Language Arts

Shared Story Writing Activity with mom and sister - After writing, Cara identified the different types of sentence.  Connected to Five in a Row story, Ferdinand

Halloween Poem - Criteria was to write 8 lines or 2 stanzas using a rhyming pattern of choice. 

Letter to Compassion sister-friend - Cara has been writing to this friend since she was 4. :)

Reading List chosen by mom for the year.  These books must be read sometime during the assigned month.

Cara read each of the bibliographies independently.

Table of Contents for Christians Courageous

Planning web for response to Sojourner Truth bibliography.

Sojourner Truth bibliography - response

Joseph Brant bibliography - response

Spelling activity - Spelling Wisdom

Practicing unknown words.

Spelling test from a collection of challenging words from the past week. (Spelling Wisdom)

Copy work - cursive - We did a three week intensive cursive writing period.  Cara is now expected to write almost solely with cursive.  

Another cursive writing copy work - part of the intensive training. :)

Connected with All the Secrets of the World story - Focussing on first person story telling.

Sample of a first person paragraph.

Connected to Andy and the Lion story - assignment was to write a short story where the sentenced continued onto the next page to create a bit of anticipation.  As well, the illustrations were to be done with yellow ink tones.

Part of a new consequence for not using gentle hands in our home is that the offender needs to write an essay about the importance of using gentle hands. {rough copy} 

Gentle hands essay, after editing, and good copy publishing.

Cara's newest project is to determine the perfect dog for our family.  Here is research that she has been doing by watching Dog 100 You Tube videos.

Cara designed these questionnaires for each member of your family to fill out regarding their favourite dog and why.  She is using the information from these questionnaires to focus her research. :)

Reading Log:
Cara has been reading quite a bit this term.  She chooses nonfiction animal related books from the library to read, but is also enjoying easy chapter books like The Magic Tree house Series and June B. Jones.  She is presently in the process of reading The One and Only Ivan - the 2013 Newbery winner.
I also read a lot to them - mainly picture books and nonfiction books related to topics of learning i.e. human body, war, Remembrance Day, poetry, etc.  Our chapter book read aloud right now is The Wheel on the School.  Our audio book this term {the one we listen to in the van, is Anne of Avonlea}.

Video Log:  Cara has had lots of opportunity to view videos this terms {since mom has been needing time to work:)}.
The videos include classic stories: i.e. Heidi, Pippi Longstockings, Lassie, Mary Poppins, The Adventures of Huck Finn as well as learning videos: i..e National Geographic Kids animals, Bill Nye the Science Guy {digestion, nutrition, human body}, and other educational videos mainly on topics of animals and food, health, human body.