During the first week, we proofed and re-wrote K.'s roller coaster essay. She didn't have the roller coasters in chronological order, so we used a time-order chart to fix that. She also had problems with it's and its, so I found a work sheet to practice which one to use. Then we used the thesaurus to change find some more exciting words.
We completed chapter three in Painless Junior Grammar. It was about verbs and adverbs. Now she is working on an essay about a water ride she had to invent. Once she had it drawn, I could see that it wasn't realistic, so we got out a couple rulers, a long, clear plastic tube, tape, clay, and a ball bearing. Then we were able to experiment and see how high the hill she had could be and the ball bearing have enough energy to get over it. To get to the scale she wanted, we changed inches to feet and multiplied by two.
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