During the rest of week we continued to work on spelling, which consists of me picking out a word for Grant to spell out loud and then he writes it three times. We also reviewed math using our math dice, and Grant skip counted using our "times tables songs". Grant also started learning a Christmas song on the penny whistle, and the kids continued to learn new French words through verses and songs.
For Johanna, the theme of the week was GINGERBREAD! All the kids joined in on the activities, so it was really a gingerbread week for everyone.
On Monday, Grant's main lesson was in the kitchen getting some hands-on experience with dry measurement. We did this by making bread. I had Grant measure everything out. For the flour, we measured it out by cups, and also weighed it out in ounces.
While the dough was rising, we went back into the school room for French lesson, penny whistle practice and spelling practice. Once the dough had risen, we measured it into 8 ounce balls.
We also split one of those into two 4 ounce balls.
We weighed them when they came out of the oven to see if they still weighed the same. We found they had all lost .3 - .4 ounces. As Grant simply stated, "They lost some weight while they baked."
I also read Johanna this book (but of course they all listened):
Once I was done reading the book, Johanna and I drew some gingerbread men. I drew these and she colored them in:
These are some that she drew:
On Tuesday, Grant and I reviewed linear and dry measure by going back through Grant's lesson book and talking about the pages where we worked with those types of measurements. We also started writing out a chart for the school room which will have some of the measurements and conversions we have worked with so far.
I also read Johanna this book:
Later in the day, the kids made these gingerbread shirts which were like the monster shirts they made at Halloween. Once again, they all had a ton of fun designing their shirts.
The finished products:
On Thursday, Grant and I began talking about liquid measure. I used a story about a farmer's wife milking a cow and getting one gallon of milk. We figured out how many pints and cups were in a gallon, and if she gave the farmer a pint of milk to drink, and gave her two kids a cup of milk each to drink, how much was left of the gallon for her to make butter (Next week we will be in the kitchen making our own butter)? We worked on those conversions, and then Grant wrote about it in his lesson book:
On Friday, we had fun making gingerbread cookies and a gingerbread "mansion".
(We did this part before bath.)
(We finished them up after bath.)
It was a fun and yummy gingerbread week!
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