Charlotte Chit Chat

Just thought we'd highlight some of the things that Charlotte did this month.

We continue to add memory verse flash cards.

Art by herself.

She did use a directed drawing, but yes, she walked herself through it though.

Months of the Year.

She has started carrying in Math.  Currently in Unit 3 of Rod and Staff Grade 2.

Turning abstract numbers into concrete examples.

Charlotte will finish the formal school year with these books half finished.  They're started already, but yes, won't be finished in 3 days time though.  I imagine that she will still continue throughout her vacation time but at personal leisure.  We'll see how it all goes and what she resumes with in January.  There is a small chance that she'll spend her time really doing no school at all.  But, if by some incentive chance, she might still do the occasional lesson too.  We'll see.  I'm really happy with her reading progress this year.  She's almost entirely done with LTR.

A jigsaw too.

and then.......... on her last official school day this year she did this:

We are finishing early this year because we are MOVING to the other side of Australia.

Anyway, just wanted to keep something to look back on.

Columbus Day

I know, I'm late..... 

but better late than never....

or maybe we could just look at it like this:

we're early for next year, right?

Truth is, I did use these resources this year, I just didn't get them to the store in time before Columbus Day though.

We started out with 2 reading passages - which I read to the girls.

One was out of an old book I have on the shelves, the other passage was from here:

We put our vocabulary words into our notebooks.

Then we matched up our definitions with the vocabulary words.

Then we worked on the worksheets from here:

 This one is Charlotte's page.

Yeah, so not too much, but just enough for a quick easy lesson.

In fact, we used it as our very last lesson of the year.

Did you do Columbus Day this year?

Thanks so much for visiting.

More Columbus Day

 

 

Well, I think we have now finished up our Columbus theme.

 

Here are a few things we did.

 

Stick puppets.  This Columbus asking Queen Isabella for some money to fund his little adventure.

 

 

 

 

We made Columbus hats.   I freestyled the pattern myself.

 

 

 

 

We also made telescopes with our handy dandy toilet rolls.  The girls painted them black.

 

 

 

 

I think Phebes little telescope came out the best.   It was more sturdy with joining two same sized rolls together.

 

 

 

 

Freestyling ships in a bottle.  Adding Columbus was an afterthought, otherwise I would have had the girls put the sails a bit more to the left. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I found some more books with Columbus in them too.

 

This was an odd book.  It's basically a picture book where you FIND things in them.

 

 

 

 

And I also found him in:

 

Famous Explorers

 

Great Lives Great Deeds

 

Don't forget to check out my other Columbus post for additional books that we found him in.

 

 

We finished off with a little writing.

 

 

 

Thanks for visitng.

 

 



Columbus

 

In our Medieval travels this year we came across Christopher Columbus.

 

 

We found him in:

 

 

Mystery of History
 

 Story of the World

Columbus and Sons

Synge - Discovery of Worlds

Around the World in a Hundred Years

If You Were There in 1492

 

 

 

 

More books, but very specifically about Christopher Columbus that we also read:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This last one - we started reading, but haven't go to the end - YET.

 

 

 

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And if you know me, you know I just HAD to go and make some worksheets / printables.   That's why I am 'The Paper Maid'.  There HAS to be some paper in there somewhere.

A color cover page.

 

 



 

A few describe / what we know about ( insert - Columbus, King Ferdinand, Queen Isabella ) worksheets.

 

 

 

Some writing paper.

 

And out of the blue - with nothing to do with Columbus at all, I threw in some Homophone work.

 

There are 7 pages of Homophones.

 



 

And a couple of pages to practice using said homophones.

 



 

And just in case your kiddos are all written out, they could just cut up a page of homophones and glue them back together again.

 

 

 

 

And the best part is that this little packet is currently FREE - for a limited time.  Just click any picture to go and get yourself a copy.

Thanks for visiting.











 Oh, and for fun I'm linking up with Teaching Fourth again this week.  I hope you will join us.