A Pair of Red Clogs - FIAR (3rd week)

Travel to Japan!

1st Day ART.

Girls painted their GLOGS made out of cardboard and ribbon thongs.

 

Japanese writing is a form of 'art' too..  Japanese have two alphabet systems... Girls got to color their names in English and both Japanese Alphabets.....

 

2nd Day Social Studies

 Locate Japan; what is an island...

Flag, what do they wear, or what 'did' they wear?

colored different 'cultural' things, watched video clips.... 

 

3rd Day:  Math and Science!

 

For science we learned about weather.  We had a cool weather book... we played the Weather Clog game in the book, with the clog slippers the girls made... but we also touched on Japanese culture and made a 'wind sock carp' that is made for one of the many Festivals Japan has....

Made, painted and used the wind sock outside.... Weather! 

 

 

MATH... We read what shoes were at the store and colored them accordingly.... ALSO made a shopping list and went to the store, wrote the prices for their Sweet Sushi....  Girls also 'played' Store... picked items around the house and had pennies for money.

 

Friday!  Extra review day and FUN

We went shopping at Target for recipe items and took a trip to an Oriental Market, saw lots of items described in the story... different experience.

Came home to dress up and eat like Japanese do in the village!

 

Sweet Sushi, fruit roll ups, rice crispy treat, gummy fish.... :)  fun.

;sweet; treats... um, don't think so... Hannah said, "write that we tried it and it was gross" That pyramid is a 'rice cake' ... memories of Ping... eww... will stick to American Desserts....

Madeline - FIAR (2nd week)

Madeline was in Paris, France!

1st Day ART.

Architecture is ART, lets build the Eiffel Tower!

Yummy vanilla cookies with cherry frosting.

Monochromatic art, same as the Illustrator did. (One Color)

Brian did his tower as well!

Second Day Social Studies: 

Where is France, Flag, etc... video clips....

Worksheet about Madeline in the hospital, visiting hours, and the routine the girls had...

 

Hannah and Sarah both discussed how the girls treated Madeline while sick,

how we can help others when they are sick; social skills.....

Day 3, Science and Math!

Madeline had her appendix removed. We went over the digestive system

and located the Appendix. 

Math, each girl made the two lines the girls walked in.

I purposely gave Hannah 'extra' little girls to work on subtraction as well...

Count by 2's lots of math play on this little project. 

Madeline at a glance....

I hang all the work up on the walls. During the weekend I take it all down and staple

it together to file in the folder!  Clean slate for the next week.

FRIDAY, our extra day to Review, do fun things we did not get a chance to do...

YES!!!!!  French Crepes!!!! So yummy!!!!!!

 

After we do four weeks of FIAR, we will do a week of Review and touch more on

each subject per day, then the big Exam!!!!  So, we will get into the habit of 4 weeks of FIAR, then one week of full review and exam.  I will use our book 'what every Kindergartner needs to know' and 'what every 1st grader needs to know' during the 'review' week I will pull useful projects from each subject in order to review what we have learned.

 

 

Ping - FIAR (1st week)

We read the book: PING for our first week.  First day was ART!!!!

Brian with his _uck Duck....

Hannah using 'colored pencils' as did the book.... showing movement..... and reflection

Sarah adding 'ripples' to the water and boat 'movement'..... Traced the word DUCK.

SECOND Day Social Studies/ Geography/ ETC...

Kids made the Chinese flag, watched some video clips on China.  Located the Country on our Globe.

Ping lived on the Yangtze river! Found that on the map... girls painted the river, Hannah even added the 'Great Wall' on her water color!

Third Day Math and Science!!!

Counted the Pings large family and did a Science Experiment!

 

Some PING work at a Glance!

 

We had a lot of fun doing this study.  Was sad for it to end, but on to the next book!  Also enjoyed eating Chinese food, noodles... later we found some Chinese Rice Cakes, ones that lead Ping into a trap.  The rice cakes did not taste at all like 'cake' :)  could have done without those.  This is just a little of what we did, we had a blast!

 

FIAR - Five in a Row

We are using FIAR = Five in a Row Curriculum by Jane Claire Lambert. 

We are supposed to do it Five Days in a Row, hence the name, but for our schedule I chose to combine subjects and do 3 to 4 days a week.  

Monday: Literature/Language Arts and ART! (this day is also our Library Story time with crafts)

Tuesday: Social Studies; culture, history, geography.

Wednesday: Math and Science (we also do Math everyday from workbook and math u see)

Thursday: N/A   This is my day to do house chores, since Hannah goes to a homeschool Options program through the public school. 

Friday: We make up anything we have missed and Review!  Plus they do a page of each subject from their workbook.

 

Extra work that we do every day is our Morning/Learning Board, after FIAR we do math, reading lessons, journal sounds/writing... then either 'music' or 'spanish' depending on the day.

 

I like going to the Library on Monday, since I can pick up any of the necessary books that I need to go along with our reading.

 

FIAR has a selection of children's books and you read one book every day for the week!  I just started having 'Daddy' read the book of the week EVERY Sunday Night.  So, the kids get 'prepared' for the week AND, Daddy gets to know what they are going to be working on!

Chicka Chicka Boom BOOM

This is a very fun book.  At the Library we get it with the read along / sing along CD.  The kids made their own coconut tree, then drew the Alphabets climbing the tree.  Hannah did her letters on her own as a 5 year old, Sarah is 3 so she traced the letters that mommy did, and 20 mth old Brian scribbled a bit...  Same project at different levels!  fun!!!