Snow Day!

5 Fingers

On Monday we started a unit in 1st grades History and Geography titled: "I Live In A Family." On one page, he was required to draw a picture of his family. Let me just say we have all come a long way from just a round head and 1 stick bodies. But today another first happened... people now have 5 fingers on each hand. LOL! And they are counted twice to be sure everyone has 5. I know...I know...fingers. But it is these developmental growths that just thrill my heart from this child that they said would not be able to learn.

Various numbers of fingers....


5 fingers on each hand!

The Elfin Rotties

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

5th grade has been studying cells. Today she looked at skin cells from her hand. To prepare her slides, she scraped cells from the palms of her hands, from her finger tips and from under her nails. We placed the specimens on slides with a drop of water and slide covers. These are drawings of what we saw:



Let's just say that when we saw what was under her fingernails that we all said a dramatic, "EEEWWWWW" and discussed again the importance of hand washing and not biting our fingernails.

Science...Weather Permitting

10th grade has a science project to look at pond water through the microscope. I knew about this project from the beginning of the school year, but I thought it was later in the school year. If you have seen the pictures from my post, Recess, then you know that getting pond water would be very difficult for us right now. LOL! Luckily, I have a relative that lives "down South." They have promised to send us some, but we shall see.

I told 10th grade that he can always tell his teacher that he tried to do his assignment, but it froze!

Recess

Preschool

My preschooler loves to come to school. In fact, I had only intended for him to do about 1 ½ hours, Monday through Thursday, but when I would tell him he was done, he would cry and beg to stay in “sule.” So while I do not like doing too many worksheets for the little guy, I have had to bump up his table work as he wants to be like the big kids.

This is our preschool program:

Brightly Beaming Steps to Reading Program

My 5th grader loves being the “teacher” for him. She studies her curriculum and finds books in our library that cover the weekly theme. I find other resources and coloring pages using: tlsbooks.com, Enchanted Learning, and BeginningReading.com. I am amazed to watch him learn and sometimes even more amazed watching her “teach”. He has a Spiderman table and chair set, a drawer for his school supplies and loves having a “sule” folder for his “wurhk”.

He uses stacking blocks, play dough (a favorite) math manipulative and lap books from Tot School. Recently he has enjoyed doing nature drawings, listening in on the Rosetta Stone Spanish curriculum and singing karaoke.