Home-SU-Cool

These few weeks we did quite a bit! For History, we talked about the partitioning of different countries, the Suez Canal crisis, Marshall Plan, two republic of China, communism in Asia, and Argentina. We played a game, Search for Evita and I'm rather proud of it. And we finished the read-aloud Lil Sis is in Mod 11 of her Bio class! Also, Big Bro attended a program by Carnegie Hall (B-side) on Music Business. It was quite a hoot! For Kindergarten we learnt about Penguin, Kangaroo and zebra Game from Home Depot kit We have quite a few penguin stuff at home! We learnt about why penguins can live in sub-zero environment And we talked about the egg-carrying penguins. haha. What he drew on the board... And we went to a Children's Museum! Pita pocket for Kangaroo! We didn't expect this. but this was fun! Pocket, his bear, was a kangaroo for a day This was fun! He didn't have space everyone in the family!!! hahahah... He LOVED the diorama. DEFINITELY have to do more This was in...

4th/2nd Grade Creation to the Greeks Psalms 1 Blessed is the man      who  walks not in  the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in  the way of sinners,      nor  sits in  the seat of  scoffers; 2  but his  delight is in the law   of the  Lord ,      and on his  law he meditates day and night. The wicked are not so,      but are like  chaff that the wind drives away. Bible/History We read about David becoming King We continued on Children's Homer and the kids were getting a bit grossed out by the battle scenes. I rolled my eyes and said "Oh come on! You guys watched Star Wars which was way more gruesome!" The kids wrote summaries of Saul's life. And we talked about the Phoenicians, reminding them about the Greek word they learnt of "biblos" (from which "bible" derived from). Math/Science Day 4 of Creation (Sun and Moon) ...

PRESCHOOL We found lots of fun stuff for the preschooler! And the first day of P-Penguin, there was a freebie preschool pack out, so I grabbed the chance and downloaded it. It was great fun for her! Color by numbers    This is the preschool pack (lots more than these of course)       oops, not this, this one is from another site   match shapes   cutting practice   finding "p"s   puzzle   size sort KINDERGARTEN   The learning page has this cool printable.   I did a P words wordsearch on puzzlemaker   The preschool pack has some fun stuff for the K'ner too.   Learning how Penguins stay warm   They have an insulation of air in between their feathers. We also watched quite a number of Emperor's Penguins videos on youtube. GREAT fun! And we read The Emperor's Egg and also Tacky (I don't like Tacky, but the kids do)