Enjoying Fall

MATH - One of my favorite things about Fall is CANDY CORN! So we decided to do math with candy corn. We needed to find out how many were in the bag so we dumped the bag out and the girls put them in piles of ten and then counted by tens to find out that there were 125. Next we put them in piles of 5 and counted by fives to find out that we only had 123. What happened? All you have to do is look at Amber's face in the picture above to know what happened to the missing candy, plus it was a good lesson in subtraction. I asked the girls to write the number 123 and it came out something like 100203, uh oh, looks like we need to review place value again. So, out came our decimal street maps and our base ten blocks from Math-U-See to review place value. It only took a couple times of practicing for them to remember not to include the zeros because where the number is indicates it's place and how many blocks live there. Next we had to divide the candy corn evenly amongst our family. There are 6 people in the family, but one of them (Dad) does not like candy corn so we only needed to divide by 5. Jared did the division problem, but didn't tell the girls the answer, they figured it out by manipulating the candy into 5 even piles and found out that everyone could have 24 with 3 left over or remainder 3. Hey! That's the same answer Jared got. Also, along with Life of Fred, Jared and Clarissa have started using Khan Academy for math testing and practice. It is an online resource for math and science for all levels. They are having fun filling up their star charts by mastering practices.
HISTORY - We are still learning about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table so we read a story about Lancelot and then read about Captain Moroni's character and code of chivalry in Alma 48. We also made an acrostic poem about Knights:
K - killing enemies
N - noble and brave
I - iron weapons they used
G - gallantly they fought
H - horses they rode into battle
T - trustworthy and true
I thought this poem was really funny after having just read in Alma that the Nephites did not delight in the shedding of blood and would only raise their swords against their enemies if their enemies raised them first, but the first thing the kids chose for knights was killing enemies. On Friday, we watched a King Arthuresque movie called Avalon High. The setting is a modern High School, but the kids take on characters from the King Arthur tales. We had fun testing our knowledge by trying to pick out the characters.
Jared is enjoying the Fall weather by doing his bride work for Life of Fred math outside.
SPELLING - Our creative spelling practice for this week was to put alphabet stickers on Lego blocks and use those to make spelling words.

READING - Clarissa and Krystal both have scripture assignments for Primary so I typed up their scriptures and we made Rebus stories with pictures for the hard words out of their scriptures to help them be able to read them on their own. Both of their reading abilities are improving daily, it is so exciting.

WRITING - Jared was given a talk assignment for Primary so he wrote out his talk about prayer and the time that he had to decide whether to go to Lego League or church and prayer helped him decide to go to church, then he typed it out on the computer.