Family Science, Tech, Art, PE

 

Science

 

We are immensely enjoying Exploring Creation; Zoology 2, Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day. This is feeling like a large growth year for our family and this curriculum adds to that.

Aiden, Gemma, and Keiran are richly learning from this text. We have begun to collect our sea animals to build an ocean, as we work through

each unit...

 

 Gemma colored a seal scripture page.

 

 Aiden recorded some facts about walruses.

 

 Gemma's walrus and manatee fact page.

 

 Keiran's walrus and manatee write up.

 

 

Applied Skills, Design, and Technology

 

Gemma and Keiran have been helping Aiden create some short movies. 

Keiran recently had a birthday and everyone joined to build a Lego Train and Station.

 

 

Arts Education

 

The Lokstet kids make homemade Christmas ornaments for the tree every year. This year they got learned a new skill, doing some cross-stitch needlework.

 

 

 

PE

 

This past season has consisted of bike riding, sledding, then back to bike riding, parkour, and soccer.

 

 Sledding at Grandma's property.

 

Getting ready for soccer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keiran --> LA, Bible, Math, Socials

Keiran. A little of this, a little of that.

 

Language Arts

Keiran's focus this year is to continue on improving his reading skills and for him to gain confidence in writing as well. He is still gaining ground with Reading Eggs, but has some stop when it comes to fluid chapter book/paragraph reading. He seems to thrive on individual vocabulary so I have been trying a different approach to building his reading skills and keeping him growing. This vocabulary book and word group reading book have been a sign to me that he can read well at these levels.

Keiran's Evan-Moor, "Skill Sharpener's Spell and Write Grade 3", and "Explode the Code 5"

 book work:

 

Bible

Reading through the Keepsake Bible with Mom. Pick a story, mom reads.

Math

Keiran has moved on to Math-U-See Beta. Lesson 4- rounding to ten and estimation:

Social Studies

Keiran's is working through "Canada My Country. "

 Looking for Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans, and for which one is closest to us.

 

Mapping.

 



Gemma --> LA, Bible, Math, Socials

Gemma. A little of this, a little of that.

 

Language Arts.

 

 

Gemma daily works on journaling and reading. This is our practice and free creative writing time. Gemma is excelling in reading. Her journal helps build confidence and spelling skills, and sometimes a little grammar as well. She is doing great with this this year. The focus that I wanted for Gemma this year was to improve upon and build her spelling ability. She is working at A Reason For Spelling, Level D.

 Gemma picked this book from our varied stack of readers.

 A page from Gemma's journal and how we use it for building spelling skills.

 Spelling worksheet- definitions.

Proofreading.

Bible
Gemma has been enjoying her "The Book of Bible Doodles" this year. The stories she is learning have often lined up with Kids Church so it has been fun that way. Gemma is first looking up her scriptures in her bible and then colors and adds to her doodle pages.

 

Math

 

Gemma is working through Math-U-See Beta this year.

Here is a sample of lesson 27- subtracting money:

 

 

 

Social Studies

 

Gemma chose Canada's Natives of Long Ago this year. She has been reading all about the Inuit for the last while.

 

 Her Inuit unit title page.

 

The Inuit food and facts.



Aiden --> LA, Bible, Math, Socials

Aiden. A little of this a little of that.

 

Language Arts



 

Aiden works on his daily journaling and reading everyday. After that his main focus has been Evan-Moor Grammar and Punctuation workbook. Here are some samples of what he has been doing:

 

 Regular or irregular verbs.

 

 Regular or irregular verbs in the past tense.

 



 Classifying pronouns. Subject, object, or reflexive?

 

 

Bible

 

Aiden has been doodling through the bible. I love this resource because it causes him to look up his own scriptures before he draws a simple doodle to reflect on what he read. Here is his doodle from Psalm 98:4:

 

 

 

Math

 

Aiden is working through Math-U-See Delta, learning division.

Single digit division with a remainder.

 

Social Studies

 

Aiden has dove into Courage and Conquest, Discovering Canadian History. He is studying all about the settlers through reading text, maps, a timeline, and online research. It is another rich Donna Ward resource.

 

 Viking worksheet.

 

 Building his timeline book.

 

 English settlers worksheet.

 



Adding to his timeline.