Week 22 – February 12 - February 18

Language Arts:
Nate did Lessons 6, 7, and 8 of Simply Grammar. He practiced his spelling words using Spelling City. He read Vicious Vikings and many Hardy Boys books. He enjoys doing narrations for the books he reads. He finished listening to The Swiss Family Robinson and he watched the Disney Version of the book and noticed many differences between the book and the movie. He watched some shows including Gilligan’s Island, and a movie about Alaska called Rugged Gold.

Math:
Nate played Backgammon with his mom and won two out of three games. He watched Math U See DVD lesson 14 and did lessons 14A, 14B, 14C, 14D, 14E, and 14F. He also watched Lesson 15 and did lessons 15A, 15B, 15C, and 15D. He learned about fractions in measuring, mixed numbers, and improper fractions. He also did some mental math questions with his sister.

Science:
To coincide with his Social Studies explorers unit Nate studied the history of the cod fisheries off Newfoundland. He also learned about the extinction of the Great Auk.

Social Studies:
Nate put some people’s photos in his Book of Centuries including Picasso, Mowat, Wyss, and Stratemeyer (Hardy Boys creator). We continued our explorers unit. We read about John Cabot, did mapping of his route, looked on the iPad for the countries mentioned, looked up about cod fishing, looked up the Great Auk which is now extinct, and read the beginning of The Story of Canada (up to John Cabot). We also started reading Man from St. Malo which is a story about Jacques Cartier which is the next explorer we will be studying.

Other Stuff:
Nate helped bake bread. He made some bread creations like a snail and dagger.

Nate also enjoyed going to the cabin with his dad and staying overnight. He helped his dad plough the road.

iPad:
Nate enjoyed playing checkers with his siblings. He played some math games with his mom including even numbers, fractions, addition, and division. He also learned how to download music on his iPad from iTunes.

PE:
And we had about 8 – 10 inches of snow this week so Nate enjoyed being outside doing winter stuff. He especially enjoyed his snowmobile ride with his dad. He stacks wood daily. Nate and Sarah rode their horses and played polo.

Art:
What a wonderful week of art. We watched our Art Class Lessons 6, 7, and 8. We learned about basic shapes and space. We enjoyed the ideas and projects to help us learn these concepts. We also watched a bonus lesson about Creative Lettering.