Thursday, January 28, 2010

Recycled Learning

Toddler was the first to try out the newest Homeschool learning tool: recycled lid counters! We cut and glued circles atop the lids and Student wrote a single digit on each.



From 1-9 Toddler used each as the foundation for his buildings to complete his city. The foundation number indicated how many blocks high the building should be. Toddler caught right on...




AnRecycledd the city was complete...in an awesome effect, of course.
He loves choosing CRAZY PICTURES!



All the while...One fish, Two fish...and on and on Student read. Mascot listened intently and chomped his wet washcloth. What a delight to have all three together for Homeschool this morning, before minds were awake enough to give in to selfishness!

Student then put the lids to work creating random 4 digit numbers and reviewing place value. Then, picking lids from the bowl-full, Student computed each pair of numbers in adition and subtraction. Toddler chimed in and identified single digits. What a pair, what a motivation a new toy can be! Free and fun, the Homeschool's secret ingredients!



The ocean, as a habitat, was introduced in Science today. Student had no problem remembering the four major oceans, and chose the first animal to study:
Giant Manta
Facts:
God made them to live in warm tropical water.
They eat something on the bottom... plankton. Plankton means many animals
that live on the bottom, the floor. We would have to take a water sample to a microscope to see them.
The pictures of the Giant Manta are the top two in the sequence, the last, was Student's favorite of the examples of Plankton shown. Of course she picked this particular one because it resembled fabric yo-yo's! That's our girl! I guess we'll have to work a sewing project into this unit where Teacher never imagined!

Designing on the computer, she chose the colors for Nancy's dress. Fashion will have to fit into the curriculum somewhere...one of these days!



Violin brought new ideas and theories for Student. She is adding to her symbol recognition:
sharp sign
natural sign
flat sign...where are those keyboard symbol short-cuts? We'll have to consult Principal for that.
And to help Student read the sharps and learn the arrangement of the symbols on the staff, she can tell us all...
Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Birds!

The Digestive System completed it's last day...yes, having no other option but to end with talk of the toilet...Teacher was SO GLAD this wasn't a classroom full of 27 first graders!

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