What’s on the menu for today
Feb 6th, 2007 by lapazfarm
The educational menu, that is!
Got this idea from Jennifer at St Therese Academy , plus I have also seen Dawn do this. I am going to write this post this morning of what I intend to have the kids do today. Then I will come back tonight and we will see just how much we got done.
Should be an interesting excercise, anyway!
Superboy:
2 pages in math workbook.One page on math project.
Begin protista in biology.
Read/go over info, do ID cards.Look up root words. (decided to start protozoa culture instead)
Look at prepared slides of protists and draw them in science journal.Begin new writing assignment on getting shrunk down to the size of a protist (decided to wait until we see live protists to get a better feel for them, finished up letter to penpal instead )
Sketch plans for imaginary island project (he started building this yesterday).
Read more of “Paddle to the Sea,”continue working on boat.
Start researching path from our creek to the sea. This was SO FUN and INTERESTING!
Read about making corn husk dolls,gather materials.Get rock tumbler set up again. (can’t find the rocks he wanted. Will try again tomorrow after digging through boxes)
Read chapter from St. Patrick’s Summer Adventure Catechism.Addition to plan:
worked on volcano activity-read about and sketched types of volcanos in geology journal.
Go to Karate
JBug- begin food/ nutrition unit
play in new play kitchen
Go over 4 food groups and practice using wooden Melissa and Doug set. (took forever to find the set as it was still apparently packed from the move, but it was alot of fun once we go going)Do food group scavenger hunt in our kitchen.
Read aloud “Bread Comes to Life.”Draw wheat.
Practical life: Make bread. (is not going to happen as Superboy is baking his imaginary island today. It takes 4 hours to bake…)
Copywork: write the words: wheat, flour, and bread.
Work with pink words cards and letters. (this did not go so well…)
Work with numbers. Review 1-5 and begin working with 6-10.
We shall see how much get done! I will come back and strike through as they get done. Or not.
Wow, Theresa, you guys got a lot done! I have found these posts so helpful – and interesting! I would think non-homeschoolers (and/or family and friends) would particularly enjoy them as a better picture of what we do and how we do it!
P.S. I’d love to hear about that “follow the path from our creek to the sea” project. We have a river out back that goes out to the sea after a few miles. I’d like our science focus this spring to be rivers and river life.
Hi Dawn!
Superboy is reading “Paddle to the Sea” by HC Holling right now. In the book, a boy makes a wooden canoe and sets it in the water in Canada, and the story follows its travels all the way through the Great Lakes to the sea. So of course, Superboy is making a wooden canoe and setting it in our creek. I asked him today to figure out the route it would take to get to the sea. It was a simple mapping excercise, but we were so surprised to find that it would travel so far north, all the way to the Ohio river, before joining the Mississippi and heading to the Gulf. It was fun flipping from page to page, state after state, in our atlas to follow the route to the sea.
We are going to be focusing on rivers in the spring, too! I look forward to bouncing ideas off each other!