Two Cool Websites for Science and Geography

I had never heard of either of these websites until today.  Both of them I found on a homeschool group, on Facebook, that I belong to.

The first one Mystery Science is an awesome Science website.  Normally their curriculum is $99 per year.  But, they are giving away a free year of their curriculum to the first 10,000 respondents.  I got mine, but I was like 9,047 so there are not many left.  Click here, to see if you can get one too.  As far as I can tell there is no catch, and it is completely legitimate. 

The second website, Lizard Point, I know weird name, actually offers more than Geography just click the home button.  But, I want to use it for Geography.  Tomorrow we will be trying it out, for  our Geography lesson.  We are doing China tomorrow, and Netflix has some really cool documentaries on China.  So, China may end up being more than one day so we can watch the whole season.  We will also attempt some Chinese food tomorrow, for dinner.  It never seems to taste as good at home, but we will give it a whirl. 


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DJ's 4th Grade Curriculum, Evaluation

I have to take a quick break from health care, to post DJ's 4th grade curriculum, and evaluation date. This is solely for my own record keeping, and probably boring, but I must do it. If anyone is looking for a fee curriculum, or ideas of what to cover, please feel free to use this as you wish.
For the 2009/2010 school year:

Science:

Environment of the local region
Classification systems
The insect world
The reptilian world
Plants and animals of the past
Structure of plants
Seeds
Ecosystems
Balance of nature
Weather
Climate
Causes of seasons
Earth and its history
Oceans and the hydrosphere
Air and water pollution
Magnets and electricity
Light and color
S0lar system and the universe
Living in space
Scientific method

Health:

Personal and mental hygiene
Dental health
The body and its functions
Skeletal and muscular systems
Care and proper use of the body
Principles of digestion
Basic food groups
Good nutrition habits
Diseases
Safety
Substance Abuse

Math:

Reading and writing numbers
Roman numerals to C I still have not found lessons for roman numerals
Prime numbers less than 100
Prime factoring
Subsets
Decimal and fraction equivalents
Addition and subtraction to seven places
Multiplication and division
1,2, and three digit multiplication
1,2, and 3 digit division
Meaning of mixed numbers
Finding simple averages
Geometric concepts
Customary and metric measurements
Time to the second
Problem solving
Charts and graphs
Fractions

Social Studies:

World cultures
Reasons for our laws
Continents
Time zones
Earths resources
Climatic regions of the world
Map skills
Using a globe

Language Arts:

Silent and oral reading
Listening skills
Telephone skills
Making and accepting simple social introductions
Summarizing simple information
Short stories, chapter books, poetry
Spelling
Increase dictionary skills- vocab words
Cursive handwriting
Simple outlining
Writing letters and informal notes
Written and oral book reports
Creative writing
Developing skills in locating information
Developing encyclopedia skills
Utilizing parts of a newspaper
Parts of speech
Sentence structure
Proofreading
Continuation of writing skills

Spanish:

Book 1, 2, and three

Art: I bought a book this year, plus we will continue with interesting stuff I find online. Crafts not so much, but some with his sister.

Music: Looking at a book, and I can play piano.

I have not added my reading list yet, because I have not decided it yet. I have looked at several options, and am leading towards kids books related to history, for this year. DJ reads all the time, so reading is not really an issue for him. Does not really need to be structured, or specific.

Our 3rd grade evaluation is set for August 23rd at 11:30 AM. If anyone is in the Gilchrist County, Florida area and needs an evaluator, contact me and I will give you the info of mine, she is great.

Tomorrow I go back to health care reform.