Tuesday 9th June.

Well things have been manic here for the last few days. My mum has been in haspital for an operation so i've been running here, there and everywhere.
Though we've still managed to get some learning in.
In English we've finished reading Despereaux. Chloe's nearly finished answering the questions in the unit i madse to accompany it. We've also been do a HUGE spelling test. Just to see which words she can spell and which ones she's struggling on. Though she is a very good speller. But it has alrady highlighted a problem - words that sound the same but are spelt differently. For example fair and fare. She can spell both of them but i would just like to cover this in one of our lessons.
In maths we've been going over the times tables and also working on graphs and charts from the book.
We've done alot work on our science lapbook. It's lookin GREAT. Chloe's made several mini books 1) The animal kingdom 2) What is a mammal? 3) Mammal orders. 4) Echidna mini book. 5) Platypus mini book. 6)Marsupials. And the one she is currently working on Koala mini book.
She's wrote them all up on the computer and added pictures etc and they look really professional.
We've not done any work on history. Though we have been reading Wolfbrother which is set in the stone age.

Wednesday 20th May.

We had a FANTASTIC day today. We decided to do science all day. Chloe made 3 mini books for her mammal lapbook. She made the first two on the computer and they look very professional. The third book is an accordian book - we had to make our own one as it needed to have 18 'pages/folds'. But she made the front design on the computer. I managed to get some lovely handmade craft paper so we are using this for our mini books and it looks great. I just know that these lapbooks are going to turn out GREAT
We're off up town tomorrow to buy some more craft paper - while i's still on offer.I also want to buy some animal print card.

Later on we read the first 3 chapters of Wolfbrother. At first Chloe didn't want to read it. So i read the first couple of chapters out loud to her and now were at the bit where he discovers the wolf cub and she's hooked! Will he give in to his hunger and eat the cub or will he's desire for companionship be stronger and allow the cub to live? We'll find out tomorrow.

Tuesday 19th May.

We continued our work on our papier mache Stonehenge. We're still making the blocks! As we don't have enough lego blocks to make them all in one go!
I think we will have to work on this in the evenings too.

I'm thinking of changing things around abit with our timetable. As we have a few big projects on the go, i'm thinking of have a week of just geography then a week of just history so that we can really get to grips with the topics. I might just do this in the afternoons and keep maths and English for our morning studies. Still not sure yet???

We've finished book 2 of Despereaux and have started reading about Miggery Sow. Chloe and I have had lots of disscussions about this book. We're going to see the movie in a couple of weeks and she was wondering how they will set it out.
"Will it be different from the book mum? Will they tell us Desereauxs story then Roscuro's and then Migs story? Or will they tell it all in one?" she asked. As each book goes back a little further to explain the story. I have no idea! She's really enjoyed reading them so far. I just hope the film isn't a let down.

Monday 18th May.

Chloe wasn't very well this morning so we didn't go swimming.
She had picked up alittle by the afternoon so we just had a lazy day and read. We've started recording all her reading and adding book reviews/character studies to it aswell.

I've managed to get hold of some fictional books based on our history studies. We've got wolf brother for part of our pre-history studies. I've also requested the Percy Jackson books they are based on Greek Gods but set in the modern world. So should add to our Ancient Greek studies.

Friday 15th May.

Chloe continued her RE work this morning. She's looking at the life of Jesus. In particular the miracles he performed.

Then in the afternoon we continued our work on the oceans. I had printed a unit off but it's very American so focuses on oceans and gulfs near America, which is good but not really what i'm after for Chloe's learning. So i've started to make my own unit up. We should start this on Friday.

Thursday 14th May.

Another cold and grey day.
We spent the morning reading Despereaux. Chloe wants to read it whenever possible - she's hooked! We've now read the second book. All about Roscuro the rat. She keeps asking me " Mum, what do you think happens to the Queen?" To which i reply well we'll find out soon enough.

This afternoon Chloe has learnt about the Bronze age. We should have worked on our Stonehenge but we had a bonfire on Sunday to get rid of a load of rubbish and my son must have gathered every bit of spare paper he could find to throw on it! LOL
Looks like i'll have to pop to my Mum's and collect some of her old newspapers.

I'm trying to put together a list of fictional books that are set in certain historical times.
I've already requested Stig of the Dumps (for our Stoneage work) and someone suggested wolf brother. So i've requested that too.
I've also seen the Percy Jackson books. They are about a boy who is half Greek God and half human. There are 5 books in total and i think they focus on the Greek Gods. I can't wait for the library to call to say they are all in stock.