Adventure log drawings
2014-10-98am - Greater / Less than worksheet
- Bike parts worksheet
- Starfall
- Break
9am - Tongue Twisters
- word search
- PE (weights! 30x 5lb lift, 30x 5lb squats, .25mi run (quarter mile), 10 situp)
10am - Outside adventure nature observation walk
- Writing report of observations
11am - recess
4pm - Web searches with Rhe
- Designing monkey bars
5pm - Engineering: pipes, T and elbow joints.engineering vocabulary
5.30pm - Done
extracredit: Spider egg case drawing for science , discussion
eating watermelon from a coworker's garden with her egg and cheese sandwich for dinner
the light was almost completely gone and the camera had a hard time getting much quickly... got quiet contemplation and 'super excited'... She had her knee-high socks on and rollerskates on and had been skating for about an hour today on the concrete floor just before I got home...
List of things she wants to do 'soon':
Potato stamps art project
ink blots with paint
Engineering school:
Project requests:
Build a cottage out of wood - bit too much for us at the moment...but possible
Buld a set of monkey bars out of pipe and a ladder.. very possible, need used ladder
We discussed both options, looked it up some for material cost and discussed measuring and how to decide how big a project should be when it's done. Went to a store site, looked up materials, talked about price sorting and how to check if an item is what you want. Talked about counting pieces in a design so you don't have to go to the store more than once for materials, and why it would be hard to go back once you were building/working. Then we practiced using our PVC bag of parts and pipes (from the flea market tent) to build a structure, make it stable, balance and mirror (opposite but the same - she said) parts so it comes together.. how to compare lengths of pieces and find four/eight etc. the same, how to substitute a part if you don't have what you need right at hand... She was very good at keeping-trying and then also about making her drawing, counting, and cleaning up.
//transition //
She asked if she had to go to school tomorrow (Friday) and I said not go 'to' school, she would have school here at home, like the past days since Monday. She said she didn't want to do school at home either (she wanted to skate and play and I had told her it was really time for bed).. but then I said she didn't want to trade her Saturday, did she? Oh no, don't want to do that... She still gets the weekend off like she would at 'regular' school and we had fun things planned for the weekend.. and she gets to plan some of the things she wants to do, unlike at the public school. So, she planned some things and is ready for classwork tomorrow then a fun weekend with no 'required' stuff. She then said 'I am kind of tired.' I said I saw it in her eyes. She said she saw I was tired in my eyes, too.. Yes, and I have work tomorrow. She flip-flopped for a few minutes while taking forever brushing her teeth.. by the time I had her in bed and reading a few poems to her she was in a sweet mood.
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