December 3, 2008

Happy Birthday to Jenn, one of my very favorites!

FIAR - J

Language Day

Choosing a Title - explained that people don't just choose titles for stories, books, pictures, etc. carelessly. They want to use a title that will capture someone into reading. Just like J was very excited before ever having even read The Glorious Flight because it sounded exciting without even knowing what it was about. Asked J to come up with some other good interesting titles for the book. Came up with some good creative stuff!

Descriptive Writing - In the book, the author describes the English Channel in great detail so the reader can almost know what it looks like without ever having seen it. Asked J to describe a strawberry in the same way, and then to describe Spongebob Squarepants. Guess which one he did with very extreme detail???? ; )

Poetic Device - Onomatopoeia - asked J if he remembered this term from Cranberry Thanksgiving. He remembered the word for sure, but couldn't remember what it meant until I started giving him examples. Knew what words in the new story were the words in question =)

Brain Quest: J

pgs 31-33 - spelling sounds; math; weather; opposites; literature; spelling; time; seasons; nature; myth; geometry; ABC order; vegetables

My favorite part of the day was when I asked the question: "When might the tooth fairy pay a visit?" and J said, "Never. The tooth fairy isn't real." hahahahah

Coloring and drawing: J

Colored more of December page in calendar; asked for paper to draw because he wanted to draw fans... ? =)

Writing: J

Wrote out 5 spelling words for week - penmanship is greatly improving!

Math: J

SSM Workbook pg 79 - column addition (3 numbers); finding number words in a puzzle

Reading: P

Completed lesson 22 of 100EL

Architecture: C

Has been stacking blocks and books ALL DAY!