Day 14 and 15 of 180

Day 14
6/27/11

Today we decided to start going over all of the needed math skills on ixl.com.We started with "Probability and Statistics (more likely, less likely and equally likely)" Lilly took 9 minutes and got 19/20 correct and Riley took 8 minutes and got 20/20.
We watched a short video on National Geographic.com about California Grunion. It was titled "Fish walks on beach". It lasted about 4 minutes and was pretty interesting about how the Grunion breed.
For math worksheets Riley wrote her numbers to 100 and learned to count by tens and ones. ex: three tens and three ones makes 33.  Lilly worked on add/subtract regrouping. Which I think is safe to say she's got it. We will definately be moving to rounding next.
For Reading Comprehension Riley worked on reading sentences & matching them to pictures. Lilly read 2 stories and answered questions then worked with letter teams sh. ch, wh and th.
For writing Lilly continued practicing cursive letters and Riley wrote upper and lower case alphabet.
For Social Studies/Art the girls made a mosaic of the US flag by cutting and pasting red/white and Blue magazine clippings and learned that Betsy Ross designed the american flag.
In Science I wanted to keep with the fourth of July theme so we looked up a red, white and blue bird out of a bird journal we checked out at the library. Our Red bird was a cardinal, White bird was a Snow bunting, and Blue was a Blue Grosbeak.


Day 15
6/28/11
I've been meaning to include more computer activities for the girls, so we started some basic typing today to get familiar with the keyboard. Both girls practiced for 30 minutes apiece. Then we went onto ixl.com to practice money, identifying names and values. Both girls did pretty good. Lilly got 18/20 and Riley also 18/20
Then Riley read "Who Lays Eggs" by Bruce Larkin and also "My mother Is Mine" by Marion Dane Bauer and Lilly read My Mother is Mine.

After a break I read "Bird" by DK (discovery keds) eye know and "Animals a Visual Encyclopedia" also by DK. I enjoyed this time with them, they really seemed interested in birds. We discussed parts of birds like wings, beak, feet (webbed, etc). We discussed the different shapes of beaks and what types of foods they eat. We also discussed what the different eggs look like and why. Both girls were able to recite most of this information back which really shows they paid attention.LOVE IT! 
We took a moment to go outside and hunt for ants for our ant farm. We found 2 and they seem a tad lethargic.lol  Might have to try again on that.
Its been a long day but we still haven't covered writing or social studies so we looked up Independence day online and talked briefly about how it came about. We have already covered this but i want to reinforce what they've learned so we covered it again. Then I had them write "July 4th is Independence Day" "The flag has 13 stripes" "Hummingbirds wings are very fast" and "Ducks have webbed feet"