Maxwell's Checklist 2018-2019

Here's the checklist for Westwind Distance Learning.  If I had them use BrainPop to send you proof of learning, I just said "BrainPop."  I'll start with Maxwell. By the way, this post ended up being too big for my internet or blogger or something, because they wouldn't let me save it, so I broke it up into three posts. One for each kid.

MAXWELL MCKAY age 14yr 4 months Grade 8.

MATH (side note- Maxwell is WAY above this level. I had to find worksheets that Hyrum and Daniel were doing and print them for Maxwell to do. But it was a good review. Somewhere along the way, Maxwell took an accelerated leap in math.)
Squares & Square Roots- Demonstrate and understand perfect squares & square roots. 

Approximating Square Roots- Apoximate √ of non-perfect squares. (Whole numbers) 

Percents- Show an understanding of percents. (0%-100% and greater than 100%)

Rate & Ratio- Demonstrate an understanding of ratio and rate. AND
Proportional Reasoning- Solve problems involving rates, ratios & proportion reasoning.

× ÷ Fractions- Multiply and divide positive fractions & mixed numbers. AND

× ÷ Integers- Multiply and divide integers.

Graphing Equations- Graph and analyze two-variable linear relations.
(function tables & line graphs) AND

Solving Equations- Model & solve linear equations of the form: (ax = b) (x/a = b)
(ax + b = c) (x/a + b = c) a(x + b) = c where a, b and c are integers.

Pythagorus Theorem- Develop and apply the Pythagorean theorem to solve problems. 

 3 Dimensional Shapes- Draw and construct nets for 3-D objects.

 Surface Area- Calculate surface area for cylinders & prisms (rectangular & triangular). AND
 Volume- Develop and apply formulas for volume of prisms & cylinders.

 Dimensional Views- Draw and interpret top, front and side views of 3-D objects.

 Congruent vs. Similar- Determine Congruence of Polygons.

Evaluate Graphs- Critique ways data is presented. (Circle, line, bar, pictographs, etc.)

Probability- Solve problems involving the probability of independent events.
(Use experimental or theoretical probabilities to solve problems involving uncertainty) 

LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading

Read, listen to, view a variety of literature from different genres. (keep a list)

Hunger Games Trilogy

Gregor the Overlander Series

The Swiss Family Robinson

The Heroes of Olympus Series

Warriors Series

Saints Standard of Truth

The Lonesome Gods

Laddie a true blue Story

Little Britches Series

Beyonders Series

Summer of the Monkeys

White Fang

The Call of the WIld

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Little Women

and a whole bunch of Minecraft junk books not worth mentioning.

Also a bunch more, I can't keep up with everything he reads, honestly. 

Use reference materials. (text, dictionary, thesaurus, writer's handbook)

Find answers to questions using a variety of resources. (Keep a research log/list)

Understand organizational patterns. (numbering, bullet points, table of contents, indices…)

Understand basic story elements. (plot, setting, character, theme, conflict, climax and resolution)

BrainPOP

Distinguish between fact & opinion.

BrainPOP

Express preference for a favorite book, movie, poem or website & tell why.

Recognize different points of view in writing.  1st (“I”), 2nd (you) & 3rd person (he, she, they)

BrainPOP

Understand exaggeration, dialogue, suspense, foreshadowing, flashback & figurative language.

BrainPOP

Writing

Use graphic organizers such as mind mapping, labeling, outlines to apply new info. to prior knowledge.

Use a notebook for notetaking: combining, extending, representing & summarizing ideas.

Write from different points of view. (1st, 2nd & 3rd person) keep samples for portfolio. 

So in this writing assignment he writes in first person how HE makes coconut pudding and references to 2nd person, saying that YOU should do the same. Does that count?

And for 3rd person, there's tons of examples in this post.

Compare & contrast a movie to a book.

Choose 2 pieces of personal writing to edit & share. (Showcase the entire writing process)

Demonstrate presentation skills (eye contact, use of posters, voice level, etc.)

He gave a talk in church....does that count?

Demonstrate word processing & editing skills.

I'll send you (John) something he typed up without any help.

Attend to conventions: spelling, capitalization, grammar and punctuation.

By the way, this is just one page of MANY grammar pages that he's worked on. Fix It! Grammar is very good.

Paraphrase main ideas from a source. Rework. Write in own words. Cite references.

use a consistent and approved format to give credit for quoted ideas and information.

Understand font choices (size, color) and the influence on the writing.

He reads everything in the Dyslexia font, which he chooses. He chose this after playing with font size and colour on his kindle a TON!

SOCIAL STUDIES

From Isolation to Adaptation: Japan

Origins of a Western Worldview: Renaissance Europe

BrainPOP

Worldviews in Conflict: The Spanish and the Aztecs

BrainPOP

Mapping Skills-look on my blog for memorization of countries and landmarks etc.

Current Events-look on my blog, I know I have lots of photos

SCIENCE

Mix & Flow of Matter

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Cells & Systems

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Light & Optical Systems

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Mechanical Systems

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Freshwater & Saltwater Systems

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Hyrum's Checklist 2018-2019

HYRUM MCKAY age 11 and 11 months Grade 5.

MATH

******NOTICE****Hyrum is in grade 5 but he is doing grade 6 math. This is important to Hyrum. Even though he is behind in English, he is ahead in math. He was late starting his math book because it was in Vanuatu, but he did do a fraction unit while we were waiting to get to his book. Anyway, he was able to do the grade 6 checklist for math:

Understand place value. (greater than one million & less than one thousandth.)

Solve problems using whole & decimal numbers.

Factors & Multiples- Identify prime & composite numbers. (6 is afactorof 24) (45 is amultiple of 9) Find Greatest Common Factors & Least Common Multiples.

Relate Improper & mixed fractions. (1 ½ = 3/2)

Demonstrate and understandRatios(3:5, ⅗, 3 to 5) 

Percentas a ratio out of 100. Express % as a fraction & decimal. (34% = 34/100= 0.34)

Integers(CPS) compare & order (...-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3…) (I made my own worksheet before I realized Rightstart had one that we just hadn't gotten to yet)

× ÷ decimals1 digit whole number divisors($8.20 ÷ 4) & multipliers(5.1 × 3)

Order of operations- BEDMAS (limited to whole numbers, no exponentsyet)

Represent and describe patterns and relationships, using graphs & tables.

Find relationships within tables of valuesto solve problems.

Represent number relationships, using equationswith letter variables. (A = L × W) AND Express problems as equations with letter variablesrepresenting the unknown. (8x=120)

Preservation of equality- balancing equations. (5a=10) divide both sides by 5 to solve.

Measure, estimate, construct, label & classify angles. (acute, right, obtuse, straight, etc.)

Sum of Interior angles- triangles(=180º) quadrilaterals(=360º)

Develop & apply formula for perimeter, area & volume.

Compare and construct triangles. (scalene, isosceles, equilateral, right, obtuse, acute)

Compare regular & irregular polygons. (sides & angles)

Draw and describe translations(slide) reflections(flip) & rotations(CW or CCW) AND Perform a combination transformations of 2-D shapes to create a design.

Identify and Plot points in 1st quadrant.(whole number ordered pairs)

Perform and describe single transformations of 2D shapes on Cartesian Plane. (I made my own worksheet before I realized Rightstart had one that we just hadn't gotten to yet)

Create, label and interpret line graphs. Discrete(points) & continuous(line)

Gather & Graph data- (questionnaires, experiments, databases, electronic media, etc.) AND Graph collected data, and analyze the graph to solve problems.

Use experimental or theoretical probabilities to represent & solve problems.

****From here on down, Hyrum did the Grade Five checklist******

LANGUAGE ARTS

Experiences quality literature.

Beauty by Robin McKinley

Benotripia’s Amulet Chase 

A Lion to Guard US

The last unicorn

Brothers Grimm

Call it Courage

The American Twins of the revolution

Witch of black bird pond

Christmas Carrol

Canadian Flyer: Hurry Freedom

Canadian Flyer: Lost in The Snow
Canadian Flyer: Crazy for Gold
Canadian Flyer: Pioneer Kids

Revolutionary war on Wednesday

Vikings at sunrise

Sweetgrass

Kaya American Girl Series

Fablehaven
Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star

BFG

Read novels silently and aloud.
He is doing this! And not just Barton. Minecraft choose your own adventures are his motivators

Identifies key ideas & words.

Identify main problem (conflict) & how it is resolved.

The BFG Summary

By Hyrum McKay

The BFG is a fascinating story. It starts with a girl named Sophie. She’s a normal girl, but an orphan, I don’t know what happened with her parents, but what I do know it that one night people kept telling her that when the clock strikes twelve it’s the bewitching hour, but she was looking out her window at three. She saw a giant shadow. The shadow saw her, and she ran under her blankets. Slowly but surely the giant hand got her. 

That’s how the book begins. That shadow turns out to be the Big Friendly Giant. BFG for short. You see, the BFG didn’t want Sophie to escape, because she had seen him, and giants were a secret. 

He started running faster than lightning. Even though she was still in the bag, she could feel the speed. They arrived in Giant Country and the BFG put her on his table in his cave. The cave had a huge boulder to keep the other giants out. They were twice his size.

The main problem is that the giants went every night at witching hour around the world. Like to Scotland, Cardston, and Vanuatu. They did not eat snozzcumbers like the BFG. Snozzcumbers are the only thing that the BFG ate. They were really gross and disgusting. The Giants ate people instead. They needed to go all around the world so they could eat different people and not get noticed.

The BFG went all around the world so he could send dreams to children and adults. He would also catch nightmares and not let them come to you. That’s why nightmares are rare: Without the BFG they would all get to us.

Later on in the story, the Giants started figuring out that there was a “human bean” in giant country. Actually they mean a human being. Anyways, Sophie was trying to figure out a way to stop the giants from eating people. She thought if she could go to the queen of England, they would get help.

She was right. The way they convinced the queen to help them was by having the BFG mix some dreams together about Sophie, the BFG, and the Giants and sending it to the queen right before she woke up.

The English army collected the giants and put them in a pit so deep that even if they stood on top of each other, they couldn’t get out. They fed them snozzcumbers to eat, and creates a snozzcumber farm for them to eat snozzcumbers forever.

That’s really it, except to say that BFG got to eat some delicious food that was not snozzcumbers, and never ate snozzcumbers again.

The End

Discusses imagery, theme and figurative language.
Brainpop

Record & share personal responses to favorite texts.

Fablehaven is a secret preserve for magical creatures that people can only see when you drink magical milk. In the book, the main character is Kendra Sorrenson, and an almost main character is her brother, Seth. Kendra and Seth are changed by going to Fablehaven.

One of the main ways they changed was when Kendra figured out a puzzle in the house. Seth helped as well. The answer to the puzzle were the words “Drink the milk.” When they drank the raw milk, they could see magical creatures which had bee disguised as normal animals like butterflies.  Knowing that there was magical creatures in the world changed everything.

Kendra was not a brave person at first, but her experiences made her become braver. She realized that she’s more capable than she thought she was. It was Kendra that saved the whole preserve. She had to be courageous to do this because when she talked to the fairy queen, she knew she could have turned into dandelion fluff. 

We don’t find out how much Kendra had been changed physically during her first visit until we read book two. Kendra became Fairy Kind, and because of this she has powers. She can see in the dark, speak lots of magical languages, and see magical creatures without the milk.

Seth had wanted to prove to himself that he could catch fairies, but when he did, he turned into a walrus blob because the fairies got mad. Seth physically changed when he was turned into a walrus blob, but he didn’t spend too long like that. He got turned back into a boy. But when that happened, Seth realized everything you do has a consequence.

Seth is a curious type of boy. When there were creatures at the window, he let them in. Which let in a whole bunch of monsters, which started a chain reaction in the story, which led to freeing a powerful demon. Seth learned by his mistakes that he needs to listen and be obedient.

The books ends with Kendra and Seth going home, but their lives had been changed a lot.

Write from different view points. (1st & 3rd narrator)
He writes his fiction story that's found throughout the year in 3rd but his programming report is in 1st.

Write using simple, compound & complex sentences.
Well, there's lots of evidence of him dictating complex sentences to me. I think if you look at Maxwell's writing you'll trust that Fix It grammar and IEW will eventually teach my kids, but Hyrum is simply not at this point, and we're working hard as we can at his currant level.

Edit for spelling, punctuation & grammar.
This is an example of typical Barton writing assignments. He does correct a lot along the way. This truly is his best effort. 

Penmanship is legible & consistent.

Use dictionary, glossary, headings, chapters, table of context, index, etc.

With Barton, she says not to use a regular dictionary, but we do use an electronic dictionary/thesaurus, and throughout Barton we are checking homophones and discovering the correct way to spell word that don't follow rules.

Research skills.

Computer Programming is what I want to do when I grow up. It’s awesome. There’s lots you can do with it. It’s the instructions for technology. Without it, machines would be nothing.

What can programming do? It can make games, websites, texting, and even cartoons. Robots have programs to tell them what to do. It makes them intelligent and helps them think of what’s next. You can find programming in electronics. Programmers often need to work with artists. A lot of what you see on a screen is art come to life through programming.

Programming can mean codes and numbers that create what you see on your screen. It is commands and problem solving, just like a calculator.

Computers don’t really speak English, There are hundreds of computer languages. The most popular are C++, PASCAL, Logo, Java Script, and Python.

Programming is made up of codes. Coding is done in an algorithm which is step by step instructions. A tiny set of codes is called a function. Instead of writing out the entire function each time you want to use it, you can just say to do the function. Lots of people use loops, which is a repeating program. You can get programs to be problem solvers with conditional statements. The program can make decisions based on what they see, or what gets typed or touched.

Coding needs to be really really specific. Even master programmers bump into the same thing: a bug. Mostly bugs are a something they forgot to write or something they wrote wrong in the program. Other times, it’s a virus. You have to find different ways of doing things to get rid of these bugs.

Right now I am learning programming with Scratch. It’s a web sight that doesn’t use a language. Instead, it uses building blocks that act like functions. It’s a good step to becoming a programmer.

Bibliography: 

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/programming/intro-to-programming/v/programming-intro

https://www.brainpop.com/math/dataanalysis/computerprogramming/relatedreading/#tab=1

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Programming_for_Kids/What_is_Programming%3F

Contributes ideas & information; uses brainstorming, summarizing & reporting in group projects.

Communicate in a variety of forms: poetry, reports & essays. (factual, summary, descriptive, opinion, etc.)
Evidence of this above. He did fictional, essay, report, and summary here.


SOCIAL STUDIES

Research
We're living in a different culture. Enough said

Mapping (provinces/capitals, longitude, latitude & legends) 
Brainpop

Geography of Canada, Histories & Stories of Canada, Shaping & Identity
We read "Sweetgrass", went to writing on Stone. We also read "Canadian Flier" books, and he memorized this song:

SCIENCE

Science Inquiry-tons of hands on experiments. Picture-proof throughout

Problem Solving-tons of hands on experiments. Picture-proof throughout

Electricity and Magnetism 
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Mechanisms Using Electricity 
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Classroom Chemistry 
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Weather Watch 
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Wetland Ecosystems
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