Showing posts with label Week 3 - Elementary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week 3 - Elementary. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Pictures from Week 3: Elementary

Building pyramids and The Sphinx out of Legos

creating Hieroglyphics out of Sculpey clay, before baking

We use Museum ABC to do Picture Study (First day, look at the picture briefly and narrate about it. 2nd day, look at picture briefly and sketch with pencil. 3rd day, look at picture briefly and sketch with colored pencils. 4th day, look at picture and recreate with any medium) . On the 4th day, they can recreate the painting using any medium they choose. This is a modeling clay recreation of a boat painting.

Working on one of the Alabama State Quarter

Labeling North America

Doing Draw Write Now

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Elementary Week 3: What We Were Up To

Literature: Scooter - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Flower - The Little Princess, Helper - Charlotte's Web, Jelly Bean - The Wizard of Oz.

History: Story of the World 1 -

Spelling: Scooter and Flower - Spell and Write Grade 6, Unit. Helper - Spell and Write Grade 3, Unit. Jelly Bean - Spell and Write Grade 2, Unit.

Grammar: Scooter and Flower - God's Gift Of Language, Unit 1. Helper and Jelly Bean - Beginning Wisely, Unit 1.

Writing:
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Math: Scooter - Saxon 6/5 Lesson , Flower - Saxon 5/4 Lessons , Helper and Jelly Bean - Math U See Beta - Lesson 3

Botany: Apologia Botany. Lesson 1 - Vascular and Non Vascular Plants
Astronomy: Apologia Astronomy, Lesson 2 - The Sun

Geography: Olders - North America Continent Study - Draw and label North American Countries. Youngers - Alabama. Study in Atlas and color Alabama quarter from H.I.P Quarter Lesson Plans.

Picture Study: Museum ABC - B is for Boat

Poetry: R is for Rhyme - B is for Ballad

Art Study: M is for Masterpiece - B is for Brush

Music Study: The Story of the Orchestra - Bach

Instruments: Olders - Keyboard (Learning the location of the notes on the keyboard and on the staff) Youngers - Recorder (Learning location of notes on the staff and playing the letter B)

Shakespeare: Biography about Shakespeare