Black Holes

 Science series for this week:

New things to learn!

David:

We started "Intro to Paragraph Writing" on Outschool.  Also, started on long division.

Jonathan:

We started "Sight words" on Outschool.  He loves it.

Eggs!

 PBS video of the week:

PBS videos this week

David has always been interested in the elements and the periodic table.  A new series has come out on PBS featuring David Pogue as the narrator, and it's right up David's alley.  We start with THE POWER OF BACON!

David:

In the ELA front, he ran into some IPA in one of the worksheets.  So we talked about how to decipher IPA in his dictionary.  We also talked about a very specific order of adjectives that no one talks about in school but everyone is just expected to know.

 

 

Jonathan:

 

We're moving on to addition and subtraction within 20 using a number line.  

Moving along

David:

Short intro to long division by way of liquid conversions. Into to prime numbers.  Read a little about the largest prime number discovered as of 2018. Now we're at the Boston Tea Party and the battle of Bunker Hill (there's something of a Star Wars joke about high ground in here).

Jonathan:

Using the number line for addition and subtraction under 20.  Talked about food getting better in the 18th century in Europe, and the appearance of sugar.  Talked about the beak shapes of birds and how different shapes are used for different ways of hunting for food.

Fridays are PE days at the park where they bike and play for hours.  They also watched a PBS Nature episode about living volcanoes and how scientists are trying to understand the biological limits of organisms.

Turtle Hospital

 Today is Turtle Hospital!  They watch how turtles in the Florida Keys get rehabilitated.