Week 27 – March 25 – March 31

Language Arts:

Nate did Spelling City and he learned to spell many new words.  He is really enjoying having his own email account and emailing his cousin, Makenna.  He asks how to spell words and is really using his spelling skills.  He ran out of Hardy Boys books so he read Chocolate Fever and More Stories from Grandma’s Attic.  He did some Daily Grams.  He does daily Bible Reading and prayer with his family.  He went to the library and got some more Hardy Boys books.   He also got some I am Canada series books.  He watched some DVDs including Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases which caused a lot of giggles.

Math:

Nate watched the DVD lessons for 21 and 22 and did the lessons.  He learned about adding and subtracting fractions with whole numbers and regrouping.

Science:

We went to Soulshine Ranch to pick up our new boar.  He is so cute and friendly.  The boys named him “Porky”.  The big pigs kept chasing him around.  He kept jumping and spinning and running.  We laughed so hard!!!! The bluebirds are back.  We also saw some swans at the 103!  And the geese are honking all the time!!!  It is great to hear them.  Nate took a lock apart and learned about all the parts and how a lock works.  Very interesting.

Social Studies:

We finished Frontenac and the Iroquois and the French are in control of Canada.  Nathan was wondering how Canada became mainly English.  I told him that is coming!  He learned about La Venendrie, Captain Cook and his voyages, sloops, Wolfe, Montcalm, the British taking control of Canada, Henday, and Hearn.  He did very neat mapwork.  He learned about explorers of the Pacific Coast.  He added many pictures to his Book of Centuries.  He started listening to Captain of the Discovery and learned that Vancouver sailed with Cook on two voyages.  He also completed pages 15 – 19 of Canada Map Book #6.

Other stuff:

Nathan helped me pack up some homeschool books and resources and take them to the Homeschool Curriculum Swap at Juanita’s.  We also took some homeschool books to the library where they are supposed to be setting up a homeschool shelf for us.

iPad:

Nathan asked Kenna what her favourite apps are.  So…Nate downloaded Temple Run and is really enjoying it.  He looks up maps and places on his iPad for Social Studies.

PE:  Nathan was outside LOTS this week.  He did his animal chores and helped his dad feed the cattle.  He went to swimming lessons and shaved some time off his long swim!!!  He did an awesome job on his front crawl this week.  And Nate enjoyed playing golf!  Bullet (Sarah's dog) brings the balls back to Nate!  
Photography:
Nathan took the photos of the pigs above.  He also enjoyed taking photos of the geese.