Its week 2 and we have explored the seas with Christopher Columbus, learned about how Jesus got his name and learned the difference between common and proper nouns. We started science this week and learned how to complete our science cards with the 1. Question - What I Did 2. Experiment - What Happened 3. Conclusion - What I Learned. We know that air is extremely interesting and can do some amazing things! And we enjoyed reading first hand stories about what it was like to sail with Columbus to the new world.
As usual, our mornings started this week with group time. Brooklee likes to stand in front of the tv and pretend like she is one of the kids on stage leading the rest of the group. She gets this from church but its funny to watch as the other two usually join her at the front leaving no audience for her to lead. I mentioned in my last post that Sadie Quinn does the Pledge of Allegiance with us every morning, but she also enjoys doing the motions to the Lord's Prayer song, too. I've yet to capture what is sure to be a priceless video of her dancing!
One of the many benefits of homeschool - you can do your work in your desk, at the table, on the floor......pretty much any place you feel comfortable. When you get bored with one spot, move along to another.
As we worked on our Language Arts this week, we had the opportunity to incorporate our lessons in history into our common noun/proper noun practice. We used Christopher Columbus and the names of his ships to talk about proper nouns and the word "ship" to discuss the difference.
Last week Brooklee did copywork from the Spelling You See book but she wasn't required to work on spelling more extensively than just writing the entire paragraph. This week I picked out some specific words for her to work on. There are a few that are review that I want to be sure she remembers, but a few that are new and difficult because they aren't spelled the way they sound (ie country) or because we've learned the homophones for those words already.
This week's science project involved making a boat and exploring how wind and air play a role in moving the boat. Brooklee was able to complete the index card with our 3 questions - 1. Question - What I Did 2. Experiment - What Happened 3. Conclusion - What I Learned. I wrote it down for Kellan on his card and had them answer the three questions aloud. We even filmed them giving me a summary of our experiment but thanks to an iPhone that is currently holding too many photos and videos, the video wouldn't save to my phone. It was good practice though.
There were several books and videos we used in our studies this week. The kids were excited for the opportunity to include Magic School Bus (Goes on Air) in their science learning and we found a picture book that told us about Chrstopher Columbus's life as a child and what happened as he got older.
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| A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus |
We did find one video that gave us a quick overview of Christopher Columbus's life, but you may want to watch it first before sharing it with your little one as it does show a little bit of the "darker" side of Christopher that most people don't talk about. We also found a video that looks like it was a project someone created to review what they learned about Columbus. It was interesting to me to learn that even when he did, Columbus never even realized he'd discovered America and not just another part of India as he'd hoped.
Many people recommended Pedro's Journal for us to read this week so we did reserve it from the library but never got around to reading it.
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