Cycle 1 Week 4

Sorry I was late getting this out to you this week.  Sometimes busyness gets the better of me :).

Geography

We worked on our blob maps, sang our continents song, located our places on the map using skittles and enjoyed the "fruits" of our labor as we read this silly story:

In ASIA MINOR, there was a TURKEY named HATUSA/HATAI that wanted to take a trip to the ARABIAN DESERT, but settled for a vacation on the island of CYPRUS.

History

We went on a "Colossus Hunt".  This is the same format as "Going on a Bear Hunt" but we we searching for the Colossus (of Rhodes) while going through each of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World.  We rode camels up to the pyramids, bushwhacked our way through the hanging gardens, tiptoed through the Temple of Artemis, dodged lightening bolts past the Statue of Zeus, quietly walked and "ssh ssh sshed" through the mausoleum, rowed our boats (or swam) past the Pharos Lighthouse, and when we finally found the huge colossus and saw how truly big he was we ran back through all the wonders until we were safe at home.

Latin

This is the same as last week.  We used the same pitograms from last week and sang our Latin song again.

Math

7's
We layed out a path with our 7's on it and the girls went one-by-one down the path however they chose (skip, jump, hop, tip toe, etc.) as we all sang the 7's song for each of them.

8's
I numbered 12 spiders (because they have 8 legs) and we skip counted 8's.

English

We continued learning the hand motions that go along with this video.  Again, if you would like a written form of the motions for this video please contact me and I will send it to you.

Science

We sung the memory work to the Old Gray Mare (aka I'm in the Lord's Army) and then put together a felt model of the plant cell as we discussed each part.

The song
Some parts of a plant cell are Nucleus, Cytoplsm, Vacuole, Mitochondria, Cell Membrane, Cell Wall and Chloroplasts are some parts of a plant cell cause that's how God made plants.

The model

Experiment

We began working on our nature journals.  We did this experiment out of sequence due to the beautiful weather we were having.  The girls did really well collecting fun items outside.  Once back inside, the girls traced, made rubbings of, taped or colored the items into their journals.  The Nature Journals were very basic.  A cover page had pictures of things to look for while outside and the inside pages were all blank copy paper waiting to be filled with their discoveries.  There are more intricate versions but this worked well for our girls who weren't ready to read or record observations.  We did encourage the girls to label each item with a simple word such as rock, leaf, stick, berry, seed, etc.

Timeline

We learned the hand motions that go along with this week.  You can view these in this video.  I am not putting dates in with the girls.  We also reviewed all of the motions beginning with week 1.  Here is the video with the first 6 weeks signed to the song.  She does add in some extras motions during quiet times in the song.

Art

Abstract Art

 I gave the girls a half sheet of paper with a line drawing of an elephant on it.  I then provided several shapes that the girls could them trace over top of the elephant in any pattern that they chose.  The final step was for the girls to color in their tracings with the instructions to change colors every time they crossed over a new line.  Here are the materials that we used and a possible finished product. 

Hope this is a help as you go throughout your week with your students!