Cycle 1 Week 7

We survived crayfish "dissection" and beginning our unit on tin whistle!  Here is a rundown of what we covered in class on Friday.

History
We colored word pictures of the history sentence while listening to and singing the memory work.

Math
13's
We practiced our skip counting while connecting the dots on a picture of an American flag and then coloring them in.

English
We practiced the motions for the prepositions for this week as well as all previous weeks.

Latin
We used the pictures below to help us remember the correct pronunciations as we sang along with the CD.

Science
We sang the memory work to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic with the chorus only.  Instead of "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" we sang "How do animals reproduce? (x3); live birth, eggs, fragmentation."


Timeline
We practiced this weeks hand motions as seen in this video.

Fine arts
We discussed the terms, staff, line and space names, quarter note, half note, whole note, and eighth note.  We also worked with these on a large staff that I made out of a shower curtain (Notes were made by using black paper plates and pipe cleaners).

 I gave each girl a "sleeping bag" for their whistle so that when we were not supposed to be playing them they we resting silently inside the sleeping bags.  These were just typing paper folded in half lengthwise and stapled close except for at the top.  This was a borrowed idea from another CC mom.  These did end up coming home with the girls.  It would be great if they could make their way back to CC on Friday.  Once we had talked about this, we discussed when it was ok to play our whistle we practiced discord (we were quite accomplished at this).  Next we we learned the parts of the whistle and proper finger placement.  Finally,  We practiced playing C, B, A by blowing gently into our whistles.  The girls did quite well!  I was impressed with their ability to play the three notes in harmony so quickly. 

Experiment
We had fun observing our friend Stinky" (their choice or name not mine).  We discussed crayfish, where they live, what they eat and how long they live. We also discussed several major parts of the crayfish and how they use the individual parts.  We did not cut our friend open but since he was cracked we were able to examine his gill system.  The girls also passed Stinky around as they observed him under a large magnifying glass.  

 A couple of the girls have requested the opportunity to dance to next weeks memory work or review.  This should be fun!  Have a great week!