Showing posts with label year in review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label year in review. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2016

A Review of Tabitha's Language Arts Work for 2015-2016

As I mentioned last week, I had to pull together Tabitha's work into a portfolio to send in to our evaluator. I then decided it would be cool to share a look back at all her work here on the blog, as I haven't been doing a very good job sharing our school work on the blog this year. I sort of ran out of time to finish up last week, so will finish up Tabitha's review this week, and start with a review of Amelia's work next week.

Today I will take a look back at Tabitha's Language Arts work.

We were using Language Lessons for Today at the beginning of the school year. This is the book that is recommended by My Father's World.

Here is a sample of the pages we worked on. The lessons were done orally.




We were using Sheldon's New Primary Language Lessons later in the year. This was a review product, so we set the previous book aside. 




There are more pictures of Tabitha using this curriculum in my review. 

Later we set both of these books aside to use Here to Help Learning. We worked on writing paragraphs. She loved the writing warm-ups where she came up with stories from the pictures. We also worked on brainstorming, making lists, webbing and writing drafts. Here is a link to that review.






We also used IEW's Phonetic Zoo for spelling. She has more lessons somewhere, but this was the only notebook I could find. She keeps losing notebooks. And a link to that review.



I also started having her do book reports for some of the books she read.




She also spent a lot of time in the language arts sections when we were reviewing Essential Skills Advantage. She spent most of her time in the reading and creative writing sections. You can check out that review here.









We also worked on poetry memorization with IEW. The program is called Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization. She has always done well with memorization, and these poems were no exception. Here is the review.





As you can see, being on the Crew is a huge blessing. We have been able to review some wonderful products. They sure have given us some great ways to work on Language Arts.

Thursday, June 23, 2016

A Review of Tabitha's Science and Math Work for 2015-2016

As I mentioned yesterday, I had to pull together Tabitha's work into a portfolio this week to send in to our evaluator. I then decided it would be cool to share a look back at all her work here on the blog, as I haven't been doing a very good job sharing our school work on the blog this year. Today I am going to share Science and Math.

Let's start with science:

We used several different sources for science this year. There were Usborne books assigned in My Father's World Adventures. These books occasionally had experiments and observations for us to do. Plus she participated in some MFW Kindergarten observations. We also used a couple of review products: Big Bible Science: Experiment and Explore God's World and Science Shepherd: Introductory Science Level B.

Here is a look at some of the fun experiments and observations we did.

Seeing if an egg will sink or float in water and salt water.



Measuring shadows throughout the day.



Turning grapes into raisins.


Visiting the Corning Museum of Glass




You can see more pictures from our Corning Museum of Glass trip on my Wordless Wednesday posts: Part 1 and Part 2.

Examining leaves. We took a leaf off the plant to see what would happen to it.


Seeing how hard it is to lift a newspaper by hitting the ruler lying underneath it.


Super Moon Eclipse



Discovering that an "empty" bottle is still full...of air.



Hands-on science at the library.




Using Science Shepherd. Started by learning about the days of creation. Here she was using play dough to make her favorite animals.




Using Big Bible Science. Learning about gravity and whether objects of different sizes will fall at the same rate.


The children also do a lot of observing of nature outside our house.

Funnel spiders found in our yard.



Ant larvae found under a rock in our yard.


And we just discovered a potato bug/rollypolly giving birth!




She also used Essential Skills Advantage for Science



Moving on to math:

Because of being on the Crew, we have been changing up our math curriculum quite a bit. We started out the year with some worksheets from Super Teacher Worksheets. Plus she was using A+ Interactive Math through an independent review I was doing. Then we reviewed the A+ Interactive Math Mini Course: Algebra. Then we used Math-U-See Gamma. Now we are using LearnBop. So, her lessons have been all over the place.

Working on fractions



Working on fractions with Hershey's chocolate (a favorite activity)


A Plus Interactive Math 3rd Grade


A+ Interactive Math Mini Course: Algebra


Needed to work on a couple of worksheets to help with the lessons she struggled with:


Math-U-See Gamma




Playing Sunya to work on multiplication





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