Mom Is Teaching

I know I crapped out on this one for this week.  But hey, I’ve spent he majority of the day on the road.  I”m still on the road, just typing and prepping to do some serious uploads when we arrive at our destination.  I also woke up at 3 AM this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep.  Oh well, not a biggee, just one of them things.

I’ll either get some up tomorrow or I might just wait til next week.  We shall see.  Wait, I do have one fact for you, This hurricane that’s out there right now, I’ve been calling him Guido all week.  People have been looking at me like I’m nuts….all week.  His name is Gustav.  No wonder  people thought I was high.

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Last week I took some of the facts out of the post and wrote them on an index card.  I hung them on the fridge with Walker’s site words for the week and was totally surprised with both the 3 year old and the 5 year old knew many of the facts that I really felt like were too old for them to understand.  So, here we go, with the facts for week two.

Starting with Olympic Facts, since we are nearing the close of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

• he word “gymnasium” comes from the Greek word gymnos, which means naked. In ancient times athletes practiced in the nude to the accompaniment of music. They also performed naked at the Olympic Games. Women were not allowed to participate or even to attend as spectators.
• A Chef won the first Olympic Games in 776 BC. The race was the equivalent of a 190 meter or 208 yard dash.
• Three continents-Africa, South America and Antarctica-have never hosted the Olympics.
• The youngest ever Olympian was Greek gymnast Dimitrios Loundras, who competed in the 1896 Athens Olympics at the age of ten.
• The Olympic Games is the largest single broadcast event on Earth, reaching more than 3.5 billion people in 220 countries.
• The last Olympic gold medals that were entirely made of gold were awarded in 1912.

Social Studies Facts

• Obama has chosen a running mate.  Do you know who it is?
• The Labor Day holiday as we know it grew out of the efforts of labor unions over a century ago. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, records indicate the holiday was first proposed in the late 19th century. Two men are credited with the original idea: Peter J. McGuire, a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, and Matthew Maguire, a machinist and secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York.
• One evening in 1937, RuthWakefield was making butter cookies and thought she would make them all chocolate instead. She cut a bar of chocolate into tiny pieces and added them to the cookie dough. She thought that the chocolate would melt completely and she would have chocolate cookies. When the cookies came out of the oven, the chocolate hadn’t melted at all! Instead, the “chocolate chips” had kept their form.

Language Fact:  The Rule regarding the use of the letters “i” and “e”.

• “I” before “e” except after “c” or when sounded like neighbor and weight. 
• The Exception to the above rule are these:

Isn’t it WEIRD at the HEIGHT of his success, the FINANCIER could NEITHER SEIZE a bit of LEISURE nor afford a FOREIGN trip. 

Our first lesson is a Math Fact.  This one is for the kids doing multiplication.

Learning Multiplication Facts for the Number 9

1 X 9 =

2 X 9=

3 x 9=

4 x 9=

5 x 9=

6 x 9=

7 x 9=

8 x 9=

9 x 9=

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Take out the obvious one.

1 X 9 = 9

2 X 9=

3 x 9=

4 x 9=

5 x 9=

6 x 9=

7 x 9=

8 x 9=

9 x 9=

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Now, list the numbers 1 thru 8

1 X 9 = 9

2 X 9=  1

3 x 9=  2

4 x 9=  3

5 x 9=  4

6 x 9=  5

7 x 9=  6

8 x 9=  7

9 x 9=  8

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Now, the  numbers 1 thru 8 going up beside the previous listing:

1 X 9 = 9

2 X 9=   1

3 x 9=   2

4 x 9=   3

5 x 9=   4

6 x 9=   5

7 x 9=   6

8 x 9=   7

9 x 9=   81

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Now, the  numbers 1 thru 8 going up beside the previous listing:

1 X 9 = 9

2 X 9=   1

3 x 9=   2

4 x 9=   3

5 x 9=   4

6 x 9=   5

7 x 9=   63

8 x 9=   72

9 x 9=   81

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Now, the  numbers 1 thru 8 going up beside the previous listing:

1 X 9 = 9

2 X 9=   18

3 x 9=   27

4 x 9=   36

5 x 9=   45

6 x 9=   54

7 x 9=   63

8 x 9=   72

9 x 9=   81

TA DA!

Now, I give you two links that might actually be more helpful than my little trick.

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Moving right along… a Science Fact:

An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

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Language Facts Dibels

The following measures are given in Kindergarten:

• ISF: Initial Sounds Fluency
• LNF: Letter Naming Fluency
• PSF: Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
• NWF: Nonsense Word Fluency

My child will learn what it means to be Dibeled this week.  I plan to re-visit this the first part of next week.

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Social Studies Facts

I chose China since we are all enjoying the Olympics.

1. Ice cream was invented in China around 2000BC when the Chinese packed a soft milk and rice mixture in the snow.

2.  China is the fourth largest country in the world. 

3.  China is sometimes a day ahead of the United States.

4.  Red is considered a lucky color in China.  At one time wedding dresses were red. 

5.  China is the world’s most populous nation with 1.29 billion people.

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I’ll do my best to get some facts up in various subject areas as well as different age levels each week.  Remember, I said, I will try….

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