Muskets

After reading a bit about the Revolutionary War and George Washington, P wanted to know more about muskets (and how they differ from Han's blaster in Star Wars). We watched and discussed the following videos about the length of time it takes to load and discharge a musket and the relative inaccuracy of them. We also talked about how battles were fought then compared to now, in terms of lines of men versus taking cover.

HP1: The Sorting Hat

P already knew which house Harry would be going in, so either he remembers it from elsewhere, or he's been reading ahead.

HP1: Diagon Alley/The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters

P is so thoroughly enjoying the book that he's wanting me to read more than one chapter at a time. So, I did read chapters 5 and 6 tonight. Lots of pages! I missed some words/sentences here and there, and he picked them up and read them for me, letting me know I'd missed.

HP1: The Keeper of the Keys

The back history was handled pretty well, though I am not entirely clear that P understood what it meant. He is very excited for Harry to be getting his wand, though! On to the next chapter ... tomorrow ...

HP1: The Letters from No One

P was fascinated by this chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. Loved the (re)introduction of Hagrid and the introduction to magic in the book.

HP1: The Vanishing Glass ...

Chapter 2 of Harry Potter, Book 1 has been much more interesting for P to follow. Although it does have a lot of size discrimination references, I am hoping that further discussions will make it clear that assumptions and teasing based on someone's appearance (whatever it is that makes them different) will get through and be stronger than what he reads in books. At the end of our reading, he predicted that the letters that will be coming in the next chapter are from Brazil ....

Number Love and Workbook Fun

Today, P decided on the way to go swimming to count from 100 to 200, and did so with no problems. After returning from swimming (where we spent about 2 hours in the pool with both P and K learning to kick), P started turning over pairs of Uno Hearts cards and adding them together with the use of Math-U-See manipulatives.

We then started looking through the stack of Brighter Vision Learning Adventure workbooks we've collected, and both P and K started working through pages of them. K stuck mainly to coloring via a color-dot method and practicing letters. P followed a chart to color images, worked some 2-digit equations, some word finds, decoder puzzle (where you use a code and then write the word based on it), logic puzzle, mazes, and search and find pictures. We also did a word page that emphasized the consonant digraph "wh". P did skip-counting by 10s and by 5s (using nickel examples).

1+10=11