First Grade. First Month. Third Week.

Yes! I know this is late. But I had a hugely productive and busy weekend and had no time to sit and gather the photos and write. So here I am now. I'm going to just jump right in.


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Math:
Babe learned/reviewed reading and interpreting bar graphs and pictographs this week. She remembered this pretty well from Kindergarten Math but had a slight issue with interpreting the pictographs.


"I have to actually count these. In bar graphs I can just read the number!"
"That's exactly right. So which graph do you think is easier to read?"
"The bar graph, but I like the pictures in the pictograph!"


haha


So one day during the week I brought out the Mini M&Ms again (as I did in K), and had her and Bubs sort and count them. Then I had Babe build her bar graph all by herself, with labels and all. A huge success. She did really well with this!

She closed this Math topic out strongly. Moving right along!

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Reading/Comprehension/Writing:

Because this week was the first week back to dance, I took the structured reading lessons out of the curriculum for the week. However, I had her choose two books a day to read and she did swimmingly.

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Science:

Babe learned about both standard and non-standard units of measurement this week. The first day of Science was non-standard measurements so I had her gather a few items from her bedroom and lay them out on the living room floor.

From there, we measured each item using markers and LEGOs!

Day two of Science brought on standard units of measurement, so we measured other various items with a ruler, using both inches and centimeters.

So yes, Science was awesome this week. I assigned homework and had her measure her family members' hands using cheese balls and their bodies using couch pillows. She got a huge kick out of that.

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Social Studies:

Again, since I tried to keep the workload light this week, we only discussed two more American symbols: the bald eagle and our capitol. 

We started off the week being introduced to Ben Franklin and his idea that the turkey should be the national bird. So we compared both birds and Babe told me what she liked and didn't like about each one. I admit it's hard for even me to find something I don't like about the bald eagle, but Babe did and I agreed with her.

"The turkey has so many colors! I mean look, there's green, and red, and yellow, and it's so shiny and pretty."

Yeah, she was right, but then quickly added:

"But the bald eagle is so...good."

haha

Again, she was right.

I had her do a cute little handprint craft to compare the two birds side by side.

We finished Social Studies for the week by viewing photos of the different monuments in DC. She is dying to go see "where Abraham Lincoln lives." hahaha

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As for Bubs, she (and Babe) did bin work heavily this week because I informed them that it was the last week for these bins! So the last day of the school week, I had them do every one of them!

Again, thanks to 3dinosaurs.com for their awesome pack based on the book "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell". Both girls loved the activities and I spent all weekend printing and laminating the ocean animal pack, also from 3dinosaurs.com!

Onto the next week!