Home-SU-Cool

4th/2nd Grade Creation to the Greeks Ten Commandments: I am the LORD your God...you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol. Bible/History Memorized the 2nd commandment and revised the past memory verses. (I think we're more disciplined this year in the memorization) We learnt about Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and Abraham, Promise and birth of Isaac And we learnt about the ancient writings of the hieroglyphics Books we read this week Math/Science Water and Air: Floating Experiment Water as Liquid Water as solid (expansion) Wax as liquid Wax as solid (contraction) Big Sis worked on addition, subtraction and measurement of length this week. Big Bro worked very hard on fractions. Language Big Bro continued to learn about sentences and learnt to write some long and short sentences Big Sis learnt about nouns this week Spelling Power for Big Bro Spelling by Sight an...

4th/2nd Grade Creation to the Greeks 1st Commandment: I am the LORD your God...you shall have no other gods before me. Bible/History Memorized the 1st commandment We learnt about how Abraham moved from Ur to Canaan. This beautiful map is from here We also learnt about Job, Lot, Hagar and Ishmael. Math/Science Light: Refraction We learnt about how curved surface refract light and words get magnified. I did not use the soda bottle as the book says, but I used our clear vinyl sheet on our dinner table and it worked perfectly! And we made crystals using baking soda and hot water! However, we were not able to observe much from the magnification of the crystals. Day 2 (Water and Air): How clouds are formed We learnt about evaporation and condensation of water. Language Big Bro continued to learn about sentences and work on diagramming sentences Big Sis finished Unit 1 and scored almost perfect for her test! Spellin...