Snowboarding

 Both kids like to snowboard but Trinity is the one who has really grabbed a hold of it.  She works hard to practice the skills she learned in her lesson and she now goes on the chair lift and more difficult runs.  She is very brave!

Kyler has great balance and skill for his age.  He does lose energy after a couple hours but he is improving as well.

Tom Thomson report

Trinity loves the artwork of Tom Thomson so she did a report on his life.  We are planning to do some family Tom Thomson oil paintings.  We have all been influenced by how he expressed his love for the outdoors in his work.

Trinity has a hard time getting her cursive very neat but I know she did her best with this, and in ink.  I am well pleased with her effort.

Community

Kyler is learning more about what makes a community.  He reads the pages in his workbook, answers the questions and then we talk.   We drive to the country to get our goat milk, eggs, honey and cheese.  He is aware of how farmers are an important part of our community and how they feed us.

Science

 Trinity and Kyler are always finding pictures in clouds.  Now she knows that those are 'cumulus' clouds. 

Kyler recently learned about the water cycle.  He took some pictures and used the store computer to develop them.  After we got them home he assembled them in order and made a water cycle collage.  Great job Kyler!

Kyler loves to study bats.  He thinks they are fascinating so it was not hard to get him to draw and write down what he knows about them.

Mapping

Kyler is having fun learning about maps.  He can interpret simple map keys and has a concept of what he is looking at in different views (bird's eye, top view, side view).

Trinity is learning about the continents and Canadian provinces.   She enjoys mapping and she can interpret aerial photos from different views.  Trinity likes to look through our big map book of the world and point out where our old home, new home and grandparents' home are.

Health

We have friends who adopted a child with FAS and so we have witnessed the effects of it first hand.  Trinity and I read a book about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and this is what she derived from our reading.

 

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)

 

F A S is a disease you get when your mom drinks alcohol when she is pregnant.  Alcohol can damage the baby’s brain so they can’t think properly. It can also damage parts of their body. There is no safe amount of alcohol the baby can have.  When the mom drinks alcohol it goes from her bloodstream right to the baby.  The baby’s liver is not strong enough to clean the baby’s body. Most of the time you can’t tell that a baby has FAS until they are older and they can’t learn the same.  A woman should never drink alcohol when she is pregnant.    

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Explorers

Trinity made a timeline from Pierre De La Verendrye's work as the lesson lent itself easily to this task.  She found it particularly interesting to see how quickly he built forts and that he took a few years off to grieve his son's death.  She worked very hard to make her timeline neat and organized...though she did get one fact wrong.