March 17, 2012

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

To celebrate the occasion, we started with a special breakfast of "rainbows with pots of gold" and shamrock pancakes.  :o)

For school work today we learned a little bit about Ireland (nothing too involved)...

Made a Leprechaun puppet

Learned how Saint Patrick used the Shamrock to explain the Trinity:

A fun word puzzle, not too challenging

A maze

A quick sheet of addition

And a little poster with highlights of what we learned about today.

March 13, 2012

Copywork/Bible

Reading/Spelling

Animals

Health/Manners

Part of her Social Studies page

Math

March 8, 2012

Reading

Crossword puzzle, just for "fun" aka practice with spelling

Manners

Social Studies test

A maze for a brain break

Phonics

Animal Science

Another maze

Math

January 9-13, 2012

This week's memory verse:  Joshua 1:9

Math: Horizons K Book 2, and Learning About Time by S&S Learning Materials

Science-ish:  Christian Light Education "My Calendar Book"  tracking weather patterns

Language Arts-ish:  Treasure Books Crossword Puzzles (1964 by Charles Preston)

Penmanship: A Treasury of Bible Verses

Health:  Proper Manners & Health Habits (Rod & Staff)

and learning about the food groups with Chef Solus

Social Studies: Christian Light Education Social Studies 1

Science: Sea Turtles - I told her to choose an animal and we'd research it.

Started with YouTube videos of the Kratt Brothers "Arribada" episodes (really well done!!)

Then found these worksheets online at thinkport.org (http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=thinkport+sea+turtles), About.com Homeschooling, and National Geographic. 

Now we ALL know a LOT more about sea turtles!!

November 1, 2011

Today we learned a bit about light bulbs, as November 1 is the anniversary of the date Thomas Edison patented his design of the incandescent light bulb.

For a little craft I started with this image:  http://www.edupic.net/Images/Science/light_bulb.gif
Cut out a frame from cereal box cardboard the same shape as the image.

Use a sharp cutter to trace around the black parts of the image and remove all the white.

Layer tissue paper under and over the cardboard, brushing it all with diluted white glue til it's all wet and stuck together.  Add the cut-out of the light bulb and add more tissue on top if you want to.  With the yellow bulb we did, with the purple one we didn't.

Let it all dry then trim to the shape of the bulb.  Hang on a sunny window!

I gave the little ones this picture to color:

http://www.handipoints.com/coloring-pages/fun-facts/thomas-edison/lightbulb.html

Meanwhile I went here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb

to get a proper diagram of all the parts of a bulb and went through it with Cara.

For some interesting history, which may surprise you depending how thorough your own teachers were when teaching you about the light bulb and electricity, check these out:

http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/edison.asp

http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Ontario/first_electric_light_bulb.htm

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/lightbulb.htm