Language Arts - Completed numerous reading readiness and language arts activities, including letter recognition, shapes and patterns, sight words in context, recognizing color words, and reading color words and finding things in each color. Phonics - long and short vowels, and blending sounds, Read to him, and he looks through books on own; discussed days of the week; and completed some printing practice exercises.
Social Studies -Discussed early peoples, including cavemen. Leanred about characteristics and daily activities, including foods ate, hunting, shelter, etc. Did an activity where identified each food and illustrated it. Games – carried water, found food and shelter and built a cave.
Family relationships – discussed relationships and made a paper chain showing each individual’s place in the family, and talked about blended families.
Mathematics -
Joey did lessons on matching numbers to amount shown, wrote the numbers 1-10, patterning, shapes, telling time to the hour and the minute, and for time of day. Completed activities on shape recognition – identifying a circle, square, rectangle, triangle; daily calendar exercises; counting to 100; writing numbers; and basic graphing.
Earth science – discussed landforms: plateau, island, river, etc.; layers of the earth; and volcanoes. Talked about the earth and sun relationship, and day and night. Completed a worksheet on earth’s structure. Made a salt dough volcano.
Discussed Lassen Park and the melting pots and geysers, glacier snow melt, and water sources with no outlets observed there. Also discussed Crater Lake and it’s creation, Mt. Shasta, and volcanic formations.
Life Skills -
P.E. – swimming; Jiu Jitsu; bike riding; trampoline jumping; running; hiking and walking.
Special Interests/Electives –
Jiu Jitsu lessons
Arts and Crafts – made a leaf collage—leaves between waxed paper with melted crayons; salt dough creations; and made a paper chain.
Music – played with keyboard; singing songs
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