In the car on the way to and from the museum, Jane read. Later, at home, we watched part of Annie, Jane worked on Dance Mat Typing, wrote secret notes to friends, and colored part of a handbag.
Then, outdoor play time, finishing Studio Ghibli's When Marnie Was There, ukuleles, Little Women, and Hitchhikers.
It was a relatively uneventful day. We finished Life of Fred, Goldfish, the 7th book in the 10 book Life of Fred Elementary Math series.
Chapter 17, Your Turn to Play and Row of Practice
Chapter 18, Your Turn to Play and Row of Practice
I peeked ahead at Honey, the next book, expecting it to begin with the 4's times tables, but instead, it looks like we're headed straight for long division. I am thoroughly enjoy Dr. Schmidt's sequencing. Keeping it lively.
Then, Jane chose to continue working on Dragon Earth, yesterday's story.
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.
Camping trip! Waterfall swimming! Bike riding! Playground! P.E.!
Also, reading in hammocks!
Ukuleles in hammocks!
Hiking! 823 stairs over 4.5 miles! Of waterfalls! And fossils! And glacial features!
Bees in a tree
Toad #1
Toad #2
Cool rock
Neat streambed
Brachiopod fossil
Toad #3
Very long crinoid stem
Critter
Ben is sitting on a glacial erratic - granite boulder. We discussed glacial features, rock types, igneous vs. sedimentary
Chipmunk
A glacier was here. U-shaped hanging valley
Jane says, "It's not my fault!"
Trailside grafitti sticker art
Ithaca sciencecenter!
Hydraulic jumps
Infrared
Touring local waterways in a "submersible"
Acceleration, velocity, loop de loops
Giant bubbles
Local wildlife
Wild edibles. Sumac tea/lemonade. Delicious
Sumac
Don't boil it! Just soak in water. Super yummy drink results.
After sumac tea, we had a night bike to the other playground, which had a teeter totter. We have an old tradition of having to answer math questions to get down from the heights of teeter tottering, and Jane requested math questions. She got the entire 3's times table correct from the high side of a teeter totter. Yay!
The Corning Museum of Glass! Sandblasting workshop! Glass blowing, flamework, and glass breaking demos! Art! History! Technology!
Trick drinking cup, Northern European
Tiffany window, Jane's fave
Driving home, reading in the car! And sushi in Scranton, one $, 5 stars. Thank you, yelp!
