Last Month of First Grade

I wanted to do a re-cap of the last month of homeschooling with Johanna from the Spring.  We covered a lot in that month!

I introduced her to the math gnomes and taught her the four processes. 

We talked about addition first.

 Plus Drawing by Mom

Plus Drawing by Johanna

Here we talked about all the different ways to get 12 by adding.

 

The following is Julia's picture.  All the numbers are upside down and backward since she is looking across the table at mine and Johanna's page, so that's always how she saw everything. I don't have a picture of Johanna's drawing, and I'm not sure why. That was a long time ago....

 

 

We took some time to do a spring craft.  I cut out a blue bird garland and the girls painted them, and added glitter, too. You can never have too much glitter!
 

Johanna also made a Tinkerbell paper doll.

Next, we talked about subtraction.

Johanna's Drawing 

Julia's Drawing (she asked me to write the numbers out for her this time).

 

 Then we talked about multiplication.

Mom's Drawing

Johanna's Drawing

 Julia's Drawing

 Practice problems for Johanna.

Finally, we talked about division.

Mom's Drawing

Johanna's Drawing

 We talked about some different ways to get the number 15.

Mom's Drawing

Johanna's Drawing

Next, we took some time to cover a story called, The New Land, about a family that came to a new land and had to build a house. We incorporated math into the story.
 

Mom's Drawing

Johanna's Drawing

Julia's Drawing

Copy Work

We continued to add more to the story, and work on more math problems over the next couple weeks. 
 

We also played the game, Sum Swamp, and few times.

We made pretty "stained glass" panels for the school room window with leaves and flowers the girls and I collected.

 

Finally, we covered the four seasons.

Spring

Mom's Drawing

Johanna's Drawing (I can't remember why she didn't do the copy work on this page.  We may have run out of time.)

Julia's Drawing

Summer

Mom's Drawing

Johanna's Drawing

Autumn

Mom's Drawing

Johanna's Drawing

Winter

Mom's Drawing

Johanna's Drawing

Julia's Drawing

I'm not sure what happened to Julia's drawing for Summer and Autumn either.  She was there with us, so they must have gotten lost in a pile of other drawings.

Throughout all of this we continued to practice reading and review math. Now a new school year is getting ready to begin.  Lots of changes ahead!

Boonville Visit

We have been making our way through our summer fun list, and one of our first outings was to visit my brother in his new home town.  While there, we had a private tour of the Warm Springs Ranch which is the home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

 

We really enjoyed the tour of this beautiful farm, and were fortunate to see three newborn foals.  All of which were born a few days earlier.

 

That is one big horseshoe!

 

 

Our main reason for visiting was to eat at my brother's new restaurant.  The building has a lot of interesting history associated with it, and the food was awesome!