Day 25/180: Prodigy Math Game, Philosophical Hippopotamus, Dragon Earth, and Cosmic Kids Yoga

This morning, I was trying to sign up for YMCA classes and wanted to verify Jane's choices, so I went to see if she was awake.  She was, and she agreed to Synchronized Swimming and Gymnastics.  Then, instead of getting up, she proceeded to read in bed.

Later (and also yesterday), she played Prodigy.  She worked on multiplication by 2, 3, and 4, identifying and sorting quadrilaterals, relating multiplication and addition, and three digit subtraction sentences on a number line.

Then, we finished the Hippopotamus by Jack Prelutsky, our most recent prepared dictation spelling poem.  The difficult words in the second stanza were "philosophical" and "permanent".  When we do prepared dictation, we practice the difficult words, and try to find words that are related, usually words with similar endings.  For example, philosophical is related to tropical, zoological, and mythological.  We also talk about the origin of words.  Philosophical is Greek and means pertaining to the the love of wisdom.  That's why "f" is spelled "ph".

This hippo loves wisdom and harp music

Then, Jane chose to use the spelling words in a story.  Anything to avoid room cleaning, the next thing on the checklist.

Dragon Earth, volume 1

She made plans to publish the story, as volume one.  I looked up self publishing on Amazon.  Seems relatively straightforward.  For the story, I had to make new story writing paper.  My old, little kid paper was much too wide ruled for third grade stories!  Homeschool?  Need free, printable story paper with space for pictures?  Here is my pdf.

Then, a break before room cleaning, with Cosmic Kids Yoga.

After some progress, outdoor play and swimming time.  Then, the always educational Good Eats on Netflix, ukulele time, Little Women, Hitchhikers, and independent reading.