Cycle 1, Week 20

Here is a brief rundown of what we covered this past Friday.

Geography

The girls traced the detailed contoured map.  Next, we located our MesoAmerica map points using fruit loops cereal.

Timeline

We learned the hand motions for this week.

History

We colored the picture sentences as we listened to the memory work a few times.  This would have been a fun song to play maraccas, clackers, etc. with.

English

The girls sang our final week of the Helping Verb song both as solos and as a group.

Latin

We played freeze dance to the memory work.

Science

After explaining that we were going on a pretend hunt for an Alien.  We went through all the layers of the atmosphere while hunting for our "alien" that was hidden in the room earlier in the morning. This comparable to Going on a Bear Hunt.  The layers were as such:

Troposphere - We climb the tallest mountain and jumped onto an airplane
Stratosphere - We pretend we were floating along with a weather balloon
Mesophere - We pretended we were meteors
Thermosphere - We boarded our space shuttle and flew around
Exosphere - We exited our shuttle in our space suits and took a space walk to find the "alien"

Math

I added in the last installment of the Math Pokey.  We went through all the previous weeks and then added in the circumference of a circle.  while drawing a circle in the air we sang:  "The circumference of a circle is 2Pi times the radius" 3times.  When finished off with the chorus of "Do the math Pokey".

Fine Arts

We enjoyed our large group activity with Ms. Julie and the rest of Foundations.  We finished off this study with discussing Handel's Water Music and for what prupose it was written.  Each girl chose an aspect of river/water life/travel to intepret on their on and when moved to the music using dance streamers.  Some of the ways the girls chose to interpret the music was as the water, as a fish, as a mermaid ballerina, as a seahorse, etc.  These were their own unique interpretations. 

Experiment

We labeled a paper model of the Earth and its layers as well as the atmosphere and its layers.