Ap: Math Bingo

Sterling has been playing the ap Math Bingo and loving it this morning. You can choose between addition, subtraction, division, multiplication and I think there is an everything game. Anyway, you earn little bugs and then you can use your bugs in the bug bungee game. He said it's his new favorite game on the iPad :) Yea! Anything to make math work a little more fun. Even Carter was playing, with Mom's help. He read the addition sentence, we counted the problem together and then he found the answer and marked it. The ap was 99cents--it's worth it!

The Earth

We started off by rolling some playdough into a ball and poking a pencil through for to show the North and the South Poles.

Then we used playdough to discuss the core, the mantle and the crust of the Earth.

Yea for Science Class today :)

History--SOTW volume II

2011-2012 we are studying Story of the World volume 2: The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance. That's a mouthful :) I think I've blogged about SOTW before so I won't talk too much about it. A mom from the co-op shared the blog Run of the Mill Family with us that has resources and lapbook activities that correlate with SOTW. Yea!! These seem like fun review activities as you move through the book, chapter by chapter. We've done one so far and the boys seemed to like it. I liked that it reviewed some of the facts that we read yesterday during history :)

Space and Planets

We are studying Earth Science this year in school and are starting with the solar system. The curriculum we are using is the Mr. Q Earth Science. So far, I love it. We are two chapters in, but the chapters are short enough to read to Sterling (1st grade) and hopefully, he'll be able to read them on his own soon! They are written clearly and seem interesting enough to keep his attention.
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These are some of the enrichment activities we are doing with space and planets at home.

Solar System Scavenger Hunt
Socks in Space -- PBSkids.org game
To The Moon -- printable game board with space trivia