Walmart Shenanigans

One does not simply resist boy-sized fluffy teddies.

One cannot simply walk past human sized animal-head throw pillows without pretending it is one's actual head.

One does not simply see balls of mozarella and not assume that it is supposed to be attached to one's forehead.

Grade 2 Week 14

a.k.a Thanksgiving Week

Hurray for Books!

One of the things you like to do when we have these "Alphabet" books is to make a game out of guessing what word each letter will be.  The Thanksgiving one was quite easy for you.

Also, you  never liked Scooby Doo because you thought that it was super spooky.  Eventually I told you that in their adventures and mysteries, the spooks would usually turn out to be a person in disguise, but you still wouldn't watch the cartoons.  Then, I got you some Scooby comics and junior novels, and now you love the stories, and even watched a Lego Scooby Doo on Amazon!

We made a bunch of themed crafts.  In fact, you kept asking to do crafts..over and over..

I tried to channel all that Craftomaniacal energy into Social Studies.  We did a bunch of crafts that had to do with the Pilgrims and the Mayflower and the Wompanoag.

We got the crafts out of a book, and they were remarkable.

There was even a sliding Mayflower that sailed across the Atlantic.

We built 2 villages - one for the Pilgrims and one for the Wompanoag.  And they both came with little people!

You helped with all the coloring and cutting, and I helped with all the more intricate folding.

You had fun trying to decide where to place each piece.

:)

Fall Leaf Art

I might as well go ahead and post this from my phone since it is still "fresh".

I have so many backlogged This Week In School Posts that it will be winter, and then spring before I get to some of them.

Anyhow, we don't have trees that get beautiful fall colors in our yard - all we have are skinny-leafed mesquite trees - and so we collected them from various places - namely Walter's house, different parks and at Church.

I had different chores to complete etc and didn't want you to just be watching TV, so I set up a little station with the leaves, a box of sharpies and just the most minimal of instructions and these are what you came up with.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for a Very Important Announcement

Out of nowhere...

Jaxon: "The Toot of Destiny."

Mommy: "What now?"

Jaxon: "The Toot of Destiny.  That is what just happened."

Mommy: "er, okay then. :p"

L.O.V.E.

We were at the playground with Cindy a few days ago when she insisted I climb up and take a picture.

Good eye, Cindy!

Your First Domino Set

Uncle Lin brought you a Domino set at lunch last week.

He then proceeded to show you how to build a tricky building that had a sort of capstone in the architecture so that if done right, it would stand with very little support.

You worked hard at imitating and then perfecting the technique :)

Grade 2 Week 13

How many times have I said, "Hurray for the Library and Books"?



I mean, just  look at all these interesting covers and diverse topics!

This week, as part of the science of vertebrates, and birds in particular, we played Bird Bingo aka Bird Scavenger Hunt.

You love being outdoors.. and to have an adventure spotting things on the list at the same time? Well, that just made your day.



There were some things we couldn't check off, like pine cones, as we didn't have any on the plantation.  Also, we had to leave some for later - like the walking bird thingy - for when we spot our resident road runners.

Another experiment we did was on how plants carried water up through their stems.

As we were nearing Thanksgiving, ( and also because it was Native American Heritage Month ) we did a bunch of crafty stuff from this really wonderful book.

They had a bunch of really great projects, which I made copies of, and then we cut and paste together.


We continued our Language Arts lessons, and one website that we use for all kinds of things, is Brainpop ( and Jr. ).

We tried some poetry-writing and you did soo well!

Grade 2 Week 12

Hurray for Libraries and BOOKS!

Teaching homeschool without any/much experience is made sooo much easier when you have an eager, happy, sweet sweet child as your student.

The day we went to return our books at the library coincided with a public holiday and so we had to do the Side Alley Book Drop thingy. Hurray for mini adventures!

We learned about vertebrates and invertebrates, and illustrated how much stronger an animal would be if it had bones and a spine to support its weight.

Then, you drew a very cute penguin and we glued Q-tip bones/spinal cord/ribs on it!

You actually wrote that on your own.

I have been having a bit of a cough and so you have been reading the bedtime stories. :)

Oh, and for your journal entry, you wrote about a storm we had, where it thundered really loudly.

More addition for math...

a random pic of a random breakfast...

and some playground time!