Week 10 Homeschool Report

Math: Measurement
Ethan is learning how to measure things with ruler and learning about inches and feet this week.
He found some items around the house and measured them with ruler. He had to tell me which items is measure with inched or feet.





Another fun way to learn about measuring is asking them to measure with nonstandard measurement such as their feet. They have to walk a long line from one end of the wall to another end to measure how long is the house.


Math: Pattern and number 11
Evan is learning about pattern with the Lego. He had to arrange them in pattern with different color.




He had to find 11 blocks and 11 toy cars from the toy box. He learned counting one by one.





Halloween Craft: Colorful Spider
This is an easy craft. I learned that from local library where they put out this cute decoration in the story room. First, prepare the items such as pompom, glue, pipe cleaner and googly eyes.



You need four pipe cleaners and fold them in half, so that one side got four legs to make eight legs for the spider. Twisted and bend it and glue the pompom ( 2 for the two body part) at the middle of the pipe cleaner. Glue the googly eyes on top of the pompom,,, walah,, you got a colorful spider.




Writing:

He wrote about this little monster with descriptive words. I asked him to find out the noun, adjectives and verbs from his own essay.

Week9 Homeschool Report

Homemade magnetic Haunted House puzzle. I got this idea from one of the homeschool mom but modify a bit. I used the fabric from the old clothes and cut them into several shapes and pasted on the cardboard. After all the pasting and cutting, I put a magnet tape on the back and let the boys play with it. They made up their own story about the five little ghosts and the haunted house.





Math for Evan:Learning number and sorting
I drew some number from 1 to 10 on a cardboard and divided into 10 little boxes. Evan had to match the number of the army/Indian/Cowboys to the according number. This a easy to made Math game for the small kids to learn about number.



For the sorting game, I gave him some seashells that we collected last time and asked him to count it for me. He then had to sort them out according to the sizes.









Grammar: Review the Noun, Pronoun, Adverb, Verb, Adjective and Contraction
By using a big sheet of white paper, I drew six column and Ethan had to match the words into right places. Such as he had to put pretty in Adjective column. He being learning all these grammar rules past 8 weeks. I would like to know how much he can remember so far.





Science: This week we are still focusing on Human Body. This week is about Muscular and Skeletal System. We do a experiment showing that muscle can only pull not push. I am using the
Panda Press Science Curriculunm.

Jack-O-Lantern

Halloween ( Hantu festival in U.S) is coming, this year, I decided to make a Jack-O-Lantern to show the festive mood. I being teaching Evan how to sing the Jack-O-Lantern song, coloring the pumpkin, counting the pumpkins but I think the best way to reinforce his knowledge on the pumpkin is to show him the real one. Ethan being begging me to make one Jack-o-Lantern for him since last week after we read a story book about Halloween.

The song we being singing during the carving process:

Jack-o-lantern! Jack-o-lantern! Big and Yellow!
Jack-o-lantern! Jack-o-lantern! Funny Fellow!
Shinning in the night,
With your candle light,
Scarring out the people,
with the BOO! BOO! BOO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-WsJ4cHHEo
I finally buy a pumpkin today, a big one! A little big afraid that I could not carve the hard shell of the pumpkin. Ethan helped me chose a big round pumpkin.

I found some instruction online through YOUTUBE about how to carve the pumpkin. First, I had to cut off the top part of the pumpkin to get all the pulp inside including the seeds.




The two kids are ready to scoop out the pulp by holding the spoons waiting for me to cut off the top part. But when they saw the inside of the pumpkin with those sticky pulp, they just ran off immediately and left me alone scooping out the pulp and seeds.



After cleaning the inside, we had to decide which Jack O Lantern face we will be carving. Eric found some ideas online, Ethan drew some funny faces and then we chose our best choice of face.

I then drew the face on the pumpkin by using marker. I used the steak knife to carve it out the outline of the face carefully. I thought it was hard but actually not. The whole carving process only took about 45 minutes including cleaning out the inside, drawing, carving and cleaning.


Finally , we got out Jack-O-Lantern lighting out at night. BOO! BOO! BOO!