Tax On Sugared Drinks, The Five Senses

I am going to get on my soapbox very quickly, and then get right back off. As a nation, we are the fattest in the world. We have high obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. We eat portion sizes, including sugar, like 6 times or more, over what is recommended. There is all this talk about the government putting a tax on soda, and juice. There are those that have put out commercials against this, and how it would hurt families. I disagree, I think it would be great for families, if it gets them to stop ingesting so much sugar. Juices, that are healthier, with some vitamins, and minerals such as V8 Splash, or Tang, there are others, those are the only two I can think of, should be exempt. Soda, and juices, or Koolaid that are just sugar, with absolutely no nutritional value what so ever, should be taxed in my opinion. There that is my soapbox episode for the week.

Tomorrow for Health we are covering the five senses. I find this cute video, done for a class project. You can view it below. Plus we will be covering more about the family, and how families can differ from each other. We also have our next play date tomorrow, at the park. The weather is supposed to be beautiful. I love Florida this time of year. I still have not gotten DJ's report card done for the first quarter, hopefully this weekend.

Lesson Plans For 10/22/09:

DJ:
Health: The five senses with experiment, my family home
Math: Division, addition and subtraction review
Language Arts: Apostrophes, prefixes, homographs review
Spelling/Vocab: Write each word two times each
Cursive Writing
Reading Comprehension: Worksheet

Caitlin:
Health: The five senses, my family home
Math: Counting to twenty by twos
Pioneers: Worksheet
Alphabet book: The letter X
Printing Practice
Site Words
Reading: HOP Ann's Hat

Kids Learn The Digestive System

Tomorrow is health class, and we will be covering the digestive system, plus more nutrition label reading. To see the cool video teaching kids to read labels, check my archives. Be sure to check out the digestive system video, below. The narrator does have a funny accent, but it is still good.

Lesson Plans For 10/08/09:

Caitlin:
Math: Numbers
Handwriting practice
Shapes: Worksheet
Alphabet Book: Letter R
Reading: HOP Pig Wig Can Hit
Site words
Health: Digestive system

DJ:
Health: Label reading, digestive system
Cursive practice
Spelling/Vocab: Write each word two times each
Math: Adding, multiplication, place value
Language Arts: Commas, prefixes, homophones
Reading Comprehension: Worksheet