My Coco is a reader. She usually reads at least a book a week and sometimes reads smaller books throughout.
Together, she and I made up a suggested reading list for 4th grade.
She will be expected to read everyday and write a paragraph in her reading journal about what she wrote. When she finishes a book, she gets a choice of 4 of the book reports I found on www.enchantedlearning.com We have made shoebox dioramas, hanger mobiles, posters... Her favorite (cause I just asked her) is making a tri-fold brochure advertising the book. She prints pictures relating to the book and attempts to sell it.
Here is Coco's Suggested Reading List for 4th Grade
Charlotte's Web by E.B White
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Mouse on a Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
Superfudge by Judy Blume
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
The Wayside Series by Louis Sachar
The Ramona Series by Beverly Cleary
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Half Magic by Edward Eager
My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville
A Llama in the Family by Johanna Hurwitz
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp by Philip Pullman
Frindle by Andrew Clements
One of the things we like to do is have a group of our friends read the same books at the same time, so we can 1) discuss it together and 2) see the movie afterwards together. This worked out really well with Coraline for Coco and her friends and Inkheart for Lola and her friends.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Coco's 4th Grade Curriculum- Math
I thank the Gods everyday for dollar store math workbooks and my son Nacho. I hate math. I'm fine with it, I can do it, I hate it LOL
Coco's math this year is pretty basic. We will use the CC book, the Scholastic Math and Math Testing books and a Math workbook I bought at Walmart. I found some of these neat kits at Target that have games for fractions and decimals. We also will be playing on the ten or so math sites I have found (they make my world easier lol)
www.aaamath.co
www.homeschoolmath.net
www.funbrain.com
www.mathiscool.com
Heres what I have so far. I have to admit, Nacho helped alot
1) Comparing and Ordering Numbers
2) Beginning Word Problems - we will do these all week and then a few times a month
3) Addition Review
4) Subtraction Review
5) Place Values
6) Rounding and Estimating
7) Rounding and Estimating
8) Money- I have a game/activity kit for these two weeks
9) Money
10) Multiplication Review
11) Multiplication
12) Multiplication
13)
14) Division Review
15) Division
16) Fractions- Identifying - I have a game/activity kit for these 4 weeks.
17) Fractions- Adding
18) Fractions- Adding/Subtracting
19) Fractions- Subtracting
20) Decimals- Identifying - I have a game/activity kit for these 4 weeks
21) Decimals- Adding
22) Decimals- Subtracting
23) Decimals- Multiplying
24) Measuring - this is also something we are working on in Science
25) Area- also working on this in Science
26) Volume- also working on this in Science
27) Perimeter- also working on this in Science
28) Angles
29) Geometry
30) Geometry
31) Charts
32) Graphs
33) Graphs
34) Averaging
35) Mean
36) Median
37) Mode
38) Review and Testing
As with most of the subject I test every ten weeks with tests I make up. I also use the Scholastic Math Testing workbook.
Coco's math this year is pretty basic. We will use the CC book, the Scholastic Math and Math Testing books and a Math workbook I bought at Walmart. I found some of these neat kits at Target that have games for fractions and decimals. We also will be playing on the ten or so math sites I have found (they make my world easier lol)
www.aaamath.co
www.homeschoolmath.net
www.funbrain.com
www.mathiscool.com
Heres what I have so far. I have to admit, Nacho helped alot
1) Comparing and Ordering Numbers
2) Beginning Word Problems - we will do these all week and then a few times a month
3) Addition Review
4) Subtraction Review
5) Place Values
6) Rounding and Estimating
7) Rounding and Estimating
8) Money- I have a game/activity kit for these two weeks
9) Money
10) Multiplication Review
11) Multiplication
12) Multiplication
13)
14) Division Review
15) Division
16) Fractions- Identifying - I have a game/activity kit for these 4 weeks.
17) Fractions- Adding
18) Fractions- Adding/Subtracting
19) Fractions- Subtracting
20) Decimals- Identifying - I have a game/activity kit for these 4 weeks
21) Decimals- Adding
22) Decimals- Subtracting
23) Decimals- Multiplying
24) Measuring - this is also something we are working on in Science
25) Area- also working on this in Science
26) Volume- also working on this in Science
27) Perimeter- also working on this in Science
28) Angles
29) Geometry
30) Geometry
31) Charts
32) Graphs
33) Graphs
34) Averaging
35) Mean
36) Median
37) Mode
38) Review and Testing
As with most of the subject I test every ten weeks with tests I make up. I also use the Scholastic Math Testing workbook.
Coco's 4th Grade Curriculum - Language Arts
This is my favorite.. I love L.A. and so does Coco. And this year I got lucky! I grabbed a Language Arts book of the shelf in the dining room and it turned out to be a 4th grade Language Arts book! Flipping though it, I correlated the lessons with pages from the CC and from her Scholastic Grammar book. We are also focusing on neater handwriting and letter writing this year. I bought a beautiful stationary set for her and she is now looking for a penpal. This will help her learn sentence structure, paragraph formation and how to write a formal letter (not email lol)
We also have an extra sheet of grammar, spelling, vocab or whatnot every Wednesday from the CC book that didn't really do with any of the lessons.
We aren't going the full 38 weeks with Language Arts this year. Im confident we are cramming 38 weeks into our 36 LOL.
I don't think we need anything else for this year for this class...
1) Word Order and Meaning - text and workbook pages
2) Questions - text and wb pages
3) Start Poetry- this will go on every Monday for the rest of the year
4) Two Parts of a Sentence - textbook pages
5) Nouns - text and wb pages
6) Determiners - text and wb pages + an activity
7) Nouns in the Subject- text and wb pages
8) Pronouns- text and wb pages
9) Subjects- text and wb pages
10) Subject and Predicates- text and wb pages + an activity
11) Singular Nouns Showing Ownership- text and wb pages
12)Types of Sentences- workbook pages
13) Compound Words - text an wb pages
14) Days and Months (Capitalization)- text and wb pages + making calendars as gifts
15) Letter Writing Review - text and wb pages
16) Understanding a Table of Contents- text an wb pages
17) Library Skills- have many workbook pages
18) Dictionary Work- txt and wb pages
19) Tall Tales- will be doing these all week and then once a month- wb pages
20) Giving and Understanding Directions- text and wb pages
21) Homophones- text and wb pages
22) Homonyms- text and wb pages
23) Synonyms- text and wb pages
24) Antonyms- text and wb pages + review of past four weeks with games
25) Prefixes - text and wb pages + magnet game we made last year
26) Suffixes - text and wb pages + magnet game
27) Combination Pre/Suf Words- text and wb pages
28) Picture Words- textbook pages
29) Making an Advertisement- text and wb page
30) Adjectives- text and wb pages and Apples to Apples :)
31) Adverbs- text and wb pages
32) Verbs- text and wb pages
33) Verbs Cont.- text and wb pages
34) Contractions- text and wb pages
35) Review
36) Review and Testing
Language 4 by Laidlaw
We also have an extra sheet of grammar, spelling, vocab or whatnot every Wednesday from the CC book that didn't really do with any of the lessons.
We aren't going the full 38 weeks with Language Arts this year. Im confident we are cramming 38 weeks into our 36 LOL.
I don't think we need anything else for this year for this class...
1) Word Order and Meaning - text and workbook pages
2) Questions - text and wb pages
3) Start Poetry- this will go on every Monday for the rest of the year
4) Two Parts of a Sentence - textbook pages
5) Nouns - text and wb pages
6) Determiners - text and wb pages + an activity
7) Nouns in the Subject- text and wb pages
8) Pronouns- text and wb pages
9) Subjects- text and wb pages
10) Subject and Predicates- text and wb pages + an activity
11) Singular Nouns Showing Ownership- text and wb pages
12)Types of Sentences- workbook pages
13) Compound Words - text an wb pages
14) Days and Months (Capitalization)- text and wb pages + making calendars as gifts
15) Letter Writing Review - text and wb pages
16) Understanding a Table of Contents- text an wb pages
17) Library Skills- have many workbook pages
18) Dictionary Work- txt and wb pages
19) Tall Tales- will be doing these all week and then once a month- wb pages
20) Giving and Understanding Directions- text and wb pages
21) Homophones- text and wb pages
22) Homonyms- text and wb pages
23) Synonyms- text and wb pages
24) Antonyms- text and wb pages + review of past four weeks with games
25) Prefixes - text and wb pages + magnet game we made last year
26) Suffixes - text and wb pages + magnet game
27) Combination Pre/Suf Words- text and wb pages
28) Picture Words- textbook pages
29) Making an Advertisement- text and wb page
30) Adjectives- text and wb pages and Apples to Apples :)
31) Adverbs- text and wb pages
32) Verbs- text and wb pages
33) Verbs Cont.- text and wb pages
34) Contractions- text and wb pages
35) Review
36) Review and Testing
Language 4 by Laidlaw
Coco's 4th Grade Curriculum- Social Studies
My friend Sherri and I were on the phone and it came to me... Instead of just doing US History, why couldn't we do Explorers?!! I started on www.enchantedlearning.com and went through their list of explorers (that comes with at least one worksheet per explorer and a printable bio)
We are definitely looking for any resources we can get on this one.
1) Christopher Newport
2)Ponce de Leon
3) Vitus J Bering
4) Robert Burke and William Willis
5) Vasco de Gama
6) Eric the Red and Leif Ericson
7) Christopher Columbus (Well it is Columbus Day Week)- have worksheets from the CC
8) Robert Ballard
9) Amerigo Vespucci
10) Henry Hudson - we have a activity book about him I found at a yard sale
11) Roald Amundsen
12) Magellan
13) Kit Carson
14) Richard Byrd
15) Robert La Salle
16) Alvar Nunez
17) Jaques Cousteau - have two worksheets from the CC and a field trip to the aquarium
18) Neil Armstrong - have worksheets from the CC
19) Buzz Aldrin- have a field trip to the space center planned
20) Sally Ride - have a biography book and a few worksheets from the CC
21) Sue Hendricson
22) Pedro Alvares Cabral
23) James Cook
24) Douglas Mawson
25) Sir Francis Drake
26) Daniel Boone
27) James Smith- have a few worksheets from the CC
28) Lewis and Clark- this is Coco's obsession! We have posters, books, the board game...
29) Robert Scott
30) Sir Walter Raleigh
31) Mae Jemison
32) Marco Polo
33) Jaques Cartier
34) Mary Kingsley
35) Jean Le Perouse
36) Petre Stryvesant
37) Hernan Cortes
38) Final Review and testing.
I have created a lapbook style worksheet for this so she will have a Bio on Mondays, a worksheet from enchantedlearning, a worksheet from me, a vocab sheet with a crossword or word scramble (Gotta love www.theteacherscorner.net) and we have lots and lots of maps that I also got from enchantedlearnig.
Typically we test every 10 weeks and I have made those too.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? (or materials I can borrow?)
We are definitely looking for any resources we can get on this one.
1) Christopher Newport
2)Ponce de Leon
3) Vitus J Bering
4) Robert Burke and William Willis
5) Vasco de Gama
6) Eric the Red and Leif Ericson
7) Christopher Columbus (Well it is Columbus Day Week)- have worksheets from the CC
8) Robert Ballard
9) Amerigo Vespucci
10) Henry Hudson - we have a activity book about him I found at a yard sale
11) Roald Amundsen
12) Magellan
13) Kit Carson
14) Richard Byrd
15) Robert La Salle
16) Alvar Nunez
17) Jaques Cousteau - have two worksheets from the CC and a field trip to the aquarium
18) Neil Armstrong - have worksheets from the CC
19) Buzz Aldrin- have a field trip to the space center planned
20) Sally Ride - have a biography book and a few worksheets from the CC
21) Sue Hendricson
22) Pedro Alvares Cabral
23) James Cook
24) Douglas Mawson
25) Sir Francis Drake
26) Daniel Boone
27) James Smith- have a few worksheets from the CC
28) Lewis and Clark- this is Coco's obsession! We have posters, books, the board game...
29) Robert Scott
30) Sir Walter Raleigh
31) Mae Jemison
32) Marco Polo
33) Jaques Cartier
34) Mary Kingsley
35) Jean Le Perouse
36) Petre Stryvesant
37) Hernan Cortes
38) Final Review and testing.
I have created a lapbook style worksheet for this so she will have a Bio on Mondays, a worksheet from enchantedlearning, a worksheet from me, a vocab sheet with a crossword or word scramble (Gotta love www.theteacherscorner.net) and we have lots and lots of maps that I also got from enchantedlearnig.
Typically we test every 10 weeks and I have made those too.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? (or materials I can borrow?)
Setting Up Coco's Curriculum for 4th grade- Science
God, I love this time of the year! Pulling books of the shelf, knowing that next year is a blank slate... Gives me goosebumps!
Heres what I have so far.
For Science we are going take Physical Science. The text book I have is for 7th grade but I used it to make a 38 week outline. Then I went online to the three or so of the sites we use for printables and found nearly all of the printables I will be using. (NO lol I didn't print them yet!) I also flipped through her Comprehensive Curriculum Grade 4 and found a few pages that would correlate. I am now hunting for either a grade appropriate text book or grade appropriate books on Amazon. (If anyone finds one LET ME KNOW lol)
Science week by week:
1) Intro to Physical Science - have tons of worksheets from the CC
2) Scientific Method
3) Scientific Method
4) Using Models- have worksheets from www.enchantedlearning.com
5) Measurements in Science- have worksheets from the CC
6) Measurements in Science- have a lesson plan from www.teacherspayteachers.com
7) Properties of Matter- have worksheets from the CC
8) Properties of Matter- have worksheets from the CC
9) Describing Matter
10) Chemical Properties
11) Physical Change- have a 6 page workbook I found at a book fair
12) Chemical Change - I only have a few experiments for these...
13) States of Matter
14) Laws of Matter
15) Changes of State
16) Changes of State
17) Elements - all I have for this one is a story book?...
18) Compounds
19) Mixtures
20) Review of the past three weeks
21) Solutions
22) Concentration/Solubility
23) Suspension/Collids
24) Motion- field trip planned to the Boomerang Guys House (hes a friend of mine)
25) Motion
26) Force
27) Friction
28) Gravity
29) Newtons Laws
30) Work
31) Simple Machines - have worksheets from www.teachervision.fen.com
32) Levers - have worksheets from teachervision
33) Planes/Wedges - have worksheets from teachervision
34) Screws/Wheels and Axles -have worksheets from teachervision
35) Pulleys - have worksheets from teachervision
36) Compound Machines -have worksheets from teachervision
37) Review and write paper
38) Review and testing
This Science seemed that I could make it a more hands on class. So I'm writing in Science Experiment Tuesdays.
We are using Science Project Ideas by Robert Gardner.
Heres what I have so far.
For Science we are going take Physical Science. The text book I have is for 7th grade but I used it to make a 38 week outline. Then I went online to the three or so of the sites we use for printables and found nearly all of the printables I will be using. (NO lol I didn't print them yet!) I also flipped through her Comprehensive Curriculum Grade 4 and found a few pages that would correlate. I am now hunting for either a grade appropriate text book or grade appropriate books on Amazon. (If anyone finds one LET ME KNOW lol)
Science week by week:
1) Intro to Physical Science - have tons of worksheets from the CC
2) Scientific Method
3) Scientific Method
4) Using Models- have worksheets from www.enchantedlearning.com
5) Measurements in Science- have worksheets from the CC
6) Measurements in Science- have a lesson plan from www.teacherspayteachers.com
7) Properties of Matter- have worksheets from the CC
8) Properties of Matter- have worksheets from the CC
9) Describing Matter
10) Chemical Properties
11) Physical Change- have a 6 page workbook I found at a book fair
12) Chemical Change - I only have a few experiments for these...
13) States of Matter
14) Laws of Matter
15) Changes of State
16) Changes of State
17) Elements - all I have for this one is a story book?...
18) Compounds
19) Mixtures
20) Review of the past three weeks
21) Solutions
22) Concentration/Solubility
23) Suspension/Collids
24) Motion- field trip planned to the Boomerang Guys House (hes a friend of mine)
25) Motion
26) Force
27) Friction
28) Gravity
29) Newtons Laws
30) Work
31) Simple Machines - have worksheets from www.teachervision.fen.com
32) Levers - have worksheets from teachervision
33) Planes/Wedges - have worksheets from teachervision
34) Screws/Wheels and Axles -have worksheets from teachervision
35) Pulleys - have worksheets from teachervision
36) Compound Machines -have worksheets from teachervision
37) Review and write paper
38) Review and testing
This Science seemed that I could make it a more hands on class. So I'm writing in Science Experiment Tuesdays.
We are using Science Project Ideas by Robert Gardner.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Open Swim at MRC
Today we got to take a tour and testout the poll at the Massilion Rec Center.
While the entire deal looks pretty good, I doubt I'm going to let the kids participate.
Nacho had so much fun and I will let him go with Lara. He doesnt need lessons though.
Lola had fun too, but clearly has a hard time listening to directions. During the tour, we couldnt find Lola and turns out she got in the pool all by herself.
Coco had a great time and she may need the lessons as well. She took lessons last year, but afte watching her, I dont think she retained much of the lessons.
Fifi, had the worst time of all the children. She wasnt allowed to go in the regular pool, the lazy float pool, or on the waterslides. They claimed that regardless of swimming ability, she was too little. Then halfway through the swim session, the lifeguards started getting whistle happy and it seemed the rules changed. Fifi wasnt allowed in the sprinkler area alone (I was sitting outside the fence and could clearly see her at all times) This made me think twice about coming back. I would have to hold Fifi's hand the entire time. We'll see what happens.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Getting Ready For the Next School Year
Preparing For Next School Year
Many of you aren’t done for this school year. You are just finishing up your state testing and feel the weight of another month or so of school. We, however, finished about two weeks ago. 960 hours and 218 days of school and we are starting to look ahead to next year.
My eldest two children, Nacho and Lola, have decided they would like to try OHVA in lieu of traditional homeschooling. I’m hoping this works well for them. At the same time, I have some smaller activities and lessons planned for them.
Nacho, starting 9th grade will be taking Algebra, Physical Science, Modern World Studies, Computer Literacy and Literacy Analysis with OHVA. Together he and I also created a Required Reading List and daily, weekly and monthly goals charts. I felt making these with him will help keep him interested and accountable for his schooling. I will post links to them, when I figure out how to use adobe.
Lola, starting 7th grade will be taking Health 7, Intermediate Art, World History, French 1, Life Science, Pre-Algebra, and Technology. She made a goal of studying in Paris her freshman year of college, so she will be taking French instead of Spanish. She is also not taking ASL this year. She and I created a Required Reading List and her goal charts as well. Lola is not very interested in homeschooling this year. She feels she’s missing out on important social opportunities. We created a day planner to show her how much time she spends with friends and how many outside activities she is involved in. Granted we are taking the summer off from theater, cheerleading and music lesson, she still has skating, swimming, play group and Tween Movie Nights.
Coco will be starting 4th grade with traditional homeschool. I have already bought my Comprehensive Curriculum Grade 4. Over the past school year I fell in love with the Scholastic Workbooks. They have individual workbooks for vocabulary, grammar, math, social studies and science. We also got the ones for telling time, geography and health and safety. Here is an Amazon link to Coco’s 4th grade writing practice book. We are also working more on chore charts with Coco then daily goals. I hate hate hate repeating myself to her about picking up her clothes. This way she has, in writing, what she needs to do before she can go outside or play with the Wii.
Fifi is very excited to be starting the 1st grade. In the state of Ohio she would just now be allowed to start Kindergarten but, we did all of that work last year. Her Comprehensive Curriculum Grade 1 has been ordered as well as her Scholastic Workbooks. We also renewed our memberships to www.enchantedlearning.com, www.teachervision.com, and www.instructorweb.com I love these sites and their printables! At only $20 a year, they are totally worth it.
Our summer plans, while slowed down from the rest of the year are chock full of field trips, group activities and a few vacations. Keep an eye out for those updates!
Many of you aren’t done for this school year. You are just finishing up your state testing and feel the weight of another month or so of school. We, however, finished about two weeks ago. 960 hours and 218 days of school and we are starting to look ahead to next year.
My eldest two children, Nacho and Lola, have decided they would like to try OHVA in lieu of traditional homeschooling. I’m hoping this works well for them. At the same time, I have some smaller activities and lessons planned for them.
Nacho, starting 9th grade will be taking Algebra, Physical Science, Modern World Studies, Computer Literacy and Literacy Analysis with OHVA. Together he and I also created a Required Reading List and daily, weekly and monthly goals charts. I felt making these with him will help keep him interested and accountable for his schooling. I will post links to them, when I figure out how to use adobe.
Lola, starting 7th grade will be taking Health 7, Intermediate Art, World History, French 1, Life Science, Pre-Algebra, and Technology. She made a goal of studying in Paris her freshman year of college, so she will be taking French instead of Spanish. She is also not taking ASL this year. She and I created a Required Reading List and her goal charts as well. Lola is not very interested in homeschooling this year. She feels she’s missing out on important social opportunities. We created a day planner to show her how much time she spends with friends and how many outside activities she is involved in. Granted we are taking the summer off from theater, cheerleading and music lesson, she still has skating, swimming, play group and Tween Movie Nights.
Coco will be starting 4th grade with traditional homeschool. I have already bought my Comprehensive Curriculum Grade 4. Over the past school year I fell in love with the Scholastic Workbooks. They have individual workbooks for vocabulary, grammar, math, social studies and science. We also got the ones for telling time, geography and health and safety. Here is an Amazon link to Coco’s 4th grade writing practice book. We are also working more on chore charts with Coco then daily goals. I hate hate hate repeating myself to her about picking up her clothes. This way she has, in writing, what she needs to do before she can go outside or play with the Wii.
Fifi is very excited to be starting the 1st grade. In the state of Ohio she would just now be allowed to start Kindergarten but, we did all of that work last year. Her Comprehensive Curriculum Grade 1 has been ordered as well as her Scholastic Workbooks. We also renewed our memberships to www.enchantedlearning.com, www.teachervision.com, and www.instructorweb.com I love these sites and their printables! At only $20 a year, they are totally worth it.
Our summer plans, while slowed down from the rest of the year are chock full of field trips, group activities and a few vacations. Keep an eye out for those updates!
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