Wednesday 29th April.

We had a lovely day yesterday. Chloe worked on her maths co-ordinates in the morning. I made a worksheet up using a map of England. She had to find the co-ordinates for certain cities or counties. Then find the places for the co-ordinates i gave her. So geography as well as maths. Then she finished up her KS 3 maths book.
I also found a great co'ordinates game. Very simple design, just numbers (answers) on a grid. You ask a question/sum like 3 x 5 = and then they have to look at the answers on the grip and give you the co-ordinates instead of the answer. Thought it would be a good game to play next session.

In the afternnon we went to the library, then looked through our books. It was a great start to our science topic looking at amazing mammals, and quirky little facts about reptiles etc. It has wet her appetite, so next session she will be rearing to go. We're hoping to look at how animals are classified and then make several lapbooks. Chloé also had a great idea on a game we could make. Abit like guess who only for animals. Probably make about 5 cards for each animal group (mammals, reptiles,amphibians, birds and fish) pop them into the existing guess who game/frame and then ask questions until we know the animal.

Chloe is busy reading Beyond spiderwick at the moment. We've already read them once but she saw the film on sky recently at is now busy reading her way thought the whole set again! They are good books though.

Later were working on Despereaux and then British history.

AWOL

Well I've been AWOL for a few months now!! We had computer problems and it took a while to sort out and then everything was just up in the air, but hopefully i'm back for good now.

Our time table this term is as follows:
Monday - Swimming, then maths (Co-ordinates, tables and graphs.)
Tuesday - English (The tale of Despereaux) and History (Ancient Greece lapbook)
Wednesday - Maths, then Science (Animals)
Thursday - English, then History (British history)
Friday - R.E (Religious festivals)/ French (around the town) and Geography (Oceans)

I'm writing my own unit for Despereaux - with hints and tips from other study guides on the net.
We're working on an Ancient Greece lapbook. There's so much to learn and look at, maps, the Minoans, the Myceneaens, olympics, sparta, alphabet, myths, gods etc. I just know this is going to be a great topic. I'm wanting to do a dress up day and maybe a mini olympics in the garden too.
I had a great unit on oceans saved from ages ago. So we are using this for geography and hopefully we'll fit a trip to the Seal life centre in too.
Should be a fun packed term. Fingers crossed.