November 8, 2010 Day Forty-three

We had a crazy storm last night and woke up to discover that quite a few schools were cancelled due to high wind damage, no power, and some coastal flooding. But Brunswick schools were open and so were we! We are busy now finishing this first unit on the Age of Discovery. Sophie completed her first Review on Explorers You Should Know and she got a 100%! I am very proud of her. She completed the review on her own without notes or my assistance. She studied today for her Astronomy Review, which she will take next Monday. We also have a plan to review math this week in preparation for her Math Review, which she will take next Thursday. She also has an up-coming Vocabulary Review, which she'll take next Tuesday. On the days she completes and review and/or studies for an up-coming review, she will not complete a 5 x 5.
She's all done now on her script. We worked on Friday reading through it and correcting grammar errors and some minor confusing bits. We're all set to have the cast read through it tomorrow! I will post the final, completed script later this week on the blog.
She' almost done with her scrapbook, which looks awesome! She has two more pages for Astronomy and Navigation and then a few for the play once we're in "production," which will be starting next week.
She's also preparing to work on her presentation of the scrapbook, which she will write and then video in order to present it to a gathered audience of family and friends on Thanksgiving morning at the farm.
We hope the weather will cooperate and even though it's a holiday on Thursday and her testing day and we don't have school, we are planning to go out in the evening and search for constellations! Let's hope for a nice fairly warm, dry, clear night!
Activities
Game—Professor Noggin's Explorers (worked as a great review for the "Review" Sophie completed today to finish this unit)—Sophie won! 10-8 cards
Review—Who am I? Explorers. Sophie decided to try her review without the benefit of me providing her with the names of the explorers that she had to identify. I gave her the option and she completed her review without the list of explorer's names to check off. She got 100%!
Who Am I? Explorers You Should Know Review—We encourage you to try the review!

1. I built the first school of navigation in Portugal. Who am I? ___________________
2. I am the first to navigate the bottom tip of Africa. Who am I? _________________
3. I am the next to navigate around the Cape of Good Hope but I completed the voyage to the Indies. Who am I? ___________________
4. I was called "El Draco" by the Spanish but I was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. Who am I?
   _____________________
5. I died in the Philippians and never finished my voyage but am often credited with being the first to circumnavigate the globe. Who am I? ________________
6. I was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean but I called it the Southern Sea. Who am I?
   _________________________
7. I am the first to sail around South America and now there's a straight there named after me. Who am I? _________________
8. I traveled the Asian and Indian world and wrote a "best seller" about my journeys that inspired other explorers after me. Who am I? _____________________
9. The United States was named after me because I was the first to understand I was exploring a New World. Who am I? __________________
10. I discovered Florida but I was looking for the Fountain of Youth. Who am I? _____________
11. I am the first European to see the Grand Canyon but I was not at all nice to the Native People I met in what is now southwest America. Who am I? ______________________
12. I am a conquistador who tricked Montezuma in Mexico and conquered the Aztecs. Who am I?
    __________________________
13. I was searching for the Seven Cities of Gold and found the Mississippi River instead. Who am I?
    __________________________
14. I sailed for France and discovered the St. Lawrence River. Who am I? ________________
15. I was set out in a rowboat with my son and other crewmen on my fourth voyage searching for the Northwest Passage. Who am I? ____________________
16. I was lost to history after my second voyage to the New Found Land. Who am I? ____________________
17. My father and I deserve to be credited for discovering the New World in the year 1000. Who are we? _____________________
18. I spent twelve long years convincing someone in Europe to give me money to make my voyage west to find a quicker route to China. Who am I? ________________
19. I discovered Quebec and began the fur trade between the Native people of Canada and the French. Who am I? ____________________
20. I am the son who was left behind in Bristol and grew up to be an important explorer myself. Who am I? ______________________

Study for Review—Astronomy review next Monday. Sophie studied her notes and questions from The Night Sky, which is where her 30 review questions will come from.
Arts & Crafts—finished the box of presents for the triplet girls' birthday. Sophie painted a lovely picture for them, we made a necklace, some cool buttons, some colorful puppets, and homemade cards—all kinds of neat stuff!

Music-we watched Annie and Sophie worked on memorizing her lines for the songs "Maybe" and "Hard Knock Life"
Skating--4:30-5:30 Freestyle
Rehearsal—6-8:30 pm