Wednesday, February 18, 2009

February 18, 2009

FIAR: J & P

Art and Math day

Not much to do in the math and art departments, but the stuff we did do was fun.

Art - Appreciation for detail. It was revealed in the FIAR book that there were many hidden animals in Owl Moon that we had not discovered. Went through the book to see if we could find them all. Also J pointed out similies and metaphors as we read. He's getting way into that. =)

Math - Concept of time. Got out a stopwatch and in turn J, P and I all raised our hands for however long we thought a minute was. P got 29.94 seconds, I got 1:11 seconds and J got 57.24 seconds!! Way to go J! Just like Daddy.

Time altering - talked about the "1 min, 3 min, 100 min" description in book about looking at the owl. I would call this more of a literary device than a math concept. Other examples that could be used, "time stood"; "time went on forever", etc.

DST - Discussed shorter and longer days according to what time of year it is and why that happens...

History: J & P

PB - James Buchanan

Math: J

SSMW - traced numbers - DONE WITH SSMW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reading: P

Completed lesson 48 of 100EL

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