Term 2 Friday Week 8

2nd of the year

went to the doctors today

Term 2 Thursday Week 8

1st  of the school year

My home schooler has a sore throat and a very heavy cold

Term 2 Wednesday Week 8

bible

reading

phonics

spelling

writing

english knowing the pairs of things ,Adjectives: Opposites – Matching Quiz ,Assorted Sentences (listening comprehension)

maths addition, subtraction, multiplication, calculating distances, decoding a secret maths code,

Art

this weeks theme something you serve at a picnic.

science magnifying glass

http://www.goalfinder.com/product.asp?productid=36

http://www.diylife.com/2008/05/01/mad-science-for-kids-2/

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/microscopy/simplemagnification/index.html

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=3&DocID=298

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080623-giant-wombat.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080624-frog-claws.html

PE went out for another training session with his paper run

Term 2 Tuesday Week 8

Play group My Home schooler made pizza for the adults and served morning tea and did the music with the kids

PE Rode his bike to play group and back

spelling test and learnt the spelling words he didnt know using this spelling programme

reading

maths finished off doing the decimal chart he started yesterday, addition

2 pm PE Rode his bike to and from Annes Had his session with Anne

went and played at our old next door neighbours house

Term 2 Monday Week 8

Bible

reading

phonics

writing (wrote a 3 page story with help)

Maths decimal addition, decimal subtraction, multiplication, decimal chart finding out how big a whole is

PE My Home schooler went for a bike ride

Music Look at different musical instruments from around the world and identified which part of the orchestra they would fit into – strings, percussion, wind etc

Didgeridoo — Australia
Ocarina — Latin America
Shakuhachi flute — China and Japan

Rebab — North Africa and the Middle East
Balalaika — Russia
Psaltery (a type of dulcimer) — many places around the world
Gamelan orchestra — Indonesia (a collection of percussion instruments)
Tabla — India

science/maths

space

looked at this internet site sitehttp://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/solar_system.html#

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/planets.html

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/mercury.html

did a worksheet from this site and used one of the pages online to find the answers also used maths to find out how many moons are in the solar system

http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/galleries/space.html

Technology Cooking Pizza for play group tomorrow

PE Practiced for paper run with the friend hes relieving for

His friend stay over for a while after the paper run

Saturday Night – Sea Scouts Camp Fire Sing Along

Term 2 Friday Week 7

writing

bible

reading

phonics

spelling

maths decimal addition, decimal subtraction, multiplication, $$, using a calculator

swimming

start training for his paper run

sea scouts Laserforce

Term 2 Thursday Week 7

Bible

reading

writing dictated a thank you letter then wrote 2 (good copies) thank you letters to the ladies whom gave us the tickets for last nights show

English/history Read the story of Maria

My home schooler liked Maria “because she was adventurous, she loved the outdoors. She was a good singer.”

I found out that the Captain’s oldest child was a boy, not a girl, and the names of the children were changed (at least partly to avoid confusion: the Captain’s eldest daughter was also called Maria).

found out what a stormtroopers is read some of this to my home schooler

History read my home schooler these pages

http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html

http://www.trappfamily.com/familystory/history.php?tid=247

http://www.singers.com/choral/trapp.html

Phonics

spelling

maths multiplication, decimal subtraction, decimal addition, $$

sea scouts

Term 2 Wednesday Week 7

Science/singing watched the Go Show they were talking about the planets

Bible

reading

writing a draft and then a good copy to send to his grandfather

phonics

spelling

English read about badgers and put the info and a picture of a badger into the “nature book”

looked at pictures of what blue flags look like, and here and lastly here

found and looked at some tablelands are

reading comprehension

maths multiplication, adding decimals and subtraction

Art

this weeks theme sweet.

music practiced songs for sea scouts

watched a few of the songs from UTube from The Sound of Music

we are going to the stage show tonight. We have a friend whom is in it.

watched, sang and danced to Love to Sing

music

THE SOUND OF MUSIC STAGE SHOW

Do you recognize the father?  Yes Its Ray Woolfe.

Term 2 Tuesday Week 7

play group My Home schooler was busy as well as doing this art he also lead the singing session (which as a friend pointed out is giving him confidence in front of a group of people)

maths subtraction multiplication adding decimals

Anne

Cooking dinner

Reading