This is a meaty book. It was the book I picked to read and discuss with the fifth grader.
The book is full of themes and covers a lot of world history, a lot of perspectives, a lot of big figures, and a lot of controversies.
It offers an opportunity to reflect by daily answering a question in .a written format.
Related to the theme of WWII. This was a read-aloud which speaks about particular person, his life, his experience, his view, his battle, his rebellion, his firmness, social injustice and chauvinism, injustice, white privilege, irrational unjustified fear.
Sachiko aligns with the WWII theme. It is the story of a Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor. We also watched the PBS film Bomb. The book is heavy, and offers a view of devastation. So it is tough to swallow and we took our time.
We are still less than 50% through with Wonder. I wish we were done with it because it is getting on my nervous but hopefully by end of February we will be done with it. We will watch the film in Portuguese too.
We are moving so we have not been working as consistently as before. Still we are on track with all subjects. The recent history that we covered this year has been tough so we are going to switch gears and start reading something lighter. The book we will read is Where the Mountain meets the Moon. Fifth Grade:English: read and discuss BombMath: Geometry-congruent triangles; PreAlgebra-DecimalsPortuguese: present and past tense, irregular verbsPiano and Violin: concerts and daily 30-min practiceForeign Language: ItalianThird GradeEnglish: read short chapter booksMath: Logical problems and exponentsPortuguese: present tense verbs and vocabularyPiano: concerts and daily 30-min
We spent Christmas break ice-skating every day. I was sick for most of it but it did not stop us from enjoying ice-skating. The next few big steps are actually moving, beginning new school, science fair, math challenge.
Sachiko aligns with the WWII theme. It is the story of a Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor. We also watched the PBS film Bomb. The book is heavy, and offers a view of devastation. So it is tough to swallow and we took our time.
We are still less than 50% through with Wonder. I wish we were done with it because it is getting on my nervous but hopefully by end of February we will be done with it. We will watch the film in Portuguese too.