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.
- Watch Ninja Turtles ✅
- Continue listening to our History Audio Books
Do a lung experiment with Ballons- 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. ✅
- Play ball with the dogs ✅
Harry Potter read to themGirly is practicing creating words in Sign Language AlphabetBoy child is wanting to go fishing he talks about fishing daily.
Games they want to play this weekend.
- Printable dominoes Japanese numbers
- Printable dominoes Latin Prepositions
- Prepositions matching game
- Preposition game that is laminated we will be taking a walk to find those words outside.
Dry Erase Dice. The kids want to use the dice with a multiplication rug and they have made up their own game for this.- Battle Ship (classic original) ✅
- Battle ship - printable math facts challenge ✅
- Battle ship - printable periodic table
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. ✅
