Art: This is a snow monkey drawn with help from Draw Write Now. This one was harder than the panda bear, I think because of the bent legs, so I helped him a bit with them. Govinda gave him bananas to eat because he felt bad that they were the only monkeys that don't have bananas! The house in the back is where their banana friend lives!
Science: We erupted the clay volcano we made last year. This time we used dish soap along with the baking soda and vinegar, which made the 'lava' flow more slowly like pahoehoe! We read many books about volcanoes and a few about snow monkeys (macaques). The Magic School Bus Blows It's Top and Inside The Earth were the favorite books this week. We also reviewed different kinds of rocks and minerals.
Phonics: We did lessons 146-150. The theme was the blend 'st' and the reader was Kate's Nest, which was another great hit. The 'st' blend was pretty easy and familiar, so it was a great way to review all the other phonics concepts we have recently learned, especially discriminating long and short vowels.
Math: We did lessons 109-115, catching up from our getting behind last week. Two of the lessons were games, so I was able to save those for other times instead of school time. This week was more practice with adding and subtracting and finding all the different ways to make a certain sum. We also reviewed greater than and less than and reading and writing time to the hour.
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