Lapbooking, Multiplication, and Ghanian Food -- Learning Log 11 for Fox Lover

Friday, May 15

We Played:

• Scrabble
• 10 Days in the USA - We played twice. (Geography, Strategic Thinking)
• Telepathy (Deductive Logic, Strategic Thinking) -- This is her ABSOLUTE favorite game, and we play it every day. I talked more about it here.
• Prime Pak -- This game reinforces multiplication facts, factoring, prime factoring, and prime and composite numbers. Trisha has mastered prime factoring super fast. We are working on multiplication and preparing for algebra simultaneously. (Math: Patterns & Algebra; Computation)

We Also Worked On: Multi-Digit Multiplication of:

• a 2 digit number by a 2-digit number
• a 3 digit number by a 2-digit number,
• a 3 digit number with a decimal by a 2-digit number

Alena, a teacher with Waldorf training, introduced me to an alternate way of doing multi-digit multiplication, using the distributive property, that has worked beautifully for Fox Lover:

Fox Lover started practicing it for fun, checking her answers with a calculator. :-)

Learning About Ghana:

We made a West African meal, including jollof rice and fruit salad.

We also put together some notebook pages using lapbook materials on Ghana from Homeschool Share, which is an amazing resource. 

(Geography; Cooking)