Morning Group Time
- Pledge to the Flag
- Pledge to the Bible
- Children of the World song
- Continents Song
- Books of the Bible Song - focus on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus Numbers
We learned about the letter D this week. D is for dinosaur, dad, Donatello (I have a ninja turtle fan here) and dance. Our vocabulary words are:
- Endangered
- Lemur
- Chameleon
- Manna
- Quail
Bible Story
This week's Bible story was God Takes Care of Us - Israelites in the Wilderness, a lesson about the Israelites in the desert. Instead of focusing on how long they wandered or how bad it must have been, we focused on how God takes care of His people in every situation. He provided pillars of cloud and fire to lead the way, parted the Red Sea to keep the people safe and provided manna and water to provide their basic needs. I found this Moses & Manna worksheet to go along with our lesson.
Missions
The International Missions Board had several resources for use to use this week but I was unable to work all of them into the schedule because of time.
Reading
As I mentioned previously, I was unable to find many books to use for this week, though in the future I would do better to focus my attention on finding books on the specific animals from Madagascar than on just the county. B did read from My Father's World Bible Reader Crossing the Sea and Food in the Desert.
We are doing Readwell with K and are on Unit 5.
Learning Topics
We broke up our learning this week on specific topics related to Madagascar since there wasn't as much information as I would have liked available. However, by the end of the week, I do feel like I learned a lot about the country than I knew before and I have to say this new understanding of the island makes the Madagascar animated movies make a lot more sense than before.
I've loved lemurs since I saw the first Madagascar movie and am always intrigued by them at the zoo. We made our own lemurs with this Lemur activity B enjoyed coloring, cutting and gluing together the lemur.
We learned a little more about lemurs by watching Lemurs! San Diego Zoo on YouTube and we watched The Lemur Dance on YouTube. We had fun learning how to jump like a lemur. We played this video every morning and did the "Lemur Dance" several times throughout the week.
We also learned about the chameleon this week. Did you know that Chameleon's don't change colors according to their environments, but rather their moods? Wow have I been so wrong all these years!
We watched The Naughty Chameleon on the Hooplaz YouTube channel and watched Wonder Pets - Save the Chameleon on Amazon Prime.
Math
We spent some time working on place value this week and used this Place Value Worksheet to practice.
Additional Ideas and Resources
Check out my BKS Prep - Madagascar Pinterest page for more ideas and resources.
We broke up our learning this week on specific topics related to Madagascar since there wasn't as much information as I would have liked available. However, by the end of the week, I do feel like I learned a lot about the country than I knew before and I have to say this new understanding of the island makes the Madagascar animated movies make a lot more sense than before.
I've loved lemurs since I saw the first Madagascar movie and am always intrigued by them at the zoo. We made our own lemurs with this Lemur activity B enjoyed coloring, cutting and gluing together the lemur.We learned a little more about lemurs by watching Lemurs! San Diego Zoo on YouTube and we watched The Lemur Dance on YouTube. We had fun learning how to jump like a lemur. We played this video every morning and did the "Lemur Dance" several times throughout the week.
We also learned about the chameleon this week. Did you know that Chameleon's don't change colors according to their environments, but rather their moods? Wow have I been so wrong all these years!We watched The Naughty Chameleon on the Hooplaz YouTube channel and watched Wonder Pets - Save the Chameleon on Amazon Prime.
Math
We spent some time working on place value this week and used this Place Value Worksheet to practice.
Additional Ideas and Resources
- We watched Madagascar on dvd during our free/tv time and pointed out several things that we'd learned this week, which really helped part of the movie make sense. We identified lemurs and their predator - the fossa. We also learned that there are no large animals in Madagascar and some of the theories about why this is, so it now makes sense why the animals of the island are so shocked to see a giraffe, lion, hippo and zebra visit their jungle. Find information about more of Madagascar's wild animals!
Do you study Madagascar with your students? What are some additional ideas and/or resources that you can recommend? Leave it in the comments below!
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