Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Weekly Homeschool report-Week 5

Homeschooling does not mean that we have to stay at home whole day and study. One day while we phoned back to Malaysia, my father-in-law was concern about his grandchildren being isolated and does not know how to socialize with other kids. I would like to let him know that Evan and Ethan are doing great and they got the chance to go out a lot ( I mean in public places very often) and meeting with different people from different ages.

I signed Ethan up for the Health Museum science class once a week. Evan got the chance to stay in class for the lesson too. Ethan has the Chinese school every Sunday.

We joined the homeschool group. We attend the Art and Music class every other Thursday. Park day is on every other Friday. Normally, after the park day, we will stop by Eric's office to have lunch with him. The boys got to meet their dad's coworkers and see his office.

Ethan has the online curriculum through Time4learning.com every day. I prepared the worksheets for him to do in the morning. He played computer game after his work is done. They played their toys and go to the playground.

Math: Money
Ethan has no problem in recognizing the money value. I have to work more on his word problem. One of the assignment is I gave him a grocery store price list and asked him to cut out the items with different prices.He had to cut out the items which are below $1, above $2,about $5, items which are on sale, expensive items and cheap items.




Grammar: Pronouns


Poem: Autumn Leaves
Fall is here. Leaves starting to fall. It is a good time for them to go outside to observe the leaves and collect them.


A lot of things we can do about the leaves. They sort and compare the leaves. They do some counting. They do some rubbing on the leaves to make the leaves art. We do some leaves pressing but it has to wait one month later to get the dry leaves and flowers.


We go around the neighborhood to collect the leaves.



Sorting and comparing the leaves.


Geography: Continents and Oceans.
I did some review with him to test him whether he still remember the continents and oceans. He did it well. There is one good link to test the knowledge of geography that we try this week is http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/World_Continents.htm.



I used the playdough to shape a little ball to represent the earth. I drew a line in the middle of the earth to represent the equator line. Then, Ethan cut it in half. This is a good way to introduce the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere. Then, another half from top to bottom to represent East and West Hemisphere.



Science: Digestive system
Ethan had the science class in Health Museum. Evan and I stayed in the class too.

As usual, Ethan went up to be a volunteer. His apron is showing the body digestive system. Esophagus, stomach, large intestine and small intestine.


The instructor is showing how big and wide is the large intestine.
This is another example of showing how long is the small intestine.


The kids got the chance to observe the peristalsis process--- the movement of the food from mouth to stomach.

They played bingo about good and junk food in the class.


Art and music class.

Story time during lunch with other homeschool kids.

Art : making collage




Learning about pattern and shape:
Ethan is master in this activity. Evan still have to learn how to make the pattern.



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