Tuesday Perry Pterodactyl

10a    - dentist
11a    - library
11.30    - break

12.30    - video: "Your Inner Fish"
1.30    - break

 There was some major bravery at the dentist this morning, 

including a birthday tomorrow, so some giant dinosaurs were gifted :)

2.30    - minecraft : work on a new house
3.45    - multiplication worksheet, Khan math
---3 times table worksheet, perimeter and two mastery challenges on Khan
4.00  -IXL English, plural and single possessives
4.15  -We talked about : what is a chemistry mole? // We are downloading a chemistry version of Minecraft and looking for more resources on DNA for her age group.
done


//Last night when I was getting her to finish washing her hair she asked me what 'four carried away by two' was...you know, 4x4 is sixteen is 4 carried away by two?  //ok!  Yes. It's sixteen - we call that 'four to the second', because it is (two) fours, four times four.  That's what the two means.  If there were three fours, four times four times four, it would be 4 to the third, and have a little 3 on top.

I was reading the last of my book while she was shooting math problems at me. I hope that was more coherent than it looks like in text... it seemed to be because she discussed it with Daddy today when he was asking me the square root of 149... which I deduced had to be more than 12 but much less than 13. 

//I've put 'Cracking the Code of Life' and 'What Darwin Never Knew' on her DVD queue for the next few weeks.  We've also got some more early history of the world coming.  The Romans series was a little 'deep' for her (Daddy said, and I agree), but she really got quite a bit out of it.  We'll continue with more American History later in the year, too.

Monday is Ladybug day

8.15a    - puppy training, bathing Lucy
8.30    - reading aloud: Droon book #1 (done)
8.45    - reading aloud: "Misty of Chincoteague" by Maguerite Henry (start)
9.15    - spelling #15,16,17 in second grade
9.30    - break

10:00   - khan math and worksheets : 2 times tables, 2 digit addition, perimeter
10:45   - Minecraft island and ciphers
//In Droon the princess writes backwards notes to the children as secret messages.  We wrote backwards Minecraft books that told where the next clue would be found, and made a chain of items to be found in places in the EsmeExplores world.  We also made an 'Assateague Island' with horses like the Misty book to come back to later.

12:45   - break

//walk to mailbox - our seed order came, and they sent us a free pack of Love-in-a-Mist, too.  Esme checked the order and said it was all right.

1p    - reading: "Misty of Chincoteague" to chapter 4.
1.30    - ladybug experiments : reflected light or heat?  Which are they attracted to?
//We had a ladybug swarm at our mailbox..and they seemed to be congregating on light colored things, which was odd, considering dark colored things are warmer.  Daddy came up with a test - tape black and white paper to a pole they were already on and see which they moved towards.  They went to the white paper and away from the black paper. 
1.45 -  done

 warm sunshiney day

 You just gotta jump for joy :)

Apparently, dogs can 'fly'...or just be silly.

Daphne (top) and Minerva (bottom)

 

vicious puppy attack

actually, they began smelling leaves and grass immediately after this.

Freckles (left) and Lucy (right)

 

Lucy and her grandmother, Nova

Friday

8.30a    - spelling - we are through the first 14 lessons.
9a    - minecraft
--She was trying to build Hotel Transylvania with me.  I had to leave for work at 9:30.

 She figured out how to put zombie door knockers on each door...

10.30a    - Dirty Jobs: "Alaskan Fishing boat"
11.15    - minecraft

11.45    - tumbled rock jewelry making - she made a necklace with three pendants and a ring with the rocks they have been working on for several weeks.
1p    - done

We watched 'Blast from the Past' tonight before bed and read all but the last chapter of the first book of Droon.

Tuesday

8.30a    - reading: "Farmer Cap" (lexile 630)
8.45    - worksheet: adjectives and word order
9p    - english site: spelling audio test and identifying articles
9.30    - khan math: division
10a    - craft project:  sewing: Halloween costume
//She threaded a needle, practiced making end knots and sewing black felt watermelon seeds on top of her hat for the Halloween Theatre party coming up.

11a    - break

11:30   - Minecraft Halloween Party, statue and other projects

1.30    - done

Monday

9a    - research: "How can rain fall from clouds"
--She gave me a decent explanation of this after they picked me up at 3,so she understood what she read.
9.30    - multiplication table
10.45    - break

11.30    - town; practical math price comparisons etc
12.30    - break

5p    - Rome ep 2: "Spartacus"
---We compared similarities in American History and Rome again, and how slavery was involved in both histories.
5.45    - reading: "A Good Day's Fishing"
6p    - reading: "The Mightiest"
6.15p    - done

Friday dentist

10a    - dentist
--The dentist showed her all the tools and materials they would be using, and discussed how the fillings grow hard under the light.  She asked LOTS of questions, got a filling and a silver crown.
11    - Library
11.30    - break

12.30    - documentary: Rome  : The Barbarian Wars episode
-----------We also discussed that American forms of government were based on the Roman tradition in some ways, and understanding the Romans and what they did right and wrong were an important part of our own history - and warnings to watch out for in our future government as well.
1.30    - break

2.45p    - outside; frisbee, 1 mile walk
---We walked to the lake, made observations of insects, the water going down with the recent drought, plants, seeds, rocks etc.  She saw a massively large grasshopper with purple legs with white spots on them.  She had thought it was a tiny bird flying and wouldn't believe that had been a grasshopper until I had her come up close to see it on a bush branch.  We also saw deer tracks and skipped rocks across the lake.

3.30p    - new app: oscilab (music creation and visualization software)
4p    - sentence ordering (expandyourvocabulary.com), 2 sessions

4.15    - done

Thursday

9a    - worksheet: Scrambled Sentences -- we need to do more of this
9:15a   - fraction cubes
9.30a    - wkst: multiplication
10a        - break



We had some lunch and watched the movie 'Song of the Sea'.

12p    - rock tumbler: change grit, clean and examine rocks
12.30  - minecraft -- She built a pool and volleyball area while I was home, and did some other things after I had to leave for work.

2p     - bicycle riding
2.30   - diary writing
3.30p  - done

Wednesday Dinosaur Vendor

9a     - English worksheet, types of sentences +IXL practice
--------We practiced the sentence types again on IXL
9:15   - Balancing equations worksheet + MATIFIC
---------We did work on fractions and also on weighing unknown items and using them to solve questions
9:40   - Vending machine project
10.45  - break

This is the Jurassic World vending machine, by Dinosaur Miracle Inc.  It costs 1 cent to get a dinosaur from the shelves inside.


11.15a - geography review
---We've started studying the Near East, Middle East and Balkans area

11.30a - free reading: alice in wonderland -- She got to the part about the caterpillar and the pig baby.
12.15  - .5mi walk
12.30  - PE, 150x jumping jacks, walking w/ 12lb weight
12.45  - art: drawing the outside world
1p     - break

2p     - tablet: weather app, google earth exploration
2.45p  - done

Monday Tuesday

 I had a couple of oddly scheduled days, and after the weekend Monday night was gone before I knew it...and an early Tuesday shift after that.  Esme and Daddy have been busy at home and I've done a little with her each night when I get home.  I have a late shift tomorrow so we can do some things before I have to go in.  And - Halloween plans are shaping up. Looks like we'll have several events to go to :)

Tueseday
8.15    - researching games and writing about them
9a    - free reading: Alice in Wonderland, pg 1-40
9.30a    - break

11.15a    - art
11.30a    - G&T workbook: capitalization, adjectives
11.45    - workbook: number flower
12p    - .5mi walk, pulling 40lb wagon
12.30p    - break

1p    - chess app lesson
--She said she got down to 'he had two pieces and I had one - so he won, but he only had two pieces left!'
1.30p    - break

6.30p    - khan math, English worksheets, geography quiz
----Khan 3rd grade math to 33%.  We have a lot of review and multiplication drills to go over, though - before we can progress too much further.  We will be getting fraction towers next month to use with that idea and explore that in more depth, as well.

7:15 - reading aloud : Volcano palace by Tony Abbott (finished)
7.45    - done

//She cleaned her room tonight, aiming to make it 'more grown up looking.'  She started writing in a diary she found and was making very good progress with her thoughts and trying to spell phonetically on the ones she was unsure of.  This is really big progress.
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Monday

8a    - school of dragons
9    - new game: "Crystal city 2"
10a    - writing: report on new game
10.15    - multiplication table
11a    - break

11.30a    - canned goods inventory; sorting by date
12p    - .5mi walk
12.30p    - break

7.30p    - Nova: Lightning
//She said she learned that lightning causes more deaths each year than tornadoes.  Also, in the U.S. the most lightning strikes happen in Florida, so she is glad we don't live in Florida.  She was surprised about not standing near a tree in a storm, and about the lightning being a branched bolt with several directions not just one line.
8.30p    - done

Friday

Wasn't it Friday just a few days ago?

7.45    - school of dragons -- She is doing some sort of whispering death quest...
8.30    - multiplication drill
8:45    - English worksheets, IXL : verbs, adjectives, proper verb for pronouns.
9:00    - reading : Volcano Palace
9.15    - school of dragons
9:30    - break

10    - town; bank visit, claw machines, price comaprisons
10.15    - break

1p    - Life in Cold Blood: - ep4 "Sophisticated Serpents"
2p    - "      - ep5 "armored giants"
3p    - done

Thursday

8:45    - math worksheets: Equality Equations and Arrays +Khan
9:25     - English worksheets: Adjectives and Nouns +IXL
9:45     - Minecraft
11.15    - break

(1.5hr left)

12p    - rock tumbler, cleaning machine, change grit, wash and examine rocks
12.30p    - .5mi walk
12.45p    - Reading: On Kiki's Reef, & Just the Two of Us
1p    - designing Brain Slug sewing pattern
1.45    - done

Thursday

8a    - dragon city
8.45    - multiplication table (12x12)

9.45    - break

11a    - excersize outdoors (.5mi run, 50x 10lb deadlift, 10 squats)
11.30    - rock tumbler setup
12p    - break

12.15    - video: Egyptian Engineering
//She said there were lots of Pharoahs, and one Pharoah wanted to build a dream house, for after he was dead.  We put the date on the timeline with a picture of the Pyramids.  One Pharoah was eaten by a hippopotamus.  She said Imhotep built things for the Pharoahs.
1.45    - done

//6pm - She is building a dragon temple with columns made of some cardboard tubes I brought home from work.  She says it is like the Egyptian tombs, but not a tomb - it is a dragon temple for Violet and Bumpy.  They seem to like it very much.

Wednesday explorations

giant spider web 

9    - dragon city
9.30a    - game research: writing summaries on two games she tried.
10.30    - excersize outside 100x jumping jacks, 30x 10lb deadlift
      50x 10lb bicurls, .25mi run, rope climbing
11    - microscope exploration - dog hair, tomato section, acorns, rocks, flowers
11.30    - break

12p    - multiplication table: 1-12 x 1-6
12.30    - quadcopter flying
12.45    - break

3.30    - giant spiderweb construction
4p    - break

5.45    - quadcopter flying
6p    - quadcopter cleaning - taking apart with jeweler's screwdrivers, cleaning the rotors, putting back together, flies again!
6.15p    - done

She had today with Daddy...as I had to work early.  We had talked about her being 'very good' to go somewhere fun on Saturday.  She asked to go somewhere specific and I told her she would have to be 'almost an angel' to get that this close to her birthday when we were saving money for that...  Tonight when I get home from work she said 'I was good today...was it enough to say I was an angel, or was it just good?'  *heh*  Nice try.... one day is all fine and good, keep going for the rest of the week ;)  Am I turning into a cynic?

Mom Notes //I'm reading Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki in tandem with Palimpest (beautiful language....hard for me to read at times, but still entrancing visual images).  I took an hour or so tonight to reacquaint myself with sin and cos so I could figure out what they were talking about in the omega waltz section!  And yes, I'm still teed off at Miruka for knocking Tetra out of the chair, too...maybe they get on better terms?

Sulking Tuesday

There was a bucketful of bad attitude today - starting out with her complaint that the Goat simluator quest was unfair and could not be solved.  She had a full meltdown during chicken feeding time about 3:30, but it had been building since the very minute she came upstairs this morning.

10.30    - Writing: Blog post about Goat MMO Simulator
11    - break

11.45    - America: Story of Us ep 3 : Westward
12.45    - break

1:30     - Khan Math 3rd grade to 24%
2p        - break

2.45    - Lifting with pulleys
3.15    - designing toy cable car system in her room
3.30    - break and emotional meltdown which ended with very serious talk

4    - building cable car
4.45    - history timeline
10 billion years BC to the present day. Although, nothing really happened before 4.5 billion years ago with the creation of Earth?  Hmm...

5.30    - done

Cosmos and Vampire Dragon Monday

speckled three, all in a pile 

from top clockwise, Freckles, Lucy and Hunter

8    - dragon city
8.45    - break

9    - Cosmos (1980) ep 1 and discussions
---She said that the man spoke in poetry.  She was very interested in much of it.  We also talked about the gaining and loss of scientific knowledge throughout time (Library of Alexandria).  She said she would go to the place where they didn't know or care about science and math and use boxes and balls to prove to them that 3 x 3 is 9.   Then, when they saw it for themselves, they would want to learn more.

We discussed the 'big idea' of calculating the circumference of the Earth so long ago - 2200 years - and how the math worked when he was showing the props of the obelisks in Egypt.  //note- need to cover 'degrees' soon..she kind of got my hand gestures to show what they meant.. but it would be good to go over it in reality -and even maybe measure a sundial outside.
10:15   - break

10.30    - dino digger app.  Really cool, and after you find all the bones it puts them together in video for you from bones to an articulated skeleton, covers it with muscles and skin, and lets you see the creature walk with a pronunciation of the name and more.

11.15    - writing assignment and dictionary use: vampire dragon.  She added lots of details and made a picture.  We went over the capitalization before I let be entirely done.  But, she is writing - dragons are a good topic for her creativity.

12.30    - break - shopping at grocery store and at Lowes (we found clearance pulleys to make a clothesline with!)  Daddy just couldn't wait to get it put together and working!

We still have some Khan math (at least a half hour) to do for the day, Spaghetti Pie to help make for dinner and a new Percy Jackson movie to watch tonight.  I was going to point out on the map where the Library of Alexandria used to be so she identified with it a little bit more. I'd like her to read some more How to Train your Dragon with me tonight.  We made a list of 'to do' today instead of just counting four hours (because she loves to linger over the writing and take up more than an hour doing just that).. and those are the only two things we haven't done yet.

4:45-5:15 - Practiced about eight skills on Khan 3rd grade math.  Perimeter, area, fractions and rounding.She is 10,000 points away from unlocking her 100,000 point avatars.

Mom notes:  I finished reading the Maze Runner, and the Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her own Making.  I've downloaded Palimpest (online library card rocks still...awesome) to read next as everything else is out (don't like the waiting, but hey it is free and emails me when it comes back available).  // Have went through Netflix's history documentaries and added things on Japan, Rome, Egypt, the Mayans, Dark Ages Europe and Knights to Esme's history lineup.  We have more of the 'Life in Cold Blood' series coming, and a docu about the brain as well.   We do need to do a timeline soon - and we will have so much to relate finally on it that I think it will be a good thing now versus before.  She has been asking me when 'the year 1' was, what BC and AD mean and comparing the dates she is hearing in the Universe documentaries trying to do math on them.  

Peering into the Future : She asked me what the word 'geek' meant, and I told her it was a name that people called smart people to mean it wasn't good to be smart.  I said it originally meant someone who was really good at something odd .. and that sometimes people were scared of them for being that good at an odd thing.  She said we shouldn't be scared of the smart people, we should ask them questions so we can learn from them.  And then, when we grow up, we won't be dumb and live in a dump because we don't know things and can't do anything.  I related that to why we were homeschooling her- because we wanted to make sure she knew things they wouldn't or couldn't teach in public school right now.  And that she would have to keep working to know the important things, her entire life.  She said she would, definitely...  I said I would have to remind her of that when she was a teenager and she found everything hard and didn't want to work just play all day long.  She said I would need to remind her of that when she was 11, and every two years after that, because she might forget otherwise.

Friday week 8

8a    - Minecraft
9.30    - 1/2 mile walk
9.45    - reading: Owl Moon, by Yolen
10a    - online research: how to make firecrackers
10.30a    - Chemistry: making firecrackers (ping pong ball cherry bombs)
11.45a    - break

12.30    - testing firecrackers
12.45    - break


Making spaghetti and watching the movie Volcano.

6:00 - History review with map.
6:30 - done

Thursday

7.30a    - attempting to run new game on tablet
8a    - break

9a    - History Review of Episode 1
    - frisbee (some review while playing,as well)
9.30    - America : Story of Us, ep 2
10.45    - break

11.30    - khan math - 3rd grade to 19%
12:00      - Riding bikes - observing right side of road rules
    - cooking: waffle with nectarine and ice cream
12.30    - break

1    - writing: "Son of ultimate dragon"
1.30    - history review of Episode 2
2p    - done



She helped Daddy cut up the steak pieces for steak and cheese sandwiches for dinner.

Wednesday

Dentist today -she was a trooper.

8.15a    - Writing a paragraph about dreams, used a dictionary for several of the words.
9.15    - art: Ultimate Dragon drawing

9.30    - break

10.45a    - reading magazines : Boy's Life (dentist's office, there were some cool ones about Space)
11.30    - break
//dentistry!  She needs three more visits before the end of the year to be caught up.

12.45    - library
1.15    - break

2:30  - reading about the creation of shampoo, things used before shampoo
2.45p    - Documentary: America: The Story of Us ep 1
3.30    - break
3:45    - Khan Math - 100% on K-2, begin 3rd grade mission!
4:15    - done

// We watched the Indian in the Cupboard, and talked about music vocal types as elements of music scale.  (bass, baritone, tenor, alto, soprano).  We were playing on the electronic keyboard.  We read some more George (the black holes part) just before bed. 

She wanted me to move her baby doll bed she got for Christmas to a place there weren't any spiders - because she was scared she had seen a spider next to it.  A big wolf spider came out and shook a fist at me as I moved the little table it was on across the room.  She was much happier and tucked Sally and Sarah into their bed.  She says they are so amazing dolls, especially Sally, because her eyes open and shut.

Tuesday

9.45a    - cardboard dinosaur cont'd

----PVC pipe dinosaur, will be covered with cardboard boxes and painted.  Yesterday she helped measure, cut and find the pieces.  Today we added a tail and Daddy helped us use the tools to drill pieces for caster wheels.  We tied all the square pieces together with string using a pipe cleaner to thread the string through.

11a    - Kahn math- we got to 95% K-2
--There was a point she thought it would be silly and cute to answer a question wrong because she was having a fit...not sure what started it... she didn't like the problem.  It backfired on her, she got five more of that kind of problem the program served her up to reaffirm she knew how to do it.  She had another short fit about that and I explained this was exactly why I had warned her against answering '8777' instead of 87 on that problem (and she had clicked through anyway)... She straightened up a bit and was much better attitude after that lesson.

11.30    - how to play chess, pieces, moves and setup, half of a game
12    - documentary: Popped Secret; the Origins of Corn
12.30p    - break

2p    - minecraft
3.30    - break

5p    - Tree trimming; use of wood saw.
    - Discussion of earthmoving
5.30p    - break

8p    - kitten gender and inventory
8.15    - done

Tomorrow we are going to the dentist.  She is a little scared, naturally...

Monday

8a    - discussion about Mars, the Moon, and atmosphere
8:20    - Spelling and dictionary work, identify which of four words is misspelled, and if necessary, find it in the dictionary to spell it correctly.  Lots of cool stuff in our dictionary, there were several minutes talking about the instrumental organization of an orchestra as she looked at the map in the book.
8:40    - Khan Math : reached 90% and has now practiced every skill in K-2 at least once
--She's not far at all from completing this she began last year...and then we will be on to third grade math.
9:30    - break

10a    - outside, walk & frisbee
10.30a    - reading: Rocks & Minerals book
        - NASA Mars discussion of news article
11a     - cardboard construction
--We are building a pvc pipe and cardboard box dinosaur
12p    - cooking: scrambled egg
--Daddy got her the pan from the high shelf, then helped her crack the eggs. She cooked it, served it for herself, ate it, and then washed the pan.
12.30p    - done