G6 Roman Govt. and G3 Multiplication

G6 Roman Govt. MLB Page

G3 Multiplication: 5's (Bonus: 10's)

Today we read about how in Ancient Rome, male citizens (Patricians - wealthy land owners - and Plebians - "the working man") could join the Assembly, which voted to elect the two Consuls, the Magistrates, and the Tribunes. We talked about how the Senate held a lot of power but were mainly Advisors to the Emperor, who (of course) had ultimate power. This is one of the online images I found with this info on it. As you can see, we modeled our MLB page after it.

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For math today, we started off by including some bean bag tossing in our morning greeting circle. I would ask a simple addition question while tossing a bean bag to a child. They would have to quickly calculate the answer in their head before catching the bag. Once they caught the bag, they were to say aloud the answer before tossing the bean bag back to me. This is a great way to do "mental math" and to sharpen their calculatory skills. I had been noticing that DD9 has been stopping to count aloud each addition problem (ie. "Nine plus four is nine, ten, eleven, twelve, THIRTEEN!"). I am hoping that by doing this kind of activity, it will cause her to calculate a bit more automatically and to know by rote more readily the answers to simple addition problems. My son is already pretty good at simple addition, but he could use the practice as well. 😊

After our circle time bean bag activity, we sat down to the table to work on our daily math assignment. DS11 was working on lowest common factor and lowest common multiples today, along with a re-intro to negative numbers on a number line. He needed some assistance, but once he got the hang of it, he was fine to finish the rest on his own. DD9 and I worked on her multiplication factors for the number 5. She colored in a multiplication flower, which we naturally added to our growing "garden" on our wall.

Multiplication "Flower Garden Wall", today the 5 flower was added

We got out our counting bowls (see previous posts) and counting beads. We filled each of the 10 bowls with 5 beads, and then counted by 5's to show that each bowl represented another number multiplied by the number 5. She seemed to get it fairly easily. She then worked on the MLB multiplication page seen near the top of this post.

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For Language Arts today, DS11 worked on the poem Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll.  The poem has quite a few "nonsensical" words in it to tell the tale of a boy who seems to slay a pesky "foe", which seems to be some kind of animal/bird. He had to come up with his own definition for several of the words and give clues from the poem as to how he came about these definitions. He then had to re-write the poem as a front page newspaper story, using as many of the details from the poem as possible. We both enjoyed this lesson very much!

DD9 had worked on antonyms yesterday, and today we realized that they were to be used to fill in the boxes of a crossword puzzle. This was good practice for her on many levels - spelling, writing, "up" vs "across", and focusing on letters and words to form a puzzle. She did very well on this with few challenges.

For Science, we continued on with our Astronomy unit, working on two more constellations for our MLB book. We only have four more (of eighteen), so we're only two lessons from the end of this particular section of the unit. We always watch a youtube video on the specific constellations we are working on that day. There are several good channels that have five-minutes-or-less videos that give a brief history of the mythology behind the constellation as well as where you might find it in the sky and at what time of year. Many of our Greek myths from last year are coming back to haunt us (as it were), which of course is always exciting when our memories are jogged by the stories told in these constellation videos.

Besides our outside play, DS11's practice memorization/recitation of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (he has it mostly mastered!), and some time baking (we made keto-friendly pie crust to be chilled overnight tonight for making a keto-friendly apple pie tomorrow along with some keto lemon-poppy seed muffins), and 15 minutes of free silent reading time in their bedrooms, that pretty much wraps up our homeschool day today.

I hope you enjoyed a bit of a glimpse inside a fairly "typical" homeschool day for us!