Bigger 1/2 pace Unit 7
This week was filled with lots of fun learning again.
We learned how mold fossils are formed and the experiment was a great hit. We choose some little animals and the most popular was the dinosaur. The oil really did help to prevent the clay from sticking to the animals. What really blessed me was that Elijah wanted to draw the experiment all on his own without me modeling it for him
. And he did a fantastic job.
Yeah!
We also started a new story time genre and book and he was more than thrilled to start the adventure book. Unlocking adventure by rolling the dice and seeing which of the columns tells about the adventure book was great and a fun way to start off. Thank you Carrie for making school a fun learning experience.
We are reading
Snowtreasure and I can't wait to read more. Doing two chapters a day seems hardly like a tease for both of us!
Because of sickness the previous week we did not have co-op, so we did our art project this week.(at my prego friends house with her 2 kiddo's) The kids were especially thrilled to make their own clay, with the recipe in the manual, measuring out with different size measuring cups. We got to use 2/3 and 1/3 to make a cup and 1/4 and 3/4 as well. I was surprised how well the kids understood the concepts. The icing on the cake was to make the Wampanoag (however you pronounce that
) wigwam 3 dimensional and putting square cereal on it.... Interesting that the Wampanoag Indians from the tribe of Massasoit used clay to make there Wigwams. Putting the cereal on was a bit challenging since it kept falling off, but we worked through it and everyone ended up very proud of their creation. proudly presenting!
How much more fun and interesting can it get in one week? Even looking back I am blessed at all my kiddo's are learning by using HOD! We had Astronomy this week and loved the activity. We have a huge back yard and ended up with many balls (2 boys) so we used balls in the backyard to represent the different planets. Elijah did not know all the planets, since we have not officially studied this before, however he got a model from our neighbor of the planets so he knew some of the names. The big huge white ball represents the sun!
Another mind challenging thing beside learning about NOUNS this week in English, was to learn about a bay, an isthmus and a peninsula. Hands on activities are wonderful to cement these concepts. As mentioned, English was a bit challenging since we learned that there can be more than one noun in a sentence so now he is trying to always find the other one. It 's a bit confusing for him to do, so we have been asking the questions who and what as we go about our day to find out what the nouns are in a given sentence. Well, not all subjects are as easy as others
The excitement of the week hit when we began the hands-on activities for MATH, finally he is in 2A and is enjoying the math activities. It has been a while since we did the Intensive Practice book (not needed, but we jumped into Singapore after MUS and it was a bit confusing). I have figured that if we do math full time we will catch up by unit 13 and perhaps than Elijah will be ready to do Bigger at full speed or at least a 4 time a week schedule.
Today we finished our Timeline and our Notebooking and Elijah did very well drawing the Rice and Indigo plants as we learned about the wetlands in South Carolina this unit and how these plants grew well in that region.
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