Week 34 – May 13 – May 19, 2012

Language Arts:

Nate got the last two Hardy Boys books from the library.  So…what series will he read next????  

Math:

Nate completed Math U See (Epsilon)for the year!  Congratulations, Nathan, on a job well done!!!!  You have an amazing understand of math!!!

Science:

Nate did the eye model from the Scholastic’s Body Book!  Too cool!  All the layers of the eye and excellent information.  Great addition to our eye dissection!  He also learned about the three types of rocks – Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.  He read many Bible verses about “rocks” and Jesus being our Rock and Corner Stone.  Very interesting!  We sang On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand.  He made a little book about the three types of rocks! We also did some cool experients to help Nate remember about these various types of rocks....

Obsdian and pumice - same "ingredients".  Pumice just has gases added to it!  We used an egg white to demonstrate that!

 Igneous rocks are like chocolate chips - first hard - then melted - then hardened again.  And delicious to eat our "rocks" after they hardened again!

This is a Snickers bar to demonstrate the layers in sedimentary rocks!  Another delicious rock experiment to eat.

For metamorphic rocks - rice krispee squares!  How marshmellows, margerine, and rice krispees "change" under heat and pressure!

Social Studies:

Nathan put his last entry for the year in his Book of Centuries…Lewis and Clark.  Next year…ancient history!  Can hardly wait!

Stuff:

Happy Mother’s Day!  I LOVE this photo!!!!  I LOVE baby toes!  Too cute!+++++

My family treated me to a picnic for lunch and a Bar B Q for supper!!!  I sat by a lake and knitted!  What a wonderful, relaxing day!  Thanks to my amazing family!

PE:

Nate spent lots of daddy time working with the critters around here!  He watched the movie Little Giants and then got his football out and spent time with dad or anyone else who would throw and kick the football with him.  Nate also got the baseball and threw it back and forth with me!

Week 33 – May 6 – May 12, 2012

Language Arts:

Nate enjoyed watching some MacGyver with Wes.  He did some Daily Grams.  He practiced his spelling words with Spelling City.  He wrote some very funny limericks about his family.  He enjoyed using the rhyming dictionary to help him find some words. 

Math:

Nate did Math U See lessons 28 and 29.

Science:

Nate attended the TLA eye dissection.  Mrs. Gledhill and Mrs. Willis were there and the kids had an awesome time learning about what is inside an eye!!!  

Social Studies:

Nathan enjoyed time with another homeschool family after the eye dissection!  He learned some new computer games! 

Stuff:

Nathan’s cousin Makenna came to Green Lake from Abbotsford.  Nate and Kenna had so much fun riding bikes and playing restaurant at the beach.  They also enjoyed a wiener roast at the lake and making s’mores.  What an awesome day!

PE:

There were lots of outdoor activities for Nathan this week including golf, riding his bike, animal chores, and playing at Lake of the Trees Bible Camp with the McIntosh kids!  Nate LOVED his time exploring the camp and playing on the equipment!  

Flight:

Just as we were coming out of the Youth Zone we saw a helicopter landing at the airport so of course we had to stop and watch it!!!!

Week 32 – April 29 – May 5, 2012

Language Arts:

Nathan is almost finished I am Canada’s Blood and Iron about the building of the Canadian railway.  He did an awesome narration telling me all about the dangers of that time.  He watched some movies including Home on the Range, Stuart Little 2, Narnia, A Bear Named Winnie, and Love Begins.  He made a thank you card for his swimming teacher and gave her a Timmy’s gift card!  He practiced his spelling words on Spelling City.  He did some Daily Grams.

Math:

Nate finished lesson 27 and he learned about the area and circumference of a circle.

Science:

Nate enjoys watching MacGyver and seeing all the “inventions” he makes.  We started talking about our next unit – rocks!  He got out the books, lapbooks, and Considering God’s Creation information so we are ready to start our unit!

Social Studies:

Nate finished listening to The Map Maker:  The Story of David Thompson.  He really enjoyed learning about the Nor’Westers and the fur trade.  He learned about the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago.  He watched a little bit from the Pearl Harbour and enjoyed watching the planes.

Extra stuff:

Nate enjoyed visiting some homeschoolers this week!  He also got to stay home with his brother while I went to do some visits.

PE:

Nate is really enjoying his “new to him” bike with 21 speeds.  He rode it to the gravel pit with his siblings.  He enjoyed riding his scooter.  He stacked wood.  He is really enjoying flying his remote control airplane that takes photos and videos from the air!  Tooooooo coooooool! 

iPad:

Nate is enjoying many apps including popping bubbles.  He showed one of the children and a dad that we visited how to use the iPad and some apps including checkers and X-Plane.

Music:

Nate got a new guitar!  He helped to string it left handed and then he tuned it.  He learned to play C and G7 chords and how to strum.  He is learning FAST!

Week 31 – April 22, 2012 – April 28, 2012

WOW!  What an amazing week!

Language Arts:

Nate continues to enjoy Hardy Boys.  He only has a few novels left in the original series!  He went to the library and got out more MacGyver DVDs…Season 3 – The end!  He practiced his spelling words using Spelling City.  He did some Daily Grams.

Math:

Nate finished Lesson 26 and watched the DVD lesson for 27 and did the lessons.  He is learning about the area and circumference of a circle.

Science:

Nate got a crystal glass and did the “ring sound” by running his finger around the edge of the glass.  Now we’ll have to investigate why this happens.  But the most amazing science this week was a trip to the Big Little Science Center in Kamloops.  Nate learned about water and its properties.  He made huge bubbles.  He got to “play” science!  There were three rooms filled with hands-on science things that he could play with.  He enjoyed the sound-proof room where he could scream and no one could hear him and so many other experiments.

Social Studies:

Nate is listening to David Thompson – Map Maker.  On his trip to Kamloops he was able to see the North Thompson, South Thompson, and Thompson Rivers that are named after David Thompson by Simon Fraser.  He completed his history of Canada!  He updated his Book of Centuries.  He finished Canada Map Book 6.

Other stuff:

Nate got to stay at the cabin with his dad!!!!

He helped make homemade beef soup.  It was delicious.

He stopped at Green Lake.  There are huge cracks in the lake and it looks very green!

iPad:

Nate continues to play games, look up information on the internet, take photos, play music, garage band, etc.  Sooooooo many great apps for learning and FUN!

Visit:

Nate went to another ranch and visited the Thiessen family.  They had baby chick so Nate enjoyed cuddling them and learning about them!   

He went for a quad ride with the girls and checked for new calves.  He watched Ice Age 3 because it was raining.

PE:  Nate got a “new to him” bike and is enjoying all the gears!