Week of August 24, 2009
On Monday, for Language Arts, we watched a funny video about a boy who could not read the word “wet”. His teacher got so impatient that her head turned into a dragons head and fire flew out of her ears. He threw a bucket of water on her head. She was all wet! It was a claymation video that a class made. The teacher was not patient, I guess.
I won last week’s Homophone Challenge and got a cool Harry Potter bookmark.
On Tuesday we read our first readers theater script,called The Baker’s Dozen. A bakers dozen is 13 not 12. It is a legend about the extra one. A lady came in and wanted 13 instead of 12 St. Nicholas cookies because she thought the baker should give an extra cookie to be nice to his customers. He thought it was fair to give her just what she ordered. No more no less. He learned otherwise.
Wednesday we started a new bean bag discussion. We are now reading night of the twisters by:Ivy Ruckman. We read to page “16″. We decided to change our Bean Bag Discussion into more of a book club. We read the same book out loud and talk about it.
Thursday we did another Saxon math timed fact practice sheet. There were 100 problems and we have 5 minutes to do them. I got 42 out of 100 in 5 minutes. That is way more than I did before. Daddy taught us how to install software,and charge Ipods. We installed Clue Finders for 4th grade to 6th grade. Then we played it. the 5th grade is very hard to do.
Friday we took the day off.
Saturday we went to John Tanner State Park and we saw Blue Jays. They sounded like Hawks and made the sound like laughing of the Coopers Hawk to scare off other predators. He made the “kaw” of the Red-Tailed Hawk.
Sunday we went to Sweetwater Creek State Park and it was the best bird day ever. We saw the Osprey, a ton of ducks,and geese including the Greater White Fronted Goose, Mallards and the Double-Crested Cormorant.
