by Patricia | Dec 13, 2011 | Home Schooling
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 1, Unit 3, Lesson 5: Animal Needs Today we learned about the needs of animals and how their habitats provide for them. We started out with 2 spelling words today: classify and habitat, which AA wrote in his “Plants and...
by Patricia | Dec 12, 2011 | Home Schooling
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 1, Unit 3, Lesson 4: Animal and Plant Communities Today we revisited habitats. Since we had covered habitats recently back when we tried MBtP 5-7, we went fairly quickly over this session. We talked about the animal and plant...
by Patricia | Dec 9, 2011 | Home Schooling
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 1, Unit 3, Lesson 3: Classifying Animals Today we actually learned the 6 major groups of animals: fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and insects. We cut the animal cards from the Student book and organized them into their...
by Patricia | Dec 9, 2011 | Music
MusicTime End of Semester Piano Recital A lovely evening listening to AA play some short sweet songs in his second recital this semester. A big thank you to University of Miami MusicTime’s Ms Alaina and Ms Sarah for getting the kids to look forward to the...
by Patricia | Dec 8, 2011 | Home Schooling
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 1, Unit 3, Lesson 2: Animal Structure Today we learned how animals are designed to fit the environment where they live. We studied the different body coverings groups of animals have. Each with their own texture, pattern, colors...
by Patricia | Dec 7, 2011 | Family Games, Home Schooling
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 1, Unit 3, Lesson 1: Living and Non Living Today we learned about the living and non living things that form our community. We went through the house, inside and outside, to collect or pinpoint things that are living and non...