family notes Day 7

Saturday, May 26th, 2018

FireRockDad please discuss this weekend.

This week's main topics: Daily Memory Worksheets 

We started a new program which works on memorizing facts learned through singing, silly videos,  projects, games, reading stories related to the topics, and root memorizing. The following was the main topics.

History Sentence: Tell me about Columbus

In 1492, Columbus sailed the first of four trips to the Caribbean on three Spanish ships named the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. 

History Sentence: tell me about Commandments 1-5  (need to double check this)

Thou Shall.... 1. Have no other gods before me. 2. Not make unto thee any engraven image. 3. Not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 5. Honor thy father and mother: that thy days be long upon the land the Lord thy God giveth thee. 

History Timeline
(Columbus- the kids had to make one up)

History Timeline

1. Age of Ancient Empires

2. Creation and the Fall (The fall happened after according to this timeline) I do teach creation first!

3.The Flood and the Tower of Babel

4. Mesopotamia and Sumer

5. Egyptians

6. Indus River Valley Civilization

7. Minoans and Mycenaeans

Geography - States & Capitals
Providence  (RI) Rhode Island
Boston (MA) Massachusetts
Augusta  (ME) Maine
Hartford (CT) Connecticut
Concord (NH) New Hampshire 

Geography - Fertile Cresent

1. Meteranien Sea

2. Mesopotamia

3. Efratus River 

4. Tigrus River

5. Sumer

Math 

Skip counting or Multiplying by

*3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30,33 ..... 

*4,8,12,16,20,24,28,32,36,40,44 ..... 

English - What is a preposition?

It relates a noun or pronoun to another word.

English - What is an Infinitive?
An infinitive is to plus a verb; used as a noun, adjective, or adverb.

Latin - Noun cases

Nominative - Subject

Genitive - Possessive

Dative - Indirect Object

Accusative - Direct Object

Ablative - Object of the Preposition

Latin - Prepositions

in - in

apud - with

per - through

sine -without

Science - What are 4 types of tissue?

Connective

Epithelial

Muscle

Nerve

Science-What are the classifications of living things?

Domain

Kingdom

Phlum

Class

Order

Family

Genus

Species

Other things to practice exploring this week :

Foreign Language: Spanish / Japanese : 

Numbers 1-20 boy, girl, male, female

Physical Fitness:

Trampoline time, yoga, exercising throughout the day  Rain!

Things the children are planning for the weekend.

1. Watch Ninja Turtles ✅
2. Continue listening to our History Audio Books
3. Do a lung experiment with Ballons
4. Girly has asked for me to start The Story of the World Volume 3 Activity book. She is ready to start back with this program. We stopped it 2 months before our business closed down. ✅
5. Play ball with the dogs ✅
6. Harry Potter read to them
7. Girly is practicing creating words in Sign Language Alphabet
8. Boy child is wanting to go fishing he talks about fishing daily.

Games they want to play this weekend.

1. Printable dominoes Japanese numbers  

• Japanese dominoes ✅

1. Printable dominoes Latin Prepositions 

• Latin Dominoes ✅

1. Prepositions matching game
2. Preposition game that is laminated we will be taking a walk to find those words outside.
3. Dry Erase Dice. The kids want to use the dice with a multiplication rug and they have made up their own game for this.
4. Battle Ship (classic original) ✅
5. Battle ship - printable math facts challenge ✅
6. Battle ship - printable periodic table
7. Logic game - it's a block game you see a picture and must build it based on the picture. each block has a different shape. See pictures below.

This weekend will be the start of Saturday testing.

Every Saturday FireRockDad wants to start giving tests. 

To review what the children have learned throughout the week. ✅