TERM ONE SUMMARY

I am super frustrated as my computer seems to have some sort of serious problem and is not allowing me to preview or sort the selected photos. As a result the samples are all mixed up and in no particular subject order. Sorry. I have tried to label most of them.


Bible- We have been reading bible stories and memorizing a verse per CSBM unit. She has memorised Phillipians 4:13 and is working now on Job 12:10. She has also done some of the devotionals from our devotions book but I am not super into the devotional. Perhaps we need a different one.

Fine Arts- Danica has been a creating machine as per usual, drawing, painting, shaping, and crafting.

Health and Career- I am not using a formalized H&C curriculum this year. Danica has however been learning about babies due to her little cousin. She also sorts and puts away laundry as a regular chore. She picks up and tidies plus any other chores I request of her. She understands basic hygiene and is continually learning about healthy foods vs occasional foods

Language Arts.- Danica has completed up to lesson 34 in First Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind. She practices writing daily and had recently completed her Handwriting Without Tears grade one workbook. She has now started on the Grade 2 HWT workbook, Printing Power. She has been steadily working on her reading. She has read 35 readers to date and is on lesson 68 of the Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading. She has been working on poetry these last few weeks and has composed a cinquain, 2 limmericks and an acrostic. She is also working out of Write About Me and is on pg 12.


Mathmatics- In Right Start Math Danica has completed up to lesson 31. We are also working on understanding money outside of the math curriculums requirements. I have found a Money Song that we go over regularily to help her remember the values and appearances of the coins.


PE- Daily play, trampoline, walks, and running. Also Danica has been learning a little about kickboxing and though it is unorthodox I am teaching her proper fighting stance and how to throw a punch properly by landing them on our punching bag.


Science- Danica has learned about magnets this term. She understands that magnets have poles and has done plenty of experimenting with magnets and magnetic vs non magnetic items. She has been learning about other forces as well such as gravity and friction. She made a poster about push and pull forces. She has also been learning a ton about the water cycle in her weather class in the co-op here in town. She has been doing the science activities in CSBM as well.


Socials- Danica has been doing the socials activities in CSBM. She has already completed alll the social out comes for grade one last year. She has been working on maps this year. She has coloured world maps, explored our floor globe and worked on a project called ``Me on a Map``. She made a project with 7 maps ranging from our home all the way to a world map. The maps are all stacked on one another and linked together. She has learned the name of our street, city, province, country, continent, and planet. She is also learning about Remembrance Day and why we have that day.

Remembrance day poppies that the kids and I did together.

Leaves and crayon shavings between sheets of waxed paper. Danica loves picking out beautiful leaves.

Paper mache on a balloon.

Robot helmet (coloured printout glued to a box.)

 Castle, made with paper tubes and an old cracker box.

Making a "thankful tree".

Needle work.

Odds and evens. Pattern regognition.

HEALTH AND CAREER

Recipe that we made together.

Learning about babies.

SCIENCE

Pushing a toy truck with magnetic forces.

Magnetic forces.

Melting foods on the stove top for science.

Season cycle.

Learning about forces (friction and gravity).

Forces poster (push, pull, both).

SOCIAL STUDIES

Mathmatics with tally sticks.

Finding odds and evens using tiles.

Making an "old" treasure map.

Princess card, shoe and hat.

What she wrote inside the princess card.

Ruuuuuun!

Making shadow creatures.

Discovering ways to divide 5.

Colored in a map of the world

Made art with household objects

This is a project called "Me on a Map". She went from where we are on the world map, continenet, country, province, city, street and finally our house address. For internet privacy reasons I will not be posting the city map through to the house picture she drew.

Danica labelled the cycle of water and has been learning a lot about it in co-op.

 Danica has been writing a book called Danica Can Do It! These are some of the pages.

Danica's Cinquain about our cat Scamp.

Danica's acrostic poem about our Dog Lexi and a picture she labelled of the parts of a dog.

Grade One

Well here we are. A second year of homeschooling in our household. Our curriculum is all here and ready to be devoured.


We will be using.......

Come Sit By Me Vol 1
Right Start Math - level A
The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind
Handwriting Without Tears- Grade one
Artistic Pursuits
Fun and Active Devotions for Kids
Writing Poetry With Children
My First Map Book
Force and Motion
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
Forces Make Things Move
Magnetism
Physics: Explore Newton's Laws of Motion
Write About Me

Danica is very excited to start doing more formal learning again. She has already started writing and illustrating a book called "Danica Can Do It".

Third Term Summary.

*Portfolio samples/photos are in the pictures divided into subject*

BIBLE- Danica has memorized verses and heard Bible stories. She understands God as a loving Creator and knows that Jesus died and rose again. She prays with us and is growing in her understanding.

FINE ARTS- Danica continues to take daily joy in creating and drawing. She cuts, glues, colours, etc. She uses recyclables from around the house and things that are found in nature for her art. She loves to draw toys and cartoon characters. When she goes for a sleep over at Grandma’s or Nana’s she almost always takes her felts and book. She also enjoys taking photos with my camera.

HEALTH & CAREER- Danica has covered the entirety of the Healthy Horizons lessons for Kindergarten. She knows how to take care of her body, use her manners, share, be kind, and she knows safety rules. She has a very strong grasp on feelings in herself and others.


LANGUAGE ARTS- Danica has completed Handwriting Without Tears- K workbook and has completed HWT-Grade 1 workbook as well. In reading she continues to progress in speed of recognition and in reading new words. She helps me read her bedtime stories. We read signs and labels together. She has finished the first level of Raz Reading and is now working on the second level.

MATH- Danica has completed Right Start Math-K to lesson #70. She enjoys doing math and playing the many games that the book suggests.

PE- Danica has spent a LOT of time running and climbing and jumping this term. Since our yard has been fenced she is outside on the trampoline almost every day. She has outgrown her run bike and is getting much stronger with pedalling her heavy pedal bike. She loves going on nature walks, hikes and walks in our neighbourhood. She loves to “tightrope walk” on raised cement and wooden beams. By nature she is errs on the side of caution and considers physical tasks before attempting them. In the last while she has become quite brave with slides and climbing. She has also become much more confident on the trampoline attempting several tricks her older cousin has shown her.

SOCIAL STUDIES- Danica has nearly completed “My First Map Book”. She completed the socials outcomes in Come Sit By Me- Vol 2. (For details reference weekly blog).



SCIENCE- Danica completed the science outcomes in Come Sit By Me- vol 2. She particularly liked the BUGS section of the book. (For details reference daily blog).
As a part of our daily lives I am constantly identifying various birds, insects, and species of plants and trees to Danica. She knows quite a few of them now.
Danica explained to me  a few weeks ago that she use to think people were stronger than the wind because we can go through wind. But then she saw the wind shaking a traffic light post and decided that the wind can be stronger than people because a person can’t make those posts wiggle.

Mid Year Summary

 

TERM SUMMARY FOR DANICA. GRADE K.

Bible- Danica is learning Bible truths in our day to day life (see previous entries). She has memorized John 3:16 and Mark 13:30. We also use the scripture discussions in Come Sit by Me.

Fine Arts- Danica has created using multiple mediums including, but not limited to, playdoh, felts, paints, glass, glue, pipe cleaners, crayons, paper and multiple recycled items from our recycle bin. She has also created using blocks, sticks, rocks, leaves, flowers, threads, yarn and legos. She continues to love to dance and sing.

Healthy and Career- Danica completed all the lessons from units 1,2,3 & 4 in her Healthy Horizons book since the last summary. She has learned about feelings, families, sharing, co-operating, listening, using manners, and the five senses.

Language Arts- From The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading Danica has completed up to lesson 72 (see reading sample videos below) For writing Danica has completed the K Handwriting Without Tears. She is now working out of the grade 1 workbook and has completed up to pg 41. She is copying full sentences. She no longer reverses any letters if she is copying them. (see samples in L.A. picture file).

Math- In Right Start Math she has completed up to lesson 40. She can count to one hundred with the regular language that we use to count (see video sample below). She can also count in the method that most Asian countries use (eg. ten-one, ten-two…….eight ten-seven, eight ten-eight, eight ten-nine…etc.) from one to ten ten. She can do single digit addition with the equation equalling ten or less. She knows the even numbers from 2-10 and the odd from 1-9. She  understands estimating though she is not very accurate yet. She can compare quantities, 1 to 10, using one-to-one correspondence. She can easily recognize 1 to 5 objects or dots and name them readily. She can relate the numbers from 1-10 to each other.

PE- Danica is active every day. She loves to run and jump and do somersaults. She rides her bike indoors and outdoors. She loves sledding and going for walks in our neighbourhood. She also loves to dance, balance, and suspend herself between furniture pieces.

Socials, Science- In Come Sit by Me Danica has done the units Days Gone By (pg 83-114), Cycles Go ‘Round and Round (pgs 115-148) , and Grand World Tour (pgs 149-186). She learned about many things including silk trains, wartime Canada, hibernation, water cycles, South America, Africa, and China.

In her newly acquired My First Map Book, Danica has completed activities 1-6. The book teaches the fundamental map concepts of shape, symbols, position, and direction.

Danica can identify Mountain Ash and Maple trees. She has been taught the difference between conifers and deciduous trees. There are lots of birds in our neighbourhood due to a bird loving neighbour. Danica loves to watch the flocks of song birds swoop through the winter sky. She calls it “bird ballet”. She can identify some local birds such as flickers, magpies, crows, bald eagles, swans, ducks, and ruffed grouse. She has observed and recognized many types of BC animals at the local wildlife park.

 

 Work Samples- There are samples of Danica’s work within the picture files. I posted video samples at the beginning of January with memory verse, her explaining a map she drew, and her explaining the hibernation cycle of bears. I have also linked some reading and counting to the bottom of this post. 

 

 

This is Danica reading a simple story.

 

 

Silent e.