Cycle 1 Week 18

Sorry for running behind on getting the posts up for the last two weeks.  Here is a quick rundown of what we covered for week 18.

Geography

After tracing our world maps the girls traced around the map points for Mesoamerica.  We also sang our History Sentence for Mesoamerica.

History

I had a fun activity that I planned to go along with our History sentence on mound builders.  I was going to use a parachute activity to go along with the sentence which involved the girls gathering under the parachute/"mound".  I forget to bring in the parachute, however, so we colored our pictograms while we listened to the memory work. 

Timeline

We practiced this weeks hand motions.

Latin

We enjoyed a fun round of freeze dance to the memory work for second declension noun endings.

English

Each girl was excited to show off for the class as they each sang the helping verb song as a solo.  This was their idea.  I am so happy to see each of them feeling comfortable to share their knowledge in front of the whole class by singing a solo.  So fun to see their personalities come out through their performances :).

Science

I brought in a clay model of four parts of the ocean floor.  The girls had fun observing and interacting with the model as it was passed around. 

Math

We added the area of a triangle (repeated three times) to our math pokey.  We also sang all previous weeks as well leading up to it.

Fine Arts

In our study of El Greco we focused on some of his unnaturally stretched depictions of the figures he painted.  To demonstrate this concept with the girls I showed them a picture of a my little pony as well as a second one that my husband had stretched out on a computer and printed out.  The girls traced the stretched version onto a thin sheet of paper and colored in the new image.

Experiment

A)  We used a balloon and a simple balance to measure whether or not air has weight.

B)  We used a cup and a tub of water to observe and discuss atmospheric pressure and its affects.