Week 6 was another fun one! We had three days of pouring rain which made for even more fun outdoors! Rain jackets and bare feet are the best.
Micah Man's (1st grade) week included
* Math - counting on, number sentences, and equal pairs plus one more.
* Language Arts - he jumped over full tilt into Emmett's subject, the Greek gods. He drew all of the Olympians several times and has listened with amazement at all the stories. He has chosen his favorite goddess, Artemis, the protector of children and animals. He loves that she can turn people into animals.
* Science - it's an earthquake week! Micah read about, watched videos, and tried his hand at making a small earthquake demonstration. He rubbed two rocks together and watched as the wood chips and pebbles jumped around on the surface.
* Music - he continues with piano lessons and begged for an extra lesson this week. He has been drawn to the piano and decided to compose a song or two. He created the music and then I helped him write the notes on the music staff. Wow, that bass clef made this tired momma have to stop and think for a hot minute. Ha.
Earthquake for earth science!
Jonah James (pre-K) had another great pumpkin week!
* Math - graphing and patterns! We made a pumpkin dice from a printable and then he rolled it and graphed the results to see which character would win! Patterns are trickier but he is beginning to understand the concept when kept simple! I am so proud of his hard work.
* Language Arts - So many books about autumn, changing seasons, and pumpkins. He also did lots of fine motor work with tracing and writing letters. P and J were letters this week because of "pumpkin" and "jack-o-lantern" of course.
* Science - Jonah got in on the pulley action as part of Emmett's science experiment (more below)
Emmett - 4th grade
* Math - Emmett continues to work on story problems with tape diagrams and large subtraction. This sometimes frustrates him but with encouragement he continues to move forward. Great job sweet boy.
* Language Arts - we are deep into the Greek gods and goddesses. We have finished Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief (staying up way too late a couple of nights) in order to read "just one more chapter mom". The unit of the Greek gods has given us a really nice opportunity to talk about our religion, faith, and church as well. The kids have had lots of great questions about the men and women in the Bible and Emmett has begun to dig into the Bible he got last year as a third grader in our church. He also continues with a super secret project given to him by his friend Steve K in Omaha. Shhhhh, more to come later.
*Science - Opposing forces for physics and simple machines for engineering. On Monday morning I left "lesson plans" for the substitute teacher. Dad stepped in and with videos cued up, a small list of lessons, and the instructions to teach the boys about equal and unequal forces using tug-of-war, I left for an hour and a half for an appointment. I have no pictures from the tug-of-war but I hear that Jonah fell and hit his head and that dad has more force that all the kids together. Hmmmmm.
The pulley lab was super fun. Emmett wanted to know why they never get to climb trees in public school science lab. HAHA. See the video below.
ART! for everyone -
We have been reading and talking about Leonardo daVinci. An interesting character to be sure. Did you know that he wrote all of his notes in mirror writing? Apparently, scholars aren't sure why but one theory is that because he wrote with actual ink and was left handed, he did this so that the ink didn't smudge and smear. He was much more than an artist, he was a scientist, an inventor and a true Renaissance man. Our last activity of the week was to make tempera paint like Leonardo would have. We separated the yolk of an egg into a bowl and added a tiny amount of water to the right consistency. We then used natural sources to color the paint, turmeric for yellow, paprika for red, blueberries for blue. After that, we cheated and added blue food dye to the blue and blue and yellow to make green because the kids weren't super impressed with the colors. We had the opportunity to talk about why the colors of his time were different than the colors we see in paintings today and then we.... PAINTED!
And now... I spend a couple of hours on this beautiful Sunday planning their lessons for the next two weeks! Have a lovely week and enjoy the fall (or spring) weather wherever you are.
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