Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Spotlight on Raven



Today for Creative writing Raven did an assignment to see just how observant she is. She looked at a group of pictures for 30 seconds and then without looking at the pictures, described what she remembered seeing.

This is what she wrote:
*A beautiful sunset at the beach
*A grouchy kindergarten teacher
*A beautiful dinner table set for supper
*A small alarm clock that says it is almost lunch.

Then she was given three minutes to look at the pictures and then without looking at the picture again, tried to answer questions about the pictures the best she could. She got nine out of the 13 questions right.

(My scanner is not working, so you'll have to forgive me for the bad image from my digital camera.)



Raven is working in Saxon 6/7 for Math. After she is done working the problems in the book, she gets the solutions book and checks her work. Then she finds her mistakes and makes the necessary corrections. Here is a sample of today's math work.


(I had difficulty getting rid of the bright spot from the flash, so you can't really see her scratch work. At least you can see the answers on the left.)

For Geography Raven was given a list of about 20 different things and she had to create her own map with a legend. Here is an example of that work. The result was kind of messy, but everything was in the right place on the map.


She worked in her Spectrum spelling workbook today and should be finished with the whole book by this Friday. Then she will be moving on to 7th grade vocabulary. Her word list for this week is autobiography, autograph, automatic, megaphone, microphone, saxophone, symphony, telephone, telecast, telescope, export, import, passport, portable, and transport.

She is currently learning the United States Constitution. Today we discussed the 10th amendment and it's meaning. Each day that we add a new amendment, she studies it with the previous amendments learned. The goal is for her to eventually know all the amendments to the constitution and understand their meaning. After all are memorized she will begin doing various projects having to do with the amendments to help her keep them memorized and to really understand their importance.

Raven has started working on Physical Science through www.jason.org. Right now she is doing the unit on velocity. If your looking for a good curriculum for Physical Science, Jason science is amazing and it is FREE.

Everyday she reads for an hour or longer. Right now she is reading, There's a Hampster in my Lunchbox, by Susan Clymer. After she reads a book, she writes a book report.


Raven is writing a book and works on it when the rest of her school work is done. I'm not going to tell you what it is about. When it's done, I'll share it. I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise.




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