What We Studied
This ended up being a very strange week. I had an emergency dentist appointment on Tuesday and the office could fit Arthur in for a regular cleaning on Thursday. And I had promised the kids a trip to the zoo, so we went on Wednesday (along with a library visit). All in all, I felt very discombobulated this week…
Literature and Poetry
We continued reading Sideways Stories and finally got to my favorite story: Sammy! Arthur didn’t seem to love the absurdist humor of that story, but I loved sharing it with him.
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog selected by Paul B. Janecko
Space Cows by Eric Seltzer (Arthur read)
Math
We worked through Unit 4 from Singapore 2A. We did a concept review of multiplication and division. Arthur grasped it very easily again and so we added in some challenge pages throughout the week.
Social Studies
We went back to A River of Voices United States History and did lessons on the Salem Witch Trials, the Triangular Trade, and Fort Mose. Definitely not the happiest week for history class, but I found some good sources for videos and readings.
A Young People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Rebecca Stefoff
Making Thirteen Colonies by Joy Hakim
The Salem Witch Trials by Sarah Gilman
A Child’s Introduction to African American History by Jabari Asim
If You Lived When There was Slavery in America by Anne Kamma
Fort Mose by Glennette Tilley Turner
A Kid’s Guide to African American History by Nancy I. Sanders
Playground in the snow. How Midwest of us.
Science
Wrapped into our Unit Theme
Art
Nothing Formal
Music
Continuing with our jazz study. We finished the 1940s and 1950s and started the 1960s.
Jazz ABZ by Wynford Marsalis
Jazz Day by Roxane Orgill
Birth of the Cool by Kathleen Cornell Berman
Before John was a Jazz Giant by Carole Boston Weatherford
Spirit Seeker by Gary Golio
Sonny’s Bridge by Barry Wittenstein
Unit Theme
We started a 2-3 week unit on Space and the Planets! We started with the big picture and then started to narrow down to our own solar system. We started a great series of episodes from NOVA focusing on space. This particular selection was all about the Hubble Telescope. I learned so much about the history of the program and what we have learned. We also watched an episode from the series The Planets about the Inner Worlds. I learned a ton about Mercury and Saturn’s moon, Titan.
G is for Galaxy by Janis Campbell and Cathy Collision
Me and My Place in Space by Joan Sweeney
Boy We Were Wrong About the Solar System by Kathleen Kudlinski
Galaxies Galaxies by Gail Gibbons
Looking Beyond by Steve Parker
The Stellar Story of Space Travel by Patricia Lakin
70 Thousand, Million, Million, Million Stars in Space by Paul Rockett
Galaxies by Howard K. Tramnel
The Solar System Through Infographics by Nadia Higgins
DK Space
Space Visual Catalog by Sean Callery and Miranda Smith
The Dinosaur that Pooped a Planet by Tom Fletcher & Douglas Poynter
In the Sky at Nighttime by Laura Deal
The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield
There was an Old Astronaut Who Swallowed the Moon by Lucille Colandro
Space: Planets, Moons, Stars, and More! by Joe Rhatigan
Journey Through Our Solar System by Mae Jemison
Planet Earth by Christine Taylor-Butler
If Pluto was a Pea by Gabrielle Prendergast
Life on Mars by Jon Agee
The Space Walk by Brian Biggs
Earth Space Moon Base by Ben Joel Price
Space Mice by Lori Haskins Houran
Planet Mercy by Ann O. Squire
11 Planets by David A. Aguilar
Planet Venus by Christine Taylor-Butler
Planet Mars by Ann O. Squire
Letters from Space by Clayton Anderson
Mousetronaut Goes to Mars by Mark Kelly
Space Dog by Mini Grey
Lego Man in Space by Mara Shaughnessy
Misc. - Random picture books read
Froggy’s First Kiss by Jonathan London
A Scent-sational Valentine by Mary Man-Kong
Love, Z by Jessie Sima
Snuggle Down Deep by Diane Ohanesian
Worm Loves Worm by J.J. Austrian
This is NOT a Valentine by Carter Higgins
10 Fascinating Facts About Dinosaurs by Rachel Grack
Highs
The zoo visit was much needed.
Lows
Emergency dental visit made me lose all momentum.
Next Week
We will be finishing Jazz, Sideways Stories, and Singapore Math 2A,. We continuing over our Space Theme and U.S. History.
Next up on the TBR pile:
