocket, made a flashlight out of a battery, tinfoil, and a lightbulb, listened to a discussion about space, and mixed our own silly putty. The last activity in this very fun day was making a sun print.
Both Kai and Kael enjoyed several library story days as well as their corresponding arts and crafts projects. On this day, Kai was working on a caterpillar on a leaf craft.
Kai got in lots of big brother practice, too. He really loves his little brother. He is very helpful and patient with him, too. This picture is one of my favorites.
There was LOTS of soccer practice, too. It was a great way to make sure that he could burn off all of his extra energy a few times a week.
We did the African Savannah unit in our Winterpromise Animal Worlds curriculum. Kai loves animals, so it was pretty fun for him.. plus there were lots of crafts. Here he is making an alligator out of a toilet paper tube.
He worked on this animal puzzle quite a bit.
We finished off the African Animal unit with another trip to the Wild Animal Park...San Diego's home for African animals. It was so much fun to show him all the animals he had been learning about in person. He surprised me with several facts that he remembered, too. While on the safari tour, he told us that cheetahs were the fastest land animals. He was also able to identify the different types of giraffes and pointed out the decorative termite mounds, which the rest of us would've missed. Thankfully, we were there while Dino Mountain was open, too. So, he and Daddy went on that tour.
Stamping his dinosaur passport.
Kai also learned how to tie his shoes and worked quite a bit on improving his handwriting. We also learned about the five senses, and did a couple of activities to learn more about summer. Kai seems to have really grown and learned a lot, and I am excited to see how much growth the new school year will bring.
We started off the summer early with a trip to the Wild Animal Park, where Kai fed the Lorikeets and learned the size of a gorilla's arm span. Our focus for the summer was primarily on animals, so this was a neat way to kick things off.
Next we were off to Washington, DC. Unfortunately almost all of the pictures from the trip ended up blurry, so I am only sharing a few. Kai's favorite thing was visiting Mount Vernon and learning all about George Washington. He particularly liked the film they showed before the tour and hearing about how George Washington died (strep throat).
It was raining almost the entire trip, so we weren't able to do as many things as we wanted, but of course we visited the Smithsonian. Kai's favorites were the Air and Space museum and the Natural History museum. He loved the bug exhibit at the Natural History. The butterfly room was really cool. They had all different kinds of butterflies coming out of their chrysallis, and they were flying everywhere. Kai also really enjoyed the Sea animal room and the African animal room. In the picture below, Kai is standing in front of the Wright flyer at the Air and Space museum.
Upon returning home, we all had a great day at the final big event of the year for Kai's charter school, Science day! Kai built a little electric car. He had a really fun time with it, and when we came home, he and Daddy experimented with how to make the motor stronger and faster until finally it burned out.
Here is Kai holding up the fossil he found along with his little homemade lava lamp (colored oil and water). It was really hard to get a pic without his eyes closed.
We also built and launched a rocket, made a flashlight out of a battery, tinfoil, and a lightbulb, listened to a discussion about space, and mixed our own silly putty. The last activity in this very fun day was making a sun print.
Both Kai and Kael enjoyed several library story days as well as their corresponding arts and crafts projects. On this day, Kai was working on a caterpillar on a leaf craft.
Kai got in lots of big brother practice, too. He really loves his little brother. He is very helpful and patient with him, too. This picture is one of my favorites.
There was LOTS of soccer practice, too. It was a great way to make sure that he could burn off all of his extra energy a few times a week.
We did the African Savannah unit in our Winterpromise Animal Worlds curriculum. Kai loves animals, so it was pretty fun for him.. plus there were lots of crafts. Here he is making an alligator out of a toilet paper tube.
He worked on this animal puzzle quite a bit.
We finished off the African Animal unit with another trip to the Wild Animal Park...San Diego's home for African animals. It was so much fun to show him all the animals he had been learning about in person. He surprised me with several facts that he remembered, too. While on the safari tour, he told us that cheetahs were the fastest land animals. He was also able to identify the different types of giraffes and pointed out the decorative termite mounds, which the rest of us would've missed. Thankfully, we were there while Dino Mountain was open, too. So, he and Daddy went on that tour.
Stamping his dinosaur passport.
Kai also learned how to tie his shoes and worked quite a bit on improving his handwriting. We also learned about the five senses, and did a couple of activities to learn more about summer. Kai seems to have really grown and learned a lot, and I am excited to see how much growth the new school year will bring.
Now, if I can get to our First Day of School post, I will feel satisfied. :)
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Another Thunderbolts Season Kicks Off!
Kai had his first soccer game for the summer season yesterday. This is his second season as a Thunderbolt. The game went really well, and it looked like all of the kids' practice had paid off.
The team practicing hard
Kael really likes to practice too!
Thunderbolts kick off the first game
Kai is getting quite good at playing goalie
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