Monday, September 22, 2014

Term Three Evaluation

Read Aloud Books:

Picture Books - 
Super Swooper Dinosaur
How Do Dinosaurs Say I'm Mad?
Harry and the Dinosaurs Go on Holiday!
Dinosaurs Love Cheese
Queenie the Bantam by Bob Graham
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Chapter Books - 


Independent Reading:
see written list ~ 

Other Reading Activities:
Reading Eggs online program
Participated in Premier's Reading Challenge

Maths:
Maths Plus Year 3 textbook ~ completed all units for Term 3
Advanced Primary Maths Year 3 textbook ~ completed all units for Term 3
Continued work on 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle some evenings with mum
MathSeeds online math program
Cool Math Games website

Handwriting:
Foundation Handwriting 2

Writing:


Scripture and Character Building:
Bible (read aloud) Luke 23 - Acts 6
Book of Virtues by William Bennett
Big Ideas in the Bible by Chuck Swindoll
My Bible Friends
God's Mighty Warrior Devotional Bible

Science and Technology:
Read Aloud Information Books - 
  • T-Rex versus Velociraptor by Michael O'Hearn
  • Spinosaurus versus Gigantosaurus
  • Allosaurus versus Brachiosaurus
Toothpick and mini marshmallow construction
Moon Phases Printable Colouring in sheet
Moon Phases Oreo Activity
Watched David Attenborough series "Natural Curiosities
Watched Deadly 60 TV program
Octonauts Amazon Adventure DVD

Spelling:
daily oral review of weekly lists as sourced from year 3 lists on the internet
(20 words per list)
written test taken every Friday

PDHPE:
walk to and from the library
walk to and from the shops
walk to and from various parks
free play at various parks
riding scooter

Creative Arts:
Various "Letter of the Week" inspired craft 

Socialization:
weekly attendance of Sunday School
weekly attendance of story hour

Other Activities:
Played a variety of board and card games
  • Rummy-O
  • Yahtzee
  • Snakes and Ladders
  • Skip-Bo
  • Flinch
Imaginative (self created) Lego games with his younger brother

Excursions:
Trip to the city for homeschool group at the Australian Museum and Hyde Park

Homeschool Group Topics:
Due to illness, weather problems, previous engagements, and distance of events we were unable to attend Homeschool group regularly this term.
We were able to attend one Aboriginal event at the Australian Museum during week ten.

Term School Holiday Events:
Bingo at Earlwood Library
Games Day at Earlwood Library
Crime Investigation Day at ANSTO

Friday, September 19, 2014

Week Ten ~ Funeral, Illness, and Excursion

What a busy and crazy week the last week of the term ended up being!
We started with a family funeral on Monday and Daniel came down with a strange virus as well.  He had a very high fever, a tummy ache, some vomiting (though thankfully not much) and a headache!  Not much fun for him or me but it was short lived!!

So by Wednesday we were stir crazy and ready for an excursion into the city to learn about Aboriginal stuff.  And yes, Daniel was well enough to attend!!


Learning all about Aboriginal culture...
Demonstrations on how this board can be used to carry a baby, or for carrying something on their head!



Showing the children some boomerangs and spears...


 Monster doing some cave painting...





Monkey LOVED the boomerangs and spears and begged for photos with many of them!
His facial expressions were PRICELESS!!

 Monster grinding some seeds...

 A beautiful piece of artwork...

 Monkey got a chance to do some cave painting...


Painting their own boomerangs using symbols to tell a story...


 Checking out the mega fauna...

After the Aboriginal classes it was off to check out other sections of the museum...

 The only photo I had the chance to take was this one of the baby fresh water crocodiles!!


Then we headed across the street to Hyde Park for a picnic lunch, some time watching the bubble blowing man, and of course, my usual picture of Archibald Fountain!!



To finish off the term (on Friday) we decided to try making a batch of fudge in the slow cooker/crock pot!  It was an epic fail (the chocolate split because the heat was too hot I think) but we still enjoyed ourselves and the fudge was still edible!  We will try it again next term and cook it slower and at a lower temperature to see if we get a better result.
 Opening the chocolate...

 Breaking it and putting it in the pot...


Adding the sweetened condensed milk...


 and some butter...

 It looked good in the beginning...

 But this was our end result!!

And finally Munchkin decided he wanted to do some gluing!!

Friday, September 12, 2014

Week Nine ~ Letter Kk

Another week without a lot of photographic proof of learning! ;-)
But rest assured learning is ALWAYS happening in this house.

 Monkey discovered the Tangram box which has inspired me to print off a bunch of Tangrams from the net... which hopefully they will like!

 Letter Kk recognition page... Monkey LOVES using the dot marker!


Lots of construction happening...



And we went for a walk and enjoyed the native wildlife!


Friday, September 5, 2014

Week Eight ~ Letter Nn

A rather eclectic collection of photos... hardly any of which prove that we learned about the letter Nn this week!  But such is life...

 Monkey working hard colouring in his numbers for his Letter N page

 Monster working on some maths


Munchkin enjoyed this magnetic Thomas the Tank Engine board


 We found this Harlequin Bug in the front yard.
The boys named him Benny and kept him and observed him for a few days before letting him go again.

 Munchkin did some sorting and grouping!

 We had a Lego Challenge...
Monkey chose to make a Lego marble maze...




 While Monster chose to build a tall tower.

 We finished off the week with a science experiment.
Can you pick up ice with only a piece of string?



Monster discovered that when you add salt... you can indeed pick up ice with a piece of string!