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.

 

First Term Summary

 

BIBLE- Danica prays with me or her dad everyday. She attends church with us. She understands that God loves us very much. She understands that God made the world and everything in it, but she also knows that people make things using what God has given us. She understands that Jesus is God’s son. She knows that God is always with her wherever she goes. Danica knows that Jesus died on the cross and that 3 days later God brought him back to life. She understands that Jesus was a child and grew up to an adult. She is in AWANA. She has watched several episodes of Veggietales. She has also watched several videos of Little K which is specifically a video series that the Sunday School in our church uses.

 

HEALTH AND CAREER- We finally received our Healthy Horizons books on Oct 19th. She has done lessons 1-4

Danica dresses herself, brushes her own teeth and bathes herself. She knows that there are healthy foods and junk foods. Danica knows that healthy foods grow our bodies and that junk foods are not good for us but are okay once in a while. She knows that washing our hands is a good way to stop germs from spreading. She covers her mouth with her sleeve when she sneezes or coughs. She knows that sharing is a good thing to do. She can identify the basic emotions and quite a few of the more complicated ones.

 

LANGUAGE ARTS- Danica has completed the formation of capital letters in her Handwriting Without Tears workbook (pg 9-39). She is currently working on the lowercase letters and has completed pgs 40-59. The book also works on number formation which she has completed (pg 84-94).

In Come Sit By Me, Danica has done the units Growing Up (pg 23-52) , and People in My Neighbourhood (pg 53-82).

From The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading Danica has completed Section 1 (short vowel sounds, pg 5-16) and Section 2 (consonant sounds, pg 17-68). She is now working out of Section 3 (short vowel words, pg 69-91) and has completed up to lesson 38.

 

MATH- We finally received our Right Start Math curriculum Oct 19th.  She has done lessons 1-7

Danica loves creating patterns. She can count to 30 with no help and to 100 with some help. She likes helping measure things out and mix in the kitchen when I am baking/cooking.

In HWT she has completed formation of the numbers (pg 84-94).

 

PE- Danica actively plays everyday whether it is bike riding, trampoline, hide and seek, tag, dancing, digging in dirt, foot racing, and/or general running. She went on walks through the neighbourhood and a few nature walks/hikes.

 

SCIENCE- From Come Sit By Me, Danica learned about how fire needs oxygen to burn and what smoke is. She learned that fire burns dry things more easily. She learned about camouflage in nature, molecules and chromatography. She learned about yeast and bubbles in bread products. Also about chemical reactions. She learned about growing bodies, and deciduous teeth.

She collected leaves and nature things everywhere that she could. She loves to compare and observe. She has noticed the change in the trees and the weather as we move into fall.

We have a vermicomposter with red wriggler worms. Danica is learning about what to feed the worms and knows that they make good soil for our vegetable garden. She has observed baby worms and adult worms.

Danica has observed fruits and vegetables growing in our yard and her grandparents’ yards as well. She knows that fruits and vegetables grow. She has also observed a active orchard.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES- Danica has been learning about the community and surroundings around her by working through Come Sit By Me and through observing her surroundings. She has been on several “field trips” including; hiking in Tranquille Creek, Paul Lake, Quesnel Lake, Likely, Adams River salmon run, Davidson Orchards, Planet Bee, Kamloops Art Gallery, Arnica Art Gallery, Cooper’s bakery, Westsyde Petting Farm, local parks, a bird sanctuary/pond,  Kamloops Lake, her auntie’s farm, and everyday life things like grocery shopping and going to the post office.

 

She has noticed that there is a change in the trees and weather as we move into fall. She has also noticed that this means we need to wear jackets and pants instead of tanks and shorts.

 

FINE ARTS- Danica loves to create. She draws and colours daily. She makes art with paper, glue, scissors, yarn, glitter, stickers, stamps, wood, paint, and playdoh. We have only started using the Artistic Pursuits book. She has done lesson 1.