Term Three Evaulation ~ Munchkin

  ENGLISH:

Reading ~
* You can see from my Weekly Review posts that we read (aloud and independently) a LOT.
* A book list is included in Munchkin's portfolio with all the books he reads each term.

Writing ~
We still use and LOVE the following curriculum
Institute for Excellence in Writing Program
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style

In Term Three Munchkin wrote paragraphs on the following topics: Hansel and Gretel (narrative rewrite), Alpacas (non-fiction), "Little Yellow Riding Hood" (narrative rewrite) and Snow Monkeys (non-fiction).

We use our IEW paragraphs primarily to show learning in history, geography and science. I do not use textbooks or workbooks for these subjects and instead rely on quality books from our local library.

Grammar ~
Munchkin is not currently participating in a structured grammar program. We may begin an introductory grammar program in the 2021 school year.

Literature ~
"Ramona Forever" by Beverly Cleary

"Ramona's World" by Beverly Cleary

"Henry Huggins" by Beverly Cleary

"Henry and Beezus" by Beverly Cleary

"Henry and Ribsy" by Beverly Cleary

MATHS:

Munchkin completed his Haese Yr 4 mathematics textbook during Term 3. As he has not mastered his multiplication facts yet, I do not feel he is ready to progress to Yr 5 mathematics at this time. So for part of Term 3 and all of Term 4 he will review Year 3 mathematics concepts on the Khan Academy website.
Over the course of the term he completed chapters 6 - 14 in the Yr 4 textbook which covered the following topics: Measurement, Time, Further Measurement, Shape, Symmetry and Pattern, Probability, Statistics, Money and Location.



SCIENCE:

Below is a list of the science related books we read.
"Everyday Chemicals" by Science World

"100 Inventions That Made History" by DK

"Chemistry: Getting a Big Reaction" by Dan Green

"How Does a Plant Become Oil?"

"Super Scientists" by Anna Blanchard

"Brilliant Women: Pioneers of Science and Technology" 

"Cracking Chemistry" by Steve Parker

HISTORY:

Below is a list of History Books we read in Term 3:
"Olympics From Ancient Greece to the Present Day" by Richard Platt

"To The Bridge" by Corrine Fenton

"The Story of the Olympics" by Richard Brassey

"The Olympics: Faster, Higher, Stronger" by Australian Geographic

"History of the Olympic Games" by Melanie Guile

"Cook and the Endeavour" by Nicolas Brasch

GEOGRAPHY:

Below is the list of books read aloud and/or independently through Term Three:
"Crops We Grow" by ECO STEAM

"The Food We Eat" by ECO STEAM



PDHPE:

Below is a list of books we read specific to Personal Development, Health, and/or Physical Education during Term Three:

"Pandemics" by World Book

"Fighting Sickness" by World Book

CREATIVE ARTS:

Below is a list of books we read specific to the Creative Arts (music, drama, dance, visual arts):

"The School of Music" by Meurig and Rachel Bowen

"The Ultimate Guide to Music"

We also enjoyed free Mark Kistler drawing lessons on his YouTube channel

SOCIAL:

Term Three Social Events:

We celebrated Monkey's 11th Birthday

We continued to enjoy being able to attend church in person

We continued to visit the library in person for weekly returns and borrowing

We were able to meet up with our homeschool group a couple of times (outdoors)

Term Three Evaluation ~ Monkey

 ENGLISH:

Reading ~
* You can see from my Weekly Review posts that we read (aloud and independently) a LOT.
* A book list is included in Monkey's portfolio with all the books he reads each term.

Writing ~
We still use and LOVE the following curriculum
Institute for Excellence in Writing Program
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style

In Term Three Monkey wrote paragraphs on the following topics: The Gold Rush (non-fiction), The Shoemaker and the Elves (narrative rewrite), and Jack and the Giant Slayer (narrative rewrite)

We use our IEW paragraphs primarily to show learning in history, geography and science. I do not use textbooks or workbooks for these subjects and instead rely on quality books from our local library.

Grammar ~
Monkey is taking a break from grammar this year. He will continue with Analytical Grammar (the follow on program to Junior Analytical Grammar) in high school.

Literature ~
"Ramona Forever" by Beverly Cleary

"Ramona's World" by Beverly Cleary

"Henry Huggins" by Beverly Cleary

"Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens

"Henry and Beezus" by Beverly Cleary

"Henry and Ribsy" by Beverly Cleary

MATHS:

Monkey completed his Haese Yr 5 mathematics textbook during Term 3. This means he will begin working through the Haese Yr 6 mathematics textbook in Term 4.
Over the course of the term he completed chapters 10 - 15 in the Yr 5 textbook which covered the following topics: Further Measurement, Probability, Sequences, Location and Position, Transformations and Statistics.



SCIENCE:

Below is a list of the science related books we read.
"Everyday Chemicals" by Science World

"100 Inventions That Made History" by DK

"Chemistry: Getting a Big Reaction" by Dan Green

"How Does a Plant Become Oil?"

"Pandemics" by World Book

"Super Scientists" by Anna Blanchard

"Brilliant Women: Pioneers of Science and Technology" 

"Cracking Chemistry" by Steve Parker

"Fighting Sickness" by World Book

HISTORY:

The following books are part of Monkey's Australian Gold Rush Unit Study:

"The Gold Rushes" by Melanie Guild

"How Gold Changed Australia" by Melanie Guile

"Gold Rushes" by Melanie Guile

"Life on the Goldfields" by Doug Bradby

"On the Goldfields" by Melanie Guile

"Eureka Stockade" by Marion Littlejohn

"Do You Dare: Eureka Boys" by Penny Matthews

Other History Books:
"Olympics From Ancient Greece to the Present Day" by Richard Platt

"To The Bridge" by Corrine Fenton

"The Story of the Olympics" by Richard Brassey

"Horrible Histories Vicious Vikings Ages" by Terry Deary

"Australia's Federal Government" by Nicolas Brasch

"The Olympics: Faster, Higher, Stronger" by Australian Geographic

"Federal Government" by Stella Tarakson

"History of the Olympic Games" by Melanie Guile

"Cook and the Endeavour" by Nicolas Brasch

"Horrible Histories Rotten Romans" by Terry Deary

Monkey read all of the Horrible History books independently.

GEOGRAPHY:

Below is the list of books read aloud and/or independently through Term Three:
"Crops We Grow" by ECO STEAM

"The Food We Eat" by ECO STEAM



PDHPE:

Below is a list of books we read specific to Personal Development, Health, and/or Physical Education during Term Three:

"Pandemics" by World Book

"Fighting Sickness" by World Book

CREATIVE ARTS:

Below is a list of books we read specific to the Creative Arts (music, drama, dance, visual arts):

"The School of Music" by Meurig and Rachel Bowen

"The Ultimate Guide to Music"

We also enjoyed free Mark Kistler drawing lessons on his YouTube channel

SOCIAL:

Term Three Social Events:

We celebrated Monkey's 11th Birthday

We continued to enjoy being able to attend church in person

We continued to visit the library in person for weekly returns and borrowing

We were able to meet up with our homeschool group a couple of times (outdoors)

Term Three Evaluation ~ Monster

 ENGLISH:

Reading ~
* You can see from my Weekly Review posts that we read (aloud and independently) a LOT.
* A book list is included in Monster's portfolio with all the books he reads each term.

Writing ~
We still use and LOVE the following curriculum
Institute for Excellence in Writing Program
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style

In Term Two Monster wrote paragraphs on the following topics: Currents (non-fiction), Women During WWI (non-fiction), The Eastern Front (non-fiction), and The Western Front (non-fiction)

We use our IEW paragraphs primarily to show learning in history, geography and science. I do not use textbooks or workbooks for these subjects and instead rely on quality books from our local library.

Grammar ~
This year we are continuing with Analytical Grammar which is the next step up after Junior Analytical Grammar.  Term Three he worked through units 15 - 16 : Adjective Clauses and Adverb Clauses, .

Literature ~
"Ramona Forever" by Beverly Cleary

"Ramona's World" by Beverly Cleary

"Henry Huggins" by Beverly Cleary

"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

"Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens

"Henry and Beezus" by Beverly Cleary

"Henry and Ribsy" by Beverly Cleary

"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

MATHS:

Monster continued working through his Haese Yr 10 Advanced mathematics textbook.
Over the course of the term he completed chapters 5 - 12 which covered the following topics: Linear Equations and Inequalities, Pythagoras' Theorem, Measurement, Formulae, Congruence and Similarity, Quadratic Equations, Coordinate Geometry and Trigonometry.



SCIENCE:

Below is a list of the science related books we read.
"Everyday Chemicals" by Science World

"100 Inventions That Made History" by DK

"Chemistry: Getting a Big Reaction" by Dan Green

"How Does a Plant Become Oil?"

"Pandemics" by World Book

"Super Scientists" by Anna Blanchard

"Brilliant Women: Pioneers of Science and Technology" 

"Cracking Chemistry" by Steve Parker

"Fighting Sickness" by World Book

HISTORY:

We read the following books as part of our World War I unit study:
"The Unknown Australian Soldier" by Mary Small

"The Story of the First World War For Children" by Imperial War Museums

"The Causes of World War I" by Stewart Ross

"Socks, Sandbags & Leeches" by Pauline Deeves

"The Split History of WWI" by Michael Burgan



Other History Books:
"The Gold Rushes" by Melanie Guild

"Horrible Histories Incredible Incas" by Terry Deary

"Olympics From Ancient Greece to the Present Day" by Richard Platt

"To The Bridge" by Corrine Fenton

"How Gold Changed Australia" by Melanie Guile

"Gold Rushes" by Melanie Guile

"Eureka Stockade" by Marion Littlejohn

"The Story of the Olympics" by Richard Brassey

"Life on the Goldfields" by Doug Bradby

"On the Goldfields" by Melanie Guile

"Horrible Histories Measly Middle Ages" by Terry Deary

"Australia's Federal Government" by Nicolas Brasch

"The Olympics: Faster, Higher, Stronger" by Australian Geographic

"Federal Government" by Stella Tarakson

"History of the Olympic Games" by Melanie Guile

"Cook and the Endeavour" by Nicolas Brasch

"Do You Dare: Eureka Boys" by Penny Matthews

"Horrible Histories Horrible Christmas" by Terry Deary
Monster read all the Horrible Histories book independently

We started a unit study on Racism and Intolerance and read the following books:
"Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

"We Are Not Yet Equal" by Carol Anderson



GEOGRAPHY:

Below is the list of books read aloud and/or independently through Term Three:
"Crops We Grow" by ECO STEAM

"The Food We Eat" by ECO STEAM




ELECTIVE #1 ~ LATIN:

Monster continued to work through Lingua Latina Familia Romana and Lingua Latina Exercitia Latina 1. This book and exercise book will take him through this school year and likely through next year as well. He works through these books independently and then I grade his work with the answer key. Monster is doing exceptionally well working through these books independently.




ELECTIVE #2 ~ MARINE AND AQUACULTURE TECHNOLOGY:
Term Three we worked primarily on Monster's Oceans unit study.

"Ocean: The World's Last Wilderness Revealed" - this book will take a LONG time to read entirely

LOGIC:
We are using "Logic Self-Taught: A Workbook by Katarzyna Paprzycka - an online workbook.
Monster is finding it interesting and challenging and is doing quite well with the workload.

SOCIAL:

Term Three Social Events:

We celebrated Monkey's 11th Birthday

We continued to enjoy being able to attend church in person

We continued to visit the library in person for weekly returns and borrowing

Monster also participated in an online coding class for one hour

Term Three: Week Ten ~ Bonus Week of School Holidays

Our bonus week of school holidays and we really enjoyed a chilled out week. I didn't schedule anything specific (other than our daily Bible and character reading) and we just let each day flow.

Our weekly library book haul out from garage quarantine and ready for the library bookshelves!

I insisted that one of our walks this week be the boardwalk to the oval. 

Some very blurry photos of Munchkin (left) and Monkey (right) riding their scooters. I couldn't be bothered to stop walking while I took the photos as they were riding too fast... so blurry is what I got!

Games, games and more games... some of our evening routine time has been spent with the boys playing board games or card games together rather than me reading aloud... we are still working on books we were reading during the term... but I won't start any NEW books until Term 4 so this is a nice break for me...

Munchkin has also enjoyed some one-on-one game time with daddy and also with me (bottom two photos)... I am so thankful that we decided to start collecting good quality board games and card games and we have been blessed by friends and family who have gifted us with new games as well.

Finally, Munchkin has spent some time printing out Minecraft papercraft and has begun building during read aloud time.

Munchkin is re-reading all our Roald Dahl books...

Picture books still play a big role in our house...

Munchkin really enjoys the Deltora Quest series...

We are wrapping up our Australian Gold Rush unit... I read this book aloud to Monkey

Munchkin has re-discovered the Beast Quest books at the library...

More of Munchkin's independent selections for the week... he is my voracious reader

Monster is enjoying reading some of the Horrible Histories books he hasn't read yet... amazingly there are a few and our library has them available for borrowing.

Two read aloud selections that I read aloud to all three boys this week...

Finally, Munchkin decided to re-read some of our Ramona books as well...

Term Three: Week Nine ~ An Early Knock Off

All three boys worked really hard and finished all their structured work this week. Therefore, our "Spring Break" school holidays officially began on Friday this week. With Monkey sick with pneumonia over the July school holidays, none of us felt like we had a real break, so we are ready for some chill time.  There are no photos of the structured work that was finished up this week as there was so little of it to be done. Instead I chose to focus on the interest led learning that occurred through the week.

I discovered this beautiful spider in her web when I was in the front yard early Monday morning. Sadly, later in the day she had disappeared and we haven't seen her since.

We enjoyed another Mark Kistler free drawing lesson this week. From the top down are our drawings: Mum's, Monster's, Monkey's and finally Munchkin's! If you are interested in trying out these lessons for yourself, the link is attached HERE!

Munchkin did some work on his 500 piece puzzle during some of our read aloud sessions this week. He is making very good progress.

Monster started a new 1000 piece puzzle this week.

Munchkin is enjoying re-reading all the Roald Dahl books in our collection.

Munchkin is also enjoying reading, and re-reading, the Deltora Quest books we borrow frequently from the library.

Two read aloud selections that I finished this week... Monster and I really enjoyed the story of Lord of the Flies, although we found the ending to be very abrupt. The book about Captain Cook was aimed at Munchkin's history unit study, but Nicholas Brasch is an EXCELLENT non-fiction writer and all of us (myself included) enjoyed this book. We even learned a few new things despite have studied Australian history nearly continuously for the last five years.

More of Munchkin's independent reading for the week... he enjoys picture books still as well as chapter books.

Some fun independent reading for Monster...

Finally, Munchkin spent an early morning enjoying a variety of picture books - both library books and favourites from our home collection.

Now, bring on the school holidays...