Classroom Update (February 10, 2013- February 21, 2013)

For the two weeks of January 27-February 7- We took two weeks off in the Red Snail Classroom.

Monday (February 10, 2013):

• Spelling:  This week we had the same spelling list as from the week of January 20.  Due to the snowy weather and a few missed days, I felt that covering these words again would be a good idea.

1. apron
2. become
3. bully
4. cannon
5. compensation
6. composite
7. deposit
8. didn't
9. door
10. easy
11. friends
12. heard
13. landform
14. muffin
15. order 
16. poison
17. prime
18. pumpkin
19. red
20. sure
21. tropical
22. usually
23. wildfire
24. apparent (vocab)
25. annual (vocab)
26. appropriate (vocab)

Vocabulary:  The vocabulary words for this week are:

1.  Appropriate:  Acceptable or suitable
2.  Apparent:  Clearly visible.
3.  Annual:  Every year.

Reading: We read another chapter in "The Reptile Room" of "A Series of Unfortunate Events."  We are not on Chapter six and will pick up and read onto Chapter seven next week.

Writing:  For wiring this week, seeing that Valentine's Day is on Friday, we decided to do some Valentine worksheets.  The worksheets we used are so themed based that it made it super fun to be able to work in a holiday theme this week.  The worksheets we used can be snagged HERE, HERE, and HERE!  You can also get all the worksheets in a booklet HERE!

Art:  For art this week, we decided to give a new coat of spray paint to Skylar's old nursery letters for his room.  They got a coat of red paint to cover up the blue paint that was given to them when he was younger.

Letters before.

Letters after.

Tuesday:  (February 11, 2013)

Today we decided to move a radio into the classroom.  This stereo-system is so old, but works well in the classroom for some background tunes when we are bored of silence.

Science:  We studied Venn Diagrams and learned about Earth facts to add to our study of the solar system.

For the Venn Diagrams we did this project HERE!

For the Earth booklet we downloaded an entire book geared around the Earth.  You can pick this booklet up HERE!

The planets that hang in our classroom window

Social Studies/Geography:

Our state we've been working on is Texas.  We have been on quite the travels around Texas.  A few of the resources we used to learn about this great state are:

1.  Which Way USA:  A monthly subscription that mails booklets for each state to your door.  You also can go online with your pass code key-chains and travel the state to a much greater extent.

2.  Education.com's endless supply of worksheets on the great state of Texas.

History:

For history we have been picking a president every week and learning just a bit more about them.  This week we picked George Washington (The first president of the United States).

We have done a few activities on our own, but have also utilized some great resources and worksheets online, as well.  You can pick up some learning tools for George Washington HERE, and HERE!

Wednesday (February 12, 2013)

Math:

Probability and Data:

Thursday (February 13, 2014):

Week Review

Friday (February 14, 2014):

End of Week Test

Monday  (February 17, 2014):

No School: President's Day.

Tuesday (February 18, 2014):

Spelling:

Vocabulary:

Reading:

Writing:  We practiced a bit of our penmanship today on a dry erase board.  The cursive writing of Skylar's name is getting better.

Science: Parts of the heart.

We also had some outside time where slug eggs were found.  http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/pests/msg0417551926441.html

Social Studies/Geography

History

Wednesday (February 19, 2013)

Thursday (February 20, 2013)

Friday (February 21, 2013)