...a weekly wrap-up
In Our Homeschool This Week:
- Learning about radar with a neat activity from Exploring Creation with Astronomy, Apologia {1a/1b}
- Mouse Trap Vehicle progress for the competition in our state's Science Olympiad {2a/2b}
- A cute, fire-breathing dragon that greeted me one morning from the white board, drawn by our youngest son who is in Kindergarten {3}
- Finished our read aloud Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist: George Washington Carver, by David Collins, The Sowers Biographies. We had also picked up George Washington Carver, by Tonya Bolden to peruse. It has actual photographs of Carver and his art work {4}.
- Studied Kandinsky's Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913, from The Usborne Art Treasury, pages 52-55. The children then completed the accompanying project called "Color Contrasts" {5a/5b} We followed the instructions to complete a mixed media art project. However, two similar projects can be found here and here.
- Read the final pages of Eric Carle's Animals, Animals with my Kindergartner. Though I've been through it four times now, I still love this book of simple poems. It is a keeper.
Extras:
Making shapes out of toothpicks for math.
{Idea from Horizons Math book.}
A son's creative idea for carrying his laundry...
Yes, that is a remote control vehicle carrying his clean clothing!
We Are Reading 8 New Books
we found at our library...
Four Pictured Above:
- Langston Hughes, edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad (Poetry for Young People series)
- No Year of the Cat, by Mary Dodson Wade - in time for Chinese New Year
- Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America, by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
- Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President, by Ann Malaspina
Four More:
- The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery, by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin
- Brick by Brick, by Charles R. Smith Jr.
- Linnea in Monet's Garden, by Christina Bjork & Lena Anderson (25th Anniversary Edition)
- Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John "Appleseed" Chapman, by Esme Raji Codell
Finally...a link to share:
Veritas Press is offering four FREE sample lessons for Omnibus I. Follow this link to get your own FREE sample lessons and find out how you can also be entered into a drawing for $500 Veritas Press gift certificate.
Find more weekly wrap-ups at:
Weekly Wrap-up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers
Collage Friday at
Homegrown Learners
Homeschool Mother's Journal at iHomeschool Network
I'd often wondered about the difference between white and dark chocolate! Isn't it great what our children learn when we're not looking? :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your library book finds...I'm bookmarking several of them that will fit in with our current and upcoming history studies! :-)
ReplyDeleteWow, thanks for the Omnibus link.
ReplyDeleteI saw the toothpick shapes on Pinterest a while back for a busy bag project. I need to get around to doing that! Looks like a good week.
ReplyDeleteThose library books sound really good. I wrote a few of the titles down actually. The laundry thing made me laugh because my boys will do anything to make chores easier.
ReplyDeleteI love the shapes out of toothpicks. Very creative. I'll have to remember that. Thanks for the book recommendations. I keep a running list and am adding these to them. I absolutely love the laundry on the RC car -- it made me smile.
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