Bungalow Poppies Homeschool

• Tea and Poetry; Read “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer from Favorite Poems of Childhood.
• In Beast Academy. Chapter 2, Sums. Additional practice with number lines.
• Explode the Code (2 pages).
• Read biographies of George and Martha Washington.
• Drew a chipmunk and used watercolors in our sketch book. Started winter trees cut out and the 3D hand artwork.
• Story of the World Chapter 7, Hammurabi and the Babylonians. Listened ahead to changes in Africa and the Story of Ananzi the Spider from Nigeria.
• Reading aloud “A Year of Ms. Agnes” by Kirkpatrick Hill.
• Reading aloud “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” By JK Rowling
• Start setting up to observe the life cycle of ladybugs. Ordered larvae.
• Start monitoring daylight hours in preparation for the winter solstice. Also added temperature.
• In our math story in the Life of Fred Edgewood, Chapter 17 review of functions .
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Chapter 37 -ng.
• Group movement class on Mondays from 5-6 @ Together in Movement.
• In practical life, Cecelia walks dogs and walks between 4-5 miles a week.
• Read Alone, “Mr. Putter and Kitty” and “Some Dirt on My Shirt.”
• Read Aloud “Drop it Rocket.”

• Tea and Poetry; Read “Only One Mother” by George Cooper and “The Rhyme of Dorothy Rose” by William Rands from Favorite Poems of Childhood.
• In Beast Academy Chapter 3, greater than and less than and equal to. Practice addition and regrouping. Practice pages online and/or in the practice book.
• Practice making small change; review coin denominations.
• Listened to favorites of Story of the World.
• Reading aloud “A Year of Ms. Agnes” by Kirkpatrick Hill.
• Reading aloud “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” By JK Rowling
• Start monitoring daylight hours in preparation for the winter solstice.
• In our math story in the Life of Fred Edgewood, errors, four signs of hypothermia and voluntary and involuntary actions.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Chapter 36 ng-ang-ing, Read sentences and practice words.
• HWT Cursive Kickoff writing with page 22 N.
• Group movement class on Mondays from 5-6 @ Together in Movement.
• In practical life, Cecelia walks dogs and walks between 4-5 miles a week.
• She emptied the dishwasher and fed the cat.
• Read Alone, “The Berenstain Bears Clean House.”
• Read Aloud “Green Eggs and Ham.”

Happy Halloween!

Wingardium Leviosa! Our costume this year dovetails with our read aloud “Harry Potter” Series.

• Tea and Poetry; Read “Dutch Lullaby” by Eugene Field and “Mr. Cogs Watchmaker” from Favorite Poems of Childhood.
• In Beast Academy Chapter 3, greater than and less than. Practice pages online and/or in the practice book.
• Practice making small change; review coin denominations.
• Reading aloud “A Year of Ms. Agnes” by Kirkpatrick Hill.
• Reading aloud “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” By JK Rowling
• Sea Monkey experiment Artemia Salina: We changed the water and lost our colony. The experiment ended.
• Start monitoring daylight hours in preparation for the winter solstice.
• Listen to songs about writing (a part of Writing without Tears).
• In our math story in the Life of Fred Edgewood, errors, four signs of hypothermia and voluntary and involuntary actions.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Chapter 36 ng-ang-ing, Read sentences and practice words with two matching activities.
• HWT Cursive Kickoff writing with page 20-22 J, K, N.
• Group movement class on Mondays from 5-6 @ Together in Movement.
• In practical life, Cecelia walks dogs and walks between 4-5 miles a week. She emptied the dishwasher and fed the cat.
• Read Alone, “The Berenstain Bears Clean House”, Finished “The Runt Pig”  and read all the stories.
• Read Aloud “Space Case”.
• Listen to Enrique Caruso “Pagliacci”
• Talk about Proper Nouns.
• Made a jack-o-lantern drawing.
• Cecelia is making a magazine in Word called the “Cecelia News”
• What the index is for in the reference book.
• Read books about dolphins and butterflies.

• Tea and Poetry; Read Jabberwocky (again)and Custard the Dragon from Favorite Poems of Childhood.
• In Beast Academy Chapter 2, the number line and continue to practice regrouping from Chapter 1. Practice pages online and/or in the practice book.
• Reading aloud “A Year of Ms. Agnes” by Kirkpatrick Hill.
• Reading aloud “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” By JK Rowling.
• We started a review of the Ancient World Chapter 5-7, The Egyptians and the Jewish people and the Babylonians in the Story of the World.
• We started our Sea Monkey experiment Artemia Salina. We surprisingly have a small group of adults. We can observe male and female and they are mating!
• Continued to make weather observations.
• Explode the Code, Level 1.5 Pages 50-51.
• Practice number writing.
• In our math story in the Life of Fred Edgewood, half hour and quarter hour and adding two and three digit numbers, a gibbous moon.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, we start on Level 1; Chapter 34 (continued). Ck makes one sound, Read sentences and practice words.
• HWT Cursive Kickoff writing with page 16, L.
• Watched Bill Nye the Science Guy “The Atmosphere”
• Group movement class on Mondays from 5-6 @ Together in Movement.
• In practical life, Cecelia walks dogs and walks between 4-5 miles a week.
• This week she fed the cat.
• Read aloud passage from Writing with Ease for comprehension-Today is Monday Poem. Capitalizing the days of the week.
• Read Alone, “Go, Dog, Go!”
• In social and emotional learning, we practiced picking up our toys. Reread “Keeping our Head in the Group” and talked about what to do if someone doesn’t want to play.
• Painting using salt.

• Tea and Poetry; Read “A Tragedy” by Doris Web from Favorite Poems of Childhood.
• In Beast Academy we reviewed Chapter 1, Practice pages online and/or in the practice book.
• Reading aloud “A Year of Ms. Agnes” by Kirkpatrick Hill.
• Reading aloud “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by JK Rowling.
• Located Alaska on a map and looked at animals and light.
• We discussed Peru and made a Llama with a KiwiCrate.
• We started a review of the Ancient World Chapter 3-4, The Egyptians in the Old Kingdom and Writing in the Story of the World.
• We started our Sea Monkey experiment Artemia Salina. We are watching the tank but it appears we have lost the colony.
• We are starting weather and keeping track of weather for 30 days.
• Explode the Code, Level 1.5 Pages 47-49.
• Used a Kiwicrate to build a mechanical sweeper.
• In our math story in the Life of Fred Edgewood, different kinds of mistakes, rows and columns, right angles.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, we start on Level 1; Chapter 34. Ck makes one sound, made flip books to practice words.
• HWT Cursive Kickoff writing with page 13, U.
• Went on a nature walk and discussed annuals and perennials and picked up many seasonal tree nuts.
• Group movement class on Mondays from 5-6 @ Together in Movement.
• In practical life, Cecelia walks dogs and walks between 4-5 miles a week. This week she polished furniture.
• Read aloud passage from Writing with Ease for comprehension-Trumpet of the Swan-EB White.
• In social and emotional learning, we practiced greeting people.
• Read herself “Rhyming Dust Bunnies”, Short Stories “The Runt Pig” and “Fish” from her primer. “Llama, Llama and the Bully Goat”, “The Hot Bunny Cakes”, and “Pigeon goes to School”.
• Made Halloween decorations for the front door.

The Eqyptians wrote in stone,

and the Sumerians in clay.

The picture writing was cuneiform,

Eqyptians also used papyrus scrolls,

and we use paper to this day.

Our front door was covered in custom Halloween decor for later in the month.