Daily Spark Prealgebra

Khan Academy for One Month

from February til March Steven did about 10 minutes of Khan Academy every day.  Then in mid-March, we switched to test prep.

Eggs Jerry Spinelli

The Kite Fighters

 

This was a very interesting book.  I liked the entire book.
I liked the scene and the history.  It took place in Korea.

Volunteering at Beczak on Saturdays

Starting 2/11/12, Steven is working at Beczak on Saturday mornings.

Stone Fox less than 2 days!!

Judy Blume books late Fall

Read through all the Fudge books -- some out loud and some independently
Rest of the time, usually Peanuts and/or non-fiction out loud such as DK books on World War I. WW II, Money, etc

Saxon 65

Peanuts Collections!!

September Reading

Started Rabbit Hill...read for school reading logs
and also Peanuts anthologies

Summer Book Reading Report

George's Marvelous Medicine

This only took 2 days -- great illustrations and funny!!!

The Fighting Ground by Avi

Saving Shiloh

Shiloh Season

Shiloh was a very touching and heartwarming book about a boy named Marty in West Virginia.

I would recommend this book to people who like dogs and also to hunters.

This book also focused on drinking too much and how it affects people's minds and behaviors.

By the end of the book, Shiloh  begins to like Judd Travers.

Whittington

This book was sad because the cat died.  The boy in the story was dyslexic.

Boating Certificate!!

Fantastic Mr Fox

Hoot was great!

SUNY Maritime

http://www.facebook.com/pages/SUNY-Maritime-College-Maritime-Adventure-Boat-Camp/135998286432201

The Cookcamp

This book was about a boy during WWII.  His mother works in a factory and his Dad is in the war.  His mom sends him to live with his Grandma in Canada.  His Grandma is a cook for men who are building a road.

Don't You Know There's A War On by Avi

This book was about World War II and took place in Brooklyn.

Loser by Jerry Spinelli

This book was about a kid that got nothing right.
This book was sort of funny because Zinkoff the main character did not even mind when people laughed, kicked or teased him.  At the end of the story, he turns out to be a tough kid he stayed out in the snow for seven hours looking for a little girl named Claudia who was missing.

Steven Wins Presidential Award for Honor Roll!!

Newer Homeschooling Routine

30 minutes reading
1 page Dad's worksheet on division
Hebrew

Flush

It was sort of disgusting and sort of funny and sort of sad and sort of depressing.

It was about this guy named Dusty who was dumping crap into Florida's clean water and so this boy named Noah had to break the case because his Dad sunk the Coral Queen because there as illegal dumping.

I liked this book a lot!

Sounder

This book was a little sad because the dog is hsot and loses an ear and eye and a leg.  It tells about the hard life of a boy who could not read.  His Dad went to jail because he stole some meat so his family could eat.  The Dad was put on a chain gang and after he was released from jail he came home but then a few days later he died.  The boy was the oldest in his family and had to take care of his younger siblings.

Subtraction on FASTTMATH Completed!

Thanks Jake!!!

New Homeschooling Routine

Dropped test prep and picked up Hebrew

so now it is
30 mins reading out loud
fasttmath (with Jake)
Hebrew (listening to the Torah blessings MP3)
Great Leaps
State the State

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Arabel's Raven

Mortimer and Arabel!
Nevermore!

The Great Brain is Back

This book took less than 10 days to read!!

The Borrowers Avenged

This is the last Borrowers -- it was creepy  how it ended because they said "Are we safe?  Are we?"  from people.  The borrowers were little people.  I loved their adventures.  They were all my favorite especially Arietty and Greenpea and Spiller.  I liked Spiller because he was adventurous.

Honor Roll Again!!!

The Borrowers Aloft

I recommend this book because it is adventurous.

Heat by Mike Lupica

This book was about baseball and takes place in the Bronx.

Steven is on the Honor Roll for 2Q 5th grade!!

Blubber

I liked this book and wanted to keep reading every day past the 30 minutes. 

Arabel and Mortimer

The illustrator for this book was the same as for Matilda.  It was a funny book.  It was about a funny bird, Mortimer, who did almost everything wrong.  He ate some pills for seasickness that caused drowsiness -- this made him sleepwalk.  He ripped out the parts and demolished a sewing machine.  He also destroyed a LawnSabre (lawnmower).   He gets in trouble most of the time.  Arabel is a small girl who is his owner.  She loves him anyway.

Matilda

I liked this book because I saw the movie.

The Borrowers Afloat

FASTTMATH Addition done!!!!

The Family Under the Bridge

This book was about a hobo who would not pay rent so he lived under a bridge.  He met a family of kids with red hair -- they were hiding from the cops because they also could not pay their rent.

This book takes place in Paris.  I liked it because it had a dog Jojo.

The kids were so used to a dirty dog but then Armand the hobo accidentally spilled water on him so that he was a white puffball.  Before that he was a brown and dirty dog!

The Trumpet of the Swan

I liked when Louis got his love by playing the trumpet.

Tom Sawyer

Read about half plus NY Times articles and excerpts from fishing and boat books

9 + 7 and 7 + 9

The Borrowers Afield

The Borrowers have never been outside of the house.  They escaped the house because the humans were trying to kill them.  So the boy that was in the house got them out of the floor.  Then they were trying to find the badger's set with Uncle Hundreary and Eggletina.  When they were living out side they were living in a gentleman's boot.  Spiller is another borrower who saved their lives by giving them meat, advice, etc. etc.

I recommend this book to all ages.

All of a Kind Family Uptown

The book is about a New York family during World War I.  Jules (Ella's boyfriend) goes into the Army and does ok but his friend is missing and is in a German prison.  At the end of the War, the two young men return home and they all have a celebration .

The Borrowers

The Borrowers by Mary Norton STEVEN MAX LEVINE


The book was about small people called Borrowers who took things from regular people. The main characters were Homily, Pod and Arietty. I recommend this book

The Old Man and the Sea

This book was really good.  It made me hungry.

It was about an old man who had no luck at fishing.

He goes deep sea fishing and catches a marlin. The fish was as big as our living room (19 feet).

The sword was really big.

The Summer Homeschooling Regimen

One page of Singapore Math
One page of NY State 5th grade Social Studies exam page
Three one-minute increments of Great Leaps http://www.greatleaps.com/
30 minutes of Steven reading out loud
One page of Cub Scout webelo reading
20 Math problems on http://www.ixl.com/

Around the World in 80 Days

The story is about a guy who is a neat freak, he hates being late and one day, he makes abet for 20,000 pounds to go around the world in 80 days.  Back then, there were no airplanes so he had to take steamboats, trains, elephants, horses, and a rickshaw. 

It took 79 days to go around the world.

I liked this book because it had different cultures, transportation and money.

Fudge A Mania

This book is about a boy named Peter who is 11 or 12 and his little brother Fudge (his real name is Farley Drexel).  Their family goes to Maine for 3 weeks and so does their neighbor Sheila!!  They end up sharing a house.  Fudge (age 5)  plans to marry Sheila (age 11) but instead their widowed/widowered grandparents marry each other. 

I liked this book because it was funny --  Mrs. A thought Uncle Feather was a bird.